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SUBMITTER: Li X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC365724 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Xianchun X Baudry Jerome J Berenbaum May R MR Schuler Mary A MA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040223 9
How polyphagous herbivores cope with the diversity and unpredictability of plant defenses remains largely unknown at both the genetic and molecular levels. To examine whether generalist counterdefense enzymes are structurally more flexible and functionally more diverse, two counterdefensive allelochemical-metabolizing cytochrome P450 proteins, CYP6B1 from the specialist Papilio polyxenes, feeding on furanocoumarin-containing plants, and CYP6B8 from the generalist Helicoverpa zea, feeding on hund ...[more]