CDNA cloning of L-dopa decarboxylase from the eclosion stage of the insect Ceraritis capitata. Evolutionary relationship to other species decarboxylases

Gene

Volumn 204, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 85-89

  Mantzouridis, T D ^a   Sideris, D C ^a   Fragoulis, E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Insect development; Nucleotide sequence; Recombinant DNA

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; CARBOXYLYASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HISTIDINE DECARBOXYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EVOLUTION; GENE ISOLATION; INSECT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIPTERA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPITATA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031578824     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00527-1     Document Type: Article

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