Oral Toxicity of Photorhabdus luminescens W14 Toxin Complexes in Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3-12, 2001, Pages 5017-5024

  Waterifield, Nicholas ^a   Dowling, Andrea ^a   Sharma, Sadhana ^a   Daborn, Phillip J ^b   Potter, Ursula ^b   Ffrench Constant, Richard H ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA; MANDUCA SEXTA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; OPERON; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHOTORHABDUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MANDUCA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OPERON; PHOTORHABDUS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0035516182     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.11.5017-5024.2001     Document Type: Article

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