Cloning and characterization of a dopachrome conversion enzyme from the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1125-1135

  Johnson, J K ^a   Li, J ^b   Christensen, B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Dopachrome conversion enzyme; L Dopachrome; Melanization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; DOPACHROME; DOPACHROME OXIDOREDUCTASE; DOPACHROME TAUTOMERASE; DOPAMINE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; ISOMERASE; MELANIN; METHYLDOPA; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDOLEQUINONES; INDOLES; INSECT VECTORS; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QUINONES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS;

EID: 0034816028     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(01)00072-8     Document Type: Article

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