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Figure 4
Figure 4

Tissue-specific processing of POMC in the mammalian pituitary gland and ectopic ACTH-producing tumours. The SH groups show the positions of the cysteine residues in the human joining peptide and the Tyr221–Cys mutation in the β-MSH/β-LPH region reported by Lee et al. (2006).

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  1. J Mol Endocrinol vol. 56 no. 4 T1-T12