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SUBMITTER: Fabrick J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2709378 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of biological chemistry 20090505 27
Cry toxins produced by the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis are effective biological insecticides. Cadherin-like proteins have been reported as functional Cry1A toxin receptors in Lepidoptera. Here we present data that demonstrate that a coleopteran cadherin is a functional Cry3Aa toxin receptor. The Cry3Aa receptor cadherin was cloned from Tenebrio molitor larval midgut mRNA, and the predicted protein, TmCad1, has domain structure and a putative toxin binding region similar to those in lepidopt ...[more]