Co-expression of the mosquitocidal toxins Cyt1Aa and Cry11Aa from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis in Asticcacaulis excentricus

Current Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-62

  Zheng, Dasheng ^a,c   Valdez Cruz, Norma Adriana ^b   Armengol, Gemma ^b   Sevrez, Chloe ^c   Munoz Olaya, Jose Maurilio ^c   Yuan, Zhiming ^a   Orduz, Sergio ^b   Crickmore, Neil ^c  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^b Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas ^*  (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; INSECTICIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; ASTICCACAULIS EXCENTRICUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INSERTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CAULOBACTERACEAE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULEX; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LARVA; OPERON; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ASTICCACAULIS EXCENTRICUS; BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ISRAELENSIS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 33845740249     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0352-7     Document Type: Article

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