Abstract:
:Photorhabdus luminescens is a bacterium which is mutualistic with entomophagous nematodes and which secretes high-molecular-weight toxin complexes following its release into the insect hemocoel upon nematode invasion. Thus, unlike other protein toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (delta-endotoxins and Vip's), P. luminescens toxin (Pht) normally acts from within the insect hemocoel. Unexpectedly, therefore, the toxin complex has both oral and injectable activities against a wide range of insects. We have recently fractionated the protein toxin and shown it to consist of several native complexes, the most abundant of which we have termed Toxin complex a (Tca). This complex is highly active against the lepidopteran Manduca sexta. In view of the difference in the normal mode of delivery of P. luminescens toxin and the apparent communality in the histopathological effects of other gut-active toxins from B. thuringiensis, as well as cholesterol oxidase, we were interested in investigating the effects of purified Tca protein on larvae of M. sexta. Here we report that the histopathology of the M. sexta midgut is similar to that for other novel midgut-active toxins. Following oral ingestion of Tca by M. sexta, we observed an acceleration in the blebbing of the midgut epithelium into the gut lumen and eventual lysis of the epithelium. The midgut shows a similar histopathology following injection of Tca into the insect hemocoel. These results not only show that Tca is a highly active oral insecticide but also confirm the similar histopathologies of a range of very different gut-active toxins, despite presumed differences in modes of action and/or delivery. The implications for the mode of action of Tca are discussed.
journal_name
Appl Environ Microbioljournal_title
Applied and environmental microbiologyauthors
Blackburn M,Golubeva E,Bowen D,Ffrench-Constant RHdoi
10.1128/AEM.64.8.3036-3041.1998subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-08-01 00:00:00pages
3036-41issue
8eissn
0099-2240issn
1098-5336journal_volume
64pub_type
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