Purification and cDNA cloning of evolutionally conserved larval cuticle proteins of the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 8-9, 1997, Pages 701-709

  Nakato, Hiroshi ^a   Takekoshi, Mariko ^a   Togawa, Toru ^a   Izumi, Susumu ^a   Tomino, Shiro ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Bombyx mori; cDNA cloning; Cuticle protein; Northern hybridization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CUTICLE PROTEINS, INSECTS; INSECT PROTEIN; LARVAL CUTICLE PROTEIN LCP17; LARVAL CUTICLE PROTEIN LCP22; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CUTICLE; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; MANDUCA SEXTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031200981     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(97)00048-9     Document Type: Article

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