Structural and RNAi characterization of the German cockroach lipophorin receptor, and the evolutionary relationships of lipoprotein receptors

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ciudad, Laura ^a   Bellés, Xavier ^a   Piulachs, Maria Dolors ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; JUVENILE HORMONE; LIPOPHORIN RECEPTOR; LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 8; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; VITELLOGENIN RECEPTOR; CELL RECEPTOR; INSECT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HORMONAL REGULATION; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SISTER GROUP; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE; VITELLOGENESIS; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT PROTEINS; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 34547667022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-8-53     Document Type: Article

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