| Title: | Crustacean peptide and peptide-like pheromones and kairomones |
| Address: | "Duke University Marine Laboratory, Biology Department, Nicholas School of the Environment, Earth and Ocean Sciences, 135 Duke Marine Laboratory Road, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA. ritt@duke.edu" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.peptides.2003.10.024 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0196-9781 (Print) 0196-9781 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Crustacean peptide pheromones, kairomones, and substituted amino sugar kairomones are reviewed from a historical perspective. These crustacean information molecules are secondary functions of structural polymers. They are partial hydrolysis products, generated usually by the action of trypsin-like enzymes on proteins, and glycosidase enzymes on glycoproteins and proteoglycans. Structure-function studies based upon synthetic mimics of peptide information molecules show neutral amino acids with a basic carboxyl terminal are active in modifying physiological and or behavioral responses. Behaviorally active substituted amino sugar mimics are disaccharide hydrolysis products of heparin and chondroitin sulfate. Similar molecules are also used as information molecules by a variety of other marine organisms indicating they are a common biological theme" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Bradykinin/chemistry Carbohydrate Sequence Carbohydrates/chemistry Chondroitin Sulfates/chemistry Crustacea Glycoside Hydrolases/chemistry Heparin/chemistry Hydrolysis Models, Chemical Molecular Sequence Data Neuropeptides/*pharmacology Peptides/*;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineRittschof, Dan Cohen, Jonathan H eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Review 2004/09/18 Peptides. 2004 Sep; 25(9):1503-16. doi: 10.1016/j.peptides.2003.10.024" |
