کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1945406 1053263 2009 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Chemical modification of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Aa toxin single-cysteine mutants reveals the importance of domain I structural elements in the mechanism of pore formation
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Chemical modification of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Aa toxin single-cysteine mutants reveals the importance of domain I structural elements in the mechanism of pore formation
چکیده انگلیسی

Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxins form pores in the apical membrane of insect larval midgut cells. To investigate their mechanism of membrane insertion, mutants in which cysteine replaced individual amino acids located within the pore-forming domain of Cry1Aa were chemically modified with sulfhydryl-specific reagents. The thiol group of cysteine was highly susceptible to oxidation and its reactivity was significantly increased when the toxins were purified under reducing conditions. Addition of a biotin group to the cysteine had little effect on the ability of the toxins to permeabilize Manduca sexta brush border membrane vesicles except for a slight reduction in activity for S252C and a large increase in activity for Y153C. The activity of Y153C was also significantly increased after modification by reagents that added an aromatic or a charged group to the cysteine. When permeability assays were performed in the presence of streptavidin, a large biotin-binding protein, the pore-forming activity of several mutants, including Y153C, where the altered residue is located within the hairpin comprising helices α4 and α5, or in adjacent loops, was significantly reduced. These results support the umbrella model of toxin insertion.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes - Volume 1788, Issue 2, February 2009, Pages 575–580
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