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Creation of an Industrial Bacillus thuringiensis Strain With High Melanin Production and UV Tolerance by Gene Editing
Bacillus thuringiensis produces insecticidal crystal proteins (ICPs) which exhibit strong insecticidal toxicity. But when used in the field, ICPs would be destroyed by ultraviolet (UV) radiation in sunlight, thus decreasing the insecticidal activity and shortening the persistence. To improve the dur...
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author | Zhu, Lingyi Chu, Yawen Zhang, Bowen Yuan, Ximu Wang, Kai Liu, Zhiyu Sun, Ming |
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description | Bacillus thuringiensis produces insecticidal crystal proteins (ICPs) which exhibit strong insecticidal toxicity. But when used in the field, ICPs would be destroyed by ultraviolet (UV) radiation in sunlight, thus decreasing the insecticidal activity and shortening the persistence. To improve the duration of B. thuringiensis preparations, we endowed a highly toxic industrial B. thuringiensis HD-1 with UV tolerance by making it produce melanin, a pigment that absorbs UV radiation. In B. thuringiensis, melanin is derived from homogentisate (HGA), an intermediate in the tyrosine pathway. And the absence of homogentisate-1,2-dioxygenase (HmgA) will lead to the formation of melanin. In this study, we used the CRISPR/Cas9 system to knock out the hmgA gene and obtained a melanin-producing mutant HD-1-ΔhmgA from strain HD-1. The melanin yield by mutant HD-1-ΔhmgA reached 3.60 mg/mL. And the anti-UV test showed that melanin serves as a protection to both the organism and the ICPs. After UV irradiation for 3 h, mutant HD-1-ΔhmgA still had an 80% insecticidal activity against the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, while the control line only had about 20%. This study creates a light-stable biopesticide prototype based on a classic industrial strain that can be applied directly and takes the melanin-producing strain as a concept to improve the preparation validity. |
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spelling | pubmed-93556382022-08-06 Creation of an Industrial Bacillus thuringiensis Strain With High Melanin Production and UV Tolerance by Gene Editing Zhu, Lingyi Chu, Yawen Zhang, Bowen Yuan, Ximu Wang, Kai Liu, Zhiyu Sun, Ming Front Microbiol Microbiology Bacillus thuringiensis produces insecticidal crystal proteins (ICPs) which exhibit strong insecticidal toxicity. But when used in the field, ICPs would be destroyed by ultraviolet (UV) radiation in sunlight, thus decreasing the insecticidal activity and shortening the persistence. To improve the duration of B. thuringiensis preparations, we endowed a highly toxic industrial B. thuringiensis HD-1 with UV tolerance by making it produce melanin, a pigment that absorbs UV radiation. In B. thuringiensis, melanin is derived from homogentisate (HGA), an intermediate in the tyrosine pathway. And the absence of homogentisate-1,2-dioxygenase (HmgA) will lead to the formation of melanin. In this study, we used the CRISPR/Cas9 system to knock out the hmgA gene and obtained a melanin-producing mutant HD-1-ΔhmgA from strain HD-1. The melanin yield by mutant HD-1-ΔhmgA reached 3.60 mg/mL. And the anti-UV test showed that melanin serves as a protection to both the organism and the ICPs. After UV irradiation for 3 h, mutant HD-1-ΔhmgA still had an 80% insecticidal activity against the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, while the control line only had about 20%. This study creates a light-stable biopesticide prototype based on a classic industrial strain that can be applied directly and takes the melanin-producing strain as a concept to improve the preparation validity. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9355638/ /pubmed/35935220 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.913715 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhu, Chu, Zhang, Yuan, Wang, Liu and Sun. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology Zhu, Lingyi Chu, Yawen Zhang, Bowen Yuan, Ximu Wang, Kai Liu, Zhiyu Sun, Ming Creation of an Industrial Bacillus thuringiensis Strain With High Melanin Production and UV Tolerance by Gene Editing |
title | Creation of an Industrial Bacillus thuringiensis Strain With High Melanin Production and UV Tolerance by Gene Editing |
title_full | Creation of an Industrial Bacillus thuringiensis Strain With High Melanin Production and UV Tolerance by Gene Editing |
title_fullStr | Creation of an Industrial Bacillus thuringiensis Strain With High Melanin Production and UV Tolerance by Gene Editing |
title_full_unstemmed | Creation of an Industrial Bacillus thuringiensis Strain With High Melanin Production and UV Tolerance by Gene Editing |
title_short | Creation of an Industrial Bacillus thuringiensis Strain With High Melanin Production and UV Tolerance by Gene Editing |
title_sort | creation of an industrial bacillus thuringiensis strain with high melanin production and uv tolerance by gene editing |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9355638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35935220 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.913715 |
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