Avoidance of nonprotein amino acid incorporation into protein by the seed predator,Caryedes brasiliensis (Bruchidae)
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Chemical Ecology
- Vol. 9 (9) , 1353-1361
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00994804
Abstract
Larvae of the bruchid beetle,Caryedes brasiliensis (Bruchidae) have the ability to avoid significant incorporation ofl-canavanine, the guanidinooxy structural analog ofl-arginine, into de novo synthesized proteins. This ability is related to a highly discriminatory protein-synthesizing system which exhibits marked ability to avoid processing an array of nonprotein amino acids structurally related to arginine.Keywords
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