Abstract:
:Two scorpion neurotoxins active only on insects, the insect toxins AaH IT1 and AaH IT2, were purified from the venom of scorpions Androctonus australis Hector collected in Tozeur (Tunisia) and characterized. AaH IT2 was sequenced and found to differ in four amino acid positions from AaH IT, the single previously sequenced insect toxin [Darbon, H., Zlotkin, E., Kopeyan, C., Van Rietschoten, J., & Rochat, H. (1982) Int. J. Pept. Protein Res. 20, 320-330] which possessed an equal potential for paralyzing fly larvae. The basic amino acid residues of AaH IT1, which differs from AaH IT by one amino acid residue, were selectively chemically modified. Six derivatives were characterized. Their toxicity toward fly larvae and cockroach was determined, and their affinity for the AaH IT1 synaptosomal receptor from cockroach nerve cord was measured. Modification of His-30, Lys-34, and Arg-60 showed no significant effect on biological activity. However, the modification of Lys-28 or Lys-51 demonstrated that these two amino acids are important for toxicity. Furthermore, simultaneous modifications of both Lys-28 and Lys-51 led to a cumulative decrease in biological activity. AaH IT1 and AaH IT2 show similar CD spectra. The secondary structures content of AaH IT2 was estimated from circular dichroism data. Results showed that this class of toxin should possess an additional alpha-helical region and a beta-sheet strand, not found in toxins active on mammals. Attempts to localize these secondary structural features in the amino acid sequence of AaH IT2 indicated that these two regions would be located within the last 20 C-terminal amino acid residues. From these studies on secondary structures, it is possible to consider that toxins active on insects are more structurally constrained than those active on mammals; a decreased molecular flexibility may be, at least partially, responsible for the observed specificity of these toxins for the insect sodium channel. Furthermore, the two alpha-helices found in insect toxins enclosed the two conserved Lys-28 and Lys-51 and might thus be implicated in the toxic site of insect toxins.
journal_name
Biochemistryjournal_title
Biochemistryauthors
Loret EP,Mansuelle P,Rochat H,Granier Cdoi
10.1021/bi00458a021subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1990-02-13 00:00:00pages
1492-501issue
6eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995journal_volume
29pub_type
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