Regulation by overlapping promoters of the rate of synthesis and deposition into crystalline inclusions of Bacillus thuringiensis δ- endotoxins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 734-741

  Sedlak, Mira ^a,b   Walter, Thomas ^a   Aronson, Arthur ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; ENDOTOXIN; PROTOXIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CELL INCLUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPOROGENESIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033985114     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.3.734-741.2000     Document Type: Article

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