Cloning and characterization of a cytolytic and mosquito larvicidal δ-endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. darmstadiensis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 94-98

  Promdonkoy, Boonhiang ^a   Chewawiwat, Namchai ^a   Tanapongpipat, Sutipa ^a   Luxananil, Plearnpis ^a   Panyim, Sakol ^b  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; ENDOTOXIN; GENOMIC DNA; LARVICIDAL AGENT; PROTEINASE K; PROTOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL INCLUSION; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CYT2AA1 GENE; CYT2AA2 GENE; CYTOLYSIS; DELTA ENDOTOXIN GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYSIS; LARVA; LARVICIDAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE; AEDES; ANIMAL; CULEX; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR DARMSTADIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES; POSIBACTERIA;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULEX; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; ENDOTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0038192410     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3823-5     Document Type: Article

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