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Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, September 1998, p. 775-806, Vol. 62, No. 3
Mycogen Corp., San Diego, California
921211;
School of Biological Sciences,
University of Sussex, Brighton, United
Kingdom2;
Plant Genetic Systems, n.v.,
Ghent, Belgium3;
Unité de
Biochimie Microbienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris,
France4;
Ecogen, Inc., Langhorne,
Pennsylvania 190475; and
Department
of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
432106
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Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Bacillus thuringiensis and Its
Pesticidal Crystal Proteins
SUMMARY
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
ECOLOGY AND PREVALENCE
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
The B. thuringiensis Genome
The Transposable Elements of B. thuringiensis
cry Gene Expression
Transcriptional Mechanisms
Sporulation-dependent cry Gene Expression.
Sporulation-independent cry gene expression.
Posttranscriptional Mechanisms
Posttranslational Mechanisms
TOXIN STRUCTURE
Structural and Sequence Similarities among Toxins
Structure-Function Interpretations
MECHANISM OF ACTION
General Features
General Receptor Binding and Kinetic Considerations
Role of Domain II Loop Regions
Role of Domain III in Receptor Binding
Membrane Insertion
Ion Channel Activity
Mutants with Enhanced Activity
Effect of Synergistic Interactions on Toxin Potency
B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis.
Other B. thuringiensis strains.
BIOTECHNOLOGY OF B. THURINGIENSIS
Application of Cry Proteins for Pest Control and Plant
Protection
Forestry
Control of Mosquitoes and Blackflies
Developing New Cry Biopesticides Based on B. thuringiensis
Alternative Delivery Systems for Cry Proteins
Expression of B. thuringiensis cry Genes in
Plants
Insect Resistance to B. thuringiensis Toxins
Laboratory-selected strains.
Field-selected strains.
Resistance Management
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ADDED IN PROOF
REFERENCES
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During the past decade the pesticidal bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis has been the subject of intensive research. These efforts have yielded considerable data about the complex relationships between the structure, mechanism of action, and genetics of the organism's pesticidal crystal proteins, and a coherent picture of these relationships is beginning to emerge. Other studies have focused on the ecological role of the B. thuringiensis crystal proteins, their performance in agricultural and other natural settings, and the evolution of resistance mechanisms in target pests. Armed with this knowledge base and with the tools of modern biotechnology, researchers are now reporting promising results in engineering more-useful toxins and formulations, in creating transgenic plants that express pesticidal activity, and in constructing integrated management strategies to insure that these products are utilized with maximum efficiency and benefit.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
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The leading biorational pesticide, Bacillus thuringiensis, is a ubiquitous gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium that forms a parasporal crystal during the stationary phase of its growth cycle. B. thuringiensis was initially characterized as an insect pathogen, and its insecticidal activity was attributed largely or completely (depending on the insect) to the parasporal crystals. This observation led to the development of bioinsecticides based on B. thuringiensis for the control of certain insect species among the orders Lepidoptera, Diptera, and Coleoptera (for a review, see reference 33). There are more recent reports of B. thuringiensis isolates active against other insect orders (Hymenoptera, Homoptera, Orthoptera, and Mallophaga) and against nematodes, mites, and protozoa (109, 110). B. thuringiensis is already a useful alternative or supplement to synthetic chemical pesticide application in commercial agriculture, forest management, and mosquito control. It is also a key source of genes for transgenic expression to provide pest resistance in plants.
In 1989, Höfte and Whiteley reviewed the known cry genes and proposed a systematic nomenclature for them (164). Since then, the number of sequenced crystal protein genes (encoding Cry and Cyt proteins) has grown from 14 to well more than 100. In our accompanying work (79), we propose a revised nomenclature to accommodate this wealth of new sequence data. The present work reviews the extensive progress during the past decade in determining the gene expression, structure, and mechanism of action for these classes of proteins. The proposed revised nomenclature will be used throughout.
ECOLOGY AND PREVALENCE
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B. thuringiensis seems to be indigenous to many environments (36, 65, 255). Strains have been isolated worldwide from many habitats, including soil (59, 88, 154, 255, 354), insects (59), stored-product dust (54, 65, 87, 267), and deciduous and coniferous leaves (175, 354). Isolation typically involves heat treatment to select for spores, sometimes with an acetate enrichment step (382) or antibiotic selection (89). The diversity in flagellar H-antigen agglutination reactions is one indication of the enormous genetic diversity among B. thuringiensis isolates. The Pasteur Institute has catalogued 55 different flagellar serotypes and eight nonflagellated biotypes (202, 205).
There is considerable evidence that B. thuringiensis and
Bacillus cereus should be considered a single species.
Classical biochemical and morphological methods of classifying bacteria have consistently failed to distinguish B. thuringiensis
from B. cereus (31, 139, 177, 229, 305). Modern
molecular methods
including chromosomal DNA hybridization
(179), phospholipid and fatty acid analysis (40,
178), 16S rRNA sequence comparison (20, 318), amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis (181), and
genomic restriction digest analysis (56, 57)likewise
support the single-species hypothesis. An attempt to distinguish
B. thuringiensis isolates from B. cereus by
analysis of a 16S rRNA variable region largely failed, yielding as many
false positives and negatives as accurate identifications
(373). The production of the parasporal crystal, the
defining quality of B. thuringiensis, is too narrow a
criterion for taxonomic purposes (237). Indeed, some
B. cereus strains hybridize to cry1A-specific
probes (56). Although we will employ the official
nomenclature with two species names for these organisms, it is perhaps
best to think of them as members of B. cereus sensu lato.
The remarkable diversity of B. thuringiensis strains and toxins is due at least in part to a high degree of genetic plasticity. Most B. thuringiensis toxin genes appear to reside on plasmids (138), often as parts of composite structures that include mobile genetic elements (195, 218). Many cry gene-containing plasmids appear to be conjugative in nature (137).
B. thuringiensis has developed a fascinating array of molecular mechanisms to produce large amounts of pesticidal toxins during the stationary phase of growth (8, 30). One can only speculate about the ecological value to the bacterium of using several cry gene expression systems. However, coexpression of multiple toxins is likely to increase the host range of a given strain or of a population exchanging toxin genes. One report has suggested plasmid transfer between different B. thuringiensis strains during growth within an insect (170). We are not aware of any critical experiments directed towards understanding bacterial toxin gene expression within the gut of a susceptible pest.
Persistence of B. thuringiensis spores in the laboratory, greenhouse, and field or forest environment has been reasonably well studied (299, 403, 405). B. thuringiensis spores can survive for several years after spray applications (6), although rapid declines in population and toxicity have been noted. Methods of detection have generally been limited to spore counts.
Meadows (266) has analyzed three prevailing hypothetical
niches of B. thuringiensis in the environment: as an
entomopathogen, as a phylloplane inhabitant, and as a soil
microorganism. Available data are still insufficient to choose among
these and other possibilities, although B. thuringiensis
seems to have been more readily isolated from insect cadavers or
stored-product dusts than from soil (36, 65). It is also
noteworthy that B. thuringiensis and B. cereus are able to multiply in the insect hemocoel and to provoke septicemia (156, 157, 358). Early work recognized the presence of a
number of extracellular compounds that might contribute to virulence, including phospholipases (434), other heat-labile toxin
activities (reviewed in reference 332), and
-exotoxins (221). More recent characterization has shown
that proteases (232), chitinases (356), and the
secreted vegetative insecticidal proteins (VIPs) (108) (see
below) may contribute to virulence. B. cereus and B. thuringiensis also produce antibiotic compounds that have
antifungal activity (357); one of these products can act to
synergize crystal protein-induced intoxication of certain lepidopterans
(253). The Cry toxins are, therefore, the most prominent of
a number of virulence factors allowing the development of the bacteria
in dead or weakened insect larvae. Such data are at least suggestive
that many strains of B. thuringiensis and some strains of
B. cereus can be regarded as opportunistic insect pathogens.
A more thorough understanding of the true ecological roles of B. thuringiensis would be of great importance, both for improving the
reliability of risk assessment and for developing efficient methods for
isolating novel B. thuringiensis strains containing useful
-endotoxin genes.
A number of pesticidal proteins unrelated to the Cry proteins are produced by some strains of B. thuringiensis during vegetative growth (108, 401). These VIPs do not form parasporal crystal proteins and are apparently secreted from the cell. The VIPs are presently excluded from the Cry protein nomenclature because they are not crystal-forming proteins. The term VIP is a misnomer in the sense that some B. thuringiensis Cry proteins are also produced during vegetative growth as well as during the stationary and sporulation phases, most notably Cry3Aa (see "cry gene expression"). The location of the vip genes in the B. thuringiensis genome has not been reported, although it would not be surprising to find them residing on large plasmids that encode cry genes.
The vip1A gene encodes a 100-kDa protein that is apparently processed from its N terminus to yield an ~80-kDa protein upon secretion. The 80-kDa Vip1A protein is reported to be toxic to western corn rootworm larvae in conjunction with the Vip2A protein, whose coding region is located immediately upstream (401). Interestingly, Vip1A shows sequence similarity to the protective antigen of the tripartite Bacillus anthracis toxin (298).
The vip3A gene encodes an 88-kDa protein that is produced during vegetative growth but is not processed upon secretion. Genes encoding Vip3A-type proteins appear to be common among strains of B. thuringiensis and B. cereus (108). This protein is reported to exhibit toxicity towards a wide variety of lepidopteran insect pests, including Agrotis ipsilon, Spodoptera frugiperda, Spodoptera exigua, and Helicoverpa zea (108). When fed to susceptible insects at lethal concentrations, Vip3A causes gut paralysis and lysis of midgut epithelial cells: the physical manifestations of Vip3A intoxication resemble those of the Cry proteins (431).
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The B. thuringiensis Genome
B. thuringiensis strains have a genome size of 2.4 to 5.7 million bp (56). Physical maps have been constructed for two B. thuringiensis strains (57, 58). Comparison with B. cereus chromosomal maps suggests that all of these chromosomes have a similar organization in the half near the replication origin while displaying greater variability in the terminal half (57). Most B. thuringiensis isolates have several extrachromosomal elements, some of them circular and others linear (56). It has long been recognized that the proteins comprising the parasporal crystal are generally encoded by large plasmids (138). Sequences hybridizing to cry gene probes occur commonly among B. thuringiensis chromosomes as well (58), although it is unclear to what degree these chromosomal homologs contribute to production of the crystal.
The Transposable Elements of B. thuringiensis
The B. thuringiensis species harbors a large variety of transposable elements, including insertion sequences and transposons. The general characteristics of these elements have been extensively reviewed by Mahillon et al. (248). Here, the B. thuringiensis transposable elements are described with regard to their structural association with the cry genes.
The first studies on the structural organization of the cry1A gene environment showed that genes of this type were flanked by two sets of inverted repeated sequences (195, 218). Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that these repetitive elements were insertion sequences that have been designated IS231 and IS232 (219, 237). IS231 belongs to the IS4 family of insertion sequences (315), and IS232 belongs to the IS21 family of insertion sequences (268). Because these elements can transpose (152, 268), it is likely that they provide mobility for the cry genes with which they form typical composite transposons. However, this hypothesis has not been tested experimentally.
Several IS231 variants have been isolated from various B. thuringiensis strains (249, 314, 316) and have been detected in representative strains from well more than half of the known B. thuringiensis serovars (212). In B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis, an IS231 element (IS231W) is adjacent to the cry11Aa gene (4, 316). Although IS231 elements are frequently associated with cry genes, IS231-related DNA sequences have also been found in strains of B. cereus (190, 212) and Bacillus mycoides (212). In contrast, IS232 has a much smaller range among the organisms surveyed so far, appearing in only 7 of 61 B. thuringiensis serovars (212).
