Parasporin-2Ab, a newly isolated cytotoxic crystal protein from Bacillus thuringiensis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 278-283

  Hayakawa, Tohru ^a   Kanagawa, Rie ^a   Kotani, Yosuke ^a   Kimura, Mayumi ^a   Yamagiwa, Masashi ^a   Yamane, Yoshiharu ^b   Takebe, So ^b   Sakai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PARASPORIN 2AA; PARASPORIN 2AB; PROTEINASE K; THREONYLASPARAGINYLVALYLISOLEUCYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMYLTYROSYLLEUCYL THREONYLPHENYLALANYLASPARAGINYLASPARTYLLEUCYLPROLYLALANYLLEUCYLGLYCYLSERYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALYLISOLEUCYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMYLTYROSYLLEUCYLTHREONYLPHENYLALANYL ASPARAGINYLASPARTYLLEUCYLPROLYLALANYLLEUCYLGLYCYLSERYLSERYLPROLYL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SYNTHESIS; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDOTOXINS; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

EID: 34648817546     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0351-8     Document Type: Article

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