Purification and characterization of a high-molecular-weight insecticidal protein complex produced by the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3029-3035

  Bowen, David J ^a   Ensign, Jerald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HETERORHABDITIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 0031903978     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.8.3029-3035.1998     Document Type: Article

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