title: Mass spectrometric sequencing of endotoxin proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. konkukian extracted from polyacrylamide gels.
abstract: The amino acid sequences of the crystal proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. konkukian strain HL-47 are unknown. We used 1-D denaturing polyacrylamide electrophoresis, nano-ESI-Q-TOF-MS, and protein database searching to analyze these proteins. On SDS-PAGE gels, a preparation of purified crystal proteins exhibited 110, 102, 76, 55, 37, and 30 kDa protein bands. Immunoblotting of the gel with antiserum raised to this preparation revealed that four crystal proteins, of 110, 102, 55, and 37 kDa, reacted with the specific antiserum. The 102-kDa major protein reacted strongly. The other crystal proteins showed weak immunoreactivity. The 102 and 55 kDa proteins were analyzed by ESI-MS. The internal amino acid sequence of the 102-kDa major protein has similarity to the sequences of the surface layer protein of B. thuringiensis ssp. finitimus and B. anthracis. However, the internal amino acid sequences of the 55 kDa protein did not show any homology to proteins in the databases. Proteomic analysis of these proteins leads to the conclusion that the sequence data provided the protein databases of the crystal proteins of the konkukian ssp.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Kwang Yong
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Eun Young
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Sooil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Seong Kyu
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: Kwan Hee
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.forename: Jin Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hyung Hoan
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000083722:Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004731:Endotoxins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; D007306:Insecticides / Q000737:chemistry; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D000083722:Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004731:Endotoxins; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; D007306:Insecticides; D010455:Peptides; C030956:insecticidal crystal protein, Bacillus Thuringiensis