DNA secondary structure formation by DNA shuffling of the conserved domains of the Cry protein of Bacillus thuringiensis

Table 1 Clusters of studied cry genes

Cluster	Toxin	Reference	Source	Open Reading Frame
				AA	St - Sp (bp)	# GenBank Access
I	Cry11Aa1	Donovan et al. 1988 [32]	Bt israelensis	646	32-1972	M31737- J03510
	Cry11Ba1	Delecluse et al. 1995 [33]	Bt jegathesan	724	64-2238	X86902
	Cry11Bb1	Orduz et al. 1998 [29]	Bt medellin	786	1-2346	AF017416
II	Cry2Aa1	Donovan et al. 1988 [32]	Bt kurstaki	633	156-2057	M31738.1
	Cry18Aa1	Zhang et al. 1997 [34]	Paenibacillus popilliae ^a	712	725-2863	X99049
III	Cry1Aa1	Schnepf et al. 1985 [35]	Bt kurstaki HD 1	1176	527-4057	M11250.1
	Cry1Ab1	Wabiko et al. 1986 [36]	Bt berliner 1715	1155	1-1695	M13898.1
IV	Cry30Aa1	Juarez-Perez et al. 2003 [37]	Bt medellin	662	60-2045	AB125059
	Cry30Ca1	Sun et al. 2013 [38]	Bt jegathesan	688	1-2064	GQ368655

^a Firmicutes bacterial phylum, Bacilli class, Bacillales order, Paenibacillaceae family, Paenibacillus genus. The conformation of the four study clusters is grouped under the criterion of evolutive closeness

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