Introduction of Culex toxicity into Bacillus thuringiensis Cry4Ba by protein engineering

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 5343-5353

  Abdullah, Mohd Amir F ^a,b   Alzate, Oscar ^a,c   Mohammad, Marwan ^a   McNall, Rebecca J ^d   Adang, Michael J ^d   Dean, Donald H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c TECNOLÓGICO DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; TOXICITY;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTIONS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN CRY4BA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOSQUITO; PEST CONTROL;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; LC 50; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULEX; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES QUADRIMACULATUS; ARACHNIDA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0141816832     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.9.5343-5353.2003     Document Type: Article

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