Cloning of two cDNAs encoding three small serine protease inhibiting peptides from the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria and analysis of tissue- dependent and stage-dependent expression

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 254, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 90-95

  Vanden Broeck, Jozef ^a   Chiou, Shean Jaw ^a   Schoofs, Liliane ^a   Hamdaoui, Ahmed ^b   Vandenbussche, Frank ^a   Simonet, Gert ^a   Wataleb, Said ^b   De Loof, Arnold ^a  

^a Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology   (Belgium)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Chymotrypsin; Elastase; Enzyme; Inhibitor; Protease

Indexed keywords

CELL EXTRACT; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; HORMONAL REGULATION; LOCUST; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 0032524009     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1998.2540090.x     Document Type: Article

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