Publication: Redesign of an Interhelical Loop of the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry4B delta-endotoxin for Proteolytic Cleavage
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2001-03-31
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12258687
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Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Vol.34, No.2 (2001), 150-155
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Chartchai Krittanai, Panida Lungchukiet, Sarinthip Ruangwetdee, Tipparut Tuntitippawan, Sakol Panyim, Gerd Katzenmeier, Chanan Angsuthanasombat Redesign of an Interhelical Loop of the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry4B delta-endotoxin for Proteolytic Cleavage. Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Vol.34, No.2 (2001), 150-155. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/26471
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Redesign of an Interhelical Loop of the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry4B delta-endotoxin for Proteolytic Cleavage
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The mosquito-larvicidal Cry4B protein from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis was expressed in Escherichia coli. Upon activation by trypsin, the 130-kDa protoxin was processed into the 65-kDa active toxin containing two polypeptide fragments of ca. 47 and ca. 20 kDa. These two polypeptides are products of internal cleavages on the exposed loop connecting helices 5 and 6 in the seven-helical bundle domain. PCR-based mutagenesis was employed to introduce an additional cleavage site into the loop connecting helices 3 and 4. A series of amino acid changes were introduced into the targeted loop, resulting in seven mutant protoxins. Upon digestion with trypsin, a group of mutants with arginine introduced into the loop (EPRNQ, EPNRNQ, EPRNP, ESRNP and SSRNP) produced polypeptide products similar to those of the wild type (EPNNQ). When the loop, SSRNP, was expanded by an insertion of either asparagine (NSSRNP) or valine (VSSRNP), an additional cleavage was detected with proteolytic products of 47, 12 and 6 kDa. This cleavage was confirmed to be at the introduced arginine residue by N-terminal sequencing. The mosquito larvicidal assay against Aedes aegypti demonstrated a relatively unchanged toxicity for the mutants without cleavage and reduced toxicity for those with an additional cleavage.