Matrix proteins from insect pliable cuticles: Are they flexible and easily deformed?

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 445-452

  Andersen, Svend Olav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conformation; Cuticle; Fluorescence; Hyalophora cecropia; Insect; Locust; Protein; Schistocerca gregaria

Indexed keywords

1-ANILINO-8-NAPHTHALENESULFONATE; 8 ANILINO 1 NAPHTHALENESULFONIC ACID; FLUORESCENT DYE; GUANIDINE; INSECT PROTEIN; MATRIX PROTEIN; OVALBUMIN; POLYMER; SOLVENT; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; ELECTRICITY; FLUORESCENCE; GRASSHOPPER; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; INSECT; LARVA; LOCUST; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PH; PLIABILITY; PRECIPITATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SALINITY; SILKWORM;

ANILINO NAPHTHALENESULFONATES; ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GRASSHOPPERS; GUANIDINE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MOTHS; PLIABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

BOMBYX MORI; CECROPIA; HYALOPHORA CECROPIA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 0035100280     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(00)00139-9     Document Type: Article

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