The cry4A gene of the israelensis subspecies is flanked by two repeated sequences in opposite orientations (45). These sequences, designated IS240, display features characteristic of insertion sequences (83). The IS240 transposase is homologous to those of the insertion sequences belonging to the IS6 family. IS240 is widely distributed in B. thuringiensis and is invariably present in known dipteran-active strains (319). Related sequences have also been detected in B. mycoides and B. cereus (212). An IS240 variant has been found upstream of the cry11B gene in the B. thuringiensis subsp. jegathesan (86) and from a plasmid of the dipteran-active strain B. thuringiensis subsp. fukuokaensis (103).
Insertion sequences have been found upstream of the cry1Ca gene (351) and downstream of a cryptic cry2Ab gene (160). These elements encode putative transposases that have significant similarities with the transposase of the IS150 element from Escherichia coli. These potential transposable elements of B. thuringiensis consequently belong to the IS3 family of insertion sequences.
The first transposable element identified in the genus Bacillus was isolated from B. thuringiensis following its spontaneous insertion into a conjugative plasmid transferred from Enterococcus faecalis (217). The genetic and structural characteristics of this transposable element fulfilled the criteria of a Tn element, and it was designated Tn4430 (216). Its transposase is homologous to those of the Tn3 family. In contrast to Tn3, however, the site-specific recombinase that mediates Tn4430 cointegrate resolution is not a resolvase but an integrase (247). Tn4430 is frequently found in the vicinity of genes of the cry1A type in various lepidopteran-active strains (196, 218, 328). However, Tn4430-like sequences have also been detected in several strains of B. cereus (56).
A transposable element designated Tn5401 was isolated from a coleopteran-active B. thuringiensis strain following its spontaneous insertion into a recombinant plasmid (27). Although nucleotide sequence analysis indicates that the structural organization of Tn5401 is similar to that of Tn4430, the transposases and the site-specific recombinases of these transposons are only distantly related (27). Tn4430 and Tn5401 are not known to coexist in any B. thuringiensis strain (27). In B. thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis, Tn5401 is located just downstream of the cry3Aa gene (3). It is noteworthy that Tn5401 has been successfully used to construct a transposon insertion library in B. thuringiensis (251).
Two open reading frames encoding polypeptides homologous to the transposase and to the resolvase of the Tn3 family of transposons have been identified upstream of the cry16A gene found in Clostridium bifermentans (23, 82). This observation suggests that a Tn element is structurally associated with this cry gene.
Regarding the role of the transposable elements in B. thuringiensis, it is postulated that they are involved in the amplification of the cry genes in the bacterial cell, but this hypothesis has not been clearly tested. A second possible role is one of mediating the transfer of plasmids by a conduction process involving the formation of cointegrate structures between self-conjugative plasmids and chromosomal DNA or nonconjugative plasmids. Indeed, conjugation experiments suggest that Tn4430 mediates the transfer of nonconjugative plasmids by a conduction process (147). Thus, a major adaptive function for these transposable elements may be the horizontal dissemination of genetic material, including cry genes, within the B. cereus-B. thuringiensis species.
cry Gene Expression
A common characteristic of the cry genes is their expression during the stationary phase. Their products generally accumulate in the mother cell compartment to form a crystal inclusion that can account for 20 to 30% of the dry weight of the sporulated cells. The very high level of crystal protein synthesis in B. thuringiensis and its coordination with the stationary phase are controlled by a variety of mechanisms occurring at the transcriptional, posttranscriptional, and posttranslational levels. Agaisse and Lereclus (8) and Baum and Malvar (30) have recently reviewed the regulation of cry gene expression in detail. We present here a broad outline of these regulatory mechanisms.
Transcriptional Mechanisms
The cry genes have long been considered typical examples of sporulation-specific genes. However, recent studies on the expression of the cry3Aa gene have revealed that this assumption is not always valid. It is therefore necessary to distinguish, among the cry genes expressed during the stationary phase, those that are dependent on sporulation from those that are not.
Sporulation-dependent cry Gene Expression.
Extensive studies of the sporulation of B. subtilis
have provided detailed information on the complex mechanisms that
temporally and spatially control this differentiation process (for
reviews, see references 104 and
231). At the transcriptional level, the development
of sporulation is controlled by the successive activation of sigma
factors, which bind the core RNA polymerase to direct the transcription
from sporulation-specific promoters (275). These factors are
the primary sigma factor of vegetative cells, 
A, and
five factors called H, F,
E, G, and K, which appear
in that order in a temporally regulated fashion during development. The
A and H factors are active in the
predivisional cell, E and K are active in
the mother cell, and F and G are active
in the forespore.
35 and
28, that specifically direct transcription of
cry1Aa from BtI and BtII, respectively. In vitro
transcription experiments have also indicated that at least two other
cry genes (cry1Ba and cry2Aa) contain
either BtI alone or BtI with BtII (52).
The genes encoding 35 and 28 have been
cloned and sequenced (1). Their deduced amino acid sequences
show 88 and 85% identity with E and K of
B. subtilis, respectively. B. thuringiensis
E and K mutants were constructed, and
cry1Aa gene expression was analyzed in these mutants
(48). The results indicated that these two sigma factors
regulated expression of a cry1Aa'-'lacZ transcriptional fusion in vivo. The K mutant produced about 50% less
-galactosidase than the wild-type strain, whereas no
-galactosidase synthesis was obtained in the E
mutant. The latter result was anticipated, because E
controls K synthesis.
Several cry gene promoters have been identified, and their
sequences have been previously determined (50, 51, 94, 428, 430). Consensus sequences for promoters recognized by B. thuringiensis RNA polymerase containing E or
K have been deduced from alignment of the promoter
regions of these genes (8, 30). The results are that, in
addition to the transcription of cry1Aa, cry1Ba,
and cry2Aa, the transcription of many other cry
genes (e.g., cry4Aa, cry4Ba, cry11Aa,
cry15Aa, etc.) is likely to be E- or
K-dependent. Analysis of cry4Aa,
cry4Ba, and cry11Aa gene fusions in a B. thuringiensis sigE mutant confirms that SigE is required for their
expression during sporulation (304). In addition, from a
genetic analysis of B. subtilis, Yoshisue et al.
(430) reported that the expression of cry4B is
reduced in a spoIIID mutant strain, thus suggesting that
SpoIIID, a DNA-binding protein, positively regulates the SigE-dependent
transcription of cry4B. The cry18Aa gene isolated
from Bacillus popilliae is successively transcribed by
E and K forms of RNA polymerase from a
single promoter during sporulation (433).
The expression of all these cry genes is therefore
considered to be sporulation dependent. However, low-level
transcription of the cry4Aa, cry4Ba, and
cry11Aa genes in B. thuringiensis has been
detected during the transition phase, beginning at about T
2 and lasting until the onset of sporulation
(304, 429). This expression may be due to the
H RNA polymerase, and it is suggested that Spo0A
represses this weak expression, specific to the transition phase, when
the cells enter the sporulation phase (304).
Sporulation-independent cry gene expression.
The cry3Aa gene, isolated from the coleopteran-active
B. thuringiensis var. tenebrionis, was found to
be expressed during vegetative growth, although at a lesser extent than
during the stationary phase (95, 252, 339). Analysis of
lacZ transcriptional fusions and primer extension
experiments indicates that the cry3Aa promoter is weakly but
significantly expressed during vegetative growth, is activated from the
end of exponential growth until stage II of sporulation (about
T3), and remains active until stage IV of
sporulation (about T7) (10, 324). The
cry3Aa promoter, although located unusually far upstream of
the start codon (position 
558), resembles promoters recognized by the
primary sigma factor of vegetative cells, A
(10). A similar promoter was found 542 bp upstream of the
start codon of the cry3Bb gene (30). The
expression of cry3Aa is not dependent on
sporulation-specific sigma factors either in B. subtilis (7) or in B. thuringiensis (324).
Moreover, cry3Aa expression is increased and prolonged in
mutant strains unable to initiate sporulation (7, 213, 251,
324). The results indicate that cry3Aa expression is
activated by a non-sporulation-dependent mechanism arising during the
transition from exponential growth to the stationary phase. The
positive effect of mutations preventing the initiation of sporulation
suggests that there is an event during sporulation (e.g., the
disappearance of A in the mother cell) that turns off
cry3Aa expression (7, 324).
Posttranscriptional Mechanisms
The stability of mRNA is an important contributor to the high level of toxin production in B. thuringiensis. The half-life of cry mRNA, about 10 min, is at least fivefold greater than the half-life of an average bacterial mRNA (135).
Wong and Chang showed that the putative transcriptional terminator of the cry1Aa gene (a stem-loop structure) acts as a positive retroregulator (416). The fusion of a DNA fragment carrying this terminator with the 3' end of heterologous genes increases the half-life of their transcripts two- to threefold, which in turn increases the expression of their gene products. It has been demonstrated in other systems that the processive activities of 3'-5' exoribonucleases are impeded by 3' stem-loop structures (for a review, see reference 279). It is likely, then, that the cry1Aa transcriptional terminator increases the cry mRNA stability by protecting it from exonucleolytic degradation from the 3' end. Similar terminator sequences, potentially able to form stable stem-loop structures, are found downstream from various cry genes and may contribute to their high-level expression by stabilizing the transcripts. However, alternative processes could determine the rate of mRNA degradation, and the direct involvement of these sequences on mRNA stability has not been tested by deleting them from a cry gene and measuring stability of the message.
Between the cry3Aa promoter, located from positions 560 to
600, and the translational start codon is a region involved at a
posttranscriptional level with the accumulation of cry3Aa
mRNA as a stable transcript with a 5' end corresponding to nucleotide position 129 (10). Deletion of 60 bp extending from
nucleotide positions 189 to 129 has no detectable effect on the
expression level or on the position of the 5' end of the transcript
(10). It is likely, then, that the initial transcript, begun
hundreds of bases upstream, is processed posttranscriptionally.
Insertion of the cry3Aa 5' untranslated region (extending
from nucleotides 129 to 12) between the B. subtilis xylA
promoter and a lacZ reporter gene increases about 10-fold
both the stability of the lacZ fusion mRNA and the
production of -galactosidase (9). Deletion and mutation
analysis indicate that the sequence required for the stabilizing effect
is a perfect Shine-Dalgarno sequence (GAAAGGAGG) mapping at
a position between 125 and 117; this sequence has been designated
STAB-SD (9). The stability of the cry3Aa mRNA
could result from an interaction between the 3' end of 16S rRNA and
STAB-SD. The binding of a 30S ribosomal subunit to this sequence may
protect the mRNA against 5'-3' ribonuclease activity, resulting in a
stable transcript with a 5' end at nucleotide position 129 (i.e., the
limit of 30S subunit protection). Potential STAB-SD sequences are also
present in similar positions upstream of the cry3Ba,
cry3Bb, and cry3Ca genes (96, 200).
Posttranslational Mechanisms
The Cry proteins generally form crystalline inclusions in the mother cell compartment. Depending on their protoxin composition, the crystals have various forms: bipyramidal (Cry1), cuboidal (Cry2), flat rectangular (Cry3A), irregular (Cry3B), spherical (Cry4A and Cry4B), and rhomboidal (Cry11A). This ability of the protoxins to crystallize may decrease their susceptibility to premature proteolytic degradation. However, the crystals have to be solubilized rapidly and efficiently in the gut of insect larvae to become biologically active. The structure and the solubility characteristics of a crystal presumably depend on such factors as the secondary structure of the protoxin, the energy of the disulfide bonds, and the presence of additional B. thuringiensis-specific components.
Studies have shown that several cry1 genes cloned in E. coli (129) or B. subtilis (344) were able to direct the synthesis of biologically active inclusions, suggesting that the 130- to 140-kDa Cry1 protoxins can spontaneously form crystals. It is generally assumed that the cysteine-rich C-terminal half of the Cry1 protoxins contributes to crystal structure through the formation of disulfide bonds (39). A similar mechanism of protein self-assembly may be responsible for the crystal formation of other 130- to 140-kDa protoxins (e.g., Cry4, Cry5, and Cry7). The cysteine-rich C-terminal region is absent from the 73-kDa Cry3A protoxins. This protein forms a flat, rectangular crystal inclusion in which the polypeptides do not appear to be linked by disulfide bridges (35). Because this protein is able to form identical crystals in both B. thuringiensis and B. subtilis, it is possible that specific host factors are not required for the protein assembly. Analysis of the three-dimensional structure of the Cry3A toxin revealed the presence of four intermolecular salt bridges, which might participate in the formation of the crystal inclusion (222).
