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A novel Vip3Aa16-Cry1Ac chimera toxin: Enhancement of toxicity against Ephestia kuehniella, structural study and molecular docking.
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2018 October 2
Bacillus thuringiensis Vip3A protein has been widely used for crop protection and for delay resistance to existing insecticidal Cry toxins. During current study, a fusion between vip3Aa16 and the toxic core sequence of cry1Ac was constructed in pHT Blue plasmid. Vip3Aa16-Cry1Ac protein was expressed in the supernatant of B. thuringiensis with a size of about 150 kDa. Bioassays tested on Ephestia kuehniella showed that the use of the chimera toxin as biopesticide improved the toxicity to reach 90% ± 2 with an enhancement of 20% compared to the single Vip3Aa16 protein. The findings indicated that the fusion protein design opens new ways to enhance Vip3A toxicity against lepidopteran species and could avoiding insect tolerance of B. thuringiensis delta-endotoxins. Through computational study, we have predicted for the first time the whole 3D structure of a Vip3A toxin. We showed that Vip3Aa16 structure is composed by three domains like Cry toxins: an N-terminal domain containing hemolysin like fold as well as two others Carbohydrate Binding Module (CBM)-like domains. Molecular docking analysis of the chimera toxin and the single Vip3Aa16 protein against specific insect receptors revealed that residues of CBM like domains are clearly involved in the binding of the toxin to receptors.
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