Cloning, expression and phylogenetic analysis of Hemolin, from the Chinese oak silkmoth, Antheraea pernyi

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 853-864

  Li, Wenli ^a,b   Terenius, Olle ^a   Hirai, Makoto ^a,c   Nilsson, Anders S ^a   Faye, Ingrid ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LIAONING ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antheraea pernyi; Chinese oak silkmoth; Hemolin; Innate immunity; Sequence analysis; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

HEMOLIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHERAEA PERNYI; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BODY FAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OAK; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILKWORM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANTHERAEA PERNYI; LEPIDOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 20644444569     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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