Niemann-Pick type C2 protein mediating chemical communication in the worker ant

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3847-3852

  Ishida, Yuko ^a,b   Tsuchiya, Wataru ^c   Fujii, Takeshi ^d   Fujimoto, Zui ^c   Miyazawa, Mitsuhiro ^c   Ishibashi, Jun ^c   Matsuyama, Shigeru ^e   Ishikawa, Yukio ^d   Yamazaki, Toshimasa ^c  

^a TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorescent competitive binding assay; Gas chromatography electroantennogram detection; Molecular evolution; Subtraction PCR; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; NIEMANN PICK TYPE C2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; CAMPONOTUS JAPONICUS; CARPENTER; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSOME; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; JAPANESE; LIGAND BINDING; LYSOSOME; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSILLUM; VERTEBRATE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WORKER;

FLUORESCENT COMPETITIVE BINDING ASSAY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-ELECTROANTENNOGRAM DETECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SUBTRACTION PCR; X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANTS; ARTHROPOD ANTENNAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSILLA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84896304833     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323928111     Document Type: Article

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