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SUBMITTER: Durand N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3419116 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Communicative & integrative biology 20120501 3
Pheromone-degrading enzymes (PDEs) are supposed to be involved in the signal inactivation step within the olfactory sensilla of insects by quickly degrading pheromone molecules. Because esters are widespread insect pheromone components, PDEs belonging to the carboxylesterase (CCE) family have been the most studied. However, only two CCEs were both identified at the molecular level and functionally characterized as PDEs until recently. In the pest moth Spodoptera littoralis, we have identified an ...[more]