A cocoonase (do inglés cocoon, 'casulo' + ase, terminación dos nomes de encimas) é un encima proteolíticoCocoonase: I. PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION OF A PROTEOLYTIC ENZYME FROM SILK MOTHS Fotis C. Kafatos, Alan M. Tartakoff and John H. Law, Journal of Biological Chemistry vol. 242, 1477-87 (1967) similar á tripsinaCocoonase: III. PURIFICATION, PRELIMINARY CHARACTERIZATION, AND ACTIVATION OF THE ZYMOGEN OF AN INSECT PROTEASE Edward Berger and Fotis C. Kafatos, Ronald L. Felsted and John H. Law; Journal of Biological Chemistry vol. 246, no. 13 (July 10, 1971); pp 4131-4137 producido polos vermes da seda (especies dos xéneros Bombyx e AntheraeaCARBONIC ANHYDRASE ACTIVITY DURING THE LARVAL-PUPAL TRANSFORMATION OF HYALOPHORA CECROPIA REARED ON FOLIAGE AND SYNTHETIC DIET: EFFECTS OF POTASSIUM AND CHLORIDE ON MIDGUT, FAT BODY AND INTEGUMENTARY ENZYMES, by James W. Johnston and Arthur M. Jungreis, Journal of Experimental Biology vol. 91 (1981), pp 255-269Cocoonase V. STRUCTURAL STUDIES ON AN INSECT SERINE PROTEASE by Karl J. Kramer, Ronald L. Felsted, and John H. Law, Journal of Biological Chemistry vol. 248 (1973) no. 9, pp 3021-3028) cando se achegan ás fases finais da súa metamorfose. Prodúcese polas células da probóscideMoths of Australia by I. F. B. Common, published January 1990 by CSIRO Publishing, via Google Books e é exsudada sobre as galeas da maxila.PHYSIOLOGY OF INSECT ECDYSIS I. THE ECLOSION BEHAVIOUR OF SATURNIID MOTHS AND ITS HORMONAL RELEASE, from the Journal of Experimental Biology, by James W. Truman, vol. 54 (1971), pp 805-814 A súa función é debilitar as fibras do casulo, facilitando a saída do insecto adulto.
Foi descuberta por Carroll Williams.Memorial Minutes on Carroll Williams (FAS) and Aaron Gissen (HMS) and Louis Zetzel (HMS) , da Harvard Gazette; publicado o 21 de marzo de 1996
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