title: Characterization of cry2-type genes of bacillus thuringiensis strains from soilisolated of sichuan basin, china.
abstract: Sichuan basin, situated in the west of China, is the fourth biggest basin in China. In order to describe a systematic study of the cry2-type genes resources from Bacillus thuringiensis strains of Sichuan basin, a total of 791 Bacillus thuringiensis strains have been screened from 2650 soil samples in different ecological regions. The method of PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) was used to identify the type of cry2 genes. The results showed that 322 Bacillus thuringiensis strains harbored cry2-type genes and four different RFLP patterns were found. The combination of cry2Aa/cry2Ab genes was the most frequent (90.4%), followed by cry2Aa (6.8%) and cry2Ab alone (2.5%), and only one novel type of cry2 gene was cloned from one isolate (JF19-2). The full-length of this novel gene was obtained by the method of thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR (Tail-PCR), which was designated as cry2Ag1 (GenBank No. ACH91610) by the Bt Pesticide Crystal Protein Nomenclature Committee. In addition, the result of scanning electron microscopic (SEM) observation showed that these strains had erose, spherical, bipyramidal, and square crystal. And the results of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) demonstrated that these strains harbored about one to three major proteins. These strains exhibited a wide range of insecticidal spectrum toxic to Aedes aegypti (Diptera) and Pieris rapae Linnaeus, 1758 (Lepidoptera). Particularly, JF19-2 contained cry2Ag gene had the highest insecticidal activity. All these researches mentioned above revealed the diversity and particularity of cry2-type gene resources from Bacillus thuringiensis strains in Sichuan basin.
authors.affiliation: Rice Research Institute , Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Sichuan , China, 611130 ; Key laboratory of Southwest Crop Gene Resource & Genetic Improvement of Ministry of Education , Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan , China, 625014.
authors.forename: Hongxia
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Guan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Shuangcheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Shiquan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Aiping
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Huainian
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Li
keywords: Bacillus thuringiensis; PCR-RFLP; SDS-PAGE; novel cry2-type gene
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