High level of soluble expression in Escherichia coli and characterisation of the cloned Bacillus thuringiensis Cry4Ba domain III fragment

Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-64

  Chayaratanasin, Poramed ^a   Moonsom, Seangdeun ^a   Sakdee, Somsri ^a   Chaisri, Urai ^a   Katzenmeier, Gerd ^a   Angsuthanasombat, Chanan ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Cry4Ba endotoxin; Immunohistochemical assay; Stegomyia aegypti; sheet structure

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846609664     PISSN: 12258687     EISSN: 02191024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2007.40.1.058     Document Type: Article

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