The two faces of pyrrolizidine alkaloids: The role of the tertiary amine and its n-oxide in chemical defense of insects with acquired plant alkaloids

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 245, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 626-636

  Lindigkeit, Rainer ^a   Biller, Andreas ^a   Buch, Markus ^a   Schiebel, Hans Martin ^a   Boppré, Michael ^b   Hartmann, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

alkaloid uptake; chemical defense; pyrrolizidine alkaloid; senecionine N oxygenase; Tyria jacobaeae (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae)

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 REDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; AMINE; INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPTERA; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PLANT;

ARCTIA CAJA; ARCTIIDAE; CREATONOTOS TRANSIENS; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; ORTHOPTERA; PYRGOMORPHIDAE; SPODOPTERA LITTORALIS; TYRIA JACOBAEAE; ZONOCERUS; ZONOCERUS VARIEGATUS;

AMINES; ANIMALS; INSECTICIDES; LEPIDOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLANTS; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS;

EID: 0030609856     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00626.x     Document Type: Article

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