Functional specialization among insect chitinase family genes revealed by RNA interference

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 6650-6655

  Zhu, Qingsong ^a,c   Arakane, Yasuyuki ^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)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Gene family; Molting defects; Wing abnormalities

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; CHT10 ENZYME; CHT5 ENZYME; CHT7 ENZYME; GROWTH FACTOR; IMAGINAL DISK GROWTH FACTOR 2; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE SILENCING; LARVAL STAGE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUPATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM; ABDOMEN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLTING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OOCYTE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; CHITINASE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLTING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; PUPA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; TRIBOLIUM; WING;

EID: 44349193870     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800739105     Document Type: Article

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