Future questions in insect chitin biology: A microreview

Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan; Yasuyuki Arakane; Qing Yang; Chuan-Xi Zhang; Jianzhen Zhang; Wenqing Zhang; Bernard Moussian

doi:10.1002/arch.21454

Future questions in insect chitin biology: A microreview

Arch Insect Biochem Physiol. 2018 Jun;98(2):e21454. doi: 10.1002/arch.21454. Epub 2018 Feb 25.

Authors

Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan¹, Yasuyuki Arakane², Qing Yang³, Chuan-Xi Zhang⁴, Jianzhen Zhang⁵, Wenqing Zhang⁶, Bernard Moussian^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
² Department of Applied Biology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea.
³ School of Life Science & Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
⁴ Institute of Insect Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
⁵ Institute of Applied Biology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.
⁶ State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
⁷ Applied Zoology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
⁸ iBV, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France.

PMID: 29479741
DOI: 10.1002/arch.21454

Abstract

This microreview stems from the Second Symposium on Insect Molecular Toxicology and Chitin Metabolism held at Shanxi University in Taiyuan, China (June 27 to 30, 2017) at the institute for Applied Biology headed by Professor Enbo Ma and Professor Jianzhen Zhang.

Keywords: chitin; cuticle; molecular biology.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Chitin / metabolism*
Chitin Synthase / metabolism*
Insecta / metabolism*

Substances

Chitin
Chitin Synthase