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LACTOGENIC hormone (prolactin) isolated from sheep pituitary glands is a protein of molecular weight1,2 24,000 with threonine at the NH2-terminus3 and half-cystine at the COOH-terminus4. It has six half-cystine and seven methionine residues5. We report here the structure of the NH2-terminal sequence, consisting of twenty-four amino-acids as well as six amino-acid residues at the COOH-terminus of the hormone.
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LI, C., DIXON, J., SCHMIDT, K. et al. Amino and Carboxy-terminal Sequences of Ovine Lactogenic Hormone. Nature 222, 1268–1269 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2221268a0
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