Various studies performed with E. coli and B. thuringiensis have demonstrated that crystallization of Cry2A (71 kDa) and Cyt1A (27 kDa) requires the presence of accessory proteins (for recent reviews, see references 8 and 30). These proteins may act at a posttranslational level to stabilize the nascent protoxin molecule and to facilitate crystallization. However, the precise mechanism of their role in crystal formation has not been determined.
Kostichka et al. (192) have reported that a Cry1Ia toxin could be found in the supernatant of B. thuringiensis cultures as a processed polypeptide of 60 kDa. The authors hypothesize that Cry1Ia is an exported protein and therefore interacts with the cellular protein export machinery. Such a characteristic, together with the fact that this toxin is synthesized early in sporulation (192), may have implications for the significance of these toxins in the ecology of B. thuringiensis. Similarly, the Cry16Aa toxin of C. bifermentans seems to be secreted during sporulation (23).
TOXIN STRUCTURE
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To date, the structures of three crystal proteinsCry3A
(222), Cry1Aa (148), and Cyt2A
(223)have been solved by X-ray crystallography. An
analysis in the accompanying review demonstrates that Cry3A and Cry1Aa
show about 36% amino acid sequence identity (79). This
similarity is reflected in their three-dimensional structures; the
corresponding domains can virtually be superimposed. Cyt2A, however,
shows less than 20% amino acid sequence identity with Cry1Aa and
Cry3A, and a similar alignment score would be obtained if the Cyt2A
sequence were randomized. Not surprisingly, the Cyt2A structure is
radically different from the other two structures. The structures
of Cry1Aa, Cry3A, and Cyt2A are compared in Fig.
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The Cyt toxins, unlike the Cry -endotoxins, are able to lyse a wide
range of cell types in vitro (164). Cyt2A consists of a
single domain in which two outer layers of alpha-helix wrap around a
mixed beta-sheet. Cyt1A is believed to have a similar structure.
Cry3A and Cry1Aa, in contrast to Cyt2A, both possess three domains.
Domain I consists of a bundle of seven antiparallel 
-helices in
which helix 5 is encircled by the remaining helices. Domain II consists
of three antiparallel -sheets joined in a typical "Greek key"
topology, arranged in a so-called -prism fold (330, 343).
Domain III consists of two twisted, antiparallel -sheets forming a
-sandwich with a "jelly roll" topology.
Structural and Sequence Similarities among Toxins
Höfte and Whiteley (164) drew attention to the five blocks of amino acids conserved among most of the Cry toxins then known. Complete amino acid sequence alignment of the Cry proteins in our data set reveals the same five tracts, or conserved blocks, in most of them (Fig. 2 and 3). Comparison of the carboxyl-terminal halves of sequences with more than 1,000 residues suggests the presence of three additional blocks lying outside the active toxic core.
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Figure 4 shows an unrooted phylogenetic
tree, constructed by an unweighted pair-group method using arithmetic
averages algorithm from the multiply aligned Cry and Cyt protein
sequences. Five sequence similarity groups are apparent, together with
a single outlying sequence (Cry15). The conserved blocks are
distributed in a fashion consistent with these similarity groups. The
group consisting of Cry1, Cry3, Cry4, Cry7 to Cry10, Cry16, Cry17,
Cry19, and Cry20 contains all five of the core blocks. A second group consisting of Cry5, Cry12 to Cry14, and Cry21 contains recognizable homologs of blocks 1, 2, 4, and 5. Block 1 shows more variability within this second group of sequences than within the first. The proteins within this second subgroup also possess a block 2 variant; block 2 sequences show greater sequence similarity within the two
groups than between them (Fig. 2). Block 3 is completely absent from
this second group of Cry proteins; an unrelated sequence, highly
conserved within the second subgroup but absent from the first, lies
between blocks 2 and 4. For both groups, when a protein possesses the
C-terminal extension, blocks 6, 7, and 8 are invariably present (Fig.
2). Members of a third sequence similarity group, composed of Cry2,
Cry11, and Cry18, possess block 1 and a truncated variant of the block
2 core (Fig. 2) but lack convincing homologs of the other conserved
blocks (215). An alternating arginine tract not otherwise
homologous to block 4 is found near the C terminus of Cry11 and Cry18.
A weak homolog of block 5 may also be present among the proteins in
this group, but its significance, if any, is uncertain (Fig. 2). The
other proteins in the data setCyt1, Cyt2, Cry6, Cry15, and
Cry22have no recognizable homologs to the conserved blocks seen in
the three groups noted above.
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The conservation of blocks 1 through 5 is at least consistent with the
notion that the proteins within the first subgroup, which includes Cry1
and Cry3, might adopt a similar three-domain tertiary structure. It is
possible, too, that the second subgroupCry5, Cry12 to Cry14, and
Cry21could possess a variation of the same structural theme. The
degree of sequence similarity found in the Cry2, Cry11, and Cry18 group
of proteins suggests that a fold similar to that in domain I of Cry3A
may be present. Indeed, the crystal structure of Cry2Aa, which has been
solved but not yet published (423a), confirms this
prediction. Somewhat more surprisingly, Cry2A also possesses second and
third domains strikingly similar to those of Cry3A, despite the
apparent absence of primary sequence homology between the two proteins
over this region.
Block 1 encompasses helix 5 of domain I. As mentioned below (see "Structure-Function Interpretations"), this helix has been implicated in pore formation, a role that might explain its highly conserved nature. The central location of helix 5 within domain I also suggests an essential role in maintaining the structural integrity of the helical bundle.
Block 2 includes helix 7 of domain I and the first -strand of domain
II. These two structures comprise the region of contact between the two
domains. There are three structurally equivalent salt bridges present
between domain I and domain II in Cry1Aa and Cry3A (148);
the residues involved lie within block 2. These interactions could be
important if domain I changes its orientation relative to the rest of
the molecule upon binding of the toxin to its receptor. Alternatively,
the salt bridges could be responsible for maintaining the protein in a
globular form during solubilization and activation.
Blocks 3, 4, and 5 each lie on one of the three buried strands within
domain III. Block 3 contains the last -strand of domain II, a
structure involved in interactions between domains I and III. The
central two arginines of block 4 may be involved in intermolecular salt
bridges affecting crystal or oligomeric aggregation (148, 222). As Grochulski et al. have noted, however, the first and last arginines are solvent exposed (148). These residues
have been implicated in channel function (68, 336, 414).
An alternative way of looking at protein families is to examine the relatedness of structural or functional segments independently (47, 378). This type of analysis helped show a correlation between domain II sequence features shared by distantly related toxins and the cross-resistance profile of a diamondback moth mutant (369).
Structure-Function Interpretations
The long hydrophobic and amphipathic helices of domain I suggest
that this domain might be responsible for the formation of lytic pores
in the intestinal epithelium of the target organism, one of the
proposed mechanisms of Cry toxin activity (see "Mechanism of
action"). Domain I bears many striking similarities to the pore-forming or membrane-translocating domains of several other bacterial protein toxins, including colicin A, diphtheria toxin, andto a lesser extentPseudomonas exotoxin A
(287). The pore-forming domain of colicin A consists of two
central alpha-helices (8 and 9) surrounded by eight antiparallel
alpha-helices (288). Pore formation is believed to involve
insertion of the hydrophobic 8-9 helical hairpin into the
membrane (101, 220). Similarly, diphtheria toxin is believed
to enter the membrane via a hydrophobic helical hairpin following a
pH-induced change in conformation (432). By analogy to these
mechanisms, an "umbrella" model has been proposed, in which the Cry
proteins also contain a hydrophobic helical hairpin (4-5) that
initiates pore formation (222). Schwartz et al.
(334) created disulfide bonds within domain I and between
domains I and II in order to restrict intramolecular movements. Their
results are consistent with the model described above in which helices
4 and 5 insert into the membrane while the rest of domain I flattens
out on the membrane surface in an umbrella-like molten globule state.
However, the lack of protein structural analysis in this work leaves
open the possibility that the disulfide bonds blocked the ability of
these mutant proteins to penetrate the membrane.
Similarly, little can be surmised as to the final structure of the
lytic pore; a structure involving amphipathic helices (with the
hydrophilic faces forming the lumen of the pore) seems the most
probable. Given, however, that most domain I helices are largely
amphipathic and theoretically long enough to span a membrane, little
can be concluded. Even helix 2, which is split by a short nonhelical
stretch, could traverse a membrane as part of a channel. Comparison of
the Cry3A domain I helices with other known classes of amphipathic
helices suggests that many of the helices (in particular 1, 5,
and 6) show features characteristic of lytic peptides (378).
In contrast, Hodgman and Ellar (159) have proposed a
"penknife" model for pore formation. In this model, based on the
similarly named proposal for colicin A insertion (159), the
strongly hydrophobic helices 5 and 6, which are joined by a loop
at the top of the structure, open in a penknife fashion and insert into
the membrane. The remainder of the molecule would remain at the
membrane surface or on the receptor. Both the umbrella and penknife
models are reviewed and illustrated by Knowles (185).
The surface-exposed loops at the apices of the three -sheets of
domain II, because they show similarities to immunoglobin antigen-binding sites, were initially put forward as candidates for
involvement in receptor binding. Site-directed mutagenesis and segment
swapping experiments, as described under "Mechanism of action,"
have provided evidence in support of this model. It is interesting to
note that domain II has a fold similar to that of the plant lectin
jacalin (330). Jacalin is known to bind carbohydrates via
the exposed loops at the apex of its -prism fold, whereas at least
one Cry protein (Cry1Ac) is believed to recognize carbohydrate moieties
on its receptor (188).
The -sandwich structure of domain III could play a number of key
roles in the biochemistry of the toxin molecule. Li et al. (222) suggest that domain III functions in maintaining the
structural integrity of the toxin molecule, perhaps by protecting it
from proteolysis within the gut of the target organismbut of course all three domains would have to share this characteristic. From studies
in other systems where toxin-receptor interaction leads to pore
formation, it is known that -strand structures can participate in
receptor binding (11, 71), membrane penetration
(283), and ion channel function (241, 242, 427).
None of these roles has been ruled out for domain III of Cry proteins;
indeed, there is at least some evidence suggesting a role for domain
III in receptor binding in certain systems (see "Mechanism of
action" below).
Although solving the structure of one of the Cyt toxins has not really
clarified their toxic mechanism, the predominantly -sheet structure
of Cyt2A suggests a pore based on a -barrel (223). Three
of the strands are sufficiently long to span the hydrophobic core of
the membrane, and the sheet formed by them shows an amphiphilic or
hydrophobic character. Theoretically the number of monomers required to
form a barrel of sufficient size would be four to six. Various
laboratories (75, 243, 244) have observed that Cyt1A (which
is believed to have a common structure with Cyt2A) aggregates on the
surface of the target cell but not in solution prior to binding to the
cell surface. Using synthetic peptides, Gazit et al. (125)
provided further evidence that the Cyt1A toxin self-assembles within
the membrane and also identified two -helices (A and C) that
appeared to be involved in both membrane interaction and intermolecular
assembly. Mathematical modeling hypothesized that Cyt1A exists as a
12-toxin oligomer (243). No receptor-binding motif could be
identified in the Cyt2A structure, although the use of monoclonal
antibodies has identified a putative cell binding region on Cyt1A
(76). Using a number of different biophysical techniques,
Butko et al. (55) have also studied the interaction of Cyt1A
with lipid membranes. They observed a considerable loosening of the
tertiary structure of the toxin upon lipid binding but could find no
evidence that the toxin actually enters the membrane. The authors
suggest that Cyt1A exerts its effect via a general, detergent-like
perturbation of the membrane.
