R. Elwyn Isaac
Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology
Faculty of Biological Sciences
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
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- Drosophila male sex peptide inhibits siesta sleep and promotes locomotor activity in the post-mated female. Isaac, R.E., Li, C., Leedale, A.E., Shirras, A.D. Proc. Biol. Sci. (2010)
- Neuropeptidases and the metabolic inactivation of insect neuropeptides. Isaac, R.E., Bland, N.D., Shirras, A.D. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. (2009)
- Metabolic inactivation of the circadian transmitter, pigment dispersing factor (PDF), by neprilysin-like peptidases in Drosophila. Isaac, R.E., Johnson, E.C., Audsley, N., Shirras, A.D. J. Exp. Biol. (2007)
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme as a target for the development of novel insect growth regulators. Isaac, R.E., Lamango, N.S., Ekbote, U., Taylor, C.A., Hurst, D., Weaver, R.J., Carhan, A., Burnham, S., Shirras, A.D. Peptides (2007)
- Proctolin in the post-genomic era: new insights and challenges. Isaac, R.E., Taylor, C.A., Hamasaka, Y., Nässel, D.R., Shirras, A.D. Invert. Neurosci. (2004)
- Identification and localization of a neprilysin-like activity that degrades tachykinin-related peptides in the brain of the cockroach, Leucophaea maderae, and locust, Locusta migratoria. Isaac, R.E., Nässel, D.R. J. Comp. Neurol. (2003)
- Inactivation of a tachykinin-related peptide: identification of four neuropeptide-degrading enzymes in neuronal membranes of insects from four different orders. Isaac, R.E., Parkin, E.T., Keen, J.N., Nässel, D.R., Siviter, R.J., Shirras, A.D. Peptides (2002)
- Conserved roles for peptidases in the processing of invertebrate neuropeptides. Isaac, R.E., Siviter, R.J., Stancombe, P., Coates, D., Shirras, A.D. Biochem. Soc. Trans. (2000)
- Hydrolysis by somatic angiotensin-I converting enzyme of basic dipeptides from a cholecystokinin/gastrin and a LH-RH peptide extended at the C-terminus with gly-Arg/Lys-arg, but not from diarginyl insulin. Isaac, R.E., Michaud, A., Keen, J.N., Williams, T.A., Coates, D., Wetsel, W.C., Corvol, P. Eur. J. Biochem. (1999)
- Insect angiotensin-converting enzyme. A processing enzyme with broad substrate specificity and a role in reproduction. Isaac, R.E., Ekbote, U., Coates, D., Shirras, A.D. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. (1999)









