Article
Mapping of the entomocidal fragment of Spodoptera-specific Bacillus thuringiensis toxin CryIC.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 27 Nov 1996
Strizhov N, Keller M, Koncz-Kálmán Z, Regev A, Sneh B, Schell J, Koncz C, Zilberstein A, Konez-Kálmán Z
Abstract excerpt
Insecticidal CryI protoxins of Bacillus thuringiensis are activated by proteolysis in the midgut of insects. A conservation of proteolytic cleavage sites in the CryI proteins facilitates the expression of active toxins in transgenic plants to obtain protection from various insects. However, the e...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Bacillus thuringiensis
- Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins
- Bacterial Proteins
- Bacterial Toxins
- Cloning, Molecular
- Consensus Sequence
- Endopeptidases
- Endotoxins
- Genes, Bacterial
- Hemolysin Proteins
- Insecticides
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation