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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 78, Issue 16, Pages 5690-5698Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00523-12
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- Biotechnology Risk Assessment Program competitive grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) [2008-39211-19577]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [AGL2006-11914, AGL2009-13340-C02-01]
- Generalitat Valenciana [GVARVIV2007-090, ACOMP/2009/313]
- European FEDER funds
- Marie Curie grant from the EU [PIEF-GA-2008-219993]
- NIFA [582678, 2008-39211-19577] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac toxin was characterized in a population of Helicoverpa zea larvae previously shown not to have an alteration in toxin binding as the primary resistance mechanism to this toxin. Cry1Ac-selected larvae (AR1) were resistant to protoxins and toxins of Cry1Ab, Cry1Ac, and the corresponding modified proteins lacking helix alpha-1 (Cry1AbMod and Cry1AcMod). When comparing brush border membrane vesicles (BBMVs) prepared from susceptible (LC) and AR1 larval midguts, there were only negligible differences in overall Cry1Ac toxin binding, though AR1 had 18% reversible binding, in contrast to LC, in which all binding was irreversible. However, no differences were detected in Cry1Ac-induced pore formation activity in BBMVs from both strains. Enzymatic activities of two putative Cry1Ac receptors (aminopeptidase N [APN] and alkaline phosphatase [ALP]) were significantly reduced (2-fold and 3-fold, respectively) in BBMVs from AR1 compared to LC larvae. These reductions corresponded to reduced protein levels in midgut luminal contents only in the case of ALP, with an almost 10-fold increase in specific ALP activity in midgut fluids from AR1 compared to LC larvae. Partially purified H. zea ALP bound Cry1Ac toxin in ligand blots and competed with Cry1Ac toxin for BBMV binding. Based on these results, we suggest the existence of at least one mechanism of resistance to Cry1A toxins in H. zea involving binding of Cry1Ac toxin to an ALP receptor in the larval midgut lumen of resistant larvae.
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