Antimicrobial peptides are not involved in Plutella xylostella resistance to Cry1Ac

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Liao, Wenyu

作者： Liao, Wenyu;Lv, Zhuohong;Zhang, Shisheng;Yang, Zhongxia;Guo, Zhaojiang;Zhang, Youjun

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关键词： antimicrobial peptide; Bacillus thuringiensis; immune system; Plutella xylostella; prokaryotic expression

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY （ 影响因子：2.603； 五年影响因子：2.562 ）

ISSN： 0931-2048

年卷期： 2021 年 145 卷 4 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Previous studies on Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) resistance in the diamondback moth (DBM) Plutella xylostella have often focused on receptor proteins in the gut. In recent years, many studies have indicated that insect resistance to Bt is related to the immune system. Moreover, our group demonstrated that the expression of peptidoglycan recognition protein (PGRP) genes, which are located upstream of the insect humoral immune system signalling pathway, is significantly different between Cry1Ac-resistant and Cry1Ac-susceptible strains of DBM. Thus, whether antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which are the major downstream effectors of the insect humoral immune system signalling pathway, are also related to the resistance of DBMs to Bt is a question worthy of in-depth study. In the present study, we sought to (a) clone the CDS of AMP genes expressed in DBMs and (b) explore the effect of the cloned AMPs on the biological characteristics and Bt resistance of DBMs. Here, we revealed three kinds of AMPs (PxDef, PxMor and PxCec), and each of their full-length CDSs was cloned. The recombinant PxDef, PxMor or PxCec proteins, which were expressed in a prokaryotic expression system, have a significant protective effect on DBMs in response to the complex microbial environment of the outside world but have no significant effect on the resistance of DBMs to Cry1Ac toxin. We believe that AMPs are not suitable as the primary entry point for studying the relationship between the immune system of DBMs and their resistance to Bt. This result will enable investigation of breakthrough ideas for further elucidating the mechanism of Bt impact on the insect immune system.

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