Conjugative transfer, stability and expression of a plasmid encoding a cry1Ac gene in Bacillus cereus group strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-52

  Hu, Xiaomin ^a,b   Hansen, Bjarne Munk ^b   Eilenberg, Jørgen ^c   Hendriksen, Niels Bohse ^b   Smidt, Lasse ^d   Yuan, Zhiming ^a   Jensen, Gert Bolander ^d  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Bacillus mycoides; Bacillus thuringiensis; Conjugation; cry1Ac

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CRY1AC TOXIN; CRYSTALLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MYCOIDES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL INCLUSION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; SUBSPECIES;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MYCOIDES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

EID: 0842287583     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00925-X     Document Type: Article

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