Characterization and cDNA cloning of an immune-induced lysozyme from cultured Aedes albopictus mosquito cells

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-20

  Hernandez, Vida P ^a   Higgins, LeeAnn ^a   Fallon, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

CDNA; Cell line; Immune response; Lysozyme; MALDI TOF; Mosquito; MS MS

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CECROPIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LYSOZYME; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME RELEASE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT CELL; INSECT GENETICS; LEPIDOPTERA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER STAINING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANOPHELES; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA; LEPIDOPTERA; MUSCA;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MURAMIDASE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 0037211986     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(02)00065-4     Document Type: Article

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