Reexamination of the mechanisms of oxidative transformation of the insect cuticular sclerotizing precursor, 1,2-dehydro-N-acetyldopamine

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 650-659

  Abebe, Adal ^a   Zheng, Dong ^a   Evans, Jason ^a   Sugumaran, Manickam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Catecholamine oxidation; Cuticular hardening; Dehydro N acetyldopamine; Free radical tanning; Laccase reaction; Quinone methide reactivity; Sclerotization of insect cuticle; Semiquinone production

Indexed keywords

1,2 DEHYDRO N ACETYLDOPAMINE; 1,2-DEHYDRO-N-ACETYLDOPAMINE; DOPAMINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FREE RADICAL; INSECT PROTEIN; LACCASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; KINETICS; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SARCOPHAGIDAE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIMERIZATION; DOPAMINE; FREE RADICALS; INSECT PROTEINS; KINETICS; LACCASE; MANDUCA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SARCOPHAGIDAE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 77956182067     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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