Increased insect virulence in Beauveria bassiana strains overexpressing an engineered chitinase

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 295-302

  Fan, Yanhua ^a   Fang, Weiguo ^a,b   Guo, Shujuan ^a   Pei, Xiaoqiong ^a   Zhang, Yongjun ^a   Xiao, Yuehua ^a   Li, Demou ^a   Jin, Kai ^a   Bidochka, Michael J ^b   Pei, Yan ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOMBYX MORI; FUNGAL PATHOGEN; HYBRID CHITINASE;

BACTERIA; BINDING ENERGY; ENZYMES; GENES; INSECT CONTROL;

FUNGI;

CHITINASE; CHITINASE 1; CHITINASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOASSAY; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHITIN; CUTICLE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; PATHOGENICITY; POTENTIAL BIOCONTROL AGENT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BBCHIT1 GENE; BEAUVERIA; BIOASSAY; BMCHBD GENE; CUTICLE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE; GENE FUSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; INSECT CONTROL; MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SILKWORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BACILLUS; BEAUVERIA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BOMBYX; CHITIN; CHITINASE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOMBYX MORI; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 33846122293     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01974-06     Document Type: Article

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