Characterization of a sterol carrier protein 2/3-oxoacyl-CoA thiolase from the cotton leafworm (Spodoptera littoralis): A lepidopteran mechanism closer to that in mammals than that in dipterans

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 382, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-100

  Takeuchi, Hajime ^a   Chen, Jian Hua ^a,c   Jenkins, John R ^a   Bun Ya, Masanori ^b   Turner, Philip C ^a   Rees, Huw H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Ecdysone; Lipid metabolism; Prothoracic glands; Steroid

Indexed keywords

COTTON LEAFWORM; INVERTEBRATE SPECIES; STEROLS; THIOLASE;

AMINO ACIDS; BIODIVERSITY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DNA; FATTY ACIDS; GENES; HORMONES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; NUTRITION; OXIDATION; RNA; TISSUE;

PROTEINS;

ACETYL COENZYME A ACYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; ECDYSONE; MESSENGER RNA; STEROL CARRIER PROTEIN 2;

ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DATA BASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; LARVA; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; MAMMAL; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PEROXISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIPTERA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MAMMALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPODOPTERA;

ALABAMA ARGILLACEA; DIPTERA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; MALPIGHIA; MAMMALIA; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; SPODOPTERA LITTORALIS;

EID: 4344702533     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20040717     Document Type: Article

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