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Orally active androctonus amoreuxi pesticidal biopeptides

a biopeptide, orally active technology, applied in the field of natural-occurring pesticides, can solve the problems of chemical agents that are constantly under scrutiny, can be toxic to insect pests, and various forms of bt toxins, so as to enhance the effectiveness of baculovirus, enhance plant pest resistance, and increase the efficiency of virus action

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-01-08
EI DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO
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Benefits of technology

The transgenic plants exhibit enhanced resistance to key insect pests, such as Homopteran and Lepidopteran species, effectively controlling pest populations and reducing the evolution of resistant insect strains, while being non-toxic to livestock and humans.

Problems solved by technology

However, chemical agents are under continuous scrutiny due to the potential for environmental contamination, selection of resistant populations of agronomic pests, and toxicity to non-target organisms such as beneficial insects, aquatic organisms, animals and humans.
These polypeptides have been found to be specifically toxic to particular insects, and microbial formulations have been used commercially for many years as foliarly applied insecticides.
It has also recently been found that various forms of the Bt toxin can be toxic to insect pests when expressed inside the tissues of plants on which the insects feed.

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Fractionation of Polypeptides From Arthropod Venom

[0159]Polypeptides were enriched from arthropod venom using a variety of HPLC chromatography conditions. Crude arthropod venom was applied to either HP1100 or Microbore LC columns as indicated. The peptides were resolved using a method set forth herein. The fractions were assayed for pesticidal activity as described elsewhere herein.

[0160]For all HPLC chromatography methods Solvent A consists of 95% Water and Solvent B consists of 95% acetonitrile with either 0.1% TFA or HFBA as noted.

[0161]For gradients over HP1100 columns a 0.6 mL / min flow rate was used unless otherwise noted.

METHOD 1:60% Solvent B in 70 minutesTFA; C4 columnMETHOD 2:60% Solvent B in 70 minutesTFA; C4 column0.325 mL / minute flow rateMETHOD 3:15-50% Solvent B in 70 minutesHFBA; C4 column

[0162]For gradients over Microbore LC columns a 50 μL / minute flow rate was used unless otherwise noted.

METHOD 4:60% Solvent B in 70 minutesTFA; C4 columnMETHOD 5:30% Solvent B in 60 m...

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Protein Sequencing

[0163]Purified peptides were reduced with 10 mM dithiothreitol and alkylated with 4-vinylpyridine. The reduced and alkylated peptide was then isolated from the chemicals on a Magic 2002 Microbore LC using reversed phase chromatography. Protein sequencing was performed on an Applied Biosystems Procise 494 protein sequencer utilizing the Edman degradation reaction. Isolated peptides were pipetted onto a pre-filtered glass fiber filter from Applied Biosystems containing 100 mM Biobrene. The filter was dried and the cartridge was re-assembled and placed onto the Procise 494. N-terminal sequencing was determined with the pulsed-liquid method standard with the Procise 494. Data were collected and analyzed on the Model 610A data analysis program from Applied Biosystems.

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Full Length Peptide Sequencing

[0164]Purified peptides were reduced and alkylated as mentioned previously. The peptides were then digested with GluC and LysC endoproteinases from Boehringer-Mannheim. These endoproteinases cleave on the C-terminal side of glutamic acid and lysine respectively in the peptide. Peptide fragments were collected on the Magic 2002 Microbore LC using reversed phase chromatography. Each individual peptide was sequenced as described previously until a full-length sequence map was obtained.

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Abstract

The present invention provides compositions and methods for orally active Androctonus amoreuxi pesticidal polypeptides. Compositions include novel Androctonus amoreuxi pesticidal polypeptides and biologically active variants thereof. Further provided are methods for modulating the pesticide resistance of plants by expressing the sequences disclosed herein. One method comprises stably transforming into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence of the present invention operably linked to a heterologous promoter and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence. An additional method comprises incorporating a nucleotide sequence of the present invention operably linked to a heterologous promoter into a microorganism and applying said microorganism to the environment of a plant.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 617,978, filed Jul. 11, 2003, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 395,428, filed Jul. 12, 2002, each of which is hereby incorporated in its entirety by reference herein.REFERENCE TO A SEQUENCE LISTING SUBMITTED AS A TEXT FILE VIA EFS-WEB[0002]The official copy of the sequence listing is submitted concurrently with the specification as a text file via EFS-Web, in compliance with the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), with a file name of 346403SequenceListing.txt, a creation date of Jul. 11, 2008, and a size of 28,403 bytes. The sequence listing filed via EFS-Web is part of the specification and is hereby incorporated in its entirety by reference herein.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0003]The present invention relates to naturally occurring pesticides, in particular, to polypeptides isolated from arthropods. The invention further rel...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A01N63/00C07K14/00A01P15/00
CPCC12N15/8286C07K14/43522Y02A40/146
Inventor HERRMANN, RAFAELLU, ALBERT L.MCCUTCHEN, BILLY F.PRESNAIL, JAMES K.WONG, JAMES F.H.
Owner EI DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO