... the sulfakinins. Sulfakinin isoforms have been identified from numerous insect species. In contrast, members of this peptide family have thus far been isolated from just two crustaceans, the penaeid shrimp Penaeus monodon and Litopenaeus vannamei . Here, we report the identification of a cDNA encoding prepro...

... manifestations. Construction of a cDNA microarray led to a survey of transcript expression levels in seven tissues of carp, as a function of time,and three different extents of cooling. The resulting data delineated a common stress response found in all tissues that comprises genes involved in cellular...

... calpain cDNAs (Gl-CalpB, Gl-CalpM and Gl-CalpT) were isolated from limb regenerates of the tropical land crab Gecarcinus lateralis . All three had highly conserved catalytic (dII)and C 2 -like (dIII) domains. Gl-CalpB was classified as a typical,or EF-hand, calpain, as the deduced amino acid sequence had...

...Xiaoli Yu; Donald L. Mykles SUMMARY A cDNA (1977 bp) encoding a crustacean calpain (Ha-CalpM; GenBank accession no. AY124009) was isolated from a lobster fast muscle cDNA library. The open reading frame specified a 575-amino acid (aa) polypeptide with an estimated mass of 66.3 kDa. Ha-CalpM shared...

... on Mytilus edulis , with few detailed comparisons with other mussels. M. galloprovincialis , a closely related species, provides an opportunity for a thorough comparison. Three full-length cDNA clones encoding the byssal collagens, precollagen D(preCol-D), preCol-NG and preCol-P, were isolated from M...

... mechanism, to establish its presence and localization in the midgut of larval Aedes aegypti and to clone and characterize its cDNA. Here, we report the physiological demonstration of the involvement of carbonic anhydrase in midgut alkalization. Histochemistry and in situ hybridization showed that the enzyme...

...Mary S. Cupp; José M. C. Ribeiro; Donald E. Champagne; Eddie W. Cupp ABSTRACT A cDNA was cloned from the salivary glands of a blood-feeding black fly Simulium vittatum . The encoded protein has been given the name Simulium vittatum erythema protein or SVEP, because of its ability to increase blood...

...Yasushi Hirayama; Satoshi Kanoh; Misako Nakaya; Shugo Watabe ABSTRACT cDNA libraries were constructed from fast skeletal muscles of carp acclimated to 10 and 30 °C for a minimum of 5 weeks and were screened for myosin alkali light chains, LC1 and LC3, using an anti-skipjack LC1 polyclonal antibody...