CN111850009A

CN111850009A - Cry2Ab-2 insecticidal gene and application thereof

Info

Publication number: CN111850009A
Application number: CN202010770793.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 关淑艳; 樊书羽; 马义勇; 曲静; 姚丹; 刘思言; 王丕武; 范素杰; 刘慧婧; 刘树英; 江源; 焦鹏
Original assignee: Jilin Agricultural University
Current assignee: Jilin Agricultural University
Priority date: 2020-08-04
Filing date: 2020-08-04
Publication date: 2020-10-30

Abstract

The invention provides a mutant gene Cry2Ab-2, wherein the base sequence of the mutant gene Cry2Ab-2 is shown as a sequence table SEQ ID NO.1, and the accession number of the application NCBI is as follows: MT 273011.1. The invention provides a Cry2Ab-2 insecticidal gene, which is obtained by randomly mutating a base sequence of a Cry2Ab gene by an error-prone PCR method, has strong insecticidal activity, and can provide a candidate gene for cultivation of transgenic insect-resistant breeding and construction of engineering strains.

Description

Cry2Ab-2 insecticidal gene and application thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of biology, and particularly relates to a Cry2Ab-2 insecticidal gene and application thereof.

Background

Corn (zeaaysl.) is an important cereal crop, and corn is used as a food, feed and industrial feedstock. Since the adoption of high-yield breeding and hybrid varieties, the yield of the corn is remarkably increased and reaches nearly 208 and 2.15 hundred million tons in 2014 respectively. However, with the growing population of china and the steady decline in the amount of arable land, the yield of crops must increase to meet the ever-increasing demand. Corn yield is limited by a number of factors, of which pests are important. The main pests of corn crops are lepidoptera insects, which cause 10% of the yield loss of spring corn and 20% -30% of the yield loss of summer corn, and cause huge economic loss every year. In addition to direct yield loss, infestation of corn by lepidopteran pests can result in production of fumonisins, mycotoxins, reduced corn quality, and can have negative effects on livestock. Various strategies have been developed to control corn pests, with the application of chemical pesticides as a primary measure. However, the use of chemical pesticides presents a number of problems such as air, water and soil contamination, food contamination, re-emergence of resistant herbivores, and reduction in the number of natural enemies of crop pests. Therefore, the cultivation of new insect-resistant corn varieties reduces the use of chemical insecticides, and fundamentally controls the influence of insect pests on crops, so that the important direction for the cultivation of corn varieties is provided, and the insect-resistant gene which is most widely applied at present is Bt protein discovered from bacillus thuringiensis.

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a gram-positive spore-forming bacterium with entomopathogenic characteristics. Bt produces insecticidal proteins as parasporal crystals during the sporulation stage. These crystals are mainly composed of one or more proteins (Cry and Cyt toxins), also known as endotoxins. Cry proteins are associated inclusion body (crystal) proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis which have experimentally verifiable toxic effects on the target organism or significant sequence similarity to known Cry proteins. Similarly, the Cyt protein is a parasporal inclusion protein from bacillus thuringiensis that exhibits hemolytic (cytolytic) activity or has significant sequence similarity to known Cyt proteins. These toxins are highly specific for their target insects, are harmless to humans, vertebrates and plants, and are completely biodegradable. Bt is therefore a viable alternative to control of pests and important human disease vectors in agriculture. By 5 months in 2018, nearly 90 insect-resistant genes of Cry2 classes are discovered and identified, and 9 subclasses from Cry2Aa to Cry2Ai are covered, wherein Cry2Ab protein accounts for the majority. Cry2 is an insecticidal crystal protein second to Cry1, and has good insecticidal activity to lepidoptera, orthoptera and other insects, wherein Cry2Ab, Cry2Ae and Cry2Af proteins only have insecticidal activity to lepidoptera insects, and Cry2Ab has higher toxicity to armyworms than Cry1Ab and Cry1Ac, so that the Cry2 has wider application prospect in pest control.

