Characterisation of a desmosterol reductase involved in phytosterol dealkylation in the silkworm, Bombyx mori

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Ciufo, Leonora F ^a   Murray, Patricia A ^a   Thompson, Anu ^a   Rigden, Daniel J ^a   Rees, Huw H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DESMOSTEROL; DESMOSTEROL REDUCTASE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHYTOSTEROL; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEALKYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTESTINE; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROSOME; MICROSOME MEMBRANE; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENOMICS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REDUCTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SILKWORM; STEROL SYNTHESIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY;

BOMBYX MORI; INVERTEBRATA; SACCHAROMYCES;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BOMBYX; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DEALKYLATION; DESMOSTEROL; MICROSOMES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOSTEROLS;

EID: 79959602005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021316     Document Type: Article

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