Butterfly wings, a new site of porphyrin synthesis and cleavage: Studies on the expression of the lipocalin bilin-binding protein in Pieris brassicae

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 482-491

  Sehringer, Bernd ^a   Kayser, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin; Bilin binding protein; Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase; Insects; Lipocalin; Pieris brassicae; Tetrapyrroles; Wing development

Indexed keywords

BILIN BINDING PROTEIN, INSECT; BILIN-BINDING PROTEIN, INSECT; CARRIER PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; PORPHYRIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BUTTERFLY; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PORPHYRINS; WING;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PIERIS BRASSICAE;

EID: 33646811810     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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