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Mosquito-specific microRNA-1890 targets the juvenile hormone-regulated serine protease JHA15 in the female mosquito gut.
RNA biology - 1 Jan 2015
Lucas Keira J, Zhao Bo, Roy Sourav, Gervaise Amanda L, Raikhel Alexander S
Abstract excerpt
Females of the hematophagous mosquito species require a vertebrate blood meal to supply amino acids and other nutrients necessary for egg development, serving as the driving force for the spread of many vector-borne diseases in humans. Blood digestion utilizes both early and late phase serine proteases (SPs) that are differentially regulated at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level. To uncover the...
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