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Isolation and characterization of growth hormone from blue fox pituitary glands
1Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, University of California, San Francisco.
International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
Growth hormone has been purified to homogeneity from blue fox pituitary glands. It has 191 amino acids with two disulfide bridges and a single tryptophan residue. The somatotropin activity is only 8% when compared with the bovine hormone in the receptor-binding assay. From radioimmunoassay data using baboon antisera to porcine or bovine growth hormone, the fox hormone has 14-17% immunoreactivity of bovine or porcine hormone.