Purification and properties of two blue biliproteins from the larval hemolymph and integument of Rhodinia fugax (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 995-1005

  Saito, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biliprotein; Biliverdin binding protein; Hemolymph protein; Insecticyanin; Lepidoptera; Rhodinia fugax; Satumiidae

Indexed keywords

BILIPROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; BLUE BILIPROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HEMOLYMPH; INTEGUMENT; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HEMOLYMPH; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOTHS;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI; CYNTHIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; RHODINIA FUGAX; SAMIA; SAMIA CYNTHIA RICINI; SATURNIIDAE;

EID: 0032407354     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(98)00088-5     Document Type: Article

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