Molecular cloning and tissue expression of an insect farnesyl diphosphate synthase

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 365-370

  Castillo Gracia, Manuela ^a,c   Couillaud, Franck ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b INSTITUT FRANÇOIS MAGENDIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Farnesyl diphosphate synthase; Insect; Isoprenoid; Juvenile hormone; Prenyl transferase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; ISOPRENOID;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CORPUS ALLATUM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GERANYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033152870     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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