Juvenile hormone synthesis: "esterify then epoxidize" or " epoxidize then esterify" ? Insights from the structural characterization of juvenile hormone acid methyltransferase

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 228-235

  Defelipe, L A ^a   Dolghih, E ^b   Roitberg, A E ^b   Nouzova, M ^c   Mayoral, J G ^c   Noriega, F G ^c   Turjanski, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Farnesoic acid; Homology modeling; Juvenile hormone acid; Juvenile hormone synthesis; Methyltransferase; P450 epoxidase

Indexed keywords

FARNESOIC ACID; INSECT PROTEIN; JUVENILE HORMONE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; INSECT; ISOMERISM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; ISOMERISM; JUVENILE HORMONES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BOMBYX MORI; COLEOPTERA; DICTYOPTERA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORTHOPTERA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 79952194536     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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