Specific amino acids affecting Drosophila melanogaster prophenoloxidase activity in vitro

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 88-97

  Chen, Yang ^a   Liu, Fei ^b   Yang, Bing ^a   Lu, Anrui ^a   Wang, Shiwei ^a   Wang, Jingfang ^c   Ling, Qing Zhi ^d   Li, Xuan ^a   Beerntsen, Brenda T ^e   Ling, Erjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b Shaanxi Xueqian Normal University Postal address: No69   (China)

^c Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG PHARMACEUTICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Point mutation; Prophenoloxidase; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

CUPROUS ION; MELANIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROPHENOL OXIDASE; PROPHENOLOXIDASE 1; PROPHENOLOXIDASE 3; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; RECOMBINANT PROPHENOLOXIDASE 1; RECOMBINANT PROPHENOLOXIDASE 3; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MELANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 84864359378     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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