Cloning of a VLP-protein coding gene from a parasitoid wasp Venturia canescens.

abstract：:Larvae of Chironomus riparius respond to ion-poor and brackish water (IPW, BW) conditions by activating ion uptake mechanisms in the anal papillae and reducing ion absorption at the rectum, respectively. The role that the Malpighian tubules play in ion and osmoregulation under these conditions is not known in this spe...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zadeh-Tahmasebi M,Bui P,Donini A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Labial glands of Helicoverpa zea produced a glucose oxidase (GOX), which was present in the saliva and midgut lumen. We purified GOX 23-fold by isoelectric focusing of labial gland homogenates and investigated physical and kinetic properties of the enzyme. D-glucose and 6-deoxy-D-glucose were the optimal substrates of...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Eichenseer H,Mathews MC,Bi JL,Murphy JB,Felton GW

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkaline phosphatase activity was histochemically localized in adult whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci B biotype, syn. B. argentifolii) with a chromogenic substrate (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolylphosphate) and a fluorogenic substrate (ELF-97). The greatest amount of staining was in the basal regions of adult salivary glands wit...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Funk CJ

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect cellular immune responses include encapsulation, nodule formation, and phagocytosis. Hemichannels and gap junctions are involved in these cellular actions. Innexins (Inxs: analogous to the vertebrate connexins) form hemichannels and gap junctions, but the molecular mechanisms underlying their biology is still u...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Pang Z,Li M,Yu D,Yan Z,Liu X,Ji X,Yang Y,Hu J,Luo K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serine protease was isolated from midguts of the bumblebee male Bombus terrestris by a combination of precipitation procedures with column chromatography. The purified enzyme exhibited two bands with molecular masses of 25 and 26 kDa as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. These b...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Brabcová J,Kindl J,Valterová I,Pichová I,Zarevúcka M,Brabcová J,Jágr M,Mikšík I

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actions of acetylcholine and cholinergic ligands have been studied using dorsal midline neurones from the rnetathoracic ganglion of the cockroach Periplaneta americana.Both nicotine and oxotremorine depolarized dorsal midline neuronal cell bodies.Dose-response curves for nicotine and oxotremorine saturated at diff...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Bai D,Erdbrugger H,Breer H,Sattelle DB

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitellogenin has been identified in the ant Camponotus festinatus, both in queens and workers. In the workers, it is already present before adult eclosion in low concentrations (less than 1 microgram/microliter hemolymph). Vitellogenin and vitellin are immunologically identical and are composed of a single type of apo...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Martinez T,Wheeler D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Series of agonists and antagonists were examined for their actions on a Bombyx morialpha-adrenergic-like octopamine receptor (OAR) stably expressed in HEK-293 cells. The rank order of potency of the agonists was clonidine>naphazoline>tolazoline in Ca(2+) mobilization assays, and that of the antagonists was chlorpromaz...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Huang J,Hamasaki T,Ozoe Y

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study dietary pH effects on Lymantria dispar asiatica larvae and provide a theoretical basis for its control in different forests, phosphate buffers (PBs) of pH 6, 7, and 8 were used to prepare experimental diets. The diet prepared with pH 6 PB was named as DPB6, with pH 8 PB as DPB8, and with pH 7 PB as DPB7 (cont...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zeng JY,Shi JH,Guo JX,Shi ZB,Zhang GC,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidant system, which is composed of multiple gene families, plays a major role in reducing oxidative damage and xenobiotic detoxification in all living organisms. We identified 50 silkworm antioxidant genes from nine gene families based on the assembled genome sequence. A comparative analysis of the antioxidant g...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Shi GQ,Yu QY,Zhang Z

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two predatory fly species, Lispe consanguinea Loew, 1858 and L. tentaculata DeGeer, 1776, inhabit the supralittoral zone at the shore of a fresh-water reservoir. Both species look alike and possess similar "badges," reflective concave silvery scales on the face. Flies occupy different lek habitats. Males of the first ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Frantsevich L,Gorb S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation and characterization of homogeneous arginine kinase from the cockroach is reported. The purification protocol produces 6.6 mg of pure enzyme from 6.8 g of whole cockroach. The purified enzyme cross-reacts with a heterologous antibody and monoclonal antibody against arginine kinase from the shrimp. Both a...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Brown AE,France RM,Grossman SH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol has been developed for the purification of vitellogenin from the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Purification allows for the first characterization of a vitellogenin from the large order Hymenoptera. Hymenopteran vitellogenins are unusual among insect vitellogenins in that they contain only one type of apoprotei...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Wheeler DE,Kawooya JK

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of potassium ferrocyanide (PFC) and protective effects of 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) under PFC treatment were tested on the Drosophila melanogaster model system. Fly larvae were raised on food supplemented with PFC at concentrations of 1.0 mM and mixtures with DNP in concentrations of 0.50 and 1.25 mM, eithe...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Lozinsky OV,Lushchak OV,Lushchak VI

