Identification of the Bombyx Red Egg gene reveals involvement of a novel transporter family gene in late steps of the insect ommochrome biosynthesis pathway

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 17706-17714

  Osanai Futahashi, Mizuko ^a   Tatematsu, Ken Ichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Kimiko ^a   Narukawa, Junko ^a   Uchino, Keiro ^a   Kayukawa, Takumi ^a   Shinoda, Tetsuro ^a   Banno, Yutaka ^b   Tamura, Toshiki ^a   Sezutsu, Hideki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRANT TRANSCRIPT; BIOSYNTHESIS PATHWAYS; BODY SURFACE; BOMBYX MORI; COMPOUND EYE; EYE COLOR; MAJOR FACILITATOR SUPERFAMILY; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; MUTANT ANALYSIS; PIGMENT SYNTHESIS; POSITIONAL CLONING; RED FLOUR BEETLES; TRANS-MEMBRANE DOMAINS; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; COLOR; EXPERIMENTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

GENES;

ARTICLE; BOMBYX MORI RED EGG GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE SYNTHESIS; INSECT GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMMOCHROME; OPEN READING FRAME; PIGMENT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILKWORM; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; CARRIER PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTHIAZINES; TRIBOLIUM;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 84861211388     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.321331     Document Type: Article

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