Two attacin antibacterial genes of Drosophila melanogaster

Gene

Volumn 246, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 49-57

  Dushay, Mitchell S ^a,b   Roethele, Joseph B ^a   Chaverri, José M ^a   Dulek, Daniel E ^a   Syed, Samreen K ^a   Kitami, Toshimori ^a,c   Eldon, Elizabeth D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b Ctr for Agricultural Biotechnology   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

18 wheeler signaling; Antimicrobial peptides; Fat body; Insect immunity

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ATTACIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FAT BODY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; INJURY; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034603696     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00041-X     Document Type: Article

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