Insect chitinase and chitinase-like proteins

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-216

  Arakane, Yasuyuki ^a   Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Chitinases; Classification; Expression; Function; Insects; RNA interference; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITINASE; INSECT PROTEIN;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; INSECT; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHITINASE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PESTICIDES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 73849110534     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-009-0161-9     Document Type: Review

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