MECHANISM OF ACTION
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General Features
The mechanism of action of the B. thuringiensis Cry proteins involves solubilization of the crystal in the insect midgut, proteolytic processing of the protoxin by midgut proteases, binding of the Cry toxin to midgut receptors, and insertion of the toxin into the apical membrane to create ion channels or pores. Crystals are comprised of protoxins. For the protoxins to become active, a susceptible insect must eat them. For most lepidopterans, protoxins are solubilized under the alkaline conditions of the insect midgut (162). Differences in the extent of solubilization sometimes explain differences in the degree of toxicity among Cry proteins (18, 98). A reduction in solubility is speculated to be one potential mechanism for insect resistance (265). For at least one protein, Cry3A, nicking by chymotrypsin-like enzymes in the midgut may be necessary for solubilization (60).
After solubilization, many protoxins must be processed by insect midgut proteases (203, 379) to become activated toxins. The major proteases of the lepidopteran insect midgut are trypsin-like (204, 270) or chymotrypsin-like (174, 280, 297). The Cry1A protoxins are digested to a 65-kDa toxin protein in a processive manner starting at the C terminus and proceeding toward the 55- to 65-kDa toxic core (69, 73). The carboxy-terminal end of the protoxin, which initially appears to be wound around the toxin in an escargot-like manner, is clipped off processively in 10-kDa sections during processing of the protoxin (74). An interesting and unexpected finding is that DNA is intimately associated with the crystal and appears to play a role in proteolytic processing (38, 76a). The mature Cry1A toxin is cleaved at R28 at the amino-terminal end (277); Cry1Ac, at least, is cleaved at K623 on the carboxy-terminal end (37). Two stages of processing have been detected for Cry1Ia with trypsin or Ostrinia nubilalis midgut proteases: a fully toxic intermediate, with an N terminus at protoxin residue 45 and a C terminus at residue 655 or 659, is further processed to a partially toxic core, with an N terminus clipped to residue 156 (340).
Activated Cry toxins have two known functions, receptor binding and ion channel activity. The activated toxin binds readily to specific receptors on the apical brush border of the midgut microvillae of susceptible insects (161-163). Binding is a two-stage process involving reversible (161, 162) and irreversible (166, 307, 395) steps. The latter steps may involve a tight binding between the toxin and receptor, insertion of the toxin into the apical membrane, or both. It has been generally assumed that irreversible binding is exclusively associated with membrane insertion (166, 307, 395). Certainly the recent report that truncated Cry1Ab molecules containing only domains II and III can still bind to midgut receptors, but only reversibly, supports the notion that irreversible binding requires the insertion of domain I (116). Yet at least some published data is consistent with the notion of tight binding to purified receptors. Tight binding of Cry1Aa and Cry1Ab to purified Manduca sexta aminopeptidase N (APN) has been observed (256), and Cry1Ac may also show some degree of irreversible binding to M. sexta APN. There are likewise indications of irreversible binding for Cry1Ac to purified Lymantria dispar APN (172, 389). Finally, Vadlamudi et al. (385) calculated similar binding constants when toxin bound to brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) and to nitrocellulose-immobilized receptor (i.e., a ligand blot).
In M. sexta, the Cry1Ab receptor is believed to be a cadherin-like 210-kDa membrane protein (119, 180, 385), while the Cry1Ac and Cry1C receptors have been identified as APN proteins with molecular masses of 120 and 106 kDa, respectively (183, 234, 329). Incorporation of purified 120-kDa APN into planar lipid bilayers catalyzed channel formation by Cry1Aa, Cry1Ac, and Cry1C (335). These receptor assignments can be difficult to reconcile with some ligand blot binding data, however (90, 208). There is also some evidence that domain II from either Cry1Ab or Cry1Ac can promote binding to the larger protein, while domain III of Cry1Ac promotes binding to the presumed APN (91). Alkaline phosphatase has also been proposed to be a Cry1Ac receptor (329). The recent cloning of the putative 210-kDa (386) and 120-kDa (184) Cry1Ac receptors opens exciting possibilities for studies on toxin-receptor interactions. In Heliothis virescens, three aminopeptidases bound to Cry1Ac on toxin affinity columns. One of them, a 170-kDa APN, bound Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab, and Cry1Ac, but not Cry1C or Cry1E. N-Acetylgalactosamine inhibited the binding of Cry1Ac but not that of Cry1Aa or Cry1Ab. The three Cry1A toxins each recognized a high-affinity and a low-affinity binding site on this 170-kDa APN (235). In gypsy moth (L. dispar), the Cry1Ac receptor also seems to be APN, while Cry1Aa and Cry1Ab bind to a 210-kDa brush border membrane vesicle (BBMV) protein (388, 389). In Plutella xylostella (236) and Bombyx mori (425) as well, APN appears to function as a Cry1Ac binding protein. An M. sexta gene encoding a Cry1Ab-binding APN has also been cloned, as has its P. xylostella homolog (92).
Insertion into the apical membrane of the columnar epithelial cells follows the initial receptor-mediated binding, rendering the toxin insensitive to proteases and monoclonal antibodies (415) and inducing ion channels or nonspecific pores in the target membrane. In vitro electrophysiological studies of voltage-clamping of lipid bilayers (338, 348) and sections of whole insect midguts (67, 68, 153, 225, 307) support the functional role of the toxin in pore or ion channel formation. The nature of the ion channel or pore-forming activity of Cry toxins in the insect is still controversial. It is alternatively described as a large lytic pore that is not specific for particular ions (see reference 187 and "Structure-function interpretations") or as an ion-specific channel that disrupts the membrane potential but does not necessarily lyse midgut epithelial cells (see below).
Several recent reviews have considered the mechanism or mode of action of Cry toxins (126, 134, 158, 185, 186, 378, 412, 424). Some of these reviews have presented models for the mode of action. The present review considers the newest primary data on receptor binding and ion channel activity and critically evaluates the extant models.
General Receptor Binding and Kinetic Considerations
Soon after methods were developed for preparing insect BBMV (411), BBMV became the subjects of toxin binding studies (323, 413). Several groups were able to correlate a toxin's insect specificity with its affinity for specific receptors on BBMV of susceptible insects (162, 163, 395). In vivo experiments have also confirmed that Cry proteins bind to microvillae in the midgut (49, 93, 426).
A set of in vitro-constructed reciprocal recombinants between Cry1Aa and Cry1Ac (130, 131) provided evidence that insect specificity was localized in the central domain of the toxin for some insects (B. mori and Trichoplusia ni) and the central and C-terminal domains for others (H. virescens). Visser et al. (397) reviewed the use of domain substitutions to locate specificity regions. Van Rie et al. (395) demonstrated that receptor binding correlated with insect specificity, and Lee et al. (209) demonstrated that the specificity and binding domains were colinear for Cry1Aa against B. mori. Examination of the crystal structure of Cry3A (222) suggested a physical basis for receptor binding (see "Toxin structure," above) by the loops of domain II. This suggestion has now been substantiated by site-directed mutagenesis.
Early work by Hoffman et al. (162), Van Rie et al.
(395), and others employed competition binding studies to
demonstrate a correlation between toxin affinity and insecticidal
activity. In a paradoxical finding, however, Wolfersberger
(413) observed that Cry1Ab was more active than Cry1Ac
against gypsy moth larvae, despite exhibiting a relatively weaker
binding affinity. Other examples of this phenomenona lack of
correlation between receptor binding affinity and insecticidal
activityare now known (123, 327, 395). Liang et al.
(224) evaluated binding affinity and dissociation (both
reversible and irreversible binding) of Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab, and Cry1Ac with
gypsy moth BBMV. While they confirmed that the affinity of Cry1Ab was
not directly related to toxin activity, they did observe a direct
correlation between the irreversible binding rate and toxicity. Ihara
et al. had earlier stressed the importance of considering irreversible
binding in explaining the difference in toxicity of Cry1Aa and Cry1Ab
to B. mori (166).
Prior to the work of Liang et al. (224), kinetic analysis of Cry toxin-receptor binding relied on the Hill (161) or Scatchard (395) equations that assume a strictly reversible binding:
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where T is a Cry toxin, R is a receptor for this toxin, T
R is a
toxin that is reversibly bound to the receptor,
Kd1 is the dissociation constant
k1 is the on rate, and
k1 is the off rate.
In reality, the toxin becomes irreversibly associated with the apical membrane by insertion (415), giving the following kinetic diagram (224) (including two models for the inserted state of the toxin):
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where T, R, and TR are as described for equation 1; *T is an
irreversibly bound toxin, presumably inserted into the membrane but not
associated with a receptor; and *TR is an irreversibly bound toxin
which is still associated with a receptor.
Given the irreversible rate component k2, the reaction cannot reach equilibrium; as the toxin-receptor complex is formed, it is drained away by insertion. Therefore, competition or binding experiments under conditions where insertion can take place (equation 2) do not yield true Kd values (224). Since equilibrium conditions are not obtained, equation 2 should not be considered any more valid for calculation of a classical dissociation constant, Kd, than equation 1. Alternate values, such as the 50% inhibitory concentration (224, 257) or Kcom, the so-called competition constant (206, 208, 308, 422), have been used for Kd under these conditions. Under some conditions insertion should not occur, i.e., ligand blotting of 125I-labeled Cry1Ac to purified gypsy moth 120-kDa receptor (207) or binding of unlabeled Cry1Ac to purified M. sexta 120-kDa receptor fixed to dextran surfaces in surface plasmon resonance analysis (256). In both cases, the calculated Kd was 100 times that obtained with BBMV, suggesting that the effect of k2 upon the reversible reaction is considerable. In contrast, competition binding of Cry1Ab to the 210-kDa receptor on a ligand blot differed little from calculated competition binding to M. sexta BBMV (385) or to the cloned 210-kDa receptor expressed in human embryonic 293 cells (386) (708 pM, 1,000 pM, and 1,015 pM, respectively). It may be that the rate of insertion, k2, is negligible for the 210-kDa receptor, perhaps due to either extremely tight binding to this receptor or a failure to insert.
Role of Domain II Loop Regions
The prediction that domain II is involved in receptor binding (131, 222) has led to extensive substitution of loop residues in this domain in Cry3A, Cry1A, and Cry1C by mutagenesis (Fig. 5). Data on the effects of mutations in sequences encoding domain II loop regions of selected Cry toxins are summarized in Table 1. Perusal of these data indicates that mutations may have either a negative or positive effect on binding and toxicity and that mutations in different loop regions, sometimes involving the same type of amino acid residue, can have a different effect on binding. Minor changes in binding usually do not have a major effect on toxicity, but a major positive or negative effect has a corresponding positive or negative effect on toxicity. Furthermore, either binding affinity (as measured by competition binding) or irreversible binding may effect toxicity, and for a few mutant proteins one of these parameters may be positive (increased affinity) while the other may be negative (increased dissociation), with an overall negative effect on toxicity. It is apparent that the same mutation in a toxin can have quite different results on different insects. A more complete description of domain II loop mutations is given in a recent review (311).
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In summary, the binding picture for domain II is complex. Results clearly suggest that all of the loops of domain II can participate in receptor binding, although perhaps not all at the same time for a given insect or receptor. Different toxins may have the same amino acid sequence in the loops of domain II (e.g., Cry1Ab and Cry1Ac) yet bind to different receptors, at least on ligand blots. The available data seem to show an intriguing similarity between the receptor binding loops of domain II and other known protein-protein epitopes; i.e., a hydrophobic residue capable of tight binding to the receptor is surrounded by hydrophobic or charged residues. Similar interactions have been noted in several other systems (for a general review, see reference 300). A striking demonstration of the importance of a hydrophobic residue in irreversible binding was a series of mutations in F371 of Cry1Ab loop 2 to residues of lower hydrophobicity. This reduction in hydrophobicity was correlated with the gradient of reduced irreversible binding and toxicity (309).
