Cloning and sequencing of three new putative toxin genes from Clostridium bifermentans CH18

Gene

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 293-299

  Barloy, Frédérique ^a   Lecadet, Marguerite M ^a   Delécluse, Armelle ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; cbm71; Clostridium bifermentans toxins; Cry insecticidal protein; Hemolysin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENDOTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; INSECTICIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BIFERMENTANS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032510775     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00122-X     Document Type: Article

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