A cadherin-like protein from the beet armyworm Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a putative Cry1Ac receptor.

abstract：:Two blue-pigment binding proteins, BP1 and BP2, are present in larval and pupal haemolymph of cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, and fluctuate in expression during development. Both BP1 and BP2 are found in pupal haemolymph in varying proportions as well as in adult haemolymph, while only small amounts of BP2 are ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Choi CW,Nam KP,Seo DH,Choi JW,Lee CS,Kim HR,Yun CY

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:Among insects, lifespans vary over a broad range, from the short-lived mayflies to the 17-year periodical cicadas. Generally, lifespans are determined by a phase in life, the reproductive lifespan, which varies among species. Numerous pathways, such as the insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling pathway, the targ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Xiong S,Yu K,Ye X,Fang Q,Deng Y,Xiao S,Yang L,Wang B,Wang F,Yan Z,Wang F,Song Q,Stanley DW,Ye G

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxic manipulator of oogenesis (TomO) protein has been identified in the wMel strain of Wolbachia that symbioses with the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster, as a protein that affects host reproduction. TomO protects germ stem cells (GSCs) from degeneration, which otherwise occurs in ovaries of host females that ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Ote M,Yamamoto D

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sterile insect technique (SIT) was developed to eradicate the new world screwworm from the southern United States and Mexico, and became a component of many area-wide integrated pest management programs, particularly useful in managing tephritid fruit flies. SIT is based on the idea of rearing and sterilizing male...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Chang CL,Goodman CL,Ringbauer J,Geib SM,Stanley D

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects synthesize several types of hemolymph proteins in response to bacterial infection. The objective of this study was to characterize a 48,000 dalton hemolymph protein induced in larvae of Manduca sexta after injection of bacteria. The protein, isolated by cation exchange and gel filtration chromatography from he...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Ladendorff NE,Kanost MR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-proliferation in Drosophila Kc167 cells was inhibited by 50% when cell cultures contained 1.7 x 10(-7) M azadirachtin for 48 h (a tertranortriterpenoid from the neem tree Azadirachta indica). Drosophila Kc167 cells exhibited direct nuclear damage within 6-h exposure to azadirachtin (5 x 10(-7) M and above) or wit...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Robertson SL,Ni W,Dhadialla TS,Nisbet AJ,McCusker C,Ley SV,Mordue W,Mordue 'Luntz' AJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsule formation by the moth Pseudopulsia includens requires that plasmatocytes change from being nonadhesive cells in circulation to strongly adhesive cells capable of attaching to the foreign target and one another. This change in adhesive state is induced by Plasmatocyte Spreading Peptide (PSP1); a 23 amino acid p...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Strand MR,Clark KC,Gardiner EM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenic amines are an important class of primary messengers in the central (CNS) and peripheral nervous systems and in peripheral organs. These substances regulate and modulate many physiological and behavioral processes. Various inactivation mechanisms for these substances exist to terminate biogenic amine-mediated ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Blenau W,Baumann A

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference (RNAi) has become an integral part of mainstream research due to its versatility and ease of use. However, the potential nontarget effects associated with double-stranded RNAs (dsRNA) are poorly understood. To explore this, we used dsRNAs targeting the inhibitor of apoptosis (iap) gene from nine insec...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Chereddy SCRR,Gurusamy D,Howell JL,Palli SR

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:Agricultural pest control using genetic-based methods provides a species-specific and environmentally harmless way for population suppression of fruit flies. One way to improve the efficiency of such methods is through self-limiting, female-eliminating approaches that can alter an insect populations' sex ratio toward ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Tsoumani KT,Meccariello A,Mathiopoulos KD,Papathanos PA

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding heat shock transcription factor (HSF) was cloned and sequenced from cultured cells of the cabbage armyworm, Mamestra brassicae. The cDNA potentially encoded a 699-aa protein, with a calculated molecular weight of 77.8 kDa. Deduced amino acid identities to HSFs from Aedes aegypti and Drosophila melanoga...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Sonoda S,Tsumuki H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombinant lambda clone 4-2 containing the genomic region of the Drosophila hormone receptor 38 (DHR 38) gene, homologous to mammalian neuronal growth factor I-B (NGFI-B), was isolated by radioactive labelled oligonucleotide hybridization. The nucleotide sequence of the genomic clone revealed three exons that enc...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Komonyi O,Mink M,Csiha J,Maróy P

