Abstract Rice cultivation is important in China with over 29.33 million hm 2 of rice fields, producing 28.9% yields worldwide. fields are mass breeding sites for mosquitoes approximately 40 mosquito species found amongst them. Anopheles sinensis , lesteri and Culex tritaeniorhynchus the three main that fields. An. vectors malaria flat areas China, Cx. a vector Japanese B encephalitis. This revi...

meso-a,eDiaminopimelate D-dehydrogenase, which has been purified to homogeneity from the extract of Bacillus sphaericus IF0 3626, has a molecular weight of about 80,000 and consists of two subunits identical in molecular weight (approximately 40,000). The enzyme has a high substrate specificity. In addition to mso-a,diaminopimelate, lanthionine is deaminated by the enzyme to a far lesser extent...

The muramic lactam content of spores of Bacillus sphaericus mutants defective in meso-diaminopimelic acid synthesis increases almost linearly with an increase of meso-diaminopimelic acid concentration in the medium. Since muramic lactam content is a measure of cortex content, the amount of cortex in spores of the mutants can be easily varied by changing the meso-diaminopimelic acid concentrati...

The Cry48Aa/Cry49Aa mosquitocidal two-component toxin was recently characterized from Bacillus sphaericus strain IAB59 and is uniquely composed of a three-domain Cry protein toxin (Cry48Aa) and a binary (Bin) toxin-like protein (Cry49Aa). Its mode of action has not been elucidated, but a remarkable feature of this protein is the high toxicity against species from the Culex complex, besides its ...

The distribution of bacterial leucine dehydrogenase (L-leucine:NAD+ oxidoreductase, deaminating, EC 1.4.1.9) was investigated, and Bacillus sphaericus (IFO 3525) was found to have the highest activity of the enzyme. Leucine dehydrogenase, which was purified to homogeneity and crystallized from B. sphaericus, has a molecular weight of about 245,000 and consists of six identical subunits (Mr = 41...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Treatment of thromboembolic vascular disease has relied on anticoagulants. However, recognition that lysis of preformed fibrin could be accomplished in vivo by a process involving the conversion of inactive plasminogen to active plasmin enzyme led to an alternative enzyme-based approach. The drugs used for this therapy are called the fibrinolytic enzymes. In this study we...