Mass isolation of cuticle protein cDNAs from wing discs of Bombyx mori and their characterizations

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1019-1028

  Takeda, Masahisa ^a   Mita, Kazuei ^b   Quan, Guo Xing ^a   Shimada, Toru ^c   Okano, Kazuhiro ^d   Kanke, Eiji ^a   Kawasaki, Hideki ^a  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Cuticle protein; Metamorphosis; Pupal cuticle; R and R motif; Wing disc

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CUTICLE PROTEINS, INSECTS; GENE PRODUCT; INSECT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

ABDOMEN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDERMIS; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HEAD; HYDROPHILICITY; INSECT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SILKWORM; THORAX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; WING;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 0034874551     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(01)00050-9     Document Type: Article

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