Neuropeptides and Neuroactive Substance in the Bembyx mori Brain: Allatotropin Gene and Localization, Neuronal Growth by BDNF, and Apoptosis by Edysone

  • Lee, Bong-Hee (School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Korea University)
  • Published : 2003.10.01

Abstract

Allatotropin is a 13-residue amidated neuropeptide isolated from pharate adult heads of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca serta and strongly stimulates biosynthesis of juvenile hormones in adults, but not larval, lepidopteran corpora allata. From a Bombyx mori midgut cDNA library, a cDNA that encodes a 130-amino-acid polypeptide containing M. sexta allatotropin sequence was isolated. The B. mori allatotropin cDNA consists of 1196 nucleotides. (omitted)

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