Characterization of a cry2A gene cloned from an isolate of Bacillus thuringiensis serovar sotto

Current Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-8

  Sasaki, Jun ^a,b   Asano, Shinichiro ^a   Hashimoto, Naoki ^a   Lay, Bibiana W ^c   Hastowo, Sugyo ^c   Bando, Hisanori ^a   Iizuka, Toshihiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOTOXINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR SOTTO; BOMBYX MORI; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0030954449     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900201     Document Type: Article

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