Medical Definition of Bacillus thuringiensis

1. Soil living bacterium that produces an endotoxin that is deadly to insects. Many strains exist, each with great specificity as to target Orders of insects. In general, the mode of action involves solubilisation at the high pH within the target insect's gut, followed by proteolytic cleavage, the activated peptides form pores in the gut cell apical plasma membranes, causing lysis of the cells. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacillus Thuringiensis

bacillus cereus
Bacillus globigii
Bacillus haemolyticus
Bacillus histolyticus
bacillus licheniformis
bacillus megaterium
bacillus phages
Bacillus piliformis
Bacillus polymyxa
bacillus popilliae
Bacillus pumilus ribonuclease
Bacillus sphaericus
bacillus stearothermophilus
bacillus subtilis
Bacillus subtilis
Bacillus thuringiensis (current term)
bacilysin synthetase
bacitracin
bacitracin
bacitracins
bacitracin synthetase
back
back
back(a)
back-action plugger
back-blast
back-channel
back-formation
back-geared
back-knee

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