Substituent-dependent, positive and negative modulation of Bombyx mori adenylate cyclase by synthetic octopamine/tyramine analogues.

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：: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：:In insect gap junctions, species-specific differences occur in response to the purported gap junction uncoupling agent, 1-octanol. Changes in gap junctional communication between oocytes and their epithelial cells following treatment with 1-octanol were assayed in Oncopeltus fasciatus (the milkweed bug), Hyalophora ce...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Adler EL,Woodruff RI

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned a full-length tyrosine hydroxylase cDNA from the integument of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella. In the phylogenetic tree, tyrosine hydroxylase (PxTH) clustered with the other lepidopteran THs. Serine residues in the PxTH sequence, namely Ser(24), Ser(31), Ser(35), Ser(53), and Ser(65), were predict...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Hwang SH,Cho S,Park YC

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：: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 full-length cDNA of pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide receptor (PBANR) was cloned from the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae); it included an open reading frame of 1,053 bp encoding 350 amino acids. The PBANR of S. exigua (SePBANR) was structurally characteristic of G p...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Cheng Y,Luo L,Jiang X,Zhang L,Niu C

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro catabolism of juvenile hormone (JH) in haemolymph of adult female Cydia pomonella was ascribed mainly to juvenile hormone esterase (JHE) activity. No significant differences were noted between virgin and mated females 0-96 h post-emergence. Changes in JHE activity did not appear dependent upon fluctuations in...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Cole TJ,Ramaswamy SB,Srinivasan A,Dorn S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE, peptidyl dipeptidase A) in metamorphic- and reproductive-related events in the Egyptian cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) was studied by using the selective ACE inhibitor captopril. Although oral administration of captopril had no effect on ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Vercruysse L,Gelman D,Raes E,Hooghe B,Vermeirssen V,Van Camp J,Smagghe G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster glutathione S-transferase D3 (DmGSTD3) has a shorter amino acid sequence as compared to other GSTs known in the fruit flies. This is due to the 15 amino acid N-terminal truncation in which normally active amino acid residue is located. The work has made use of homology modeling to visualize the...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Vignesvaran K,Alias Z

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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：:There is a basal level of enzyme activity for trypsin, aminopeptidase, amylase, and lipase in the gut of unfed larval (L6) Spodoptera frugiperda. Trypsin activity does not decrease with non-feeding, possibly because of the low protein levels in plants along with high amino acid requirements for growth and storage (for...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Lwalaba D,Hoffmann KH,Woodring J

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Apolipophorin III (apoLp-III) functions in lipid transport and immune activation in insects. We cloned a cDNA encoding putative apoLp-III from larvae of Thitarodes pui, a host species of Ophiocordyceps sinensis, with great economic importance in the Tibetan Plateau. Excluding a putative signal peptide of the first 20 ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Sun Z,Yu J,Wu W,Zhang G

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Bostrichiformia is the less known major series of Coleoptera regarding digestive physiology. The midgut of Dermestes maculatus has a cylindrical ventriculus with anterior caeca. There is no cell differentiation along the ventriculus, except for the predominance of cells undergoing apocrine secretion in the anterior re...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Caldeira W,Dias AB,Terra WR,Ribeiro AF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salivary enzyme, glucose oxidase (GOX) from the caterpillar Helicoverpa zea, catalyzes the conversion of glucose to gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide. Because hydrogen peroxide has well-known antimicrobial properties, we examined whether caterpillar labial saliva could reduce the infectivity of bacterial pathogens. ...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Musser RO,Kwon HS,Williams SA,White CJ,Romano MA,Holt SM,Bradbury S,Brown JK,Felton GW

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult functions of juvenile hormone (JH) have been described for Drosophila melanogaster and other dipteran insects, but preadult function for this hormone remains largely unknown in this order of insects. We have identified a mutation of Drosophila, Methoprene-tolerant (Met), which appears to alter JH reception durin...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Turner C,Wilson TG

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of tebufenozide and methoxyfenozide on vitellogenin (Vg) synthesis/release in the fat body, translocation in hemolymph, uptake by the ovary, and the expression of the ecdysone receptor (EcR) and its heterodimer partner, ultraspiracle protein (USP) in fat body, were investigated in Cydia pomonella. The resu...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Sun X,Song Q,Barrett B

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aphid, a short germband insect, displays an embryogenesis different from that of long germband insect species. Furthermore, the development of its parthenogenetic and viviparous embryo is different from that of the embryo resulting from sexual reproduction. To better understand the genetic regulation of this type of e...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Mao J,Liu C,Zeng F

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Insect chitinases are a multigene family that is encoded by a rather large and diverse group of genes. The main function of chitinases is to digest the chitin contained in tissues such as the cuticles and gut lining during molting. In this study, we examined the role of a chitinase (SeChi) and a bacterial type chitina...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zhang D,Chen J,Yao Q,Pan Z,Chen J,Zhang W

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitin synthase catalyzes chitin synthesis in the exoskeleton, tracheal system and gut during insect development. A chitin synthase 1 (CfCHS1) cDNA was identified and cloned from the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana. The CfCHS1 cDNA is 5,300 bp in length and codes a 1,564-amino acid protein with a molecular ma...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Ampasala DR,Zheng S,Zhang D,Ladd T,Doucet D,Krell PJ,Retnakaran A,Feng Q

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous investigations, we have determined that organophosphate resistance in the western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, is at least partially attributed to a group of non-specific carboxylesterases referred to as group II. Antiserum raised against a purified 66-kDa group II esterase is specific fo...

journal_title：Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology

authors： Zhou X,Scharf ME,Meinke LJ,Chandler LD,Siegfried BD

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00