The replication region of the Bacillus thuringiensis plasmid, pHT1030, was treated with hydroxylamine. Various copy-number mutants were selected and subsequently used to construct shuttle vectors with multiple cloning sites. These recombinant plasmids are very stable and allowed the cloning of a delta-endotoxin-encoding gene in B. thuringiensis. Comparison between gene expression level and vect...

Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis produces a potent mosquitocidal protein, Cry4A. We have identified a 15-bp catabolite responsive element (cre), overlapping the -35 element of the cry4A promoter. Changing a guanine to adenine at position -49 in the promoter abolished glucose catabolite repression of cry4A and enhanced promoter activity two- to threefold. This cis regulatory element is ...

Detection of a novel Cry2Ab toxin against Etiella zinckenella Treitschke from the Bacillus thuringiensis serovar canadensis SP142 strain | Ngoc Le Thu, Thanh Thi Minh, Pham Bich, Ha Trinh Quyen Dong Van, Binh Ngo Dinh, Chu Hoang, Nguyen Van Agricultural Journals

Th e cry3Aa11 gene of Bacillus thuringiensis strain Mm2 (B. thuringiensis Mm2) was PCR-amplifi ed and cloned into E. coli/B. thuringiensis shuttle vector pHT315. Th e recombinant plasmid carrying the cry3Aa11 gene was introduced into the parental B. thuringiensis Mm2. Th e toxin production capacities of parental and recombinant strains grown in DSM, containing either 50 mM or 200 mM inorganic p...

BACKGROUND Bacillus thuringiensis is the most successful biological control agent, however, studies so far have shown that B. thuringiensis is very sensitive to environmental factors such as soil moisture and pH. Ultraviolet light from the sun had been considered as the main limiting factor for its persistence in soil and it has recently been shown that the antagonism exerted by other native so...