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We exposed midgut cells from primary cultures of Heliothis virescens larvae to cell-free previously used medium, the Vaughn X and HyQ SFtrade mark media used for serum-free culture of insect cell lines which do not support H. virescens midgut cells, and to toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis. A statistically significant...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Loeb MJ,Hakim RS,Martin P,Narang N,Goto S,Takeda M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemocyte line BTI-EA-1174-A from the lepidopteran insect Estigmene acraea responds to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) by an enhanced phagocytic reaction and a dose-dependent increase of lysozyme release [Wittwer et al., Dev Comp Immunol 21:323 (1997)]. This paper provides evidence for a strong proteolytic activ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Wittwer D,Wiesner A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An active corpus allatum (CA) in the blood feeding insect, Rhodnius prolixus, releases a substance that inhibits metamorphosis in larvae, and activates egg production in adults. In adults, transecting the nervus corporis cardiacum II's (NCCII), which are attached posteriorly to each protocerebral lobe, greatly increas...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Chiang RG

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a process of programmed cell death that is regulated by genes independently. The Bm30kc6 gene is a kind of small molecular lipoprotein about 30 kDa, expressed highly in the late stage of the silkworm hemolymph. Our study showed that overexpression of Bm30kc6 could decrease caspase-3 activation. Meanwhile,...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Xiao Y,Li LL,Bibi A,Zhang N,Chen T,Mo Y,Yue W,Miao Y

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant produced insect molting hormones, termed phytoecdysteroids (PEs), are thought to function as plant defenses against insects by acting as either feeding deterrents or through developmental disruption. In spinach (Spinacia oleracea), 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) concentrations in the roots rapidly increase following r...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Schmelz EA,Grebenok RJ,Ohnmeiss TE,Bowers WS

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rab proteins play fundamental roles in the regulation of membrane traffic. Previously, from the brain of Bombyx mori we isolated two cDNA clones (BRab1 and BRab14), each of which encoded a different member of Rab-protein family and was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified using an affinity chromatography. In thi...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Uno T,Nakao A,Katsurauma C

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrethroid esterases of Trichoplusia ni, Spodoptera littoralis and Bemisia tabaci hydrolyze the trans-isomers of various pyrethroids more extensively than the cis-isomers. Profenofos fed to T. ni larvae at a level inhibiting the gut pyrethroid esterases by 65% with trans-permethrin and of 95% with cis-cypermethrin inc...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Ishaaya I

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lepidopteran larvae show a cellular response to invading foreign substances that are larger than hemocytes, for example, parasitoid eggs or larvae. This response is called hemocyte encapsulation and is often accompanied by phenoloxidase (PO)-catalyzed melanization. In the present study, we artificially transplanted en...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Kato Y,Yoshida T,Miura K,Tanaka T,Nakamatsu Y,Ochiai M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile hormone (JH) allows larval molting in response to ecdysteroids but prevents the switching of gene expression necessary for metamorphosis. I first review our efforts to isolate the nuclear receptor for JH in the larval epidermis of Manduca sexta using photoaffinity analogs and our recent findings that the mole...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Riddiford LM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prothoracic glands (PGs) taken from the last instar of the common armyworm, Pseudaletia separata, were cultured in various media for the purpose of finding a suitable medium for relatively long-term culture of PGs. Among the tested culture media, MGM-450 medium without serum was the best to maintain PG cells viabl...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Komiya K,Agui N,Mitsuhashi J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bt crop pyramids produce two or more Bt proteins active to broaden the spectrum of action and to delay the development of resistance in exposed insect populations. The cross-resistance between Bt toxins is a vital restriction factor for Bt crop pyramids, which may reduce the effect of pyramid strategy. In this review,...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Wei J,Zhang Y,An S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline-inducible gene expression (Tet-on) system is a particularly powerful tool for transgenic research and has become one of the first choices for the control of transgene expression in a mammal and a fly. Previously, we have generated the modified reverse tetracycline-controlled transactivators and tetO promo...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Tatsuke T,Lee JM,Kusakabe T,Iiyama K,Sezutsu H,Uchino K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of the green-colored perivisceral fat body of newly ecdysed Manduca sexta pupae stimulate mitosis in midgut stem cells of Heliothis virescens cultured in vitro. Using a combination of cation- and anion-exchange chromatography, we have isolated a protein from these fat body extracts that accounts for the obser...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Blackburn MB,Loeb MJ,Clark E,Jaffe H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyhydroxy structure of ecdysteroids provides a basis for the formation of various derivatives including the acetonides that have been frequently prepared mainly in preparative work. Acetonides can be formed between vicinal diols in cis position such as positions C-2/C-3 and C-20/C-22 in 20-hydroxyecdysone, for e...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Kayser H,Eilinger P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Storage protein-1 (HcSP-1) is a major storage protein found in the hemolymph and fat body of Hyphantria cunea. HcSP-1 has a high methionine (6.0%) and low aromatic amino acid content (8.5%) (Cheon et al., 1998). In this study, the accumulation and expression of HcSP-1 in ovary was investigated using biochemical and im...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Cheon HM,Kim HJ,Chung DH,Kim MO,Park JS,Yun CY,Seo SJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:V-ATPases are ubiquitous proton pumps found in eukaryotes, and are important in regulating the pH of cell compartments and in creating membrane potentials. The V-ATPase creates a proton gradient that is used as an energy source for the transport of other ions. The 16-kDa proteolipid is the proton-translocating subunit...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Holmes SP,Frazier SK,Pietrantonio PV

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00