Article
Heterogeneity of the glutathione transferase genes encoding enzymes responsible for insecticide degradation in the housefly.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Sept 1996
Syvanen M, Zhou Z, Wharton J, Goldsbury C, Clark A
Abstract excerpt
One of the four glutathione-S-transferases (GST) that is overproduced in the insecticide-resistant Cornell-R strain of the housefly (Musca domestica) produces an activity that degrades the insecticide dimethyl parathion and conjugates glutathione to lindane. In earlier work, it was shown that the...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Biodegradation, Environmental
- DNA Primers
- Escherichia coli
- Genes, Insect
- Genetic Variation
- Glutathione Transferase
- Hexachlorocyclohexane
- Houseflies
- Insecticides
- Isoenzymes
- Methyl Parathion
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Recombinant Proteins