The plasma protein scolexin from Manduca sexta is induced by baculovirus infection and other immune challenges

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-7

  Finnerty, Casey M ^a,b   Granados, Robert R ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Baculovirus; Enterobacter cloacae; Erinnyis ello granulosis virus; Lipopolysaccharide; Manduca sexta; N Terminal sequence; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Serratia marcescsens; Streptococcus faecalis; Two dimensional gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; PLASMA PROTEIN; SCOLEXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; VIRUS IMMUNITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; HEMOLYMPH; INSECT PROTEINS; MANDUCA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0031057840     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(96)00075-6     Document Type: Article

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