Article
Adhesion and cytotoxicity of Bacillus thuringiensis to cultured Spodoptera and Drosophila cells.
Journal of invertebrate pathology - 1 Jul 1995
Zhang M Y, Lövgren A, Landén R
Abstract excerpt
Two Bacillus thuringiensis strains were tested for the ability to adhere to cultured Spodoptera and Drosophila insect cells. The wild-type strain is virulent and motile and readily adheres to and kills both types of insect cells. The avirulent mutant strain, which lacks flagella and several other of the proposed virulence factors, does not adhere to the insect cells and does not kill these cells efficiently....
Topics
- Animals
- Bacillus thuringiensis
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Cell Death
- Cell Line
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Flagella
- Mutation
- Spodoptera