Cloning, functional characterization, and mode of action of a novel insecticidal pore-forming toxin, sphaericolysin, produced by Bacillus sphaericus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3404-3411

  Nishiwaki, Hisashi ^a   Nakashima, Kenta ^a   Ishida, Chiharu ^a   Kawamura, Tadayuki ^a   Matsuda, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; INSECTICIDAL PROTEIN; SPHAERICOLYSIN;

BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; CHOLESTEROL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR MASS; PURIFICATION;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOLYSIN; INSECTICIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SPHAERICOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; CLONE; COCKROACH; INSECTICIDE; MOTH; MUTATION; PROTEIN; TOXIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; CHANNEL GATING; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GANGLION; HEMOLYSIS; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHOLESTEROL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COCKROACHES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GANGLIA; INSECTICIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEURONS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPODOPTERA;

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NOCTUIDAE; SPODOPTERA LITURA;

EID: 34249732024     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00021-07     Document Type: Article

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