Plant codon optimized cry genes of Bacillus thuringiensis can be expressed as soluble proteins in Escherichia coli BL21 Codon Plus strain as NusA-Cry protein fusions

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-86

  Kumar, S ^a   Birah, A ^b   Chaudhary, B ^a   Burma, P K ^a   Gupta, G P ^b   Pental, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

E. coli expression; NusA fusion protein; Synthetic Bt genes

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA;

EID: 13444311050     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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