Differentially regulated inhibitor-sensitive and insensitive protease genes from the phytophagous insect pest, Helicoverpa armigera, are members of complex multigene families

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 625-638

  Bown, David P ^a   Wilkinson, Hillary S ^a   Gatehouse, John A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chymotrypsin; Helicoverpa armigera; Lepidoptera; Protease regulation; Serine protease inhibitor; Trypsin

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SOYBEAN TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; TRYPSIN; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOYBEAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRYPSIN; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR, KUNITZ SOYBEAN; TRYPSIN INHIBITORS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; GLYCINE MAX; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0031177988     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(97)00043-X     Document Type: Article

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