Isolation and Identification of a cAMP Generating Peptide from the Flesh Fly, Neobellieria bullata (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-147

  Spittaels, Kurt ^a   Devreese, Bart ^b   Schoofs, Liliane ^a   Neven, Hedwig ^a   Janssen, Ine ^a   Grauwels, Luc ^a   Van Beeumen, Jozef ^b   De Loof, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cAMP production; Neobellieria bullata; Peptides

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CAMP GENERATING PEPTIDE, FLESH FLY; CYCLIC AMP; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FLY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYCLIC AMP; DIPTERA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MALPIGHIAN TUBULES; MANDUCA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029687159     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6327(1996)31:2<135::AID-ARCH2>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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