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InPenaeus vannamei, chymotrypsin is present as two isoenzymes in the hepatopancreas. The enzyme has been localized in F-cells by immunocytochemistry using a specific antibody. By in situ hybridization, with a 510 pb cDNA probe encoding for the first 170 amino acids of the shrimp chymotrypsin, mRNA was localized in the same cells. Gene expression was followed during the intermolt cycle by measuring changes in specific activity in crude extracts, and by the estimation of mRNA levels by Northern blots using the same probe. The increase in specific activity in premolt is preceded in early premolt by an increase in the amount of chymotrypsin mRNA. A second increase is observed in postmolt, suggesting a different mode of regulation of gene expression.
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Van Wormhoudt, A., Sellos, D., Donval, A. et al. Chymotrypsin gene expression during the intermolt cycle in the shrimpPenaeus vannamei (Crustacea; Decapoda). Experientia 51, 159–163 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01929362
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