Peptide data base, fragmentation

The N-terminal peptide fragment of des-angiotensinogen Val-Ile-His-Asn contains two strongly hydrophobic amino acid residues on the N-terminal site of His-3. The potentiometric data have shown that the NiH.2L complex with this albumin-like sequence is more than two orders of magnitude more stable than the respective complex with Gly-Gly-His.1744 The NMR-based molecular structure has shown that the side chains of Val-1 and lie-2 form a well-ordered hydrophobic fence (Figure 21) shielding one side of the coordination plane from the bulk of... 

Expansion or enhancement of the proposed mechanism of Nakamura and Okai is shown in Figure 12. Their model is based on the demonstration that several synthetically prepared di- and tri- peptide fragments composed of basic or acidic amino acids, produced individual tastes such as salty (lys-gfy sweet (lys-gfy-asp), sour (asp-glu-glu) and bitter (ser-leu-ala 31). Tlie expanded mechanism we propose is shown in Figure 12 and is based on the data tabulated in Table 1 (31, 38). 

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