Drosophila melanogaster transferrin: Cloning, deduced protein sequence, expression during the life cycle, gene localization and up-regulation on bacterial infection

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 414-420

  Yoshiga, Toyoshi ^a   Georgieva, Teodora ^a   Dunkov, Boris C ^a   Harizanova, Nedjalka ^c   Ralchev, Kiril ^c   Law, John H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Chromosome; Drosophila melanogaster; Expression; Immunity; Sequence; Transferrin; Up regulation

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSFERRIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA LIBRARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCATION; IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SYNTHESIS; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFERRIN; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033106306     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00173.x     Document Type: Article

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