The molecular mechanisms of cuticular melanization: The ecdysone cascade leading to dopa decarboxylase expression in Manduca sexta

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 245-253

  Hiruma, Kiyoshi ^a,b   Riddiford, Lynn M ^c  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopa decarboxylase; Ecdysone; Juvenile hormone; Manduca; Melanization; Nuclear receptor; Phenoloxidase; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; ECDYSONE; INSECT PROTEIN; MELANIN;

ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; ECDYSONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MANDUCA; MELANINS;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 62649098671     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2009.01.008     Document Type: Review

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