Properties and secretory mechanism of Musca domestica digestive chymotrypsin and its relation with Drosophila melanogaster homologs

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 482-490

  Tamaki, Fábio K ^a   Padilha, Marcelo H P ^a,b   Pimentel, Andre C ^a   Ribeiro, Alberto F ^a   Terra, Walter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chymotrypsin expression; Chymotrypsin secretion; Chymotrypsin sequence; Dipteran chymotrypsins; Membrane bound chymotrypsin; Soluble chymotrypsin

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HOUSE FLY; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOUSEFLIES; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

EID: 84861454731     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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