C Berry

Summary

Affiliation: Cardiff University
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Genomics: Relative pathogenic values
    Julian Parkhill
    Nature 423:23-5. 2003
  2. ncbi The bacterium, Lysinibacillus sphaericus, as an insect pathogen
    Colin Berry
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
    J Invertebr Pathol 109:1-10. 2012
  3. ncbi Inside protein structures: Teaching in three dimensions
    Colin Berry
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
    Biochem Mol Biol Educ 38:425-9. 2010
  4. ncbi A distinct member of the aspartic proteinase gene family from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
    C Berry
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK
    FEBS Lett 447:149-54. 1999
  5. ncbi Complete sequence and organization of pBtoxis, the toxin-coding plasmid of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis
    Colin Berry
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 68:5082-95. 2002
  6. ncbi Genetic basis for alkaline activation of germination in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis
    M M Abdoarrahem
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3TL, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 75:6410-3. 2009
  7. ncbi Transcriptional analysis of the toxin-coding plasmid pBtoxis from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis
    Claudia Stein
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3US, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 72:1771-6. 2006
  8. ncbi Conjugal transfer of a toxin-coding megaplasmid from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis to mosquitocidal strains of Bacillus sphaericus
    Katherine Gammon
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3US, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 72:1766-70. 2006
  9. ncbi Proteolytic stability of insecticidal toxins expressed in recombinant bacilli
    Yankun Yang
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3US, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 73:218-25. 2007
  10. ncbi A new Cry toxin with a unique two-component dependency from Bacillus sphaericus
    Gareth W Jones
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Ave, Cardiff CF10 3US, UK
    FASEB J 21:4112-20. 2007

Collaborators

  • N Crickmore
  • R G Ridley
  • Arieh Zaritsky
  • J Parkhill
  • M C Wirth
  • Alejandra Bravo
  • Mark Itsko
  • H Ernest Schnepf
  • Gareth W Jones
  • Zhiming Yuan
  • Yankun Yang
  • Rhian E White
  • M M Abdoarrahem
  • Xiaomin Hu
  • Jianping Yan
  • David J Powell
  • Enying Wu
  • Robert Manasherob
  • Claudia Stein
  • Katherine Gammon
  • Sheraz Gul
  • Ruud A de Maagd
  • Mark R Partridge
  • B N Dancer
  • K Gammon
  • Dasheng Zheng
  • Wei Fan
  • Rose G Monnerat
  • Wei Dong
  • Bei Han
  • Haizhou Liu
  • Meiying Gao
  • Qibin Li
  • Christina Nielsen Leroux
  • Yongming Yuan
  • Adelaida Gaviria
  • Vinicius Fiuza Dumas
  • Liang Jun
  • Christina Nielsen-LeRoux
  • Liwei Wang
  • Rose Gomes Monnerat
  • Tanya Chalmers
  • Nadine Sela-Baranes
  • Eitan Ben-Dov
  • Steven J Hope
  • Maria Helena N L Silva Filha
  • Brian N Dancer
  • Shmuel Cohen
  • Earl May
  • Andrew Morby
  • Marie Mazzulla
  • Richard Brown
  • Martin G Smyth

