Transcription of a lepidopteran cytochrome P450 promoter is modulated by multiple elements in its 5′ UTR and repressed by 20-hydroxyecdysone

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 337-347

  Brown, R Petersen ^a   Berenbaum, M R ^a   Schuler, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Black swallowtail; Papilio polyxenes; Response element; Transcriptional regulation; Untranslated region

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P 450 CYP6B1 (BUTTERFLY); CYTOCHROME P-450 CYP6B1 (BUTTERFLY); ECDYSTERONE; METHOXSALEN; PRIMER DNA; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BUTTERFLY; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; UNITED STATES;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARYL HYDROCARBON HYDROXYLASES; BASE SEQUENCE; BUTTERFLIES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA PRIMERS; ECDYSTERONE; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENE COMPONENTS; ILLINOIS; METHOXSALEN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIO; PAPILIO POLYXENES;

EID: 3943094722     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0962-1075.2004.00486.x     Document Type: Article

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