Properties of digestive glycosidases and peptidases and the permeability of the peritrophic membranes of Abracris flavolineata (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-250

  Ferreira, Clélia ^a   Marana, Sandro R ^a   Silva, Cleonice ^a   Terra, Walter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aminopeptidase; Cellulase; Cysteine proteinase; Hemicellulases; Peritrophic membrane; Permeability; Trypsin

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; AMINOPEPTIDASE I; AMYLASE; CELLULASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; ENDO 1,3 BETA GLUCANASE; GLYCOSIDASE; HEMICELLULOSE; LAMINARAN; MELIBIOSE; PEPTIDASE; POLYGALACTURONASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; RAFFINOSE; STARCH; TRYPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CEREAL; DIGESTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; INSECT; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ABRACRIS FLAVOLINEATA; ACRIDIDAE; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 0033060163     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(99)00058-9     Document Type: Article

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