Flavin-dependent monooxygenases as a detoxification mechanism in insects: New insights from the arctiids (Lepidoptera)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Sehlmeyer, Sven ^b   Wang, Linzhu ^a   Langel, Dorothee ^a   Heckel, David G ^c   Mohagheghi, Hoda ^b   Petschenka, Georg ^d   Ober, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SIGNAL PEPTIDE; FLAVIN DEPENDENT MONOOXYGENASE 1; FLAVIN DEPENDENT MONOOXYGENASE 2; FLAVIN DEPENDENT MONOOXYGENASE 3; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BODY DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FAT BODY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GRAMMIA GENEURA; HEAD; HEMOLYMPH; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT METABOLISM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SILKWORM; SPECIES COMPARISON; TYRIA JACOBAEAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLAVINS; INSECT PROTEINS; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ARCTIIDAE; BOMBYX MORI; GRAMMIA GENEURA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; PAPILIONOIDEA; TYRIA JACOBAEAE;

EID: 77956288530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010435     Document Type: Article

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