The insecticidal activity of recombinant garlic lectins towards aphids

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 905-915

  Fitches, Elaine ^b   Wiles, Duncan ^a   Douglas, Angela E ^c   Hinchliffe, Gareth ^a   Audsley, Neil ^b   Gatehouse, John A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insect midgut; Lectin receptors; Pichia pastoris; Proteolytic processing; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; LECTIN; LIGAND; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SUCRASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GARLIC; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PICHIA; TOXICITY TESTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD13; APHIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; GARLIC; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INSECTICIDES; LECTINS; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PICHIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUCRASE; TOXICITY TESTS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ALLIUM SATIVUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; HEXAPODA; PICHIA PASTORIS; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 51049086362     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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