LOCUS       AB023493                 234 bp    mRNA    linear   HUM 10-MAY-2000
DEFINITION  Homo sapiens mRNA for preproapelin, complete cds.
ACCESSION   AB023493
VERSION     AB023493.1
KEYWORDS    apelin.
SOURCE      Homo sapiens (human)
  ORGANISM  Homo sapiens
            Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi;
            Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini;
            Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo.
REFERENCE   1  (bases 1 to 234)
  AUTHORS   Fujii,R., Kurokawa,T., Hosoya,M., Hinuma,S., Onda,H. and Fujino,M.
  TITLE     Direct Submission
  JOURNAL   Submitted (09-FEB-1999) to the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases.
            Contact:Shuji Hinuma
            Takeda Chemical Industries, LTD, Discovery Research Laboratories
            1; Wadai 10, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-4293, Japan
REFERENCE   2
  AUTHORS   Habata,Y., Fujii,R., Hosoya,M., Fukusumi,S., Kawamata,Y.,
            Hinuma,S., Kitada,C., Nishizawa,N., Murosaki,S., Kurokawa,T.,
            Onda,H., Tatemoto,K. and Fujino,M.
  TITLE     Apelin, the natural ligand of the orphan receptor APJ, is
            abundantly secreted in the colostrum
  JOURNAL   Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1452, 25-35 (1999)
REFERENCE   3
  AUTHORS   Tatemoto,K., Hosoya,M., Habata,Y., Fujii,R., Kakegawa,T., Zou,M.,
            Kawamata,Y., Fukusumi,S., Hinuma,S., Kitada,C., Kurokawa,T.,
            Onda,H. and Fujino,M.
  TITLE     Isolation and characterization of a novel endogenous peptide
            ligand for the human APJ receptor
  JOURNAL   Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 251, 471-476 (1998)
COMMENT     
FEATURES             Location/Qualifiers
     source          1..234
                     /db_xref="H-InvDB:HIT000058768"
                     /db_xref="taxon:9606"
                     /mol_type="mRNA"
                     /organism="Homo sapiens"
                     /tissue_type="brain"
     CDS             1..234
                     /codon_start=1
                     /product="preproapelin"
                     /protein_id="BAA84975.1"
                     /transl_table=1
                     /translation="MNLRLCVQALLLLWLSLTAVCGGSLMPLPDGNGLEDGNVRHLVQ
                     PRGSRNGPGPWQGGRRKFRRQRPRLSHKGPMPF"
BASE COUNT           37 a           73 c           80 g           44 t
ORIGIN      
        1 atgaatctgc ggctctgcgt gcaggcgctc ctgctgctct ggctctcctt gaccgcggtg
       61 tgtggagggt ccctgatgcc gcttcccgat gggaatgggc tggaagacgg caatgtccgc
      121 cacctggtgc agcccagagg gtcaaggaat gggccagggc cctggcaggg aggtcggagg
      181 aaattccgcc gccagcggcc ccgcctctcc cataagggac ccatgccttt ctga
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