Characterization of a new Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin, Cry47Aa, from strains that are toxic to the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-136

  Kongsuwan, Kritaya ^a   Gough, Joanne ^a   Kemp, David ^a   McDevitt, Andrew ^b   Akhurst, Ray ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Bacillus thuringiensis; Delta endotoxin; Sheep blowfly

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; ENDOTOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIPTERA; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LARVA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPTERA; LUCILIA CUPRINA; LUCILIA SERICATA;

EID: 26844432820     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.08.037     Document Type: Article

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