Neurotoxins active on insects: amino acid sequences, chemical modifications, and secondary structure estimation by circular dichroism of toxins from the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector.

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

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Loret EP,Mansuelle P,Rochat H,Granier C

doi

10.1021/bi00458a021

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-02-13 00:00:00

pages

1492-501

issue

6

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

journal_volume

29

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