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Isolation and expression of the ecdysteroid-inducible angiotensin-converting enzyme-related gene in wing discs of Bombyx mori.

We isolated a clone encoding a putative angiotensin-converting enzyme-related gene from the wing disc cDNA library of the silkworm, Bombyx mori (refer to as BmAcer). The predicted open reading frame encoded 648 amino acids with about 50% identities with the Drosophila melanogaster angiotensin-converting enzyme Ance and Acer. Northern analysis identified a 2.2-kilobase mRNA which was abundant in wing discs two days after the beginning of wandering. An accumulation of the transcript was observed approximately 2 h after 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) exposure in vitro and was blocked slightly by a protein synthetic inhibitor. These data suggest that the transcription of the BmAcer gene is directly 20E-inducible.[1]

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  1. Isolation and expression of the ecdysteroid-inducible angiotensin-converting enzyme-related gene in wing discs of Bombyx mori. Quan, G.X., Mita, K., Okano, K., Shimada, T., Ugajin, N., Xia, Z., Goto, N., Kanke, E., Kawasaki, H. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. (2001) [Pubmed]
 
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