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Isolation and identification of a new diuretic peptide from the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta
Blackburn, M. B., Kingan, T. G., Bodnar, W., Shabanowitz, J., Hunt, D. F., Kempe, T., Wagner, R. M., Raina, A. K., Schnee, M. E., & Ma, M. C. (1991). Isolation and identification of a new diuretic peptide from the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 181(3), 927-932. https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-291x(91)92025-f
A 30-amino acid diuretic peptide was isolated from the corpora cardiaca-corpora allata complexes and, separately, from medial neurosecretory cells of the Sphingid moth, Manduca sexta. The peptide was found to have the following sequence, determined by automated Edman degradation and mass spectrometry: SFSVNPAVDILQHRYMEKV AQNNRNFLNRV-NH2. We have named the peptide Mas-DP II. The peptide was synthesized and shown to possess diuretic activity in decapitated moths. Mas-DP II is related by sequence homology to a 41-amino acid diuretic peptide identified previously from M. sexta, and it belongs to the family of corticotropin releasing factor-like peptides.