Dr Colin Berry
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Pereira, E., Ronchi Teles, B., Soares Martins, E., Botelho Praça, L., Santos, A., Ramos, F., Berry, C. and Monnerat, R.Comparative toxicity of Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner strains to larvae of Simuliidae (Insecta: Diptera) Bt Research 4, In press.
Kuadkitkan, A., Smith, D.R. and Berry, C. (2012) Investigation of the Cry4B-prohibitin interaction in Aedes aegypti cells. Curr. Microbiol. 65:446-454
Monnerat, R., Martins, E., Praça, L., Dumas, V. and Berry, C. (2012) Activity of a Brazilian strain of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, against the cotton boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis Boheman, 1843) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Neotrop. Entomol. 41:62-67.
Berry, C Metrics-based assessments of research: incentives for ‘institutional plagiarism’? Sci. Eng. Ethics 19:337-340
Berry, C (2012) The bacterium Lysinibacillus sphaericus as an insect pathogen J. Invertebr. Pathol. 109:1-10
Guerra, Y, Valiente, P.A., Berry, C., and Pons, T. (2012) Predicting functional residues of the Solanum lycopersicum aspartic protease inhibitor (SLAPI) by combining sequence and structural analysis with molecular docking. J. Mol. Model. 18: 2673-2687
McKay, P.B. Peters, M.B., Carta, G., Flood, C.T., Dempsey, E., Bell, A., Berry, C., Lloyd, D.G. and Fayne, E.D (2011) Identification of plasmepsin inhibitors as selective antimalarial agents using ligand based drug design. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 21: 3335-3341
Opota, O., Gauthier, N.C., Doye, A., Berry, C., Gounon, P., Lemichez, E. and Pauron, D. (2011) Bacillus sphaericus binary toxin toxin elicits host cell autophagy as a response to intoxication. PLoS One 6: e14682
White, R.E., Powell, D.J. and Berry, C. (2011) HIV proteinase inhibitors target the Ddi1-like protein of Leishmania parasites. FASEB J. 25: 1729-1736
White, R.E., Dickinson, J.R., Powell, D.J. and Berry, C. (2011) The retroviral proteinase active site and the N-terminus of Ddi1 are required for repression of protein secretion.FEBS Lett 585: 139-142
Berry, C. and Baker, M.D. (2010) Inside protein structures: teaching in three dimensions. Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ. 38: 425-429.
Melatti, V.M., Praça, L.B., Martins, E.S., Sujii, E., Berry, C. and Monnerat, R.G. (2010) Selection of Bacillus thuringiensis Strains Toxic Against Cotton Aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae) BioAssay 5: 1-4.
Padrón-García, J.A., Alonso Tarajano, M., Alonso Becerra, E., Winterburn, T.J., Ruiz, Y., Kay, J. and Berry, C. (2009) Quantitative structure activity relationship of IA3-like peptides as aspartic proteinase inhibitors. Proteins 75: 859-869.
Monnerat, R.G., Soares, C.M., Capdeville, G., Jones, G., Martins, E.S., Praça, L., Cordeiro, B.A., Braz, S.V., dos Santos, R.C. and Berry, C. (2009) Translocation and insecticidal activity of Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria living inside of plants. Microbial Biotechnol. 2: 512-520.
de Melo, J.V. Jones, G.W., Berry, C., Teixeira Vasconcelos, R.H., Fontes de Oliveira, C.M., Freire Furtado, A., Alves Peixoto, C. and Neves Lobo Silva-Filha, M.H. (2009) Cry48Aa/Cry49Aa binary toxin from Bacillus sphaericus displays cytopathological effects on susceptible and binary toxin-resistant Culex quinquefasciatus larvae. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75: 4782-4789.
Abdoarrahem, M.M., Gammon, K., Dancer, B.N., and Berry, C. (2009) A genetic basis for the alkaline-activation of germination in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75: 6410-6413.
Hu, X., Fan, W., Han, B., Liu, H., Zheng, D., Li, Q., Dong, W., Yan, J., Gao, M., Berry, C. and Yuan, Z. (2008) Complete genome sequences of the mosquitocidal bacterium Bacillus sphaericus C3-41 and comparisons with closely related Bacillus species. J. Bacteriol. 190: 2892-2902.
Jones, G.W., Wirth, M.C., Monnerat, R.G. and Berry, C. (2008) The Cry48Aa-Cry49Aa binary toxin from Bacillus sphaericus exhibits highly-restricted target specificity. Environ. Microbiol. 10: 2418-2424.
Jones, G.W., Nielsen-Leroux, C., Yang, Y., Yuan, Z., Fiúza Dumas, V., Gomes Monnerat, R. and Berry, C. (2007) A new Cry toxin with a unique two-component dependency from Bacillus sphaericus. FASEB J. 21: 4112-4120.
de Maagd, R., Bravo, A., Berry, C., Crickmore, N. and Schnepf, E.H. (2003) Structure, diversity and evolution of protein toxins from spore-forming Entomopathogenic bacteria. Ann. Rev. Genet. 37: 409-433.
Berry, C., O’Neil, S., Ben-Dov, E., Jones, A.F., Murphy, L., Quail, M.A., Harris, D., Zaritsky, A. and Parkhill, J. (2002) The complete sequence and organization of pBtoxis, the toxin-coding plasmid of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68: 5082-5095
Coombs, G.H., Goldberg, D.E., Klemba, M., Berry, C., Kay, J. and Mottram, J.C. (2001) Aspartic proteases of Plasmodium falciparum and other parasitic protozoa as drug targets. Trends Parasitol. 17: 532-537.