The structure of a glycosylated protein hormone responsible for sex determination in the isopod, Armadillidium vulgare

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 727-736

  Martin, Gilbert ^a   Sorokine, Odile ^a   Moniatte, Marc ^a   Bulet, Philippe ^a   Hetru, Charles ^a   Van Dorsselaer, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Androgenic hormone; Crustacea; Edman degradation; Mass spectrometry; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ECDYSONE; GLYCOSYLATED PROTEIN; HORMONE PRECURSOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; INVERTEBRATE; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEX DETERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRUSTACEA; DIMERIZATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; GONADAL HORMONES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SULFIDES;

EID: 0033564369     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00442.x     Document Type: Article

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