Alpha-glucosidase promotes hemozoin formation in a blood-sucking bug: An evolutionary history

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Mury, Flávia Borges ^a   da Silva, José Roberto ^b,c   Ferreira, Ligia Souza ^a   dos Santos Ferreira, Beatriz ^a   de Souza Filho, Gonçalo Apolinário ^a   de Souza Neto, Jayme Augusto ^f   Ribolla, Paulo Eduardo Martins ^d   Silva, Carlo Peres ^e   do Nascimento, Viviane Veiga ^a   Machado, Olga Lima Tavares ^a   Berbert Molina, Morilla Amorim ^a   Dansa Petretski, Marilvia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Entomologia Molecular INCT EM CNPq   (Brazil)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; ASPARTIC ACID; DIETHYL PYROCARBONATE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HEMIN; HEMOZOIN; HISTIDINE; MALTOSE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HEME; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; SUCKING; ANIMAL; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROLYSIS; INTESTINE; METABOLISM; MICROVILLUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

HEXAPODA; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS;

ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROLYSIS; INSECTS; INTESTINES; MICROVILLI; RHODNIUS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

EID: 70349130801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006966     Document Type: Article

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