Biocidal protein
AssigneeAcademia Sinica
InventorsChing-San Chen, Kuan-Chung Chen, Cheng-Chun Kuan, Ching-Yu Lin
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Abstract
The invention relates to novel nucleic acid and protein sequences from the mung bean Vigna radiata. The nucleic acid sequence, isolated from a bruchid resistant mung bean line, encodes a thionin-like protein with insecticidal properties.
Claims20
A purified polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence which is at least 60% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4, wherein the polypeptide has insecticidal or fungicidal activity.
A purified polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4.
A purified polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:4, with up to 18 conservative amino acid substitutions, wherein the polypeptide has insecticidal or fungicidal activity.
A purified polypeptide encoded by a nucleic acid that hybridizes under high stringency conditions to a probe the sequence of which consists of SEQ ID NO:
- 1, wherein the polypeptide has insecticidal or fungicidal activity.
An isolated nucleic acid comprising a strand that hybridizes under high stringency conditions to a single stranded probe, the sequence of which consists of SEQ ID NO:3 or the complement of SEQ ID NO:3.
An isolated nucleic acid comprising a strand that hybridizes under high stringency conditions to a single stranded probe, the sequence of which consists of SEQ ID NO:
- 1 or the complement of SEQ ID NO:
- 1, wherein the nucleic acid encodes a polypeptide that has insecticidal or fungicidal activity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.