Not included above is a discussion of work on two putative surface loops of domain II of Cry1C (loop 1, 317GRNF320, and loop 2, 374QPWP377) (350). This study did not evaluate the effect of mutational alteration of loop residues on binding, but examined cytotoxicity with cultured Spodoptera Sf9 cells and toxicity with Aedes aegypti larvae. The results indicated that specificity differences for Cry1C between Sf9 cells and A. aegypti larvae could be changed radically by single point mutations in the loops. For example, an R-to-I mutation at position 318 (R318I) abolished mosquitocidal activity but retained 80% cytotoxicity to Sf9 cells. Likewise, several mutations caused a loss of mosquitocidal activity with only a marginal loss of cytolytic activity against Sf9 cells. Substitutions that altered the charge, such as Q374E, completely abolished activity against both cells and mosquito larvae.
Role of Domain III in Receptor Binding
Domain III has also been implicated in receptor binding. As mentioned above, several groups (130, 331) have suggested a role for domain III of Cry1Ac in H. virescens specificity. Masson et al. (258) extended the suggestion to include CF-1 cells. Aronson et al. (19) mutated a hypervariable region of domain III (residues 500 to 509) of Cry1Ac. Mutations S503A and S504A resulted in lower toxicity to M. sexta, with a corresponding decrease in binding to BBMV proteins on ligand blots. Lee et al. (211) analyzed homolog scanning mutants that exchanged domain III between Cry1Aa and Cry1Ac. Hybrid proteins containing the Cry1Aa domain III bound a 210-kDa receptor while hybrid proteins containing the Cry1Ac domain III bound a 120-kDa receptor in gypsy moth. Domain switching experiments have also suggested a role for Cry1Ab domain III in binding to S. exigua (90). Finally, there is one report suggesting a biotin-binding activity for domain III (99), although a role for this activity in receptor binding has not been demonstrated directly.
Membrane Insertion
Mutations in domain I have been shown to affect the ability of the
toxin to dissociate from the binding complex. Wu and Aronson (419) created several mutations in domain I of Cry1Ac. The
A92D and R93G mutations (at the base of 3)
dramatically reduced toxicity to M. sexta. A loss of
toxicity by the A92D mutation was also observed in Cry1Aa
and Cry1Ab. A series of substitution residues at the 92 and 93 positions revealed that at position 92 only a negatively charged
residue caused a loss of toxicity. Any substitution of R93
except the positively charged Lys caused a loss of toxicity. The
authors concluded that a positively charged surface is important for
toxicity. Chen et al. (67) repeated the mutation at the A92 position in Cry1Ab with A92E. In agreement
with Wu and Aronson's result (419), toxicity was almost
completely lost. Although competition binding of the mutant toxin to
M. sexta was not affected, irreversible binding was severely
disrupted. Chen et al. (67) further demonstrated that
Y153 mutations (at the loop between the bottoms of 4 and 5, on the same surface as A92E) introducing a negative
charge had a negative effect on membrane insertion.
In summary, binding studies reveal three types of mutants. Certain mutations in domain II (A mutants) affect competition but not dissociation. Examples are Cry1Ab 368RRP370 (309) and Cry1Ab loop 3 mutations F440A and G439A (310). Certain other mutations in domain II (B mutants) affect dissociation but not competition. Examples are Cry1Ab F371A (and most other substitutions except Trp) and G439A (307). In domain I, certain mutations (C mutants) affect insertion of toxin into the membrane. The distinction between B and C mutants may be arbitrary; it assumes different functions for domains I and II, a point still lacking definitive proof. Examples of C mutants are Cry1Ac A92D or R93G (419) and Cry1Ab A92E or Y153D (67). In the above cases, all of these effects were observed in the same toxin (Cry1Ab) and insect (M. sexta) system. Cry3A loop 3 mutants have also been described in which effects on both competition and dissociation were observed (422).
Masson et al. (256) describe differences in off rates for two Cry1Ac toxins that differ in three residues: L366F, F439S, and a deletion of D442. While these differences might be due to other causes, it is interesting that position 366 and positions 439 to 442 occur in loops 2 and 3, respectively. Wells (402) describes human growth hormone mutants in which alanine substitution of positively charged residues affects on rates, and other alanine-scanning mutants in large hydrophobic residues affect off rates. A similar pattern is observed in the Cry toxin mutations of the receptor binding loops. Positive residues may be involved in long-range orientation of the toxin to the receptor, affecting the on rate. In some cases, large hydrophobic residues were involved in tight binding, and their mutants affected the off rate; in other cases, mutations in large hydrophobic residues affected competition binding (that is, on rates).
Ion Channel Activity
The ion channel activity of Cry toxins has been explored by a wide
variety of techniques. The toxin has been studied with complete
proteins, with domain I in isolation, with synthetic peptides mimicking
particular -helices, and with mutants that disrupt ion channel
function.
Considerable work has been reported on the effects of Cry toxins on
insect tissue culture cells. Work with CF-1 cells has led to the
colloidal osmotic lysis model for the cytolytic activity of Cry toxins
(187). This model proposes that an influx of water, along
with ions, results in cell swelling and eventually lysis. When exposed
to microgram amounts of activated toxin, cells leaked a variety of
electrolytes tested, including CrO42,
uridine, and Rb+. Under these conditions, then, Cry toxins
form a nonspecific pore. Wolfersberger (412) lists the
problems that arise from experiments with established cell cultures.
The cells are normally maintained at a pH of 6.8not the basic pH
found in the lumen of many insect midguts. They lack normal midgut
receptors (161) and do not respond as specifically to toxins
as does the whole insect (410). They are tolerant to nearly
1,000-fold-greater levels of toxin than insects under physiological
conditions (187). From experiments on tissue culture cells
it is clear, however, that Cry toxins have a fairly general capacity to
insert into membranes and form large, nonspecific pores under certain
conditions, including high-toxin concentrations, long incubation times,
and relatively low pHs.
Several techniques have been employed to study the ion channel activity of the B. thuringiensis Cry proteins. Harvey and Wolfersberger (153) used electrophysiological analysis of sections of whole midgut of M. sexta to measure short circuit current inhibition (ISC). The mechanism of ISC is explained in the excellent review by Wolfersberger (412). Results of recent studies (67, 68), using nanomolar concentrations of toxin, have supported the validity of the voltage clamping technique as an assessment of Cry toxin activity correlating well with bioassays.
Several groups have examined Cry toxin ion channel activity in planar lipid bilayer (PLB) systems. Slatin et al. (348) examined Cry1Ac and Cry3A in PLB membranes of various compositions and found that toxins formed cation-selective channels. Cry1Ac ion channels exhibited multiple opening and closing states (indicating more than one single-channel conductance level or cooperative gating). Cry1Ac channels were commonly 600 pS in size (in 300 mM KCl), while Cry3A formed larger channels of 4,000 pS. Channels did not form at pH 7 but did form at pH 9.7.
In a pivotal paper on Cry protein ion channel activity, Schwartz et al.
(338) reported a pH effect on the type and size of ion
channels made by Cry1C in PLBs. Under alkaline conditions (pH 9.5),
cationic channels of 100 to 200 pS were formed, exhibiting multiple
conductance states. Under acidic conditions (pH 6.0), anionic channels
of different sizes (8 to 120 pS) were observed. These channels were
inhibited by zinc added to the cis chamber, but not to the
trans chamber, indicating directionality of the channel. The
authors note that behavior of the toxins at pH 6 is similar to that
recorded in native membranes of cultured insect cells (grown at pH 6.3)
(337). This observation may clarify the nonselectivity of
Cry proteins on cultured insect cells (187). The physical
basis of pH-dependent selectivity may be related to the observation
that -helical content, as measured by circular dichroism, changes
radically with pH (72, 111, 189). It is speculated that pH
can alter the pitch or arrangement of the -helices of domain I and
change the nature of the ion channel. In general, the role of pH in ion
specificity is thought to be by titration of charged amino acids lining
the aqueous pore, but pH changes on Cry channels have global effects on
ion specificity and pore size.
Channel formation in PLBs has also been observed with N-terminal
fragments (essentially domain I) of Cry1Ac (399) and Cry3Bb (398), and with 5 helix peptides of Cry1Ac
(80) and Cry3A (127, 128). The 7 helix alone
did not form channels, but in the presence of the 5 helix it
assembled and penetrated membranes better than did 5 complexes alone
(126). Channels formed by the 5 helix, unlike those
formed by full-length toxins, are small (60 pS) and hemolytic
(127) and prefer acidic phospholipid vesicles (80,
127). The channels formed with Cry1Ac N-terminal fragments differed from those formed by whole toxins in having only a single conductance state, being less cation selective, and showing no toxicity
to whole insects. They did, however, have similar conductance levels
(200 to 600 pS). They also exhibited twice the Rb+ efflux
from phospholipid vesicles as did full-length toxins (399). In contrast, N-terminal fragments of Cry3Bb were quantitatively similar
to the full-length toxin, but exhibited less Rb+ efflux
than full-length toxins with phospholipid vesicles. In summary, these
results show qualitative support for the model that domain I
constitutes, or at least participates in, the ion channel.
Domain III has also been reported to play a role in ion channel
activity. Chen et al. (68) analyzed an alternating arginine region in -sheet 17 (conserved block 4), a sequence superficially similar to the positively charged face on the S-4 helix in classical ion channels. While alteration of the central arginines caused structural alterations in Cry1Aa, conservative substitutions of the
outermost arginines were stable and led to reduction of activity, as
measured by bioassays and by voltage clamping of M. sexta
midgut sections. These altered toxins were also examined by the BBMV permeability-light scattering assay (414) and in lipid
bilayers for conductance (336). Both methods detect an
alteration of ion channel activity caused by these conservative
alterations in this -sheet of domain III.
Reconstitution systems involving BBMV fused with lipid bilayers have been recently reported from two laboratories. Martin and Wolfersberger (254) measured Cry1Ac channels in PLBs that were fused with M. sexta BBMV. The addition of 1.5 nM of toxin resulted in very large channels (>260 nS) at pH 9.6. The smallest toxin-dependent increase in conductance was 13 nS, which may represent a single membrane pore. Thus, these channels were capable of very large changes in conductance state (in 13-nS increments) but were never observed to close. Channel behavior was also pH dependent. At pH 8.8, smaller channels of 2 to 3 nS were observed. The authors concluded that pores of the largest size would be 2.2 nm in diameter (more than twice the diameter previously measured in bilayers), and that such differences in properties favor active involvement of BBMV proteins in the pore formation. More recently Carroll and Ellar (62) measured the size changes of M. sexta BBMV in an environment of high osmotic pressure and high Cry1Ac concentrations. The rate of Cry1Ac-induced swelling varied with the radius of the solutes used, allowing for an estimate of Cry1Ac pore size. Under these conditions, large pores were formed (2.4 nm at pH 8.7 and 2.6 nm at pH 9.8).
Lorence et al. (230) also have reported intrinsic ion channels in S. frugiperda BBMV. These cationic channels were small (31, 47, and 76 pS), of low selectivity (permeability relative to K+ is >80% for Na+, Li+, Cs+, Rb+, and NH4+), and were inhibited by standard channel blockers. The addition of Cry1C or Cry1D toxin resulted in large cationic channels of 50, 106, and 360 pS that showed greater K+ selectivity but were not exclusively K+ channels. The Cry1D channels formed in whole S. frugiperda BBMV were reported to be blocked by Ba+ and Ca2+ and less so by triethanolamine, in agreement with an earlier report on the blocking of inhibition of ISC on M. sexta midguts (77). These experiments were performed at pH 9.0; no anionic channels were observed under these conditions. The latter result differs from light scattering results from M. sexta BBMV with Cry1Ac at pH 7.5 (61). Interestingly, while the insecticidal activity against first-instar S. frugiperda for Cry1C was greater than that for Cry1D, the channel-forming activities for Cry1C and Cry1D on BBMV taken from second-instar larvae were equal and that for Cry1C was less than that for Cry1D on BBMV from fifth-instar larvae. Clearly the fused BBMV-lipid bilayer studies raise interesting questions and open new avenues for understanding Cry toxin action.
