Molecular adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster lysozymes to a digestive function

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 309-319

  Regel, Rosana ^a   Matioli, Sergio R ^a   Terra, Walter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digestive lysozyme; Lysozyme properties; Lysozyme purification; Lysozyme sequences; Ruminant lysozyme

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; KINETICS; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; ISOELECTRIC POINT; KINETICS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMIDASE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GALLUS GALLUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; MUSCOMORPHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032078495     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(97)00108-2     Document Type: Article

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