Promoters of crystal protein genes do not control crystal formation inside exosporium of Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. finitimus strain YBT-020

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 300, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-17

  Ji, Fang ^a,b   Zhu, Yiguang ^a   Ju, Shouyong ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a   Yu, Ziniu ^a   Sun, Ming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Crystal protein; Promoter; Spore crystal association

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRY26AA PROTEIN; CRY28AA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; FUSION GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT GENE; SPOROGENESIS; SUBSPECIES;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDOTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

EID: 70349694003     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01743.x     Document Type: Article

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