Structural analysis of gene encoding cuticle protein BMCP18, and characterization of its putative transcription factor in the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 6-7, 2001, Pages 611-620

  Togawa, Toru ^a   Shofuda, Ken ichi ^a   Yaginuma, Toshinobu ^b   Tomino, Shiro ^c   Nakato, Hiroshi ^a   Izumi, Susumu ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bm1 element; Bmsvp; Bombyx mori; Cuticle protein; Gene cloning; Transcription factor; Transcription initiation site

Indexed keywords

APOAI REGULATORY PROTEIN 1; APOAI REGULATORY PROTEIN-1; CUTICLE PROTEINS, INSECTS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BMCP18; SEVEN UP PROTEIN; SEVEN-UP PROTEIN; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HNF 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HNF-4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CUTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; INTRON; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; COUP TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BOMBYX MORI; LEPIDOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035957714     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(00)00166-1     Document Type: Article

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