Distinct Melanization Pathways in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

Immunity

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-53

  Zou, Zhen ^a   Shin, Sang Woon ^a   Alvarez, Kanwal S ^a   Kokoza, Vladimir ^a   Raikhel, Alexander S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

MOLIMMUNO

Indexed keywords

CLIP DOMAIN SERINE PROTEASE B 29; CLIP DOMAIN SERINE PROTEASE B 5; CLIP DOMAIN SERINE PROTEASE B 8; IMMUNE MELANIZATION PROTEASE 1; IMMUNE MELANIZATION PROTEASE 2; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PROPHENOL OXIDASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERPIN 1; SERPIN 2; SERPIN 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT GENOME; MELANIZATION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MELANINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERINE PROTEASES; SERPINS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 74549187641     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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