Sentences with phrase «insect immune proteins»

Her research focused on how insects use their immune systems to fight disease, particularly the biochemistry of thioester containing proteins (TEPs), a family of insect immune proteins.

A major limitation of attempts to characterize patterns of change in the immune system across diverse insects is that, with few exceptions (e. g. [22]-RRB-, insect immune proteins have only been well characterized on a large scale in Dipterans, primarily in Drosophila melanogaster [23].

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The mystery has been how these viruses get around the insect's immune response, and the answer is the virus makes a protein that suppresses the immune response, Myles said.

There is also growing evidence that the protein - coding repertoire of the innate immune system is rapidly evolving in insects [5], [8]--[11], even though comparative genomic analysis reveals the existence of a conserved core of immune signaling pathways in most insects [12]--[15].

When flea bites dog, proteins (antigens) in the insect's saliva can cause an immune system reaction — the release of immunoglobulin that in turn causes itching.