Bacillus thuringiensis CrylAa δ-endotoxin affects the K+/amino acid symport in Bombyx mori larval midgut

Journal of Membrane Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 209-217

  Leonardi, M G ^a   Parenti, P ^a   Casartelli, M ^a   Giordana, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Bombyx mori larval midgut; Brush border membrane vesicles; CrylAa endotoxin; Isolated midgut; K+ amino acid symporters

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; LEUCINE; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BRUSH BORDER; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; SILKWORM;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BOMBYX; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; LEUCINE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SODIUM;

EID: 0030772684     PISSN: 00222631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002329900284     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Carroll, J., Ellar, D.J. 1993. An analysis of Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxin action on insect-midgut-membrane permeability using a light-scattering assay. Eur. J. Biochem. 214:771-778
2. Cassano, G., Maffia, M., Vilella, S., Storelli, C. 1988. Effects of membrane potential on Na cotransport in eel intestinal brush-border membrane vesicles: studies with a fluorescent dye. J. Membrane Biol. 101:225-236
3. 0) similar to that in bovine brush border membrane vesicles, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1104:55-62
4. Dow, J.A.T. 1992. pH gradients in lepidopteran midgut. J. Exp. Biol. 172:355-375
5. Garczynski, S.F., Crim, J.W., Adang, M.J. 1991. Identification of putative insect brush border membrane-binding molecules specific to Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxin by protein blot analysis. Appl. Environ. Microbiot. 57:2816-2820
6. Ge, A.Z., Shivarova, N.I., Dean, D.H. 1989. Location of the Bombyx mori specificity domain on a Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxin protein. Proc. Natl. Sci. USA 86:4037-4041
7. Giordana, B., Belgioioso, P., Hanozet, G.M., Tasca, M., Parenti, P. 1992. Efficiency of amino acid transport into preserved brushborder membrane vesicles from lepidopteran midgut. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 103 A:65-71
8. + symporters for neutral amino acids along the midgut of lepidopteran larvae: functional differentiations. J. Insect Physiol. 40:1059-1068
9. + symport in lepidopteran larval midgut. J. Exp. Biol. 196:145-155
10. Giordana, B., Sacchi, V.F. 1977. Extracellular space values and intracellular ionic concentrations in the isolated midgut of Philosamia cynthia and Bombyx mori. Experientia 33:1065-1066
11. Giordana, B., Sacchi, V.F., Hanozet, G.M. 1982. Intestinal amino acid absorption in lepidopteran larvae. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 692:81-88
12. Giordana, B., Sacchi, V.F., Parenti, P., Hanozet, G.M. 1989. Amino acid transport systems in intestinal brush-border membranes from lepidopteran larvae. Am. J. Physiol. 257:R494-R500
13. +/amino acid cotransporter of lepidopteran larval midgut. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 106C:403-407
14. +-dependent phenylalanine uptake in membrane vesicles isolated from the midgut of Philosamia cynthia larvae. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 596:481-486
15. Harvey, W.R., Nedergaard, S. 1964. Sodium-independent active transport of potassium in the isolated midgut of Cecropia silkworm. Prac. Natn. Sci. USA 51:481-486
16. Hendrickx, K., De Loof, A., Van Mellaert, H. 1990. Effect of Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxin on the permeability of brush border membrane vesicles from tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta) midgut. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 958:241-245
17. Höfte, H., Whiteley, H.R. 1989. Insecticidal crystal proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis. Microbiol. Rev. 53:242-255
18. Kim, J.W., Closs, E.I., Albritton, L.M., Cunningham, G.M. 1991. Transport of cationic amino acids by the mouse ecotropic retrovirus receptor. Nature 352:725-728
19. Knight, P.J.K., Crickmore, N., Ellar, D.J. 1994. The receptor for Bacillus thuringiensis CrylA(c) delta-endotoxin in the brush border membrane of lepidopteran Manduca sexta is aminopeptidase N. Molec. Microbiol. 11:429-436
20. Knight, P.J.K., Knowles, B.H., Ellar, D.J. 1995. Molecular cloning of an insect aminopeptidase N that serves as a receptor for Bacillus thuringiensis CrylA(c) toxin. J. Biol. Chem. 270:17765-17770.
21. Knowles, B.H., Dow, J.A.T. 1993. The crystal δ-endotoxins of Bacillus thuringiensis: models for their mechanism of action on the insect gut. BioEssay 15:469-475
