Lycotoxin-1 insecticidal peptide optimized by amino acid scanning mutagenesis and expressed as a coproduct in an ethanologenic Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain

Journal of Peptide Science

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1039-1050

  Hughes, Stephen R ^a   Dowd, Patrick F ^b   Hector, Ronald E ^b   Panavas, Tadas ^c   Sterner, David E ^d   Qureshi, Nasib ^b   Bischoff, Kenneth M ^a   Bang, Sookie S ^e   Mertens, Jeffrey A ^b   Johnson, Eric T ^b   Li, Xin Liang ^b   Jackson, John S ^a   Caughey, Robert J ^f   Riedmuller, Steven B ^g   Bartolett, Scott ^g   Liu, Siqing ^a   Rich, Joseph O ^a   Farrelly, Philip J ^f   Butt, Tauseef R ^c   Labaer, Joshua ^h   Cotta, Michael A ^b   more..

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^b USDA   (United States)

^c LifeSensors Inc   (United States)

^d Progenra Inc   (United States)

^e SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g Hudson Control Group Inc   (United States)

^h Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid scanning mutagenesis; Fuel ethanol coproduct; Insecticidal peptide; SUMO high level yeast expression system

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; INSECTICIDE; LYCOTOXIN 1; SPIDER VENOM; SUMO PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLOSE ISOMERASE;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ETHANOL; INSECTICIDES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPIDER VENOMS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ARANEAE; EQUIDAE; HEXAPODA; LYCOSIDAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 53349128466     PISSN: 10752617     EISSN: 10991387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psc.1040     Document Type: Article

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