PMID- 10499420 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19991122 LR - 20190818 IS - 0196-9781 (Print) IS - 0196-9781 (Linking) VI - 20 IP - 9 DP - 1999 TI - Identification of a Drosophila brain-gut peptide related to the neuropeptide Y family. PG - 1035-42 AB - A neuropeptide F (NPF) was isolated from the fruit fly, Drosophila mellanogaster, based on a radioimmunoassay for a gut peptide from the corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea. A partial sequence was obtained from the fly peptide, and a genomic sequence coding for NPF was cloned after inverse polymerase chain reaction and shown to exist as a single genomic copy. The encoded, putative prepropeptide can be processed into an amidated NPF with 36 residues that is related to invertebrate NPF's and the neuropeptide Y family of vertebrates. In situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry showed that Drosophila NPF was expressed in the brain and midgut of fly larvae and adults. FAU - Brown, M R AU - Brown MR AD - Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602, USA. mbrown@bugs.ent.uga.edu FAU - Crim, J W AU - Crim JW FAU - Arata, R C AU - Arata RC FAU - Cai, H N AU - Cai HN FAU - Chun, C AU - Chun C FAU - Shen, P AU - Shen P LA - eng GR - AI33108/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Peptides JT - Peptides JID - 8008690 RN - 0 (Drosophila Proteins) RN - 0 (Neuropeptide Y) RN - 0 (Neuropeptides) RN - 0 (neuropeptide F, Drosophila) RN - 9007-49-2 (DNA) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Animals MH - Base Sequence MH - Brain Chemistry MH - Cloning, Molecular MH - DNA MH - Drosophila Proteins MH - Drosophila melanogaster/*chemistry MH - Immunohistochemistry MH - In Situ Hybridization MH - Intestines/chemistry MH - Mass Spectrometry MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Neuropeptide Y/*chemistry MH - Neuropeptides/*chemistry/genetics MH - Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Sequence Homology, Amino Acid EDAT- 1999/09/28 00:00 MHDA- 1999/09/28 00:01 CRDT- 1999/09/28 00:00 PHST- 1999/09/28 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/09/28 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/09/28 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0196-9781(99)00097-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0196-9781(99)00097-2 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Peptides. 1999;20(9):1035-42. doi: 10.1016/s0196-9781(99)00097-2.