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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Phosphoproteins > Vitellogenins
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Arthropod Proteins > Insect Proteins > Vitellogenins
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Egg Proteins > Vitellins > Vitellogenins

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Vitellogenins  

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Entry terms

  • Vitellogenin

Scope note

  • Phospholipoglycoproteins produced in the fat body of egg-laying animals such as non-mammalian VERTEBRATES; ARTHROPODS; and others. Vitellogenins are secreted into the HEMOLYMPH, and taken into the OOCYTES by receptor-mediated ENDOCYTOSIS to form the major yolk proteins, VITELLINS. Vitellogenin production is under the regulation of steroid hormones, such as ESTRADIOL and JUVENILE HORMONES in insects.

History note

  • 2005 (1986); use LIPOPROTEINS 1975-1985; for YOLK PROTEIN 2, DROSOPHILA use EGG PROTEINS 1990-2004

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014819

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