Cloning and nucleotide sequence of a novel cry gene from Bacillus thuringiensis

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1153-1156

  Stobdan, T ^a,b   Kaur, S ^a   Singh, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM   (India)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; cloning; cry1Ab gene; PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE CLAI; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 3943063006     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BILE.0000035488.85309.df     Document Type: Article

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