Salusins are translated from an alternatively spliced mRNA of TOR2A, a gene encoding a protein of the torsion dystonia family. Salusins are newly identified regulators ofhemodynamics and mitogenesis with no sequence homology to previously identifed peptides. Shichiri, M; et al., Nat. Med., 9, 1166, (2003).
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