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creators_name: Padmaja, T
creators_name: Suneetha, N
creators_name: Sashidhar, R B
creators_name: Sharma, H C
creators_name: Deshpande, V
creators_name: Venkateswarulu, G
icrisatcreators_name: Sharma, H C
affiliation: Osmania University(Hyderabad)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: Degradation of the insecticidal toxin produced by Bacillus
thuringiensis var. kurstaki by extracellular proteases
produced by Chrysosporium sp.

ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.2
full_text_status: public
keywords: bioassays, Cry1Ac toxin, degradation, insecticidal activity, proteases.

note: T. Padmaja was financially supported by a senior research fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, Government of India.
abstract: Aims:  Some Cry proteins produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) or by transgenic Bt plants persist in agricultural soils for an extended period of time, which may pose a hazard for nontarget soil organisms. The aims of our study were to screen for soil fungi capable of degrading the Cry1Ac toxin and to identify the mechanisms that lead to the inactivation of this protein.Methods and Results:  Of the eight fungal strains screened, only one, Chrysosporium sp., was found to produce extracellular proteases capable of degrading the 66-kDa Cry1Ac at the N-terminal end of amino acid 125 (alanine). The proteolytic products of the Cry1Ac toxin did not exhibit any insecticidal activity against Helicoverpa armigera, in contrast to its high toxicity exhibited in the native form.Conclusions:  Proteases elaborated by the Chrysosporium sp. degrade the Cry1Ac toxin in a way that it looses its insecticidal activity against H. armigera.Significance and Impact of the Study: Chrysosporium sp., a specific soil micro-organism capable of producing proteases that degrade the Cry1Ac toxin into inactive products under controlled conditions is being reported for the first time. Application of this observation needs to be further tested in field conditions.
date: 2008
date_type: published
publication: Journal Of Applied Microbiology
volume: 104
number: 4
publisher: Blackwell Publishing
pagerange: 1171-1181
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1364-5072
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2007.03644.x
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citation:   Padmaja, T and Suneetha, N and Sashidhar, R B and Sharma, H C and Deshpande, V and Venkateswarulu, G  (2008) Degradation of the insecticidal toxin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki by extracellular proteases produced by Chrysosporium sp.  Journal Of Applied Microbiology, 104 (4).  pp. 1171-1181.  ISSN 1364-5072     
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