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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 2:19-28, 2003.
© 2003 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Insect Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis

Alterations in the Indianmeal Moth Larval Gut Proteome^*

Mehmet Candas^,, Olga Loseva, Brenda Oppert^¶, Pradeepa Kosaraju and Lee A. Bulla, Jr.^,,||

Biological Targets, Inc., Tioga, Texas 76271
Center for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083
^¶ United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grain Marketing and Production Research Center, Manhattan, Kansas 66502

Insect resistance to the Cry toxins of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has been examined previously using a number of traditional biochemical and molecular techniques. In this study, we utilized a proteomic approach involving two-dimensional differential gel electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, and function-based activity profiling to examine changes in the gut proteins from the larvae of an Indianmeal moth (IMM, Plodia interpunctella) colony exhibiting resistance to Bt. We found a number of changes in the levels of certain specific midgut proteins that indicate increased glutathione utilization, elevation in oxidative metabolism, and differential maintenance of energy balance within the midgut epithelial cells of the Bt-resistant IMM larva. Additionally, the electrophoretic migration pattern of a low molecular mass acidic protein, which apparently is an ortholog of F₁F₀-ATPase, was considerably altered in the Bt-resistant insect indicating that variations in amino acid content or modifications of certain proteins also are important components of the resistance phenomenon in the IMM. Furthermore, there was a dramatic decrease in the level of chymotrypsin-like proteinase in the midgut of the Bt-resistant larva, signifying that reduction of chymotrypsin activity, and subsequently decreased activation of Cry toxin in the insect midgut, is an important factor in the resistant state of the IMM. The proteomic analysis of larval gut proteins utilized in this study provides a useful approach for consolidating protein changes and physiological events associated with insect resistance to Bt. Our results support the hypothesis that physiological adaptation of insects and resistance to Bt is multifaceted, including protein modification and changes in the synthesis of specific larval gut proteins. We believe that increased oxidative metabolism may be an adaptive response of insects that undergo survival challenge and that it could mediate detoxification as well as higher rates of generalized and localized mutations that enhance their resistance and provide survival advantage.

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