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Published in final edited form as: Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2010 Dec 31;41(4):228–235. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2010.12.008

Table 2.

Enzymatic activity of purified recombinant JHAMTs on JH III, FA and fatty acids.

Substrate	A. aegypti (mol /mol/ min)	B. mori (mol /mol/ min)	D. melanogaster kcat (min⁻¹)	T. castaneum (mol /mol/ min)
FA	0.260 ± 0.009	0.48 ± 0.07	7.7 ± 0.4	0.59 ± 0.04
JHA III	1.033 ± 0.008	0.79 ± 0.06	10.1 ± 0.5	0.56 ± 0.03
Palmitic acid	0.00089± 0.00012	NA	0.1 ± 0.007	0.016 ± 0.002
Lauric acid	0.00010 ± 0.00017	ND	0.04 ± 0.008	0.002 ± 0.001

A. aegypti data are from Mayoral et al., 2009b; B. mori data are from Shinoda and Itoyama, 2003; D. melanogaster data are from Niwa et al., 2008; T. castaneum data are from Minakuchi et al., 2008. FA: farnesoic acid. JHA III: juvenile hormone acid III. NA: not assayed. ND: not detected.