Identification and characterization of insect-specific proteins by genome data analysis

TY - JOUR

T1 - Identification and characterization of insect-specific proteins by genome data analysis

AU - Zhang, Guojie

AU - Wang, Hongsheng

AU - Shi, Junjie

AU - Wang, Xiaoling

AU - Zheng, Hongkun

AU - Wong, Gane Ka-Shu

AU - Clark, Terry

AU - Wang, Wen

AU - Wang, Jun

AU - Kang, Le

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - Insects constitute the vast majority of known species with their importance including biodiversity, agricultural, and human health concerns. It is likely that the successful adaptation of the Insecta clade depends on specific components in its proteome that give rise to specialized features. However, proteome determination is an intensive undertaking. Here we present results from a computational method that uses genome analysis to characterize insect and eukaryote proteomes as an approximation complementary to experimental approaches.

AB - Insects constitute the vast majority of known species with their importance including biodiversity, agricultural, and human health concerns. It is likely that the successful adaptation of the Insecta clade depends on specific components in its proteome that give rise to specialized features. However, proteome determination is an intensive undertaking. Here we present results from a computational method that uses genome analysis to characterize insect and eukaryote proteomes as an approximation complementary to experimental approaches.

KW - Amino Acid Substitution

KW - Animals

KW - Anopheles gambiae

KW - Bees

KW - Bombyx

KW - Drosophila Proteins

KW - Evolution, Molecular

KW - Helminth Proteins

KW - Humans

KW - Insect Proteins

KW - Proteome

KW - Proteomics

KW - Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

KW - Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

KW - Tribolium

U2 - 10.1186/1471-2164-8-93

DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-8-93

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 17407609

SN - 1471-2164

VL - 8

SP - 93

JO - BMC Genomics

JF - BMC Genomics

ER -