A spodoptera exigua cadherin serves as a putative receptor for bacillus thuringiensis cry1ca toxin and shows differential enhancement of cry1ca and cry1ac toxicity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 5576-5583

  Ren, Xiang Liang ^a   Chen, Rui Rui ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Ma, Yan ^b   Cui, Jin Jie ^b   Han, Zhao Jun ^a   Mu, Li Li ^a   Li, Guo Qing ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS CRY1CA TOXIN; COMPETITIVE BINDING ASSAY; DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA (DSRNA); FUNCTIONAL RECEPTORS; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; LEPIDOPTERAN INSECTS; TOXIN-BINDING REGION;

BACTERIOLOGY; CLONING; CROPS; GLYCOPROTEINS; RNA;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

BACTERIUM; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CROP PLANT; FAT; GROWTH RATE; INSECT; INSECTICIDE; LARVA; PROTEIN; RNA; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY; TOXIN;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CADHERIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; SPODOPTERA; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CADHERINS; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPODOPTERA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884219979     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01519-13     Document Type: Article

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