A venom metalloproteinase from the parasitic wasp Eulophus pennicornis is toxic towards its host, tomato moth (Lacanobia oleracae)

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 195-202

  Price, D R G ^a   Bell, H A ^b   Hinchliffe, G ^a   Fitches, E ^b   Weaver, R ^b   Gatehouse, J A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cDNA; Ectoparasitoid; Pichia pastoris expression system; Reprolysin; Venom component

Indexed keywords

METALLOPROTEINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; WASP VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INJECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SURVIVAL; TOMATO; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INJECTIONS; LARVA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; METALLOPROTEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

EULOPHUS; EULOPHUS PENNICORNIS; HEXAPODA; LACANOBIA; LACANOBIA OLERACEA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PICHIA PASTORIS; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 62549155734     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2009.00864.x     Document Type: Article

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