Sericin is a kind of water-soluble protein expressed specifically in the middle silk gland ofBombyx mori. When the sericin-1 gene promoter was cloned and a transgenic vector was constructed to express a foreign protei...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31272507,31270192 and 31000080);Startup Scientific Research Fund from Jiangsu University for Advanced Professionals(11JDG048);National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB114604);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2011M500854)
Bombyx mori bidensovirus(BmBDV),which had been assigned to Densovirinae in Parvoviridae previously,replicates mainly in silkworm midgut columnar cells and causes the fatal flacheric disease.In contrast to parvovirus,t...