Insecticidal pilin subunit from the insect pathogen Xenorhabdus nematophila

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 6465-6476

  Khandelwal, Puneet ^a   Choudhury, Devapriya ^a   Birah, Ajanta ^b   Reddy, M K ^c   Gupta, Gorakh Prasad ^b   Banerjee, Nirupama ^c  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Division of Entomology   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UREA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CLONING; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME RELEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

AGGLUTINATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HEMOCYTES; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; XENORHABDUS;

ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOVERPA; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PROKARYOTA; XENORHABDUS; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

EID: 4544333195     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.19.6465-6476.2004     Document Type: Article

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