Mutants with Enhanced Activity
A primary goal of protein engineering of the Cry proteins is to
create better pesticides through rational design. A few examples of
this effort are now starting to appear. A mutation (H168R) in helix 5 of Cry1Ac, domain I, caused a twofold increase in toxicity against M. sexta (419). Further
characterization of this mutant (165) revealed that the
increased toxicity was correlated with the rate of irreversible binding
(kobs). Jellis et al. (171) have also
described multiple mutations in domain I that increased toxicity;
however, the mechanism of action of these mutants has not been
addressed. An R204A mutation in domain I of Cry4B resulted in a threefold increase in activity against mosquitoes, perhaps by
removing a site of proteolytic instability (16).
Several mutations in domain II have led to increased toxicity. Loop 3 (481MQGSRG486) of domain II Cry3A was mutated
to alanines, and a 2.4-fold increase in toxicity against Tenebrio
molitor was observed (422). An increase in irreversible
binding was correlated with this increase in toxicity. Other mutations
in loop 1 of Cry3A have significantly improved toxicity against
T. molitor (11.4-fold); Chrysomela scripta,
cottonwood leaf beetle (2.5-fold); and Leptinotarsa decemlineata, Colorado potato beetle (1.9-fold) (423).
An increase in irreversible binding was correlated with the increase in
toxicity for these mutants as well. In Cry1Ab, a combination of
mutations in the 8 loop and loop 2 resulted in a 32-fold increase in
toxicity to L. dispar over the background gene product and a
4-fold improvement over the previously best-known gene product (Cry1Aa)
(308). The mechanism of increase in toxicity is correlated
to improvement in initial binding affinity in this case.
In summary, the B. thuringiensis Cry protein behaves as a bona fide ion channel in lipid bilayers and in the midgut epithelium. As such it represents one of the few ion channels that has a known structure. The contradictory results and confusion concerning the selectivity and size of the pore may be due to the range of experimental conditions employed but more importantly may reflect the adaptability of the toxin to different physiological conditions which exist in its functional environments. In the alkaline midgut, the toxin may function as a cation channel (338), taking advantage of the large K+ gradient that exists in some insect midgut environments. As the pH falls due to cell lysis or leakage, the toxin may function as an anion channel (338), further wounding the epithelial cells. In large amounts, the Cry protein may form very large leakage pores, resulting in cell lysis and disruption of the midgut epithelium. Continued intensive research effort, now under way, will clarify the mechanism of action of the Cry proteins.
Effect of Synergistic Interactions on Toxin Potency
B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis. Wu and Chang (420) were the first to observe that when protein fractions from the purified inclusion body of B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis were mixed and assayed against A. aegypti larvae, the activity of some combinations was greater than would have been expected from the activity of the individual fractions. Other reports followed, confirming synergistic interactions among various toxins of B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (15, 64, 70, 78, 85, 303, 421). In evaluating these studies, it is difficult to establish the precise contribution of each toxin (either alone or in combination) towards the overall toxicity of the inclusion. Part of the problem is the large variation in reported toxicities for individual toxins, probably due to differences in experimental conditions. Complicating factors include host-dependent differences in the size, quality, and solubility of crystals among the various expression systems used (15); differences in presenting the proteins to the larvae (soluble or reprecipitated form); variation in bioassay conditions, including larval age and diet; and natural variation in insect populations (317).
A recent study (78) attempted to overcome these problems by assaying the toxins under constant experimental conditions. From these data, it can be deduced that the order of relative activities of the individual toxins against A. aegypti larvae (based on the 50% lethal concentration [LC50]) is (from greatest to least) Cry11A, Cry4B, Cry4A, and Cyt1A. Synergistic interactions were demonstrated with all combinations of toxins used, although the extent of this interaction was dependent on the combination. No combination, however, was as active as was the native B. thuringiensis var. israelensis inclusion. There might be additional factors important for toxicity associated with the native crystal. It is also possible that native crystals might be ingested or solubilized more efficiently than those from the recombinant strains are. Additionally, the presentation of all four toxins in a single crystal might be more efficient than a mixture of four inclusions. In an alternative approach to study the relative contributions of the B. thuringiensis var. israelensis toxins to the overall toxicity, strains have been made in which either the cry11A gene or the cyt1A gene were genetically inactivated. The effect of inactivating cry11A (301) was to halve the toxicity of the resulting strain to A. aegypti larvae. In contrast, inactivating the cyt1A gene (84) produced a strain with similar toxicity to the native strain, suggesting that Cyt1A was not essential for mosquitocidal activity. In interpreting those results, however, one should keep in mind the relative activities of the individual toxins (78). If the crystals produced by the cyt1A null mutant contain relatively greater proportions of the more active toxins than those found in wild-type crystals, one would expect the mutant strain to be considerably more toxic than the wild-type strain. The fact that the presence of Cyt1A in crystals does not dilute their potency suggests that this protein is indeed an important component of the B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis mosquitocidal arsenal. As such, Cyt1A may provide a redundant set of synergistic interactions. Little is known about the mechanism of this synergistic interaction. A comparison of the dose-response curves for the individual B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis toxins (78) shows a clear difference between Cyt1A and the Cry toxins. Thus, Cyt1A may act in a different way than the Cry toxins. Cyt1A has a completely different structure than the Cry toxins (223) and appears to interact with a different type of receptor (375). Ravoahangimalala and Charles (312) found that Cyt1A, when added alone to midgut tissue sections of Anopheles gambiae, bound to the microvilli of all midgut and anterior stomach cells (with the exception of the peritrophic membrane-secreting cardia cells). In contrast, the Cry toxins bound only weakly to anterior stomach cells. When the complete set of B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis toxins were added to insects in vivo, Cyt1A was not found to be bound to the anterior stomach cells (313). Although this negative result could have been an artifact, it might also represent a strong association between the Cry and Cyt toxins that could form the basis of a synergistic interaction. An additional consequence of this synergism is discussed under "Resistance Management" below. Much of the work discussed above was concerned with activity against A. aegypti larvae. Synergism has also been established between different toxin combinations against both Culex pipiens and Anopheles stephensi (85, 303).Other B. thuringiensis strains. Synergistic interactions between toxins other than those from B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis were reported in 1991 by van Frankenhuyzen et al. (393). Interactions were observed between the individual Cry1 toxins of HD-1 against a number of forest-defoliating insects. The data presented in that report (393) were later reevaluated by Tabashnik (363), who applied a more rigorous mathematical treatment to the toxicity data and concluded that synergism could not, in fact, be satisfactorily demonstrated. Recently, however, synergism has been observed between Cry1 proteins. The relative toxicities of Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab, and Cry1Ac against L. dispar and B. mori were investigated in force-feeding experiments (207). While synergism was observed between Cry1Aa and Cry1Ac for L. dispar by using the mathematical approach of Tabashnik (363), an antagonistic effect was exhibited between Cry1Aa and Cry1Ab. No synergistic effect on B. mori was observed with any toxin combination. The authors also noted that synergistic interactions were observed both in the bioassay and in ISC. The authors speculated that the pores formed by different toxins act in a cooperative way or that a more efficient pore is formed from a hetero-oligomer of different toxins. The presence of certain toxins might enhance the activity of another by preventing nonproductive binding. Whatever the actual mechanism, it is clear that the interaction is insect specific, a fact that may reflect differences in receptor affinities for each toxin.
In addition to synergistic interactions between different toxins, similar potentiating effects on toxicity have been observed between certain toxins and spores (85, 100, 173, 271, 273, 372) and also between toxins and other bacteria (100). In each case, septicemia caused by the spores or bacteria infecting the insect, whose midgut has become ulcerated as a result of the toxin, is believed to be the cause of this observed synergism. In addition, the presence of the B. thuringiensis spore with the Cry proteins may even reduce the likelihood of insect resistance development in some instances (272).BIOTECHNOLOGY OF B. THURINGIENSIS
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Application of Cry Proteins for Pest Control and Plant Protection
B. thuringiensis is now the most widely used biologically produced pest control agent. In 1995, worldwide sales of B. thuringiensis were projected at $90 million (353), representing about 2% of the total global insecticide market (199). Rowe et al. (322) reported that the annual worldwide distribution of B. thuringiensis amounts to 2.3 × 106 kg. As of early 1998, there were nearly 200 registered B. thuringiensis products in the United States (Table 2) (381). While the use of biological pesticides in agriculture remains significantly behind that of synthetic chemical pesticides, several environmental and safety considerations favor the future development of B. thuringiensis. Cry proteins that have been studied thus far are not pathogenic to mammals, birds, amphibians, or reptiles, but are very specific to the groups of insects and invertebrate pests against which they have activity. Cry-based pesticides generally have low costs for development and registration. B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis, for example, had a development cost estimated at 1/40 that of a comparable novel synthetic chemical pesticide (32). Finally, the mode of action for the Cry proteins differs completely from the modes of action of known synthetic chemical pesticides, making Cry proteins key components of integrated pest management strategies aimed at preserving natural enemies of pests and managing insect resistance.
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Forestry
The transfer of emphasis to environmentally friendly pesticides that have minimal effects on natural enemies of Lepidoptera (14) has already begun in the forests of the United States, where B. thuringiensis has become the major pesticide used against the gypsy moth (239). B. thuringiensis products for the forest industry have been based primarily on B. thuringiensis HD-1 subsp. kurstaki (102), which produces Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab, Cry1Ac, and Cry2Aa toxins. The gypsy moth is by no means the only forest pest that can be controlled successfully with B. thuringiensis (392, 393). Currently targeted pests include the spruce budworm (Canada), the nun moth (Poland), the Asian gypsy moth (United States, Canada, and the Far East), the pine processionary moth (Spain and France), and the European pine shoot moth (South America) (46).
Control of Mosquitoes and Blackflies
Since its discovery in 1977 (136), B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis has proved to be one of the most effective and potent biological pesticides (for reviews, see references 32 and 81). Its discovery came at an auspicious moment because of the mounting resistance of mosquitoes and blackflies to synthetic chemical pesticides. Five B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis cry and cyt genes encode dipteran-active toxins: cry4A, cry4B, cry10A, cry11A, and cyt1A (cytolysin). In addition, the Cyt1A cytolysin may synergize the activity of other Cry toxins (see "Effect of synergistic interactions on toxin potency"). These five genes are all found on a large plasmid of about 72 MDa that can be transferred to other B. thuringiensis strains by a conjugation-like process (137). Interestingly, this same set of toxins has also been discovered in isolates from several other B. thuringiensis serotypes (286), suggesting that the conjugation process analyzed in the laboratory may have environmental significance for horizontal transfer of cry genes among B. thuringiensis populations.
Given the severe impact of mosquito- and blackfly-borne human diseases, there is considerable interest in identifying additional dipteran-active toxins. Mosquitocidal activity has been reported for Cry2Aa (408), Cry1Ab (150, 151), and Cry1Ca (352). The cytolytic Cyt1A and Cyt2A crystal proteins also show some degree of dipteran specificity in vivo (191). New mosquitocidal cry genes have also been recently reported (e.g., cry11B and cry16A [85]), as well as several new isolates containing uncharacterized cry genes with mosquitocidal activity (289, 306). A surprising source of additional Cry-related mosquitocidal proteins is the bacterium C. bifermentans subsp. malaysia (23, 82), the toxins of which we have designated Cry17A, Cry18A, and Cry19A in the accompanying paper (79).
