Cloning of the cDNA encoding Scg-SPRP, an unusual serprotease-related protein from vitellogenic female desert locusts (schistocerca gregaria)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 801-808

  Chiou, Shean Jaw ^a   Vanden Broeck, Jozef ^a   Janssen, Ine ^a   Borovsky, Dov ^b   Vandenbussche, Frank ^a   Simonet, Gert ^a   De Loof, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chvmotrypsin Ecdysone; Insect; Juvenile hormone (JH); Molting; Protease; Trypsin; Vitellogenesis

Indexed keywords

BENZOPYRAN DERIVATIVE; CHYMOTRYPSIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECDYSONE; INSECT PROTEIN; JUVENILE HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PRECOCENE I; SERINE PROTEINASE; SESQUITERPENE; TRYPSIN; VITELLOGENIN;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; JUVENILE HORMONE III; LOCUST; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VITELLOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BENZOPYRANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; INSECT PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SESQUITERPENES; VITELLOGENINS;

EID: 0032190781     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(98)00054-X     Document Type: Article

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