The insect toxin complex of Yersinia

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 603, Issue , 2007, Pages 247-257

  Waterfield, Nick ^a   Hares, Michelle ^b   Ffrench Constant, Richard ^b   Wren, Brendan W ^c   Hinchliffe, Stewart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TOXIN COMPLEX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; MANDUCA SEXTA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXIN COMPLEX GENE; XENORHABDUS; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MANDUCA SEXTA; PHOTORHABDUS; SERRATIA ENTOMOPHILA; SPHINGIDAE; SPHINGOIDEA; XENORHABDUS; YERSINIA;

EID: 84934436354     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72124-8_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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