Midgut carboxypeptidase from Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) larvae: Enzyme characterisation, cDNA cloning and expression

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 739-749

  Bown, David P ^a   Wilkinson, Hillary S ^a   Gatehouse, John A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baculovirus expression; Carboxypeptidase; Helicoverpa armigera; Lepidoptera; Protease inhibitor

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE A; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE B; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PHENANTHROLINE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE; SOYBEAN TRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPODOPTERA; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR, KUNITZ SOYBEAN;

EID: 0032191511     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(98)00067-8     Document Type: Article

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