title: Characterization of larvicidal toxin protein from Bacillus thuringiensis serovar japonensis strain Buibui specific for scarabaeid beetles.
abstract: The delta-endo toxin proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis which kill the larvae of various scarabaeid beetles such as Anomala cuprea, A. rufocuprea and Popillia japonica were purified by DEAE ion exchange chromatography. A protein with a molecular size of 130 kDa was purified. During the purification a minor peak was also detected which was estimated to be 67 kDa by SDS-PAGE. Both 130 and 67 kDa proteins showed larvicidal activity against A. cuprea. The lethal concentration of the 130 kDa protein which killed 50% of the larvae tested (LC50) against A. cuprea was 2 micrograms g-1 compost. A comparison by SDS-PAGE of the V8 protease digestion pattern of the 130 and 67 kDa larvicidal proteins showed that proteolytic resistant core peptides of approximately 60 kDa molecular size were resulted. The N-terminus amino acid sequence of the 130 and 67 kDa proteins was determined to be NH2-XXPNNQNEYEIIDAL and NH2-XSRNPGTFI, respectively, which is not identical to the sequence of CryIA, CryIB, CryIC and CryIII proteins.
authors.affiliation: Tsukuba Laboratories for Research and Development, Kubota Corp., Ibaraki, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ogiwara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Himejima
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Indrasith
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Minami
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Asano
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohba
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwahana
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001413:Bacillus thuringiensis / Q000737:chemistry*; D000083722:Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D001517:Coleoptera; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004731:Endotoxins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases
chemical_list: D000083722:Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004731:Endotoxins; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; C030956:insecticidal crystal protein, Bacillus Thuringiensis; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases; C028344:glutamyl endopeptidase