Developing New Cry Biopesticides Based on B. thuringiensis
B. thuringiensis has evolved to produce large
quantities of crystal proteins (for reviews, see references
8 and 30), making it a logical
host for developing improved Cry biopesticides. Natural isolates of
B. thuringiensis can produce several different crystal
proteins, each of which may exhibit different, perhaps even
undesirable, target specificity (164, 199). On the other hand, certain combinations of Cry proteins have been shown to exhibit
synergistic effects (64, 78, 207, 303, 421). Accordingly, genetic manipulation of B. thuringiensisto create
combinations of genes more useful for a given purpose than those known
to occur in natural isolatesmay be desirable.
A conjugation-like system has been used to transfer Cry-encoding plasmids from one strain to another (137), but most cry genes are not readily transmissible by this process. Nevertheless, a number of transconjugant and naturally occurring strains producing Cry proteins distinct from those of B. thuringiensis HD-1 subsp. kurstaki, including strains of B. thuringiensis subsp. aizawai and B. thuringiensis subsp. morrisoni, have been registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
A breakthrough development for engineering B. thuringiensis
and B. cereus came in 1989 when several groups independently
applied electroporation technology to transform vegetative cells with plasmid DNA (34, 42, 214, 246, 259, 333). These protocols differed in cell preparation methods, buffer components, and electric pulse parameters, but each could achieve frequencies of 102
to 105 transformants per µg of plasmid DNA with a wide
variety of hosts and vectors. Macaluso and Mettus (238)
added the important observation that some B. thuringiensis
strains restrict methylated DNA. Plasmid DNA isolated from
Bacillus megaterium or Dcm strains of E. coli transformed B. thuringiensis with much higher frequencies than did DNA isolated from B. subtilis or
Dcm+ strains of E. coli. Their data also
provided evidence that several restriction systems exist within the
B. thuringiensis species. The use of unmethylated DNA with
the Macaluso and Mettus protocol allows transformation frequencies as
high as 3 × 106 to be achieved.
A variety of shuttle vectors, some employing B. thuringiensis plasmid replicons (17, 28, 63, 122), has been used to introduce cloned cry genes into B. thuringiensis (124). Alternatively, integrational vectors have been used to insert cry genes by homologous recombination into resident plasmids (2, 219) or the chromosome (176). Plasmid vector systems employing B. thuringiensis site-specific recombination systems have been developed to construct recombinant B. thuringiensis strains for new bioinsecticide products (26, 29, 325, 326).
Homologous recombination has been used to create null mutants in vivo. Applications of this technique have included disruptions of cry and cyt genes to assess their contribution to pesticidal activity (85, 301) and inactivation of protease production genes to increase crystal production and stability (97, 370). Recent progress in understanding cry gene expression has allowed the construction of asporogenous B. thuringiensis strains that nevertheless produce crystals; these crystals remain encapsulated in the mother cell compartment (48, 213). Much remains unclear about the fate of naked Cry toxins in the environment, although they appear to be quite sensitive to degradation by natural soil microbes (404). It is a plausible but untested hypothesis that encapsulation within the mother cell can improve toxin persistence in sprayed applications.
Alternative Delivery Systems for Cry Proteins
Crystal genes were introduced into E. coli, B. subtilis, B. megaterium, and Pseudomonas fluorescens long before there was an efficient transformation system available for B. thuringiensis (for a review, see reference 124). Fermentations of recombinant pseudomonads have been used to produce concentrated aqueous biopesticide formulations consisting of Cry inclusions encapsulated in dead cells. These encapsulated forms of the Cry proteins have been reported to show improved persistence in the environment (121). Fermentations of pseudomonads producing different Cry proteins can be combined in a single formulation to expand the range of target insects controlled. The production or activity of certain Cry proteins in P. fluorescens has been improved by the use of chimeric cry genes containing a substantial portion of the Cry1Ab carboxyl-terminal region (376, 377). It is anticipated that engineered forms of the Cry proteins showing improved potency or yield, regardless of their host, will make Cry biopesticides a more attractive and practical alternative to synthetic chemical control agents.
The primary rationale for using live endophytic or epiphytic bacteria as hosts is to prolong the persistence of Cry proteins in the field by using a host that can propagate itself at the site of feeding and continue to produce crystal protein. The cry1Ac gene, for example, has been introduced into the endophytic bacterium Clavibacter xyli on an integrative plasmid (201), and the resulting recombinant strain has been used to inoculate corn for the control of European corn borer infestation (380). Endophytic isolates of B. cereus have been used as hosts for the cry2Aa gene (245), and a B. megaterium isolate that persists in the phyllosphere (43) has been used as a host for cry1A genes. Similarly, cry genes have been transferred into other plant colonizers, including Azospirillum spp., Rhizobium leguminosarum, Pseudomonas cepacia, and P. fluorescens (281, 282, 347, 361, 384). Alternative delivery systems have also been sought for the dipteran-active toxins of B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis to increase their persistence in the aquatic feeding zone. Such hosts include Bacillus sphaericus (22, 302), Caulobacter crescentus (374), and the cyanobacteria Agmenellum quadruplicatum (359) and Synechococcus spp. (355).
Expression of B. thuringiensis cry Genes in Plants
Several cry genes have been introduced into plants, starting with tobacco (24, 387) and now including many major crop species (5, 120, 193, 278, 294, 296, 391). Because this subject has been well reviewed in recent years (107, 290), we will limit our discussion to a few important points.
When unmodified crystal protein genes are fused with expression signals used in the plant nucleus, protein production is quite poor compared to that of similar transcription units containing typical plant marker genes (390). Nucleus-directed expression of full-length unmodified genes has been reported for some plants (114, 115). However, truncation of the unmodified genes to synthesize only the toxic portion of the protein typically results in much improved, but still comparatively low, expression (24, 114, 387).
The relatively A+T-rich Bacillus DNA contains a number of sequences that could provide signals deleterious to gene expression in plants, such as splice sites, poly(A) addition sites, ATTTA sequences, mRNA degradation signals, and transcription termination sites, as well as a codon usage biased away from that used in plants. When the Bacillus sequences are extensively modified, with synonymous codons to reduce or eliminate the potentially deleterious sequences and generate a codon bias more like that of a plant, expression improves dramatically (5, 120, 193, 294, 296). In some cases, less extensive changes in the coding region have also led to fairly dramatic increases in expression (295, 390, 391). The study of van Aarssen et al. (390) is noteworthy in that it points to fortuitous splicing signals in the Bacillus coding region as being a significant barrier to expression of cry1Ab in plants. In contrast to expression from the nucleus, an unmodified cry1Ac gene was expressed at very high levels in the chloroplasts of tobacco (260).
The year 1996 marked a milestone in agricultural biotechnology: for the first time, varieties of potato, cotton, and corn containing modified cry genes were sold to growers. The production of Cry proteins in planta can offer several benefits. Because the toxins are produced continuously and apparently persist for some time in plant tissue (345, 346), fewer applications of other insecticides are needed, reducing field management costs. Like B. thuringiensis-based biopesticides, such "enhanced seed systems" are less harmful to the environment than synthetic chemical insecticides and typically do not affect beneficial (e.g., predatory and parasitic) insects. The plant delivery system also expands the range of pests targeted for control with Cry proteins, including sucking and boring insects, root-dwelling insects, and nematodes.
In addition to concerns regarding the development of natural resistance towards the B. thuringiensis toxins, the impact of gene flow to wild relatives needs to be assessed. Preliminary experiments documented the possibility of cross hybridization among members of the family Brassicaceae and an increased survivorship of Brassica napus with a B. thuringiensis transgene under certain conditions (360). From these data it could be inferred that transgenic B. napus may transfer its insecticidal B. thuringiensis gene into wild relatives (360). However, analysis with respect to the stable inheritance and expression of the insect-resistant phenotype in the offspring of any such hybrids is needed to determine the likelihood and impact of such a transfer.
Insect Resistance to B. thuringiensis Toxins
Laboratory-selected strains. Over 500 species of insects have become resistant to one or multiple synthetic chemical insecticides (132). In the past it was hoped that insects would not develop resistance to B. thuringiensis toxins, since B. thuringiensis and insects have coevolved. Starting in the mid-1980s, however, a number of insect populations of several different species with different levels of resistance to B. thuringiensis crystal proteins were obtained by laboratory selection experiments, using either laboratory-adapted insects or insects collected from wild populations (112, 364). The degree of resistance observed in an insect population is typically expressed as the resistance ratio (number of LC50-resistant insects/number of LC50-sensitive insects), and while resistance ratios determined by different types of bioassay are correlated, they are known to give different values (293), so that some care is required in comparing results. Examples of laboratory-selected insects resistant to individual Cry toxins include the Indianmeal moth (Plodia interpunctella) (262), the almond moth (Cadra cautella) (263), the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) (406), the cottonwood leaf beetle (C. scripta) (25), the cabbage looper (T. ni) (106), the cotton leafworm (Spodoptera littoralis) (276), the beet armyworm (S. exigua) (272), the tobacco budworm (H. virescens) (145, 210, 362), the European corn borer (O. nubilalis) (41), and the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus (133). Instances of resistance discussed in the text below are summarized in Table 3.
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Field-selected strains. The first case of field-selected resistance to B. thuringiensis was reported from Hawaii, where populations of diamondback moth (P. xylostella) showed different levels of susceptibility to a formulated B. thuringiensis product (Dipel). Populations from heavily treated areas proved more resistant than populations treated at lower levels, with the highest level of resistance at 30-fold (365). Laboratory selection rapidly increased resistance to >1,000-fold (366). A study of the resistance mechanism showed a reduced binding of the Cry1Ac protein to gut BBMV (365). However, immunohistochemical (105) and surface plasmon resonance (257) analyses demonstrated the presence of at least some receptor molecules on the midgut of this resistant insect strain. The resistance trait is conferred largely by a single autosomal recessive locus (367, 368). This "Hawaii" resistance allele simultaneously confers cross-resistance to Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab, Cry1Ac, Cry1Fa, and Cry1Ja but not to Cry1Ba, Cry1Bb, Cry1Ca, Cry1Da, Cry1Ia, or Cry2Aa (369). At least one Cry1A-resistant diamondback moth strain has been shown to be very susceptible to Cry9C (198). The toxins in the cross-resistance group have significant amino acid sequence similarity in domain II, a region believed to be important for receptor binding in many systems (see "Mechanism of Action"). Furthermore, Cry1Aa, Cry1Ac (21), and Cry1F (146), but not Cry1B or Cry1C (113), compete for the Cry1Ab binding site in P. xylostella, observations that clearly correspond to the cross-resistance data. A phenotypically similar resistant strain collected in Pennsylvania carries a resistance allele at the same multitoxin resistance locus (368).
A P. xylostella strain collected in Florida showed very high resistance to a B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki formulation and low-level resistance to B. thuringiensis subsp. aizawai (341). The strain has been estimated to have >200-fold resistance to Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab, and Cry1Ac and 60-fold resistance to the HD-1 spore but near wild-type sensitivity to Cry1B, Cry1C, and Cry1D. Binding of Cry1Ab, but not Cry1B, was reduced with midgut tissue sections and native BBMV prepared from the resistant strain (372). The existence of a single-locus resistance allele with autosomal, incompletely recessive inheritance best fits the genetic data for B. thuringiensis var. kurstaki resistance in this strain (371). A simple and plausible explanation is that the multitoxin resistance locus altered in the Hawaii and Pennsylvania strains is also affected in the Florida population, but this possibility has not been tested. The resistance phenotype was not associated with any fitness costs and, after an initial decrease in resistance during the first three generations, remained stable at a high level even in the absence of selection (371). Diamondback moth populations with a similar resistance phenotypehigh-level resistance to B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki formulations and
low-level resistance to B. thuringiensis subsp.
aizawaihave also been isolated in Indonesia
(341), Malaysia (167), Central America
(292), and several states within the continental United
States (341). Data are insufficient, however, to compare
these strains to the resistant Hawaii, Pennsylvania, or Florida
populations in stability, inheritance, or mechanism of resistance.
