Spodoptera frugiperda X-Tox Protein, an Immune Related Defensin Rosary, Has Lost the Function of Ancestral Defensins

BACKGROUND: X-tox proteins are a family of immune-related proteins only found in Lepidoptera and characterized by imperfectly conserved tandem repeats of several defensin-like motifs. Previous phylogenetic analysis of X-tox genes supported the hypothesis that X-tox have evolved from defensins in a l...

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Autores principales: Destoumieux-Garzón, Delphine, Brehelin, Michel, Bulet, Philippe, Boublik, Yvan, Girard, Pierre-Alain, Baghdiguian, Stephen, Zumbihl, Robert, Escoubas, Jean-Michel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19710910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006795

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19710910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006795

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