• Journal of Life Science
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• v.17 no.2 s.82
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• pp.223-229
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• 2007

Present study aims to investigate the topical distribution of pupal stage specific cuticle protein and its temporal and spatial role during the wing formation of Artogeia rapae. ArCP27(27 kd cuticle protein) was identified as pupal stage specific cuticle protein in cuticle tissues and has not shown any qualitative differences by local portions of body. ArCP27 maintained constant concentration just after pupal ecdysis to 5-day old pupal stage but thereafter decreased. In fat body, ArCP27 was found in both thoracic and abdominal fat body from the last larval to pupal stage. In wing cuticle, ArCP27 began to find from 5-day old pupal stage. Immunologically ArCP27 in thoracic and abdominal cuticle has the response against the ArCP27 at 5-day old pupa but since then has no response. But the antibody against ArCP27 has reacted to 5- and 7-day old pupal and adult wing protein. $^3H-leucine$ was not incorporated into ArCP27 in 5- and 7-day old thoracic and abdominal cuticle but was incorporated into ArCP27 in 7-day old wing cuticle and adult wing, suggesting that ArCP27 partly participates the wing cuticle formation by the process of digestion and reabsorption of old cuticle.

• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2005

In our research to identify gene involved in the cuticle protein, we cloned a novel cuticle protein gene, ApCP15.5, from the Chinese oak silkmoth, Antheraea pernyi, larvae cDNA library. The gene encodes a 149 amino acid polypeptide with a predicted molecular mass of 15.5 kDa and a pI of 9.54. The ApCP15.5 contained a type-specific consensus sequence identifiable in other insect cuticle proteins and the deduced amino acid sequence of the ApCP15.5 cDNA is most homologous to Tenebrio molitor-C1B ($43\%$ protein sequence identity), followed by Locusta migratoria-76 ($42\%$ protein sequence identity). Northern blot and Western blot analyses revealed that the ApCP15.5 showed the epidermis-specific expression. The expression profile of ApCP15.5 indicated that the ApCP15.5 mRNA expression was detected in the early stages after larval ecdysis and larval-pupal metamorphosis, and its expression level was most significant on the first day of larval ecdysis and pupal stage. The ApCP15.5 was expressed as a 15.5 kDa polypeptide in baculovirus-infected insect cells.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.106-114
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• 1995

배추흰나비의 조직과 발생시기에 따른 발생 특이 큐티클단백질의 질적 분포를 조사하기 위해 전기영동법, western blotting 및 autoradiography 법을 사용하였다. SDS-PAGE에서 유충기에는 4개, 용기에는 3개의 단백질이 발생 특이 큐티클단백질로 확인되었다. 전기영동적 이동도로 보아 유충기의 62 Kd 큐티클단백질은 지방체 표피, 혈림프에 모두 분포하며. 22 Kd, 16 Kd 단백질은 지방체와 표피, 그리고 19 Kd 단백질은 지방체에서 확인되고 있으며, 용기의 37 Kd 단백질은 표피에서. 28 Kd, 27 Kd 단백질은 표피와 지방체에 분포하는 양상을 보이고 있다 면역학적 방법으로 발생 특이 큐티클단백질의 동질성을 조사한 결과 용기의 27 Kd 단백질은 표피와 지방체에서 반응을 나타내며, 유충기의 22 Kd 단백질은 단지 표피에서만 미약하게 이의 동질성을 보여주고 있다 즉, 27 Kd 단백질은 지방체 22 Kd 단백질은 표피에서 기원하고 있어 발생 특이 큐티클단백질의 합성부위는 한 조직에서 기원하는 것이 아니라 각기 상이한 조직으로 부터 생성되는 것으로 사료된다.