Growth-blocking peptide expressed in the insect nervous system. Cloning and functional characterization

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 810-816

  Hayakawa, Yoichi ^a   Noguchi, Hirofumi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dopa decarboxylase; Dopamine; Growth blocking peptide; Nervous system; Parasitization

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE; GROWTH BLOCKING PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; INSECT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CALCIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOKINES; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PEPTIDES; PUPA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPTOSOMES;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0032080070     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2530810.x     Document Type: Article

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