Dehydration-induced expression of LEA proteins in an anhydrobiotic chironomid

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 348, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-61

  Kikawada, Takahiro ^a   Nakahara, Yuichi ^a   Kanamori, Yasushi ^a   Iwata, Ken ichi ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a   McGee, Brian ^b   Tunnacliffe, Alan ^b   Okuda, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anhydrobiosis; Dehydration inducible gene; Desiccation; Heat soluble protein; Hydrophilic protein; LEA protein; Polypedilum vanderplanki; Post translational processing; Salinity stress

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; LATE EMBRYOGENESIS ABUNDANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; DNA ISOLATION; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SALINITY;

ANIMALS; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATABASES, GENETIC; DEHYDRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CHIRONOMIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; POLYPEDILUM;

EID: 33746704894     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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