title: A novel recombinant baculovirus overexpressing a Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab toxin enhances insecticidal activity.
abstract: Baculoviruses have been genetically modified to express foreign genes under powerful promoters in order to accelerate their speed of killing. In this study a truncated form of cry1Ab gene derived from Bacillus thuringinsis (Bt) subsp. aegypti isolate Bt7 was engineered into the genome of the baculovirus Autographa californica multiple nuclearpolyhedrosis wild type virus, in place of the polyhedrin gene by using homologous recombination in Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf) cells between a transfer vector carrying the Bt gene and the wild type virus linearized DNA. Recombinant wild type virus containing the cry1Ab gene was detected as blue occlusion-negative plaques in monolayers of Sf cells grown in the presence of X-Gal. In Sf cells infected with plaque-purified recombinant virus, the cry1Ab gene was expressed to yield a protein of approximately 82-kDa, as determined by immunoblot analysis. The toxicity of the recombinant virus expressing the insecticidal crystal protein (ICP) was compared to that of the wild-type virus. Infected-cell extract was toxic to cotton leaf worm Spodoptera littoralis second instar larvae and the estimated LC50 was 1.7 μg/ml for the recombinant virus compared with that of wild-type virus which was 10 μg/ml.
authors.affiliation: Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI) - ARC, 9 Gamaa St, Giza, Egypt.
authors.forename: Wael
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: El-Menofy
authors.affiliation: Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI) - ARC, 9 Gamaa St, Giza, Egypt ; Biology Department, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Umm Al Qura University, Makka 21955, PO Box 715, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Gamal
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Osman
authors.affiliation: Biology Department, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Umm Al Qura University, Makka 21955, PO Box 715, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Abdulrahman
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Assaeedi
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salama
keywords: Bacillus thuringiensis; Baculovirus; Cry 1Ab; LC50; Toxin
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