Preliminary characterisation of digestive proteases of the green mirid, Creontiades dilutus (Hemiptera: Miridae)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 415-423

  Colebatch, Gillian ^a,c   East, Peter ^a   Cooper, Paul ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chymotrypsin; Gut; Heteroptera; Mirid; Protease; Salivary gland

Indexed keywords

ANILIDE; APROTININ; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; INTESTINE ENZYME; N [N (3 CARBOXYOXIRANE 2 CARBONYL)LEUCYL]AGMATINE; N BENZOYLTYROSINE 4 NITROANILIDE; N SUCCINYLALANYLALANYLPROLYLLEUCINE 4 NITROANILIDE; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FEEDING; HEMIPTERA; HYDROLYSIS; INSECT; INTESTINE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PH; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLAND; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARVATION;

ANIMALS; COLOR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOPEPTIDASES; HEMIPTERA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINES; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLANDS;

CREONTIADES DILUTUS; HEMIPTERA; HETEROPTERA; MIRIDAE;

EID: 0035106504     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(00)00136-3     Document Type: Article

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