Hemocyte surface phenoloxidase (PO) and immune response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in Ceratitis capitata

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 8-9, 1996, Pages 867-874

  Charalambidis, Nektarios D ^a   Foukas, Lazaros C ^a   Zervas, Christos G ^a   Marmaras, Vassilis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cellular immunity; Ceratitis capitata; Immunity; LPS clearance; Nodule formation; Prophenoloxidase activation; Protein tyrosine phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; BENZYLSULFONYL FLUORIDE; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CHYMOTRYPSIN; ENZYME PRECURSOR; GENISTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXOCYTOSIS; FLY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGY; INSECT; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; EXOCYTOSIS; HEMOCYTES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPITATA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA;

EID: 0030240396     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(96)00053-7     Document Type: Article

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