RNAi-mediated knockdown of a Spodoptera frugiperda trypsin-like serine-protease gene reduces susceptibility to a Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ca1 protoxin

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2894-2903

  Rodríguez Cabrera, Lianet ^a   Trujillo Bacallao, Damian ^a   Borrás Hidalgo, Orlando ^a   Wright, Denis J ^b   Ayra Pardo, Camilo ^a  

^a CENTER FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Cuba)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS PROTOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRYPSIN LIKE SERINE PROTEASE; TRYPSIN-LIKE SERINE PROTEASE;

ANIMAL; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LARVA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOTOXINS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, INSECT; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPODOPTERA;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA;

EID: 78249236551     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02259.x     Document Type: Article

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