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Richard Sessler

Christopher Fleming

Jeng Shong Chen

Renshui Liu

Guo-Qing Tang

Milan Jucovic

The invention provides nucleic acids, polypeptides, transgenic plants, compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity (e.g., insecticidal activity) to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds. Nucleic acids encoding the insecticidal proteins can be used to transform prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, including plants, to express the insecticidal proteins. The recombinant organisms and compositions containing the recombinant organisms or insecticidal proteins can be used to control a pest (e.g., an insect).

Engineered pesticidal proteins and methods of controlling plant pests

This invention provides polypeptides that were identified as interacting with Vip3 toxin. This invention also provides a method of identifying agents that bind to Vip3 interacting polypeptides, which agents may act as insecticidal agent, cytotoxic agents and/or modulate the activity of Vip3 interacting polypeptides.

Expression cassette and host cell for expressing a Vip3-interacting protein

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Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America

Richard Sessler