Neverland is an evolutionally conserved Rieske-domain protein that is essential for ecdysone synthesis and insect growth

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2565-2574

  Yoshiyama, Takuji ^a   Namiki, Toshiki ^a   Mita, Kazuei ^b   Kataoka, Hiroshi ^a   Niwa, Ryusuke ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Cholesterol; Drosophila melanogaster; Ecdysone; Growth; Molting; Prothoracic gland; Rieske; Ring gland; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL; ECDYSONE; ECDYSTERONE; NEVERLAND PROTEIN; OXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILKWORM; STEROIDOGENESIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECDYSONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; PUPA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 33746460872     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02428     Document Type: Article

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