Helix 4 mutants of the Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal toxin Cry1Aa display altered pore-forming abilities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 6123-6130

  Vachon, Vincent ^a,b   Préfontaine, Gabrielle ^b   Rang, Cécile ^c   Coux, Florence ^a,b,c   Juteau, Marc ^a,b   Schwartz, Jean Louis ^a,b   Brousseau, Roland ^b   Frutos, Roger ^c   Laprade, Raynald ^a,b   Masson, Luke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; MUTAGENESIS; PORE SIZE; PROTEINS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

MEMBRANE VESICLES; MUTANTS; PORE FORMATION;

INSECTICIDES;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; GLUCONATE POTASSIUM; MEGLUMINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN CRY1AA; RAFFINOSE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM;

ALPHA HELIX; ALPHA HELIX 4; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BRUSH BORDER; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; LEPIDOPTERA; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MIDGUT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; KINETICS; MANDUCA; MICROVILLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 8144229487     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.10.6123-6130.2004     Document Type: Article

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