cDNA cloning, functional expression and characterization of kynurenine 3-hydroxylase of Anopheles stephensi (Diptera: Culicidae)

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 497-504

  Hirai, M ^a,c   Kiuchi, M ^b   Wang, J ^a   Ishii, A ^a   Matsuoka, H ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anopheles stephensi; cDNA cloning; Kynurenine 3 hydroxylase; Xanthurenic acid

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; KYNURENINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPODOPTERA;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0036787225     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2002.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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