New Enzymatic Route for the Inactivation of Angiotensin
Abstract
Experiments show that swine kidney and human urine contain a new angiotensinase that breaks the prolylphenylalanine bond In various peptides. The product of this enzymatic hydrolysis-the N-terminal heptapeptide sequence of angiotensin-is biologically inactive.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- June 1968
- DOI:
- 10.1038/2181224a0
- Bibcode:
- 1968Natur.218.1224Y