PRIMARY STRUCTURE OF CRYX, THE NOVEL DELTA-ENDOTOXIN-RELATED GENE FROM BACILLUS-THURINGIENSIS SPP GALLERIAE

Authors
SHEVELEV AB SVARINSKY MA KARASIN AI KOGAN YN CHESTUKHINA GG STEPANOV VM
Citation
Ab. Shevelev et al., PRIMARY STRUCTURE OF CRYX, THE NOVEL DELTA-ENDOTOXIN-RELATED GENE FROM BACILLUS-THURINGIENSIS SPP GALLERIAE, FEBS letters, 336(1), 1993, pp. 79-82
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Biophysics,Biology
Journal title
FEBS letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00145793
Volume
336
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
79 - 82
Database
ISI
SICI code
0014-5793(1993)336:1<79:PSOCTN>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
A cry-related sequence, designated cryX (EMBL X75019), was localized u pstream of cryIG, the delta-endotoxin gene cloned from spp. galleriae of Bacillus thuringiensis and sequenced earlier [(1991) FEBS Lett. 293 , 25-28]. Analysis of the cryX complete nucleotide sequence enabled us to explain its virtual crypticity and to reveal the chimeric structur e of the genes, cryX and cryIG. The amino acid sequence of 1,151 resid ues encoded by the continuous reading frame of cryX is similar to the other delta endotoxins but differs essentially from them.