A pair of adjacent genes, cry5Ad and orf2-5Ad, encode the typical N- and C-terminal regions of a Cry5Aδ-endotoxin as two separate proteins in Bacillus thuringiensis strain L366

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 278, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-120

  Lenane, Ian J ^a   Bagnall, Neil H ^a   Josh, Peter F ^a   Pearson, Roger D ^a   Akhurst, Ray J ^a   Kotze, Andrew C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

endotoxin; Bacillus thuringiensis; Cry5A; cry5A

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRY5AD PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; ORF2 5AD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; LARVA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMONCHUS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS;

EID: 36749049257     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00987.x     Document Type: Article

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