Biological activity of Manduca sexta paralytic and plasmatocyte spreading peptide and primary structure of its hemolymph precursor

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1075-1086

  Wang, Yang ^a   Jiang, Haobo ^a   Kanost, Michael R ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Fat body; Hemocyte; Hemolymph; Insect immunity; Paralysis; Tobacco hornworm

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PARALYTIC PEPTIDE, INSECT; PEPTIDE; PLASMATOCYTE-SPREADING PEPTIDE 1; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CATTLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; DNA LIBRARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PLASMA CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RABBIT; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MANDUCA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0033486079     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(99)00086-7     Document Type: Article

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