Antheraea polyphemus

Bette S. Breer H. and Krieger J. (2002) Probing a pheromone binding protein of the silkmoth Antheraea polyphemus by endogenous tryptophan fluorescence. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 32, 241-246. 

Vogt R. G., Riddiford L. M. and Prestwich G. D. (1985) Kinetic properties of a sex pheromone-degrading enzyme the sensillar esterase of Antheraea polyphemus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82, 8827-8831. 

Baker T. C. and Vogt R. G. (1988) Measured behavioral latency in response to sex-pheromone loss in the large silk moth Antheraea polyphemus. J. Exp. Biol. 137, 29-... 

Kasang G., Nicholls M., Keil T. and Kanaujia S. (1989) Enzymatic conversion of sex pheromones in olfactory hairs of the male silkworm moth Antheraea polyphemus. Z. Naturforsch. 44c, 920-926. 

Klein U. (1987) Sensillum-lymph proteins from antennal olfactory hairs of the moth Antheraea polyphemus (Saturniidae). Insect Biochem. 17, 1193-1204. 

Maida R., Krieger J., Gebauer T., Lange U. and Ziegelberger G. (2000) Three pheromonebinding proteins in olfactory sensilla of the two silkmoth species Antheraea polyphemus and Antheraea pemyi. Eur. J. Biochem. 267, 2899-2908. 

Prestwich G. D., Golec F. A. and Andersen N. H. (1984) Synthesis of a highly tritiated photoaffmity labeled pheromone analog for the moth Antheraea polyphemus. J. Labelled Cmpnd. Radiopharm. 21, 593-601. 

Rogers M. E., Steinbrecht R. A. and Vogt R. G. (2001a) Expression of SNMP-1 in olfactory neurons and sensilla of male and female antennae of the sitkmoth Antheraea polyphemus. Cell and Tissue Res. 303, 433 446. 

Rogers M. E., Sun M., Lerner M. R. and Vogt R. G. (1997) SNMP-1, a novel membrane protein of olfactory neurons of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus with homology to the CD36 family of membrane proteins. J. Biol. Chem. 272, 14792-14799. 

Rybczynski R., Vogt R. G. and Lerner M. R. (1990) Antennal-specific pheromone-degrading aldehyde oxidases from the moths Antheraea polyphemus and Bombyx mori. J. Biol. Chem. 32, 19712-19715. 

Vogt R. G. and Riddiford L. M. (1986b) Scale esterase a pheromone degrading enzyme from the wing scales of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus. J. Chem. Ecol. 12, 469-482. 

In moths, pheromones are detected by a compound nose (Steinbrecht, 1999), i.e. a network of hair-like sensilla distributed over the surface of the antennae. For example, in the wild silkmoth, Antheraea polyphemus, each male antenna... 

Keil T. A. (1984a) Reconstruction and morphometry of the silkmoth olfactory hairs a comparative study of sensilla trichodea on the antennae of male Antheraea polyphemus and A. Pernyi (Insecta Lepidoptera). Zoomorphologie 104, 147-156. 

Meng L. Z., Wu C. H., Wicklein M., Kaissling K.-E. and Bestmann H. J. (1989) Number and sensitivity of three types of pheromone receptor cells in Antheraea pemyi and Antheraea polyphemus. J. Comp. Physiol. A 165, 139-146. 

The first PBPs to be discovered were from wild silk moths Antheraea polyphemus (Vogt and Riddiford, 1981) and Antheraea pernyi (Kaissling and Torson, 1980)... 

Campanacci V., Krieger J., Bette S., Sturgis J. N., Lartigue A., Cambillau C., BreerH. and Tegoni M. (2001) Revisiting the specificity of Mamestra brassicae and Antheraea polyphemus pheromone-binding proteins with a fluorescence binding assay. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 20078-20084. 

VandenBerg M. J. and Ziegelberger G. (1991) On the function of the pheromone binding protein in the olfactory hairs of Antheraea polyphemus. J. Insect Physiol. 37, 79-85. 

Ziegelberger G. (1995) Redox-shift of the pheromone-binding protein in the silkmoth, Antheraea polyphemus. Eur. J. Biochem. 232, 706-711. 

Laue M., Steinbrecht R. A. and Ziegelberger G. (1994) Immunocytochemical localization of general-odorant binding protein in olfactory sensilla of the silkmoth Antheraea polyphemus. Naturwissenschaften 81, 178-180. 

Maida R., Redkozubov A. and Ziegelberger G. (2000) Identification of PLC beta and PKC in pheromone receptor neurons of Antheraea polyphemus. Neuroreport 11, 1773-1776. 

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