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ReviewViruses2015

Expression, delivery and function of insecticidal proteins expressed by recombinant baculoviruses.

Jeremy A Kroemer, Bryony C Bonning, Robert L Harrison

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Review in Viruses, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jeremy A KroemerDepartment of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA. jeremy.alan.kroemer@monsanto.com.
Bryony C BonningDepartment of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA. bbonning@iastate.edu.
Robert L HarrisonUSDA-ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Ave, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA. Robert.L.Harrison@ars.usda.gov.
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center · USIowa State University · USMonsanto (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the development of methods for inserting and expressing genes in baculoviruses, a line of research has focused on developing recombinant baculoviruses that express insecticidal peptides and proteins. These recombinant viruses have been engineered with the goal of improving their pesticidal potential by shortening the time required for infection to kill or incapacitate insect pests and reducing the quantity of crop damage as a consequence. A wide variety of neurotoxic peptides, proteins that regulate insect physiology, degradative enzymes, and other potentially insecticidal proteins have been evaluated for their capacity to reduce the survival time of baculovirus-infected lepidopteran host larvae. Researchers have investigated the factors involved in the efficient expression and delivery of baculovirus-encoded insecticidal peptides and proteins, with much effort dedicated to identifying ideal promoters for driving transcription and signal peptides that mediate secretion of the expressed target protein. Other factors, particularly translational efficiency of transcripts derived from recombinant insecticidal genes and post-translational folding and processing of insecticidal proteins, remain relatively unexplored. The discovery of RNA interference as a gene-specific regulation mechanism offers a new approach for improvement of baculovirus biopesticidal efficacy through genetic modification.

Indexed as

Gene ExpressionAnimalsBaculoviridaeLarvaLepidopteraPest Control, BiologicalRecombinant ProteinsSurvival AnalysisToxins, BiologicalRecombinant ProteinsToxins, Biological

Identifiers

PMID25609310
PMCPMC4306846
OpenAlexW2081535150

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