Insect gonadotropic peptide hormones: Some recent developments

Journal of Peptide Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-26

  Kuczer, Mariola ^a   Rosiński, Grzegorz ^b   Konopińska, Danuta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gonadoinhibitory peptides; Gonadostimulatory peptides; Insect reproduction; Oocyte growth; Ovary development; Vitellogenesis regulators

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN A; COLLOOSTATIN; CYCLIC AMP; ECDYSONE; ECDYSTEROID; ENKEPHALIN; GONADOTROPIN; INSECT HORMONE; INSECTICIDE; LYMANTRIA TESTIS ECDYSIOTROPIN; NEUROPARSIN A1; NEUROPARSIN B; NEUROPARSIN DERIVATIVE; NEUROPEPTIDE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; OVARY DERIVED ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME INTERACTIVE FACTOR; PARSIN DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE HORMONE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRYPSIN; TRYPSIN BIOSYNTHESIS MODULATING OOSTATIC FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; REPRODUCTION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VITELLOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; INSECT HORMONES; INSECTS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCTION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 33846696761     PISSN: 10752617     EISSN: 10991387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psc.792     Document Type: Review

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