An azurocidin-like protein is induced in Trichoplusia ni larval gut cells after bacterial challenge

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 495-503

  Kang, Daiwu ^a   Lundström, Annika ^a   Liu, Gang ^a   Steiner, Håkan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Azurocidin; Bacterial infection; Baculovirus; Differential display; Gut; Insect immunity; Serine protease; Trichoplusia ni

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; INSECT PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC CODE; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT; INSECT CELL; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS EXPRESSION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; TRICHOPLUSIA NI; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0036265027     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(02)00009-5     Document Type: Article

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