Specificity Determinants of the Silkworm Moth Sex Pheromone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Pingxi ^a   Hooper, Antony M ^b   Pickett, John A ^b   Leal, Walter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; ALKADIENE; BOMBYKAL; BOMBYKOL; CARBON; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; LIGAND; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BMOROR1; PROTEIN BMORPBP1; SEX HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOMER; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR SOLUBILIZATION; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SILKWORM; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALKADIENES; ANIMALS; BOMBYX; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FATTY ALCOHOLS; INSECT PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; NEURONS; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

BOMBYCIDAE; BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84866029268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044190     Document Type: Article

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