Reduced levels of membrane-bound alkaline phosphatase are common to lepidopteran strains resistant to Cry toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Jurat Fuentes, Juan Luis ^a   Karumbaiah, Lohitash ^b   Jakka, Siva Rama Krishna ^a   Ning, Changming ^c   Liu, Chenxi ^c   Wu, Kongming ^c   Jackson, Jerreme ^a   Gould, Fred ^d   Blanco, Carlos ^e   Portilla, Maribel ^f   Perera, Omaththage ^f   Adang, Michael ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CRY1AC TOXIN; CRY1FA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ARMYWORM; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LARVA; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEOMICS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEXAPODA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEOMICS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPODOPTERA;

EID: 79952295293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017606     Document Type: Article

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