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SUBMITTER: Lombardo F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3740408 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lombardo Fabrizio F Ronca Raffaele R Rizzo Cinzia C Mestres-Simòn Montserrat M Lanfrancotti Alessandra A Currà Chiara C Fiorentino Gabriella G Bourgouin Catherine C Ribeiro Josè M C JM Petrarca Vincenzo V Ponzi Marta M Coluzzi Mario M Arcà Bruno B
Insect biochemistry and molecular biology 20090512 7
The Anopheles gambiae salivary gland protein 6 (gSG6) is a small protein specifically found in the salivary glands of adult female mosquitoes. We report here the expression of a recombinant form of the protein and we show that in vivo gSG6 is expressed in distal-lateral lobes and is secreted with the saliva while the female mosquito probes for feeding. Injection of gSG6 dsRNA into adult A. gambiae females results in decreased gSG6 protein levels, increased probing time and reduced blood feeding ...[more]