The insects: Structure and function R. F. Chapman
Publisher: CUP

The Insects has been the standard textbook in the field since the first edition published over forty years ago. Merzendorfer H, Zimoch L: Chitin metabolism in insects: structure, function and regulation of chitin synthases and chitinases. Hand book of Sericulture technologies. We prepared recombinant samples of AaegOBP1 by using an expression system that allows proper formation of disulfide bridges and generates functional OBPs, which are indistinguishable from native OBPs. Structural and ultrastructural analysis of the internal tissues of virus-infected S. Yes, it does not have the molecular information that one would find in more recent works such as Chapman's Insects: Structure and Function. In fact, other studies speak against a functional redundancy, and report differential target-specific effects of multiple copy peptides in insects and molluscs (for example, [19,24-26]). We crystallized Prior to unveiling three-dimensional structures of insect OBPs, we observed that the PBP from the silkworm moth, BmorPBP-1 [6], undergoes a pH-dependent conformational change [7] implicated in loss of binding affinity at low pH [7], [8], [9]. The insects, structure, function, and Biodiversity. The observed higher amino acid distances that reflect a considerable sequence variation for the spacers do not allow us to conclude that structural features of the spacers are unimportant for proper peptide processing and packaging into secretory vesicles.