Analysis of the mosquito lysosomal aspartic protease gene: An insect housekeeping gene with fat body-enhanced expression

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 323-335

  Dittmer, Neal T ^a   Raikhel, Alexander S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

20 Hydroxyecdysone; Aedes aegypti; Cathepsin D; Fat body enhancer; Tissue specific gene expression; Vitellogenesis

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECDYSTEROIDS; INSECT PROTEIN; STEROID;

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LYSOSOME; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE MATURATION; RAT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA TRANSLATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECDYSTEROIDS; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; LYSOSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RATS; STEROIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031127642     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(97)00007-6     Document Type: Article

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