Low molecular weight serine protease inhibitors from insects are proteins with highly conserved sequences

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-152

  Boigegrain, Rose Anne ^a   Pugnière, Martine ^a   Paroutaud, Pierre ^b   Bertrand Castro, ^c   Brehélin, Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CNRS UMR 9921 ^*  (France)

^c SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Insects; Protease inhibitors; Reactive site; Schistocerca gregaria; Spodoptera littoralis

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN; INSECT PROTEIN; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPIDOPTERA; LOCUST; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GRASSHOPPERS; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; SPODOPTERA;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; SPODOPTERA LITTORALIS;

EID: 0342905403     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(99)00109-5     Document Type: Article

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