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Enterosecretory Proteins

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The secreted vertebrate proteins, although widely divergent in function, have common biological and chemical features, including ontogeny in the entoderm, a distinctive amino-acid composition and extensive similarities in amino-acid sequences. A unifying hypothesis could explain the evolution of these molecules and the glands which secrete them.

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ADELSON, J. Enterosecretory Proteins. Nature 229, 321–325 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229321a0

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