Cloning, sequencing, temporal expression and tissue-specificity of two serine proteases from the midgut of the blood-feeding fly Stomoxys calcitrans

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 290-296

  Lehane, Stella M ^a   Assinder, Susan J ^a   Lehane, Michael J ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Haematophagous; Insect; Midgut; Serine protease

Indexed keywords

SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EATING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

INSECTA; STOMOXYS CALCITRANS;

EID: 0032102276     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2540290.x     Document Type: Article

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