Baculovirus-mediated expression of a scorpion depressant toxin improves the insecticidal efficacy achieved with excitatory toxins

FEBS Letters

Volumn 422, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 132-136

  Gershburg, Eduard ^a,b   Stockholm, Daniel ^a   Froy, Oren ^b   Rashi, Sharon ^b   Gurevitz, Michael ^b   Chejanovsky, Nor ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Baculovirus; Depressant anti insect toxin; Excitatory anti insect toxin; Insect cell; Lepidopteran larva

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TOXICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; CELL LINE; INSECTICIDES; INSECTS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PARALYSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCORPION VENOMS; SPODOPTERA; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; SCORPIONES; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0032579456     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(97)01614-1     Document Type: Article

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