Minireplicon from pBtoxis of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 6948-6954

  Tang, Mujin ^a   Bideshi, Dennis K ^a   Park, Hyun Woo ^b   Federici, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CELLS; CLONING; GENES; PROTEINS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CELL DIVISION; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIF; HOMOLOGY; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; FTSZ PROTEIN; HELICASE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN CRY11A; PROTEIN CYT1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECTICIDE; PLASMID; PROTEIN; TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS ISRAELENSIS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME; CRY GENE; CYT GENE; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; FTSZ GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PBT156 GENE; PBT157 GENE; PBTOXIS GENE; PLASMID; REPLICON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; ENDOTOXINS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPLICON; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ISRAELENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33750979309     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00976-06     Document Type: Article

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