Knockdown of proteins involved in iron metabolism limits tick reproduction and development

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

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1033-1038

  Hajdusek, Ondrej ^a   Sojka, Daniel ^b   Kopacek, Petr ^b   Buresova, Veronika ^b   Franta, Zdenek ^b   Sauman, Ivo ^c   Winzerling, Joy ^d   Grubhoffer, Libor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytosolic aconitase; Ferritin; IRP; RNAi

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; FERRITIN 1; FERRITIN 2; IRON REGULATORY FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; IRON METABOLISM; IRON STORAGE; IRON TRANSPORT; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SALIVARY GLAND;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; GUINEA PIGS; INSECT PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; IRON; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TICKS;

ANIMALIA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; MELOPHAGUS OVINUS;

EID: 59049100529     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807961106     Document Type: Article

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