Insect transferrins: Multifunctional proteins

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1820, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 437-451

  Geiser, Dawn L ^a   Winzerling, Joy J ^a  

^a Environmental Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Ferritin; Immunity; Insect; Oxidative stress; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOACCUMULATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON INTAKE; IRON METABOLISM; IRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSFERRIN 1 GENE; TRANSFERRIN GENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; INSECTS; IRON; JUVENILE HORMONES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSFERRIN;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84857358614     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: 18728006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2011.07.011     Document Type: Review

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