NEW GENE FROM 9 BACILLUS-SPHAERICUS STRAINS ENCODING HIGHLY CONSERVED35.8-KILODALTON MOSQUITOCIDAL TOXINS

Authors
LIU JW PORTER AG WEE BY THANABALU T
Citation
Jw. Liu et al., NEW GENE FROM 9 BACILLUS-SPHAERICUS STRAINS ENCODING HIGHLY CONSERVED35.8-KILODALTON MOSQUITOCIDAL TOXINS, Applied and environmental microbiology, 62(6), 1996, pp. 2174-2176
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Applied and environmental microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00992240
Volume
62
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Pages
2174 - 2176
Database
ISI
SICI code
0099-2240(1996)62:6<2174:NGF9BS>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
A new gene encoding a 35.8-kDa mosquitocidal toxin (Mtx3; 326 amino ac ids) was isolated from Bacillus sphaericus SSII-1 DNA, Mtx3 is a new t ype of mosquitocidal toxin with homology to the Mtx2 mosquitocidal tox in of B, sphaericus SSII-1, the epsilon-toxin of Clostridium perfringe ns, and the cytotoxin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The mtx3 gene is high ly conserved and widely distributed in both high- and low-toxicity mos quito larvicidal strains of B. sphaericus.