Protease inhibitors fail to prevent pore formation by the activated Bacillus thuringiensis toxin Cry1Aa in insect brush border membrane vesicles

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 506-515

  Kirouac, Martin ^b   Vachon, Vincent ^b   Quievy, Delphine ^b   Schwartz, Jean Louis ^b   Laprade, Raynald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; ENZYMES; LIGHT SCATTERING; PH EFFECTS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BORDER MEMBRANE VESICLES; PORE FORMATION; PROTEOLYSIS;

BACTERIA;

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; 4 (2 AMINOETHYL)BENZENESULFONYL FLUORIDE; 4 CHLOROMERCURIBENZOIC ACID; ANTIPAIN; APROTININ; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BENZYLSULFONYL FLUORIDE; BESTATIN; CRY1AA TOXIN; CRY1AB TOXIN; CRY1AC TOXIN; CRY1CA TOXIN; CRY1EA TOXIN; DIVALENT CATION; EDETIC ACID; EGTAZIC ACID; HYDROXYMERCURIBENZOIC ACID; LEUPEPTIN; METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; N [N (3 CARBOXYOXIRANE 2 CARBONYL)LEUCYL]AGMATINE; PEPSTATIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TOSYLLYSYL CHLOROMETHYL KETONE; TOSYLPHENYLALANYL CHLOROMETHYL KETONE; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

ENZYME; INHIBITOR; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEMBRANE; POROSITY; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BRUSH BORDER VESICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOLYSIS; INCUBATION TIME; INSECT CONTROL; LIGHT SCATTERING; MANDUCA SEXTA; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PH; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SPOROGENESIS; ANIMAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; LEPIDOPTERA; METABOLISM; MICROVILLUS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MANDUCA; MICROVILLI; PHENYLMETHYLSULFONYL FLUORIDE; PROTEASE INHIBITORS;

EID: 33644860854     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.1.506-515.2006     Document Type: Article

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