Evolutionary recruitment of a flavin-dependent monooxygenase for stabilization of sequestered pyrrolizidine alkaloids in arctiids

Phytochemistry

Volumn 72, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1576-1584

  Langel, Dorothee ^a   Ober, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolution of insect adaptation mechanisms; Flavin dependent monooxygenase; Gene duplication; Pyrrolizidine alkaloid N oxidation; Pyrrolizidine alkaloid sequestration

Indexed keywords

OXYGENASE; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOTH; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAVINS; GENE DUPLICATION; MOTHS; OXYGENASES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARCTIIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 79960734216     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2010.12.014     Document Type: Review

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