Mutagenic analysis of putative domain II and surface residues in mosquitocidal Bacillus thuringiensis Cry19Aa toxin

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 156-163

  Roh, Jong Yul ^a   Nair, Manoj S ^a   Liu, Xinyan Sylvia ^a   Dean, Donald H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Competition binding; Cry19Aa; Mutagenic analysis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHYMOTRYPSIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN CRY19AA; PROTOXIN; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BINDING AFFINITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE MUTATION; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CULEX; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CULEX PIPIENS;

EID: 65649119687     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01583.x     Document Type: Article

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