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SUBMITTER: Zhang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5320557 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Hongwei H Dong Shengzhang S Chen Xi X Stanley David D Beerntsen Brenda B Feng Qili Q Song Qisheng Q
Scientific reports 20170222
Bursicon is a neuropeptide hormone consisting of two cystine-knot proteins (burs α and burs β), responsible for cuticle tanning and other developmental processes in insects. Recent studies show that each bursicon subunit forms homodimers that induce prophylactic immunity in Drosophila melanogaster. Here, we investigated the hypothesis that bursicon homodimers act in prophylactic immunity in insects, and possibly arthropods, generally, using the mosquito, Aedes aegypti. We found that burs α and b ...[more]