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A statistical view of FMRFamide neuropeptide diversity
E Espinoza1, M Carrigan, S G Thomas
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, USA.
Abstract:
FMRFamide-like peptide (FLP) amino acid sequences have been collected and statistically analyzed. FLP amino acid composition as a function of position in the peptide is graphically presented for several major phyla. Results of total amino acid composition and frequencies of pairs of FLP amino acids have been computed and compared with corresponding values from the entire GenBank protein sequence database. The data for pairwise distributions of amino acids should help in future structure-function studies of FLPs. To aid in future peptide discovery, a computer program and search protocol was developed to identify FLPs from the GenBank protein database without the use of keywords.