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Insect G protein-coupled receptors and signal transductionJ V Broeck
Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Zoological Institute, K U Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Arch Insect Biochem Physiol 48:1-12. 2001..More insight into these features may result in novel methods and practical applications. Arch...- Neuropeptides and their precursors in the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogasterJ Vanden Broeck
Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Zoological Institute, Naamsestraat 59, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Peptides 22:241-54. 2001..This paper describes the discovery of several new fruitfly neuropeptides by an in silico data mining approach. In addition, the state-of-the-art of Drosophila peptide research is reviewed... - Cloning of two cDNAs encoding three small serine protease inhibiting peptides from the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria and analysis of tissue-dependent and stage-dependent expressionJ Vanden Broeck
Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Leuven, Belgium
Eur J Biochem 254:90-5. 1998..Moreover, a differential hormonal control was observed in adult females which had been treated with precocene, juvenile hormone or ecdysone... - Tachykinin-like peptides and their receptors. A reviewJ Vanden Broeck
Department of Biology, K U Leuven, Belgium
Ann N Y Acad Sci 897:374-87. 1999..In both mammals and insects, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) plays a prominent role in tachykinin peptide metabolism... - Pharmacological characterization of STKR, an insect G protein-coupled receptor for tachykinin-like peptidesH Torfs
Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Zoological Institute, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Arch Insect Biochem Physiol 48:39-49. 2001..calcitrans), also proved to be an STKR-agonist. Stc-TK, a potential physiological ligand for STKR, contains an Ala-residue (or A) instead of a highly conserved Gly-residue (or G). Arch... - Cloning of two cDNAs encoding isoforms of a pacifastin-related precursor polypeptide in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria: analysis of stage- and tissue-dependent expressionG Simonet
Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Zoological Institute, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Insect Mol Biol 11:353-60. 2002..Both transcripts are most abundant in the fat body and appear to be strongly regulated during the moulting cycle. In addition, the amount of transcript proved to be strictly regulated in the ovaries during the female reproductive cycle... - Immunocytochemical distribution of locustamyoinhibiting peptide (Lom-MIP) in the nervous system of Locusta migratoriaL Schoofs
Zoological Institute of the University, Leuven, Belgium
Regul Pept 63:171-9. 1996..In peripheral muscles, Lom-MIP-LI fibers innervate the heart, the oviduct, and the hindgut. In the salivary glands, Lom-MIP-LI was detected in the intracellular ductule of the parietal cells. Possible functions of Lom-MIP are discussed... - cDNA cloning of two different serine protease inhibitor precursors in the migratory locust, Locusta migratoriaG Simonet
Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Zoological Institute, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Insect Mol Biol 11:249-56. 2002.... - Immunolocalization of the oostatic and prothoracicostatic peptide, Neb-TMOF, in adults of the fleshfly, Neobellieria bullataD Bylemans
Zoological Institute of the University, Naamsestraat 59, Leuven, B-3000, Belgium
Gen Comp Endocrinol 103:273-80. 1996..This is the first demonstration that a protein colocalized with yolk proteins might act as a precursor for a folliculostatic hormone... - cDNA cloning and transcript distribution of two different neuroparsin precursors in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregariaT Janssen
Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Zoological Institute, Naamsestraat 59, B-3000 K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Insect Mol Biol 10:183-9. 2001..Interestingly, the Scg-NPP2 mRNA content proved to be strongly regulated during the reproductive cycle in both adult males and females... - Quantitative real-time RT-PCR analysis in desert locusts reveals phase dependent differences in neuroparsin transcript levelsI Claeys
Laboratory of Developmental Physiology, Genomics and Proteomics, K U Leuven, Belgium
Insect Mol Biol 14:415-22. 2005..This paper provides the first scientific evidence for phase-dependent transcriptional regulation of neuropeptide hormone encoding genes... - Isolation of NEB-LFamide, a novel myotropic neuropeptide from the grey fleshflyI Janssen
Zoological Institute, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Mol Cell Endocrinol 117:157-65. 1996..By use of a polyclonal antiserum raised against the synthetic peptide, immunoreactivity was localized in median neurosecretory cells in the pars intercerebralis of the fly brain, indicating that Neb-LF-amide is a neuropeptide... - Gonadotropins in insects: an overviewA De Loof
Zoological Institute, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Arch Insect Biochem Physiol 47:129-38. 2001..The seeming absence of uniformity in gonadotropins in insects might be due to a multitude of factors that can stimulate ecdysteroid production and/or to the use of different bioassays. Arch... - Immunolocalization of a tachykinin-receptor-like protein in the central nervous system of Locusta migratoria migratorioides and neobellieria bullataD Veelaert
Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Zoological Institute, Leuven, Belgium
J Comp Neurol 407:415-26. 1999..In the locust, additional immunopositive staining was observed in internolaterally located neurons of the tritocerebrum and in important integrative parts of the neuropil such as the central body and the mushroom bodies... - The molecular characterisation of chicken pituitary N-terminal pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC)L R Berghman
Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology and Immunological Biotechnology, Zoological Institute, Leuven, Belgium
Mol Cell Endocrinol 142:119-30. 1998..The nucleotide sequence obtained by reversed transcription PCR (RT-PCR) completely confirmed the new amino acid sequence data including pro-gamma-MSH, the joining peptide and ACTH... 
Quantitative RT-PCR analysis of pacifastin-related precursor transcripts during the reproductive cycle of solitarious and gregarious desert locustsB Breugelmans
Department of Animal Physiology and Neurobiology, Zoological Institute K U Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Insect Mol Biol 17:137-45. 2008..In addition, a partial regregarization experiment suggests that both transcript levels are regulated during phase transition and can be employed as molecular markers of the gregarization process...- Functional expression of a locust tyramine receptor in murine erythroleukaemia cellsJ Poels
Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Zoological Institute, KULeuven, Naamsestraat 59, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
Insect Mol Biol 10:541-8. 2001.... - Glucocorticoid-inducible gene expression vectors for use in Drosophila melanogaster Schneider 2 cellsJ Poels
Laboratory for Developmental Physiology, Genomics and Proteomics, Leuven, Belgium
Insect Mol Biol 13:205-11. 2004..The implications of the observations made are discussed in the context of promoter properties and of induction of genes that may be studied in Drosophila...