Overproduction of delta-endotoxins by sporeless bacillus thuringiensis mutants obtained by nitrous acid mutagenesis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-43

  Ben Khedher, Saoussen ^a   Zouari, Nabil ^a   Messaddeq, Nadia ^b   Schultz, Patrick ^b   Jaoua, Samir ^a,c  

^a CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c Qatar University   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; INSECTICIDE; NITROUS ACID;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL METABOLISM; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPOROGENESIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; WILD TYPE;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENS; NITROUS ACID;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

EID: 79151476004     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-010-9670-x     Document Type: Article

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