Binding of phylogenetically distant Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxins to a Bombyx mori aminopeptidase N suggests importance of Cry toxin's conserved structure in receptor binding

Current Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 14-20

  Shinkawa, Ayaka ^a   Yaoi, Katsuro ^a   Kadotani, Tomoyuki ^a   Imamura, Morikazu ^a   Koizumi, Nobuo ^a   Iwahana, Hidenori ^a   Sato, Ryoichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; CELL RECEPTOR; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENZYME BINDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; SILKWORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD13; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BOMBYX; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INTESTINES; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BOMBYX MORI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033023111     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006820     Document Type: Article

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