Importance of the central region of 130-kDa insecticidal proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis for their activity in vivo and in vitro.
To delineate the mosquitocidal regions of the ISRH3 (CryIVB) and ISRH4 (CryIVA) proteins, which are two of the mosquitocidal 130-kDa proteins contained in the crystalline protein bodies (CPBs) of Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (BTI), a deletion analysis of these protein genes has been done. Based on the evidence that each 130-kDa protein had two mosquitocidal regions, N-terminal and C-terminal ones, and these two regions shared a common part in the center of the 130-kDa proteins, deleted genes on this region were constructed. As the protein products which lacked the central region had reduced activities, the central region could be important for the mosquitocidal activity. The mosquitocidal and non-mosquitocidal truncated gene products of 130-kDa protein genes were also applied to a cultured lepidopteran cell line, TN-368. The mosquitocidal proteins caused the swelling and disruption of the cells in spite of the insecticidal specificity of CPBs of BTI, but the non-mosquitocidal proteins did not. Therefore, TN-368 cells were sensitive to the mosquitocidal fragments of 130-kDa proteins of BTI under the assay conditions used.
Yoshida
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Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Fukuyama University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Fujita
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Mukai
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Sen
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Himeno
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Sakai
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Komano
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D000818:Animals; D001413:Bacillus thuringiensis / Q000378:metabolism*; D000083722:Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D001483:Base Sequence; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D009033:Culicidae; D004731:Endotoxins; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; D007915:Lepidoptera; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
D000083722:Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004731:Endotoxins; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; C030956:insecticidal crystal protein, Bacillus Thuringiensis