Domain organization and phylogenetic analysis of the chitinase-like family of proteins in three species of insects

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 452-466

  Zhu, Qingsong ^a   Arakane, Yasuyuki ^a   Banerjee, Debarshi ^a   Beeman, Richard W ^b   Kramer, Karl J ^a,b   Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAIN MARKETING AND PRODUCTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Chitin; Chitin binding domain; Chitinase; Cuticle; Drosophila; Glycosylhydrolase; Insect; Peritrophic membrane; Phylogenetic analysis; Tribolium

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRIBOLIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHITINASE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIBOLIUM;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 40649094035     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2007.06.010     Document Type: Article

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