Toxicity, binding, and permeability analyses of four Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1 δ-endotoxins using brush border membrane vesicles of Spodoptera exigua and Spodoptera frugiperda

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 457-464

  Luo, Ke ^a   Banks, David ^a   Adang, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BRUSH BORDER; DATA ANALYSIS; IODINATION; LEPIDOPTERA; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ARACHNIDA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA;

EID: 0032974991     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.457-464.1999     Document Type: Article

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