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Synthesis of Substance P

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SUBSTANCE P has been synthesized by the solid-phase procedure of Merrifield1,2 according to the sequence H-Arg-Pro-LysPro-Gln-Gln-Phe-Phe-Gly-Leu-Met-NH2 reported in the previous letter.

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  1. Endocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 20114

    GEOFFREY W. TREGEAR, HUGH D. NIALL & JOHN T. POTTS JUN.

  2. Graduate Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02154

    SUSAN E. LEEMAN & MICHAEL M. CHANG

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TREGEAR, G., NIALL, H., POTTS, J. et al. Synthesis of Substance P. Nature New Biology 232, 87–89 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio232087a0

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