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The pbgPE operon in Photorhabdus luminescens Is Required for Pathogenicity and Symbiosis by BENNETT, H. P. J, CLARKE, D. J

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Granulins: the structure and function of an emerging family of growth factors by Bateman, A, Bennett, HP

“…The granulin/epithelin motif defines a family of structurally unique proteins, of great evolutionary antiquity, which have been implicated as regulators of…”
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Characterization of a Serine Protease that Cleaves Pro-γ-Melanotropin at the Adrenal to Stimulate Growth by Bicknell, Andrew B., Lomthaisong, Khomsorn, Woods, Russell J., Hutchinson, E.Gail, Bennett, Hugh P.J., Gladwell, Richard T., Lowry, Philip J.

“…The adrenal gland requires stimuli from peptides derived from the ACTH precursor, pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), to maintain its tonic state. Studies have…”
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Metal Removal from Contaminated Soil and Sediments by the Biosurfactant Surfactin by Mulligan, Catherine N, Yong, Raymond N, Gibbs, Bernard F, James, Susan, Bennett, H. P. J

“…Batch soil washing experiments were performed to evaluate the feasibility of using surfactin from Bacillus subtilis, a lipopeptide biosurfactant, for the…”
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The zebrafish progranulin gene family and antisense transcripts by Cadieux, Benoît, Chitramuthu, Babykumari P, Baranowski, David, Bennett, Hugh P J

“…Progranulin is an epithelial tissue growth factor (also known as proepithelin, acrogranin and PC-cell-derived growth factor) that has been implicated in…”
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Cloning of human PEX cDNA. Expression, subcellular localization, and endopeptidase activity by Lipman, M L, Panda, D, Bennett, H P, Henderson, J E, Shane, E, Shen, Y, Goltzman, D, Karaplis, A C

“…Mutations in the PEX gene are responsible for X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets. To gain insight into the role of PEX in normal physiology we have cloned the…”
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The hairpin stack fold, a novel protein architecture for a new family of protein growth factors by Hrabal, Richard, Chen, Zhigang, James, Susan, Bennett, Hugh P.J, Ni, Feng

“…The granulin/epithelin protein motif has an unusual structure consisting of a parallel stack of beta-hairpins stapled together by six disulphide bonds. The new…”
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In vitro cleavage of internally quenched fluorogenic human proparathyroid hormone and proparathyroid-related peptide substrates by furin. Generation of a potent inhibitor by Lazure, C, Gauthier, D, Jean, F, Boudreault, A, Seidah, N G, Bennett, H P, Hendy, G N

“…The cleavage of parathyroid hormone (PTH) from its precursor proparathyroid hormone (pro-PTH) is accomplished efficiently by the proprotein convertase furin…”
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Peptide hormone precursor processing: getting sorted? by Canaff, Lucie, Bennett, Hugh P.J, Hendy, Geoffrey N

“…Processing of proproteins to biologically active peptides and, in the case of peptide hormones and neuropeptides, their sorting to granules of the regulated…”
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Characterization of the inhibitory effect of boiled rice on intestinal chloride secretion in guinea pig crypt cells by Mathews, Ceri J., MacLeod ‡,§, R.John, Zheng, Shu–Xian, Hanrahan, John W., Bennett ∥, Hugh P.J., Hamilton ‡,§, J.Richard

“…Background & Aims: When rice is incorporated into oral rehydration therapy for patients with secretory diarrhea, clinical outcomes improve. We have shown that…”
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Solution structures of a 30‐residue amino‐terminal domain of the carp granulin‐1 protein and its amino‐terminally truncated 3‐30 subfragment: Implications for the conformational stability of the stack of two β‐hairpins by Vranken, Wim F., James, Susan, Bennett, Hugh P.J., Ni, Feng

“…Carp granulins are members of an emerging class of proteins with a sequence motif encoding a parallel stack of two to four β‐hairpins. The carp granulin‐1…”
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Isolation of a member of the neurotoxin/cytotoxin peptide family from Xenopus laevis skin which activates dihydropyridine-sensitive Ca super(2+) channels in mammalian epithelial cells by Macleod, R J, Lembessis, P, James, S, Bennett, HPJ

“…We have used a sensitive bioassay of calcium-mediated volume changes in mammalian absorptive intestinal epithelial cells to screen extracts of the skin of the…”
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Proparathyroid hormone is preferentially cleaved to parathyroid hormone by the prohormone convertase furin. A mass spectrometric study by Hendy, G N, Bennett, H P, Gibbs, B F, Lazure, C, Day, R, Seidah, N G

“…Parathyroid hormone (PTH), an 84-amino acid peptide, is the major regulator of blood calcium homeostasis. Its mRNA, in addition to encoding the mature peptide,…”
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Processing of Rat Preprocortistatin in Mouse AtT‐20 Cells by Puebla, L, Mouchantaf, R, Sasi, R, Khare, S, Bennett, H.P.J, James, S, Patel, Y.C.

“…: Preprocortistatin (PPCST) has been recently identified as a novel somatostatin (SST)‐related gene expressed only in brain. PPCST shares 11 of 14 residues…”
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Proparathyroid Hormone Processing by the Proprotein Convertase-7: Comparison with Furin and Assessment of Modulation of Parathyroid Convertase Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Levels by Calcium and 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D sub(3) by Canaff, L, Bennett, HPJ, Hou, Yu, Seidah, NG, Hendy, G N

“…We previously showed that the processing of proparathyroid hormone (proPTH) to PTH was accomplished most efficiently by furin (17). Colocalization studies…”
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Role of Pituitary POMC-Peptides and Insulin-Like Growth Factor II in the Developmental Biology of the Adrenal Gland by Coulter, C.L., Ross, J.T., Owens, J.A., Bennett, H.P.J., McMillen, I.C.

“…During fetal life, it is critical that there is coordinate regulation of the growth, zonation and differentiation of the fetal adrenal cortex to ensure that…”
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O-glycosylation mimics N-glycosylation in the 16-kDa fragment of bovine pro-opiomelanocortin. The major O-glycan attached to thr-45 carries SO sub(4)-4GalNAc beta 1-4GlcNAc beta 1, which is the archetypal non-reducing epitope in the N-glycans of pituitary glycohormones by Siciliano, R A, Morris, H R, Bennett, HPJ, Dell, A

“…The NH sub(2)-terminal domain of pro-opiomelanocortin, designated as the 16-kDa fragment, is highly conserved throughout the vertebrate family and is likely…”
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Inhibition of intestinal secretion by rice by Macleod, R J, Bennett, H P, Hamilton, J R

“…Rates of stool output are reduced when cooked rice is incorporated into oral rehydration solutions. We found that a fraction extracted from rice inhibited the…”
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Characteristics of prostate-derived growth factors for cells of the osteoblast phenotype by KOUTSILIERIS, M, RABBANI, S. A, BENNETT, H. P. J, GOLTZMAN, D

“…We examined the characteristics of mitogens extracted from human benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostatic adenocarcinoma tissue. Although mitogens for fetal…”
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Isolation and primary structure of the three major forms of granulin-like peptides from hematopoietic tissues of a teleost fish (Cyprinus carpio) by BELCOURT, D. R, LAZURE, C, BENNETT, H. P. J

“…Granulins are cysteine-rich polypeptides purified from human and rat hematopoietic cells and structurally related to the epithelin family of growth modulatory…”
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