Detail Information

Publications20

  1. ncbi Genomics: Relative pathogenic values
    Julian Parkhill
    Nature 423:23-5. 2003
  2. ncbi The bacterium, Lysinibacillus sphaericus, as an insect pathogen
    Colin Berry
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
    J Invertebr Pathol 109:1-10. 2012
    ..Future studies of these could well lead to novel potent and environmentally compatible insecticidal products for controlling a range of insect pests and vectors of disease...
  3. ncbi Inside protein structures: Teaching in three dimensions
    Colin Berry
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
    Biochem Mol Biol Educ 38:425-9. 2010
    ..Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 425-429, 2010...
  4. ncbi A distinct member of the aspartic proteinase gene family from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
    C Berry
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK
    FEBS Lett 447:149-54. 1999
    ..In this event, since no counterpart is known to exist in humans, it affords an attractive potential target against which to develop new anti-malarial drugs...
  5. ncbi Complete sequence and organization of pBtoxis, the toxin-coding plasmid of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis
    Colin Berry
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 68:5082-95. 2002
    ..The most striking of these are several genes potentially affecting host sporulation and germination and a set of genes for the production and export of a peptide antibiotic...
  6. ncbi Genetic basis for alkaline activation of germination in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis
    M M Abdoarrahem
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3TL, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 75:6410-3. 2009
    ..Expression of just three genes constituting a previously identified, putative ger operon from this plasmid is sufficient to produce the same phenotype and characterizes this operon as a genetic determinant of alkaline activation...
  7. ncbi Transcriptional analysis of the toxin-coding plasmid pBtoxis from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis
    Claudia Stein
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3US, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 72:1771-6. 2006
    ..Several of these sequences, including eight with similarities to the sequences of known transcriptional regulators, may influence wider gene regulation and thus may alter the phenotype of the host bacterium...
  8. ncbi Conjugal transfer of a toxin-coding megaplasmid from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis to mosquitocidal strains of Bacillus sphaericus
    Katherine Gammon
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3US, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 72:1766-70. 2006
    ..The stability of the plasmid in the B. sphaericus host was moderate during vegetative growth, but segregational instability was observed, which led to substantial rates of plasmid loss during sporulation...
  9. ncbi Proteolytic stability of insecticidal toxins expressed in recombinant bacilli
    Yankun Yang
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3US, United Kingdom
    Appl Environ Microbiol 73:218-25. 2007
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  10. ncbi A new Cry toxin with a unique two-component dependency from Bacillus sphaericus
    Gareth W Jones
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Ave, Cardiff CF10 3US, UK
    FASEB J 21:4112-20. 2007
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  11. ncbi HIV proteinase inhibitors target the Ddi1-like protein of Leishmania parasites
    Rhian E White
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
    FASEB J 25:1729-36. 2011
    ..Our results show that Ddi1 proteins are targets of HIV proteinase inhibitors and indicates the Leishmania Ddi1 as the likely target for these drugs and a potential target for antiparasitic therapy...
  12. ncbi The Cry48Aa-Cry49Aa binary toxin from Bacillus sphaericus exhibits highly restricted target specificity
    Gareth W Jones
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3US, UK
    Environ Microbiol 10:2418-24. 2008
    ..Co-administration of Cry49Aa with Cry4Aa gives higher than predicted toxicity, perhaps suggesting weak synergism against Culex larvae between Cry49Aa and other three-domain Cry toxins...
  13. ncbi Insecticidal activity of the Bacillus sphaericus Mtx1 toxin against Chironomus riparus
    Mark R Partridge
    Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, P.O. Box 911, CF10 3US, Wales, UK
    J Invertebr Pathol 79:135-6. 2002
  14. ncbi Complete genome sequence of the mosquitocidal bacterium Bacillus sphaericus C3-41 and comparison with those of closely related Bacillus species
    Xiaomin Hu
    Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
    J Bacteriol 190:2892-902. 2008
    ..Knowledge of the genome sequence of B. sphaericus C3-41 thus increases our understanding of the bacilli and may also offer prospects for future genetic improvement of this important biological control agent...
  15. ncbi Cyt1Ca from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis: production in Escherichia coli and comparison of its biological activities with those of other Cyt-like proteins
    Robert Manasherob
    Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PO Box 653, Be'er-Sheva 84105, Israel
    Microbiology 152:2651-9. 2006
    ..Furthermore, in contrast to Cyt1Aa, Cyt1Ca did not lyse sheep erythrocytes, and it was not bactericidal to the host cell...
  16. ncbi Mtx toxins synergize Bacillus sphaericus and Cry11Aa against susceptible and insecticide-resistant Culex quinquefasciatus larvae
    Margaret C Wirth
    Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 73:6066-71. 2007
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  17. ncbi Staphylococcus aureus DNA ligase: characterization of its kinetics of catalysis and development of a high-throughput screening compatible chemiluminescent hybridization protection assay
    Sheraz Gul
    Assay Development and Compound Profiling, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, New Frontiers Science Park North, Third Avenue, Harlow, Essex CM19 4AW, UK
    Biochem J 383:551-9. 2004
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  18. ncbi What's the difference
    Colin Berry
    QJM 96:953-4. 2003
  19. ncbi Structure, diversity, and evolution of protein toxins from spore-forming entomopathogenic bacteria
    Ruud A de Maagd
    Plant Research International B V, 6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands
    Annu Rev Genet 37:409-33. 2003
    ..Recombination between toxin genes and sequence divergence has resulted in a wide range of host specificities...
  20. ncbi Characterization of a cryptic plasmid from Bacillus sphaericus strain LP1-G
    Enying Wu
    Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
    Plasmid 57:296-305. 2007
    ..6-kb fragment, which was composed of rep gene and dso. These data are a good basis for the understanding of replication mechanisms and genetics of this B. sphaericus plasmid...