22. Knowles, B.H., Ellar, D.J. 1987. Colloid-osmotic lysis is a general feature of the mechanism of action of Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxins with different insect specificity. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 924:509-518
23. Laemmli, U.K. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriofage T4. Nature 227:680-685
24. Lee, M.K., Milne, R.E., Ge, A.Z., Dean, D.H. 1992. Localization of a Bombyx mori receptor binding region of a Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxin. J. Biol. Chem. 267:3115-3121
25. Li. J., Carroll, J., Ellar, D.J. 1991. Crystal structure of insecticidal δ-endotoxins from Bacillus thuringiensis at 2.5 Å resolution. Nature 353:815-821
26. Liebig, B., Stetson, L., Dean, D.H. 1995. Quantification of the effect of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins on short-circuit current in the midgut of Bombyx mori. J. Insect Physiol. 41:17-22
27. Lynch, A.M., McGivan, J.D. 1987. Evidence for a single common Na-dependent transport system for alanine, glutamine, leucine and phenylalanine in BBMV from bovine kidney. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 899:176-184
28. Nedergaard, S. 1973. Transport of amino acids in cecropia midgut. In: Transport mechanisms in epithelia. H.H. Ussing and N.A. Thorn, editors, pp. 372-381 Copenhagen: Munskgaard
29. Parenti, P., Villa, M., Hanozet, G.M. 1992. Kinetics of leucine transport in brush border membrane vesicles from lepidopteran larvae midgut. J. Biol. Chem. 267:15391-15397
30. Parenti, P., Morandi, P., McGivan, J.D., Consonni, P.. Leonardi M.G., Giordana, B. 1997. Properties of the aminopeptidase N from the silkworm midgut (Bombyx mori). Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 27: 397-403
31. Parenti, P., Villa, M., Hanozet, G.M., Tasca, M., Giordana B. 1995. Interaction of insecticidal crystal protein CrylA from Bacillus thuringiensis with amino acid transport into brush border membrane vesicles from Bombyx mori larval midgut. J. Invertebrate Pathol. 65:35-42
32. Parenti, P., Villa, M., Tasca, M., Belgiojoso, P., Hanozet, G.M., Giordana B. 1993. A rapid and sensitive in vitro assay for the activity of Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxins. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 1048:375-379
33. +-dependent amino acid transport in bovine renal brush-border membrane. Biochem. J. 290:59-65
34. Reuveni, M., Dunn, P.E. 1991. Differential inhibition by Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxin of leucine and aspartic acid uptake into BBMV from Manduca sexta. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 181:1089-1093
35. Sacchi, V.F., Cattaneo, M., Carpentieri, M., Giordana, B. 1981. L-phenylalanine active transport in the midgut of Bombyx mori larva. J. Insect Physiol. 27:211-214
36. +-gradient-dependent amino acid transport across the brush border membrane of Pieris brassicae midgut cells. FEBS Lett. 269:213-218
37. +-dependent amino acid transport in midgut brush border membrane vesicles from Philosamia cynthia larvae. J. Insect Physiol. 40:69-74
38. + leakage in vitro. J. Biol. Chem. 269:10088-10092
39. Schwartz, J.-L., Garneau, L., Savaria, D., Masson, L., Brousseau, R., Rousseau, E. 1993. Lepidopteran-specific crystal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis form cation- and anion-selective channels in planar lipid bilayers. J. Membrane Biol. 132:53-62
40. Uemura, T., Ihara, H., Wadano, A., Himeno, M. 1992. Fluorometric assay of potential change of Bombyx mori midgut brush border membrane induced by δ-endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis. Biosci. Biotech. Biochem. 56:1976-1979
41. van Frankenhuyzen, K., Gringorten, J.L., Miline, R.E., Gauthier, D., Pusztai, M., Brousseau, R., Masson, L. 1991. Specificity of activated CrylA proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD-1 for defoliating forest lepidoptera. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57:1650-1655
42. Wang, H., Kavanaugh, M.P., North, R.A., Kabat, B. 1991. Cell-surface receptor for ecotropic murine retroviruses is a basic amino-acid transporter. Nature 352:729-731
43. Wolfersberger, M.G. 1989. Neither barium nor calcium prevents the inhibition by Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxins of sodium- or potassium gradient-dependent amino acid accumulation by tobacco hornworm midgut brush border membrane vesicles. Arch. Biochem. Physiol. 12:267-277
44. Wolfersberger, M.G. 1991. Inhibition of potassium-gradient-driven phenylalanine uptake in larval Lymantria dispar midgut by two Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxins correlates with the activity of the toxins as gypsy moth larvicides. J. Exp. Biol. 161:519-525
45. Wright, E.M. 1984. Electrophysiology of plasma membrane vesicles. Am. J. Physiol. 246:F363-F372