Hemolymph protease-5 links the melanization and Toll immune pathways in the tobacco hornworm,Manduca sexta

More Than Black or White: Melanization and Toll Share Regulatory Serine Proteases in Drosophila

(2019) Jan Paul Dudzic et al.   Cell Reports

Inhibition of immune pathway-initiating hemolymph protease-14 by Manduca sexta serpin-12, a conserved mechanism for the regulation of melanization and Toll activation in insects

(2019) Yang Wang et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The Circulating Protease Persephone Is an Immune Sensor for Microbial Proteolytic Activities Upstream of the Drosophila Toll Pathway

(2018) Najwa Issa et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The Manduca sexta serpinome: Analysis of serpin genes and proteins in the tobacco hornworm

(2018) Miao Li et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Building a platform for predicting functions of serine protease-related proteins in Drosophila melanogaster and other insects

(2018) Xiaolong Cao et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Manduca sexta hemolymph protease-1, activated by an unconventional non-proteolytic mechanism, mediates immune responses

(2017) Yan He et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Prophenoloxidase activation and antimicrobial peptide expression induced by the recombinant microbe binding protein of Manduca sexta

(2017) Yang Wang et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The MEROPS database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors in 2017 and a comparison with peptidases in the PANTHER database

(2017) Neil D Rawlings et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Serpins in arthropod biology

(2017) David A. Meekins et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Drosophila melanogaster clip-domain serine proteases: Structure, function and regulation

(2016) Florian Veillard et al.   BIOCHIMIE

In search of a function of Manduca sexta hemolymph protease-1 in the innate immune system

(2016) Fan Yang et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Initiating protease with modular domains interacts with β-glucan recognition protein to trigger innate immune response in insects

(2015) Daisuke Takahashi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Clip-domain serine proteases as immune factors in insect hemolymph

(2015) Michael R Kanost et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Manduca sexta proprophenoloxidase activating proteinase-3 (PAP3) stimulates melanization by activating proPAP3, proSPHs, and proPOs

(2014) Yang Wang et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Serine Protease MP2 Activates Prophenoloxidase in the Melanization Immune Response of Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) Chunju An et al.   PLoS One

Inducible Defenses Stay Up Late: Temporal Patterns of Immune Gene Expression in Tenebrio molitor

(2013) Paul R Johnston et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Genetic evidence of a redox-dependent systemic wound response via Hayan Protease-Phenoloxidase system inDrosophila

(2012) Hyuck-Jin Nam et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Recognition of microbial molecular patterns and stimulation of prophenoloxidase activation by a β-1,3-glucanase-related protein in Manduca sexta larval plasma

(2011) Yang Wang et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Involvement of Manduca sexta peptidoglycan recognition protein-1 in the recognition of bacteria and activation of prophenoloxidase system

(2010) Niranji Sumathipala et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Binding properties of the regulatory domains in Manduca sexta hemolymph proteinase-14, an initiation enzyme of the prophenoloxidase activation system

(2009) Yang Wang et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Proteolytic activation and function of the cytokine Spätzle in the innate immune response of a lepidopteran insect, Manduca sexta

(2009) Chunju An et al.   FEBS Journal

Functions ofManduca sextaHemolymph Proteinases HP6 and HP8 in Two Innate Immune Pathways

(2009) Chunju An et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A single modular serine protease integrates signals from pattern-recognition receptors upstream of the Drosophila Toll pathway

(2009) N. Buchon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drosophila Serpin-28D regulates hemolymph phenoloxidase activity and adult pigmentation

(2008) Christoph Scherfer et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

A positive feedback mechanism in the Manduca sexta prophenoloxidase activation system

(2008) Yang Wang et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Expression of Manduca sexta serine proteinase homolog precursors in insect cells and their proteolytic activation

(2007) Zhiqiang Lu et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY