Allatostatins in the nerves of the antennal pulsatile organ muscle of the cockroach Diploptera punctata.

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：: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：:We have employed the proteomic approach in combination with mass spectrometry to study the immune response of honey bee workers at different developmental stages. Analysis of the hemolymph proteins of noninfected, mock-infected and immune-challenged individuals by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed differences ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Randolt K,Gimple O,Geissendörfer J,Reinders J,Prusko C,Mueller MJ,Albert S,Tautz J,Beier H

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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：:We have used a parasitoid wasp Drosophila melanogaster system to investigate the relationship between the humoral and cellular immune responses in insects. Expression of the gene encoding diptericin, an antibacterial peptide in various D. melanogaster strains parasitized by several species of parasitoid wasps, was stu...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Benassi V,Coustau C,Carton Y

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the biochemical characterization and comparative analyses of highly active serine proteases in the larval and pupal developmental stages of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) using substrate-SDS-PAGE. Zymographic analysis of larval stadia detected proteolytic activity in 6-8 bands with apparent molecular mass...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Mesquita-Rodrigues C,Saboia-Vahia L,Cuervo P,Levy CM,Honorio NA,Domont GB,de Jesus JB

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioinsecticide Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti) is increasingly used worldwide for mosquito control. Although no established resistance to Bti has been described in the field so far, a resistant Aedes aegypti strain (LiTOX strain) was selected in the laboratory using field-collected leaf litter contai...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Tetreau G,Stalinski R,David JP,Després L

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:Peroxides are formed in the midgut fluids of caterpillars when ingested tannins and other phenolic compounds oxidize. If these peroxides broke down in the presence of redox-active metal ions, they would form damaging free radicals (Fenton-type reactions). Elemental iron is present in relatively large amounts in leaves...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Barbehenn R,Dodick T,Poopat U,Spencer B

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activity of venom from Pimpla turionellae L. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) was examined in vivo toward larvae and pupae of Galleriae mellonella L. (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), and in vitro toward bacterial and fungal cultures, as well as cultured insect cells. Pupae of G. mellonella were far more susceptibl...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Ergin E,Uçkan F,Rivers DB,Sak O

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bursicon is a neuropeptide that regulates cuticle sclerotization (hardening and tanning) via a G protein-coupled receptor. It consists of two subunits, an alpha and a beta. In the present study, we investigated the transcriptional expression and in situ localization of bursicon alpha and beta in the central nerve syst...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Wang S,An S,Song Q

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Habrobracon brevicornis venom to elevate the nutritional suitability of a host by affecting the host larvae fat body condition was studied. To understand whether H. brevicornis crude venom impacts the host biochemical profile, the concentrations of total lipids and main sugars in the host larvae lymph w...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Kryukova NA,Mozhaytseva KA,Rotskaya UN,Glupov VV

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The green rice leafhopper, Nephotettix cincticeps, is a major rice pest in Southeast Asia and Southern China. Novel control strategies must be explored to control the rice pest. Behavior or fitness regulation of insect by modulating the Troponin C (TnC) may be a novel strategy in the comprehensive management of the in...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Lan H,Hong X,Huang R,Lin X,Li Q,Li K,Zhou T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandins (PGs) are oxygenated metabolites of arachidonic acid and two other C20 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Among other actions in invertebrates, PGs act in ovarian development, renal functions, immunity, hemocyte migration, and gene/protein expression. Reversible phosphorylation is a major mechanism of regulat...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Stanley D,Goodman CL,Ringbauer JA,Song Q

更新日期：2020-09-01 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 gene encoding the Spodoptera frugiperda allatostatin type-A peptide family (Y/FXFGL-amides) was isolated from S. frugiperda brain cDNA. The gene encodes a precursor of 231 amino acids containing nine (or ten) Y/FXFGL-a peptides that are tandemly arranged in three blocks. The comparison of the Spofr-AST A precursor...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Abdel-Latief M,Meyering-Vos M,Hoffmann KH

更新日期：2004-07-01 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：: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：: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：:The southern green stink bug (SGSB, Nezara viridula) is an emerging polyphagous pest in many regions of the world. RNA interference (RNAi) is a valuable method for understanding gene function and holds great potential for pest management. However, RNAi efficiency is variable among insects and the differences in transp...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

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

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:Octopamine (OCT)/tyramine (TYR) analogues, mainly including p- and beta-substituted phenylethylamines, were prepared as probes for the ligand-binding site(s) of adenylate cyclase-coupled OCT or TYR receptors, and were examined for their effects on cAMP production in the head membranes of Bombyx mori larvae. Small stru...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Aoyama M,Nakane T,Ono T,Khan MA,Ohta H,Ozoe Y

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male German cockroaches possess secretory glands that secrete fluid into a pair of transverse depressions on the seventh and eighth abdominal tergites. We investigated the effects of altered juvenoid titer during the first part of the last instar on tergal gland secretory tissue development and the production of terga...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Saltzmann KA,Saltzmann KD,Neal JJ,Scharf ME,Bennett GW

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pteromalus puparum is a gregarious pupal endoparasitoid with a wide host range. It deposits eggs into pierid and papilionid butterfly pupae. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are a family of multifunctional detoxification enzymes that act in xenobiotic metabolism in insects. Insect genome projects have facilitated ide...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Xu G,Teng ZW,Gu GX,Guo L,Wang F,Xiao S,Wang JL,Wang BB,Fang Q,Wang F,Song QS,Stanley D,Ye GY

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relatively little-investigated entomopathogen Conidiobolus coronatus secretes several proteinases into culture broth. Using a combination of ion-exchange and size-exclusion chromatography, we purified to homogeneity a serine proteinase of Mr 30,000-32,000, as ascertained by SDS-PAGE. The purified enzyme showed sub...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Bania J,Samborski J,Bogus M,Polanowski A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have documented the involvement of eicosanoids in insect cellular immune responses to bacteria. The use of the fungal pathogen Beauveria bassiana as a nodulation elicitor, with inhibition of phospholipase A(2) by dexamethasone, extends the principle to fungi. This study also provides the first evidence of...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Lord JC,Anderson S,Stanley DW

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:Immunoreactivity against peptides of the allatostatin family having a typical YXFGL-NH2 C-terminus has been localized in different areas of the central nervous system, stomatogastric nervous system and gut of the cockroach Blattella germanica. In the protocerebrum, the most characteristic immunoreactive perikarya are ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Maestro JL,Bellés X,Piulachs MD,Thorpe A,Duve H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect peptide hormone trypsin modulating oostatic factor (TMOF), a decapeptide that is synthesized by the mosquito ovary and controls the translation of the gut's trypsin mRNA was cloned and expressed in the marine alga Chlorella desiccata. To express Aedes aegypti TMOF gene (tmfA) in C. desiccata cells, two plas...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Borovsky D,Sterner A,Powell CA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00