Early trypsin, a female-specific midgut protease in Aedes aegypti: Isolation, amino-terminal sequence determination, and cloning and sequencing of the gene

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-126

  Noriega, Fernando G ^a   Wang, Xiao Yu ^a   Pennington, James E ^a   Barillas Mury, Carolina V ^b   Wells, Michael A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene; Mosquito; Trypsin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEINASE; TRYPSIN;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA PROBE; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA PROBES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRYPSIN;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030087932     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0965-1748(95)00068-2     Document Type: Article

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