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SIGNAL PEPTIDE [5 records]

Record 1 2024-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Hormones
  • Dietetics
CONT

Ghrelin is a peptide hormone produced by the stomach when it is empty of food; it acts as a hunger signal and stimulates eating. Its concentration in the blood increases rapidly in fasting and falls just as quickly after a meal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Hormones
  • Diététique
CONT

Avant la prise de nourriture, l'estomac sécrète un peptide, la ghréline, qui est vraisemblablement un signal de faim; après l'ingestion d'aliments, les adipocytes, cellules qui stockent les lipides, sécrètent et déversent dans la circulation la leptine, qui constitue sans doute un signal de satiété.

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Record 2 2024-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Hormones
  • Dietetics
CONT

As food enters the intestines for digestion, the peptide hormone cholecystokinin(CCK) stimulates the vagus nerve to send a satiety signal to the brain. The vagus nerve is therefore sensitive to stomach distension and CCK levels, as well as other factors related to food consumption. It communicates these satiety signals to the brain, and reduces food consumption. Other satiety signals operate over a longer time scale. The most important of these is the hormone leptin..., which is released mostly from adipose cells... The more fat in the cells, the more leptin is released into the bloodstream. When leptin reaches the brain, it signals that enough fat is stored throughout the body.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Hormones
  • Diététique
CONT

[...] après l'ingestion d'aliments, les adipocytes, cellules qui stockent les lipides, sécrètent et déversent dans la circulation la leptine, qui constitue sans doute un signal de satiété.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
CONT

A leader peptide is typically coded ... by the first gene in an operon controlled by attenuation. Translation of the leader peptide can influence which alternative mRNA secondary structure forms, thereby enhancing or decreasing transcription termination by the attenuator.

OBS

Not to be confused with signal peptide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
  • Biologie moléculaire
DEF

Chez les bactéries, petit peptide codé par la séquence-leader des opérons de biosynthèse et participant à la régulation de leur expression.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec peptide-signal.

Spanish

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Record 4 1999-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Cytology
CONT

Chromogranin B(secretogranin I or Scg-1) is a tyrosine-sulfated secretory protein found in a wide variety of peptidergic endocrine cells. Benedum et al.(1987) isolated a 2. 5-kb cDNA clone from a cDNA library of human pheochromocytoma. Chromogranin B is a 657 amino acid long polypeptide of 76 kilodaltons and is preceded by a cleaved end-terminal signal peptide of 20 residues. Chromogranin B was assigned to chromosome 20 by Craig et al.(1986). Craig et al.(1987) showed by in situ hybridization that the CHGB locus is on 20pter-p12. Jenkins et al.(1991) mapped the murine gene, symbolized Scg-1, to chromosome 2 by in situ hybridization and by interspecific backcross analysis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Cytologie
CONT

Le peptide correspondant à la séquence C-terminale de la chromogranine B a une activité lytique sélective contre la bactérie Micrococcus luteus à des concentrations infimes [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 1990-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
DEF

the biosynthetic precursor of a secretory protein containing a very short-lived signal peptide sequence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
CONT

les ARN messagers de plusieurs protéines exportées ont été traduits sur des ribosomes libres et on a montré qu'ils produisent des chaînes polypeptidiques plus longues. Ces chaînes sont appelées préprotéines pour les différencier des proprotéines qui sont des précurseurs plus gros des protéines exportées.

Spanish

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