Cloning and expression of two crystal protein genes, cry30Ba1 and cry44Aa1, obtained from a highly mosquitocidal strain, Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. entomocidus INA288

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 5673-5676

  Ito, Takeshi ^a   Ikeya, Tomonori ^a   Sahara, Ken ^a   Bando, Hisanori ^a   Asano, Shin Ichiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY; TOXIC MATERIALS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; CRYSTAL PROTEIN GENES; CULEX PIPIENS PALLENS;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRYSTAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CRY30BA1 GENE; CRY44AA1 GENE; CRYSTAL; CULEX PIPIENS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT; INSECT CONTROL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULEX; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ENTOMOCIDUS; CULEX PIPIENS PALLENS;

EID: 33747341578     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01894-05     Document Type: Article

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