A field population of diamondback moths from the Philippines showed
partial resistance to Cry1Aa, Cry1Ab, and Cry1Ac, but full sensitivity
to Cry1C, Cry1F, and Cry1J (368). Binding to resistant-strain BBMV was reduced for Cry1Ab but apparently unaffected for Cry1Aa, Cry1Ac, or Cry1C. Interestingly, the Cry1Ab
single-resistance phenotype appeared to be due to an autosomal,
recessive mutation at the multitoxin resistance locus implicated in the
resistant Hawaii and Pennsylvania strains, although the Philippines
allele conferred no cross-resistance. Inheritance of resistances to
Cry1Aa and Cry1Ac was expressed in an autosomal dominant and
semidominant fashion, respectively, at the test dose employed
(368). Cry1Ab binding was also implicated in the resistance
mechanism of a strain isolated earlier from the same region of the
Philippines (49, 113), although the cross-resistance
phenotypes and inheritance patterns of this earlier isolate were not
rigorously analyzed.
Resistance to B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki
products and resulting failure in diamondback moth control has resulted
in extensive use of B. thuringiensis subsp.
aizawai-based insecticides in certain locations. Insects in
two colonies from Hawaii have up to a 20-fold resistance to Cry1Ca
compared to several other colonies, including one obtained earlier from
the same location, as well as moderately high resistance to Cry1Ab and
kurstaki subspecies-based formulations (228).
Following additional selection in the laboratory, Cry1Ca resistance
increased to 60-fold over control levels. The Cry1C resistance trait
was shown to segregate independently from the Cry1Ab resistance
determinant, behaving as an additive autosomal trait, appearing
recessive at high test doses of toxin and dominant at low test doses
(227).
A Malaysian strain simultaneously highly resistant to the
kurstaki subspecies and the aizawai subspecies
was apparently mutated in several loci (418). A Cry1Ab
resistance allele, associated with reduced binding to BBMV receptors,
was partially responsible for resistance to both subspecies. In
contrast, binding of Cry1Aa, Cry1Ac, and Cry1C showed no gross
alterations compared with BBMV from the sensitive strain. Genetic
determinants responsible for subspecies kurstaki-specific
and subspecies aizawai-specific resistance segregated
separately from each other and from the Cry1Ab resistance allele in
genetic experiments (418).
These studies suggest that a single locus, perhaps encoding a common
receptor for many of the Cry1A toxins, can mutate to multitoxin
resistance in P. xylostella. A different type of mutation at
the same locus might alter the binding site for Cry1Ab, while leaving
binding sites for other toxins on the same receptor unaffected. Unlinked loci affecting other events in toxicity, either before or
after the binding step, can mutate to provide specific resistance to
other Cry toxins. Additional studies along the lines of that conducted
by Tabashnik et al. (368), using other resistant strains, are urgently needed to clarify the genetic and mechanistic picture.
It is clear, however, that the case history of P. xylostella
presents a cautionary tale for the use of B. thuringiensis
and its toxins in agriculture. After less than 2 decades of intensive subspecies kurstaki use in crucifer agriculture, resistant
insects have evolved in numerous geographically isolated regions of the world, and subspecies aizawai resistance is beginning to
appear even more rapidly. Injudicious use of Cry toxins could rapidly render them ineffective against other major crop pests, squandering a
precious resource at a time when synthetic organic pesticides are
already increasingly ineffective. Various alleles showing cross-resistance, dominant inheritance, or stability in the absence of
selection have been detected in resistant field lines of P. xylostella, phenomena with far-reaching implications for
resistance management. These observations underscore a critical need
for increased emphasis and funding on an international scale for all aspects of Cry toxin research.
Resistance Management
Resistance management strategies try to prevent or diminish the selection of the rare individuals carrying resistance genes and hence to keep the frequency of resistance genes sufficiently low for insect control. Strategy development generally relies heavily on theoretical assumptions and on computer models simulating insect population growth under various conditions (12, 141, 168, 250, 320, 321, 364). Proposed strategies include the use of multiple toxins (stacking or pyramiding), crop rotation, high or ultrahigh dosages, and spatial or temporal refugia (265, 364). Only recently have some of the proposed tactics been experimentally evaluated on a small scale (342). Retrospective analysis of resistance development does support the use of refugia (364). It is clear that the real value of the different proposed tactics can only be tested in larger-scale field trials.
It is expected that each pest-crop complex may require a specific implementation of certain resistance management strategies that may have to address the use of both B. thuringiensis sprays and transgenic crops. Experience with transgenic crops expressing cry genes grown under different agronomic conditions is essential to define the requirements of resistance management. It is equally important to design a resistance management strategy acceptable to everyone involved: technology suppliers, seed companies, extension workers, crop consultants, regulators, and, most of all, growers (182).
In transgenic plants, selection pressure could be reduced by restricting the expression of the crystal protein genes to certain tissues of the crop (those most susceptible to pest damage) so that only certain parts of the plant are fully protected, the remainder providing a form of spatial refuge (but see the concerns raised in reference 250). It has been proposed that cotton lines in which cry gene expression is limited to the young bolls may not suffer dramatic yield loss from Heliothis larvae feeding on other plant structures, since cotton plants can compensate for a high degree of pest damage (140). Crystal protein gene expression could be triggered by the feeding of the insect itself in a transgenic plant, with resident cry genes controlled by wound-inducible promoters (291). If plants were to express B. thuringiensis toxin only in response to specific damage thresholds, it might provide a mechanism to diminish toxin exposure to insects. Alternatively, toxin expression could be induced by the application of a chemical (409). In this way, a farmer would have the option to have Cry toxin present in the crops only when insect densities exceed an economic threshold.
Another management option is the rotation of plants or sprays of a particular B. thuringiensis toxin with those having another toxin type that binds to a different receptor. This strategy has potential value when a fitness cost is associated with resistance. Such fitness costs have been reported in P. xylostella lines, in which resistant males have lower mating success than their nonresistant competitors (149). Insects resistant to one Cry toxin type would be at a disadvantage during the next growth season when a different toxin type is used, resulting in a decrease of the frequency of the corresponding resistance gene. Ideally, reversion to susceptibility for this Cry toxin type should occur within the growth season. Tabashnik et al. (365) noticed that revertant diamondback moth populations responded rapidly to reselection and susceptibility was not fully restored.
If transgenic plants can express a cry gene at doses high enough to kill even homozygous resistant insects, that crop will become a nonhost. While such an ultrahigh dose might be impractical with a sprayable product due to high cost, incomplete coverage, toxin breakdown, and plant growth, it may be possible with toxin-engineered plants, taking into account the currently attainable levels of Cry expression in planta (169). For example, a Colorado potato beetle population 100-fold resistant to a Cry3A-containing B. thuringiensis spray could not survive on potato plants expressing the same protein (13, 407). It remains to be seen if a combination of toxins with ultrahigh expression can overcome all homozygous resistance alleles, changing the crops into nonhost plants.
A very attractive resistance management tactic is the combination of a high-dose strategy with the use of refugia (toxin-free areas). The principle is to express Cry toxins at such a dose that nearly all heterozygotic carriers of resistance alleles will be killed. Survivors would most likely mate with the sensitive insects harbored in the nearby refuge. Consequently, a population of homozygous resistant insects would be unlikely to emerge. B. thuringiensis resistance is in fact a recessive trait in at least some insect species (364); with the high levels of expression now attainable in planta (e.g., a dose 50-fold higher than the LC50) (193), and with essentially complete foliar coverage, it may be reasonable to attain nearly total killing of heterozygotes. Indeed, Metz et al. (269) demonstrated that F1 larvae from a cross between a susceptible laboratory P. xylostella colony and a field-resistant colony did not survive on transgenic broccoli expressing Cry1Ac (341). It has been reported that the inclusion of refuge plants in cages with transgenic broccoli plants resulted in slower evolution of resistance in populations of P. xylostella (342). Supporting evidence also comes from selection experiments using B. thuringiensis subsp. aizawai and a diamondback moth population that had evolved resistance to Cry1Ab and Cry1Ca in the field. In these studies, a 10% refuge delayed resistance over a nine-generation test (226). Depending on the crop, refugia may be naturally present or may need to be created by the planting of nontransgenic plots. Refugia should be uncontaminated, and there should be random mating between resistant and nonresistant insects (141). Refugia that are temporally and spatially contiguous with the transgenic crop could fulfill these requirements (118). See the work of Gould (142) for a broader discussion from a perspective of population dynamics and evolution.
A specific planting strategy that has been recommended to reduce selection is the use of seed mixtures of toxin-expressing and toxin-free plants to provide prepackaged refugia. The seed mix strategy, still controversial, would probably only be effective for insect species whose larvae move very little between plants (250, 364) or whose adults acquire a mate visually over a short distance (320).
Another valuable option for resistance management, in combination with the use of refugia, is the expression of multiple Cry proteins in crops or incorporation of multiple proteins in B. thuringiensis sprays, provided these toxins have different modes of action (321) with respect to the insect's mechanism of resistance. Cry toxins that recognize different receptors in the same target species could be deployed in this strategy, since they are less prone to cross-resistance. As noted above, diamondback moth populations resistant to field applications of Cry1A-containing B. thuringiensis formulations showed minimal cross-resistance to other crystal proteins such as Cry1Ba, Cry1Bb, Cry1Ca, Cry1Da, Cry1Ia, Cry2A, and Cry9Ca, while they were cross-resistant to Cry1Fa and Cry1Ja (198, 365, 369, 372). There are several other insect species in which Cry toxins with different receptor specificities are known (93, 105, 113, 163, 198, 394, 395). For many insect species, multiple Cry1A proteins would not be an appropriate choice, since some of these proteins share binding sites with one another (94, 106, 395, 413) and even with other toxins of the Cry1 class (97). Yet for other insects, Cry1A proteins have been shown, at least on ligand blots, to recognize different binding proteins (211, 385, 386, 388). Additionally, B. thuringiensis Cry toxins could be combined with other insecticidal proteins. The multiple-attack strategy assumes that within a population, if insects homozygous for one resistance gene are rare, then insects homozygous for multiple resistance genes are extremely rare. Crops or sprays deploying multiple toxins would still control even insects homozygous for one or two resistance genes yet heterozygous for another gene. A critical condition for the success of this strategy is that each of the insecticides on its own should have high mortality for susceptible homozygotes (321). An example is O. nubilalis, in which Cry1Ab and Cry1Ba, both highly active, bind to different receptors (94). A strong argument for the utility of multiple-gene pyramiding is found in the recent results of Georghiou and Wirth (133). Their field-collected C. quinquefasciatus populations readily developed resistance in the laboratory to a single B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis toxin (Cry11A) but remained remarkably sensitive when selection was with the full complement of toxins from this variety.
Due to the urgent need for a more complete understanding of the parameters of effective resistance management, companies developing B. thuringiensis biopesticidal sprays and transgenic plants formed the B. thuringiensis Management Working Group in 1988 to promote research on the judicious use of B. thuringiensis products. It is hoped that an increased understanding of the complex interplay among Cry toxins, their bacterial hosts, their target organisms, and the ecosystems they share will allow for the long-term, effective use of Cry toxins for pest management.
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The Bacillus Genetic Stock Center is supported by National Science Foundation grant DBI-9319712 and by industrial sponsorships.
We thank Oscar Alzate for preparing the figure showing three-dimensional structures of Cry proteins. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their unusually thorough analyses of our manuscript.
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After this review was accepted for publication, an analysis of the effect of ligand blot conditions on the binding of Cry1A toxins to the cadherin-like 210-kDA receptor from M. sexta was published (T. P. Keaton, B. R. Francis, W. S. A. Maaty, and L. A. Bulla, Jr., Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:2158-2165, 1998). Under a variety of conditions, this cadherin-like protein bound not only Cry1Ab but also Cry1Aa and Cry1Ac, suggesting that it is an important receptor for all three Cry1A proteins.
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry, 484 West Twelfth Ave., Columbus, OH 43210. Phone: (614) 292-8829. Fax: (614) 292-6773. E-mail: dean.10{at}osu.edu.
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