Toxicity of Bacillus sphaericus LP1-G against susceptible and resistant Culex quinquefasciatus and the cloning of the mosquitocidal toxin gene.
Bacillus sphaericus LP1-G, belonging to flagellar serotype H3, has been found to have moderate toxicity against two resistant Culex quinquefasciatus colonies (RLCq1 and RLCq2) and the susceptible contrast (SLCq). With an aim of screening mosquitocidal acting factor, a partial genome library was prepared from a partial HindIII digest of the total DNA from Bacillus sphaericus LP1-G. Two thousand twenty Escherichia coli clones were screened for toxicity against susceptible SLCq, and a toxic clone, designated E-UL68, was chosen for further study. The recombinant E-UL68 performed toxicity against both susceptible and two resistant colonies, having the same level of toxicity as that of wide-type strain LP1-G. Sequence analysis revealed that the inserted fragment was composed of 3876 nucleotides and contained a complete gene, whose sequence was identical to that of the mtx gene from B. sphaericus SSII-1. Because the binary toxin produced during sporulation of strain LP1-G has no activity against the target mosquitoes, this indicates that the Mtx toxin or other active factors might perhaps be responsible for the toxicity of LP1-G against different colonies of mosquito larvae.
Wuhan Institute of Virology, Academic Sinica, Wuhan 430071, China.
Yong-Xia
YX
Shi
Da-Sheng
DS
Zheng
Zhi-Ming
ZM
Yuan
D000818:Animals; D001407:Bacillus / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity*; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003465:Culex; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D015698:Genomic Library; D007814:Larva / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010572:Pest Control, Biological; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; C046134:binB protein, Bacillus sphaericus; C068603:mosquitocidal toxin SSII-1