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Functional analysis of two processed fragments of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry11A toxin.
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry - 1 Mar 2004
Yamagiwa Masashi, Sakagawa Kohei, Sakai Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
The 70-kDa protoxin of Cry11A, a dipteran-specific insecticidal protein, was processed by trypsin into 36- and 32-kDa fragments. To investigate the potent function of the two processed fragments, a GST (Glutathione-S-transferase) fusion protein of each polypeptide was constructed. While neither the 36- nor the 32-kDa fragment was toxic to Culex pipiens larvae, coexpression of the two fragments restored the...
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