Deconstructing honeybee vitellogenin: Novel 40 kDa fragment assigned to its N terminus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 582-592

  Havukainen, Heli ^a,b   Halskau, Øyvind ^a,b   Skjaerven, Lars ^b   Smedal, Bente ^a   Amdam, Gro V ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fat body; Functional protein fragments; Glycosylation; Hemolymph; Homology modeling; Honeybee; Phosphorylation; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FAT BODY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; HEMOLYMPH; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEES; FAT BODY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEMOLYMPH; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VITELLOGENINS;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; PETROMYZONTIDAE;

EID: 79951479647     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.048314     Document Type: Article

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