Overview of chitin metabolism enzymes in Manduca sexta: Identification, domain organization, phylogenetic analysis and gene expression

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 114-126

  Tetreau, Guillaume ^a   Cao, Xiaolong ^b   Chen, Yun Ru ^c   Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam ^d   Jiang, Haobo ^b   Blissard, Gary W ^c   Kanost, Michael R ^d   Wang, Ping ^a  

^a School of Integrative Plant Science College of Agriculture and Life Sciences   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c United States Department of Agriculture   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chitin deacetylases; Chitin synthases; Chitinases; Lepidoptera; Phylogenetic analysis; RNA seq; Tobacco hornworm

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

AMIDASE; CHITIN; CHITIN DEACETYLASE; CHITINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; INSECT GENOME; MANDUCA; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHITIN; CHITINASES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, INSECT; MANDUCA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84937634420     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: 18790240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2015.01.006     Document Type: Article

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