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| Type: | Thesis |
| Title: | Resistance against endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis in Lepidopteran insects / Muhammad Sarjan. |
| Author: | Sarjan, Muhammad |
| Issue Date: | 2002 |
| School/Discipline: | Dept. of Applied and Molecular Ecology |
| Abstract: | The major aim of this study was to investigate the possible molecular mechanism of resistance against Bt-toxin based on observations that Bt-toxin binds to a soluble immune-defence component. The binding of Bt-toxin to glycosylated lipophorin in the gut was found to be consistent with a model where the toxin is inserted into the membrane by an endocytosis mechanism. In resistant insects, the primary Bt-target is an immune-complex in the gut lumen and at the peritrophic membrane, which inactivates the toxin by a coagulation process. |
| Dissertation Note: | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Applied and Molecular Ecology, 2003 |
| Subject: | Endotoxins. Lepidoptera. Bacillus thuringiensis. |
| Description: | "December 2002" Bibliography: leaves 99-118. ix, 118 leaves : ill. (some col.), plates (some col.) ; 30 cm. |
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