Relocating expression of vegetative insecticidal protein into mother cell of Bacillus thuringiensis

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 310, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 158-162

  Arora, Naresh ^a   Selvapandiyan, A ^a,b   Agrawal, Neema ^a   Bhatnagar, R K ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Bt toxin relocation; Sporulation linked expression; Vegetative insecticidal protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETATIVE INSECTICIDAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CELL INCLUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0141849091     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.08.137     Document Type: Article

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