Inhibition of melanization by a Nasonia defensin-like peptide: Implications for host immune suppression

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1857-1862

  Tian, Caihuan ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Ye, Gongyin ^b   Zhu, Shunyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cysteine stabilized helical and sheet motif; Innate immunity; Nasonin 3; Parasitoid; Recombinant expression

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA;

AMINO ACID; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INHIBITION; MELANISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITISM; PEPTIDE; RECOMBINATION; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYMOLOGY; FLY; GENETICS; HYMENOPTERA; IMMUNOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DEFENSINS; DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

NASONIA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 77958498148     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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