Ferritin acts as the most abundant binding protein for snowdrop lectin in the midgut of rice brown planthoppers (Nilaparvata lugens)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 297-305

  Du, Jinping ^a   Foissac, Xavier ^a   Carss, Alison ^a   Gatehouse, Angharad M R ^a   Gatehouse, John A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galanthus nivalis agglutinin (GNA); Glycoprotein; Homoptera; Iron responsive element; Metal binding protein

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FERRITIN; INSECT PROTEIN; LECTIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SNOWDROP LECTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENETICS; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FERRITINS; GALANTHUS; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; LECTINS; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LECTINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; ARTHROPODA; DIPTERA; GALANTHUS; GALANTHUS NIVALIS; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NILAPARVATA LUGENS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034038169     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(99)00130-7     Document Type: Article

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