Electrical hypothesis of toxicity of the Cry toxins for mosquito larvae

Bioscience Reports

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 125-136

  Lemeshko, Victor V ^a   Orduz, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cry toxin; Larval midgut; Membrane permeabilization; Mitochondrion; Plasma membrane; Polycationic peptide

Indexed keywords

CRY11BB PROTOXIN; CYTOCHROME C; INSECT PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEASE EXTRACT; PROTEIN BTM P1D; PROTEIN BTM P2; PROTEIN BTM P3; PROTOXIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; MALE; MIDGUT; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRION SWELLING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; RAT; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYTOCHROMES C; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ERYTHROCYTES; HYDROLYSIS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; LIVER; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADP; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLUBILITY;

AEDES AEGYPTI; HEXAPODA; RATTUS;

EID: 84872716434     PISSN: 01448463     EISSN: 15734935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BSR20120101     Document Type: Article

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