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US 4,771,131 AGranted
Cloning and expression of Bacillus thuringiensis toxin gene encoding a protein toxic to beetles of the order Coleoptera
AssigneeMycogen Corporation
InventorsCorinna Herrnstadt, Edward Wilcox
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Abstract
The toxin gene encoding a protein toxic to beetles of the order Coleoptera, named M-7, has been cloned and expressed. M-7 is a novel Bacillus thuringiensis strain which has been deposited with a recognized culture repository. The microbe is now known as B. thuringiensis strain san diego.
Claims1
DNA encoding a toxin, having the nucleotide sequence, as follows:
- ##STR33## and equivalent nucleotide sequences coding for molecules with the following amino acid sequence:
- ##STR34##
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