Garter snake proteins

Liu J., Chen P., Wang D. and Halpem M. (1999). Signal transduction in the vomeronasal organ of garter snakes ligand-receptor binding mediated protein phosphorylation. Biochem Biophys Acta 1450, 320-330. 

Liu, W., Wang, D., Chen, P., and Halpern, M., 1997, Cloning and expression of a gene encoding chemoattractive protein from earthworm secretion to garter snakes, /. Biol. Chem. 272 27378-27381. 

Wang, D., Liu, W., Liu, J., Chen, P., Quan, W., and Halpem, M., 2002, Molecular cloning and characterization of protein phosphatase 2C of vomeronasal sensory epithelium of garter snakes. Arch Biochem. Biophys. 408 184-191. 

Olfactory and vomeronasal bipolar neurons may differ in their responsiveness to stimulating substances and these differences in response characteristics could provide important clues to their differential functions. In garter snakes a spectrum of chemical stimuli (standard odorants, amino acids and prey products, including purified proteins from earthworms, a favored prey of garter snakes) applied to the vomeronasal epithelium modify unit responses in the AOB (Inouchi et al., 1993 Wang et al., 1993 Taniguchi et al., 1998,2000). 

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