Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

Teprotide  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • BPP-9a
  • Bradykinin Potentiating Peptide 9a
  • Bradykinin-Potentiating Peptide 9a
  • Enzyme Inhibitor, Nonapeptide-Converting
  • Nonapeptide Converting Enzyme Inhibitor
  • Nonapeptide-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor
  • Peptide 9a, Bradykinin-Potentiating

Scope note

  • A synthetic nonapeptide (Pyr-Trp-Pro-Arg-Pro-Gln-Ile-Pro-Pro) which is identical to the peptide from the venom of the snake, Bothrops jararaca. It inhibits kininase II and ANGIOTENSIN I and has been proposed as an antihypertensive agent.

History note

  • 91(81); was see under OLIGOPEPTIDES 1981-90, was SQ 20881 see under OLIGOPEPTIDES 1975-80; SQ 20881 was see TEPROTIDE 1981-93; NONAPEPTIDE CONVERTING-ENZYME INHIBITOR was (NM) 1975-93

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013722

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 11/19/74, last modified 7/8/13