The small GTPase Rheb is a key component linking amino acid signaling and TOR in the nutritional pathway that controls mosquito egg development

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 62-69

  Roy, Saurabh G ^a   Raikhel, Alexander S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg development; Fat body; Nutrition; RNA interference; S6 kinase; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MONOMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; S6 KINASE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; VITELLOGENIN;

AEDES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VITELLOGENESIS;

AEDES; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; OVUM; PHOSPHORYLATION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VITELLOGENESIS; VITELLOGENINS;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 78651225262     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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