Alanine scanning analyses of the three major loops in domain II of Bacillus thuringiensis mosquitocidal toxin cry4Aa

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 860-865

  Howlader, Mohammad Tofazzal Hossain ^a,b   Kagawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Miyakawa, Ai ^a   Yamamoto, Ayaka ^a   Taniguchi, Tetsuya ^a   Hayakawa, Tohru ^a   Sakai, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BANGLADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOINSECTICIDES; FUNCTIONAL MOTIFS; HIGH ACTIVITY; MOSQUITOCIDAL ACTIVITY; MULTIPLE BINDING SITES; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR BINDING SITE; TARGET TISSUES;

BACTERIOLOGY; BINDING ENERGY; BIOASSAY; BIOCHEMISTRY;

BINDING SITES;

ALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; INSECTICIDE;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOPESTICIDE; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; MOSQUITO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMISTRY; CULEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOSQUITO; MOTH; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULEX; ENDOTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; MOTHS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CULEX PIPIENS; DIPTERA;

EID: 75749105046     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02175-09     Document Type: Article

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