Identification of the novel evolutionary conserved obstructor multigene family in invertebrates

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 6827-6833

  Behr, Matthias ^a   Hoch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chitin secretion; Cuticle; Epithelial barrier; Obstructor

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CHITIN BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STEREOTYPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHITIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HYDROPHOBICITY; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 28844507940     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.11.021     Document Type: Article

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