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Farnesoic acid O-methyl transferase (FAMeT) is the enzyme that catalyzes the formation of methyl farnesoate (MF) from farnesoic acid (FA) in the biosynthetic pathway of juvenile hormone (JH). This work reports the cloning, sequencing, and expression of FAMeT gene from the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris (MsFAMeT). ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Vieira CU,Bonetti AM,Simões ZL,Maranhão AQ,Costa CS,Costa MC,Siquieroli AC,Nunes FM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first day of adult life is the sensitive stage for shifting migrants into the resident morphs of the oriental armyworm (OAW), Mythimna separata (Walker). The juvenile hormone (JH) titer, expression of the allatotropin (AT) gene, and their relationship were investigated in adult female migrants starved in the sensi...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zhang L,Luo L,Jiang X

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insect digestive proteinases are often strongly influenced by ambient physicochemical conditions, such as pH, ionic strength, and oxidation-reduction potential. Although the effects of the former two parameters are well documented, the influence of redox potential on catalytic rates of digestive enzymes is not well un...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Johnson KS,Felton GW

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant protease inhibitors (PIs) are elements of a common plant defense mechanism induced in response to herbivores. The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, a highly polyphagous lepidopteran pest, responds to various PIs in its diet by expressing genes encoding trypsins. This raises the question of whether the PI-ind...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Machado SW,de Oliveira CFR,Zério NG,Parra JRP,Macedo MLR

更新日期：2017-08-01 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：: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

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：:Ribosomal protein L17 (RPL17) is a core protein of the large (60S) ribosomal subunit and plays an important role in protein synthesis. In this report, a RPL17 gene was isolated from Apis cerana cerana, designated as AccRPL17. Alignment analysis showed that AccRPL17 exhibits high homology to other known RPL17s. Moreove...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Meng F,Zhang L,Kang M,Guo X,Xu B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemolymph of each noctuid species successfully parasitized by Chelonus near curvimaculatus possessed a parasitism-specific protein (PSP) previously identified in host T. ni (Insect Biochem. 19:445;21:845). Expression of PSP occurred in a stage-specific manner in the stadium during which the host undergoes precocio...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Soldevila AI,Jones D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that interaction between various agrochemicals and soil microorganisms may either slow down or enhance processes of degradation. Soil disinfestation is employed for the control of soil-borne pathogens and weeds. Soil application of such broad-spectrum biocides, as well as some more sel...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Aharonson N,Katan J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone encoding a small GTP binding protein (Brho) was isolated from an embryonic cDNA library of Bombyx mori that encoded a polypeptide with 202 amino acids sharing 60-80% similarity with the Rho1 family of GTP binding proteins. The effector site and one of the guanine nucleotide binding sites differed from oth...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Uno T,Nakasuji A,Hara W,Aizono Y

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecdysteroids, or molting hormones, have been proven to be key differentiation regulators for epidermal cells in the postembryonic development of arthropods. Regulators of cell proliferation, however, remain largely unknown. To date, no diffusible insect peptidic growth factors have been characterized. Molecules struct...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Hatt PJ,Liebon C,Morinière M,Oberlander H,Porcheron P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-like particles (VLPs) that are bound to the egg surface of a parasitic wasp Venturia canescens are void of nucleic acid and unable to infect host tissue but instead provide a passive protection against the host's immune recognition. To investigate evolutionary and functional properties of Venturia particles, we ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Theopold U,Krause E,Schmidt O

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small brown planthopper, Laodelphax striatellus, is a dangerous pest in rice fields. Although buprofezin has been used to control L. striatellus for more than a decade, the occurrence of buprofezin-resistant L. striatellus has been recently reported. To develop an alternative pest control strategy, comparative tra...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Fang Y,Park MG,Choi JY,Park DH,Wang M,Kim HJ,Kim WJ,Je YH

更新日期：2020-12-01 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