Chemical studies on diapause hormone.

Accession number;99A0453850
Title;Chemical studies on diapause hormone.
Author; IMAI KUNIO (Mie Univ., Fac. of Bioresour.)
Journal Title;Bull Fac Bioresour Mie Univ
Journal Code:Y0251B
ISSN:0915-0471
VOL.;NO.21;PAGE.87-100(1999)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.10, TBL.1, REF.39
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;Diapause hormone is one of the most important insect hormones which induces egg diapause of the silkworm. The existence of the hormone was discovered in 1951. Although the research to clarify its structure was persevered eagerly, the efforts were not rewarded for an extremely long period. Finally, the hormone was isolated in 1990 and the structure was determined to be a 24-amino acid peptide amide in 1991. This review article deals with the history of the research to isolate and to determine the structure of the hormone and with further chemical studies on diapause hormone of the silkworm. (author abst.)