Photorhabdus luminescensPirAB-fusion protein exhibits both cytotoxicity and insecticidal activity
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Photorhabdus luminescens PirAB-fusion protein exhibits both cytotoxicity and insecticidal activity.
The binary toxin 'Photorhabdus insect-related' proteins (PirAB) produced by Photorhabdus luminescens have been reported to possess both injectable and oral activities against a range of insects. Here, PirAB-fusion protein was constructed by linking pirA and pirB genes with the flexible linker (Gly4 Ser)3 DNA encoding sequence and then efficiently expressed in Escherichia coli. To better underst...
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عنوان ژورنال: FEMS Microbiology Letters
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0378-1097
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12474