THE AMINO ACID COMPOSITION OF HYPERTENSIN II AND ITS BIOCHEMICAL RELATIONSHIP TO HYPERTENSIN I
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- 1 August 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 104 (2) , 183-191
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.104.2.183
Abstract
Preparations of hypertensin II, obtained from the treatment of hypertensin I by the action of the hypertensin converting enzyme of plasma and purified by countercurrent distribution, were quantitatively analyzed for their amino acid content. Chromatography on ion exchange columns showed the presence of equimolar amounts of aspartic acid, proline, valine, isoleucine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, histidine, and arginine.Keywords
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