... Aedes aegypti [34], and lepidopterans, the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta [35–37] and the silkworm Bombyx mori [38,39]. On the other hand, the natural ligand of USP is unknown, although recentin ... affinity of DBHs to receptors among insect species is due to the difference of structures of the ligand binding pocket.In the other study, we demonstrated that the moltinghormone activities of ecdysone ... decemlineata, EcR and USP, and (c) the measurement of the binding affinity of steroidal and nonsteroidal ecdysone agonists to the in vitro translated receptor proteins. Comparison of the receptor-binding...