A novel function of 20-hydroxyecdysone: Translational repression of the lysosomal protease mRNA in the mosquito fat body

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 283-288

  Cho, Wen Long ^a   Raikhel, Alexander S ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LYSOSOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN CULTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; VITELLOGENESIS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; INSECTA;

EID: 0035107732     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(00)00175-2     Document Type: Article

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