Presence of membrane ecdysone receptor in the anterior silk gland of the silkworm Bombyx mori

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3171-3179

  Elmogy, Mohamed ^a   Iwami, Masafumi ^a   Sakurai, Sho ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecdysone agonist; Ecdysone receptor; Kinetics; Nongenomic; Ponasterone A

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; PONASTERONE A; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRITON X 114;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE; DISSOCIATION; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR SOLUBILIZATION; SILK; SILKWORM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BOMBYX; CELL MEMBRANE; ECDYSONE; ECDYSTERONE; KINETICS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SOLUBILITY; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; INSECTA;

EID: 3242891758     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04249.x     Document Type: Article

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