At present, the main methods for modifying Bt protein comprise structural domain conversion, codon optimization, DNA Shuffling, error-prone PCR and the like, wherein the error-prone PCR technology can simply, conveniently and effectively introduce mutation into a known DNA sequence, a system is firstly established by Leung, Cadwell carries out error-prone PCR by using the system, a gene for coding tetrahymena ribozyme is mutagenized, and the activity of the ribozyme is obviously improved. Shelly Goomber et al, evolved Bacillus lipase in vitro by error-prone PCR to make it active at 5 deg.C, enhancing the psychrophilic properties of the enzyme. Solves the problem of environmental pollution caused by chemical pesticides, and provides a Cry2Ab-2 insecticidal gene and application thereof.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the problem of environmental pollution caused by chemical pesticides, and provides a Cry2Ab-2 insecticidal gene and application thereof.

The technical scheme of the invention is realized as follows:

the invention provides a mutant gene Cry2Ab-2, wherein the base sequence of the mutant gene Cry2Ab-2 is shown as a sequence table SEQ ID NO. 1. Applying for NCBI accession number: MT 273011.1.

As a further improvement of the invention, the gene is artificially synthesized.

The invention further protects Cry2Ab-2 protein, and the Cry2Ab-2 protein is expressed by a gene shown in a sequence table SEQ ID NO. 1.

The invention further protects the application of the Cry2Ab-2 protein as a preparation pesticide.

As a further improvement of the invention, the insects are armyworms.

The invention further protects the application of the mutant gene Cry2Ab-2 in culturing anti-armyworm transgenic plant varieties.

As a further improvement of the invention, the plant is maize.

The invention further protects the biological material of the mutant gene Cry2Ab-2, wherein the biological material is an expression cassette, a vector, an engineering bacterium or a cell.

As a further improvement of the invention, the vector comprises a prokaryotic expression vector and a cloning vector.

As a further improvement of the invention, the engineering bacteria is Escherichia coli.

The invention has the following beneficial effects: the invention provides a Cry2Ab-2 insecticidal gene, which is obtained by randomly mutating a base sequence of a Cry2Ab gene by an error-prone PCR method, and the sequence analysis result after mutation shows that: the 20 th Thr of the Cry2Ab-2 gene amino acid sequence is converted into Ala, the 582 th Gly is converted into Asp, the consistency with the original sequence reaches 97.31%, online analysis by using an online allergen database shows that the sequence has low homology with a known allergen and does not have allergenicity, and SDS-PAGE electrophoresis analysis results show that an obvious specific band appears at about 70.68KDa, which indicates that the Cry2Ab-2 gene is correctly expressed under the induction of IPTG. The result of insect-resisting (armyworm) test with the protein of induction expression shows that the expressed protein has strong pesticidal activity, the lethality rate of the armyworm reaches 88.98%, and the growth of the surviving pests is also inhibited seriously, which is obviously different from the contrast. The research is proved to be successful in mutating an improved Cry2Ab gene, the gene has strong insecticidal activity, and can provide candidate genes for the cultivation of transgenic insect-resistant breeding and the construction of engineering strains.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 shows different Mg²⁺A content electrophoretogram; m is DL2000 DNA marker; h, sterile water; 1-11: mg in the reaction system²⁺The concentration is 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5mmol/L for the first time;

FIG. 2 is an electrophoretogram of error-prone PCR; m: DL2000 DNA marker; 1-6: error-prone PCR amplification of Cry2 Ab-2;

FIG. 3 is a diagram of Cry2Ab-2 conserved domain;

FIG. 4 shows PCR verification of recombinant plasmids; m: DL2000 DNA marker; 1-4: verifying the recombinant plasmid;

FIG. 5 is the identification diagram of Cry2Ab-2 gene plasmid double enzyme digestion, M: DL2000 DNA marker; 1-2: enzyme digestion verification;

FIG. 6 is an SDS-PAGE analysis of p ET22b-Cry2Ab-2 protein, M protein standard molecular weight; 1-3: Cry2 Ab-induction;

FIG. 7 is a diagram of the identification of prokaryotic expression protein insect resistance.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Example 1 error-prone PCR amplification

Primer design Using software Primer5.0

s:CGCGATGAATAGTGTATTGAATAGCGGAAGAACTAC，

As:CGCGTTAATAAAGTGGTGAAATATTAGTTGGTAC，

Error-prone PCR is carried out by taking plasmid containing p UC57-Cry2Ab as a template, and 50 mu l of error-prone PCR reaction system contains ddH₂O 10.5μl,10*Buffer 5μl,Mgcl ₂3 μ l of dNTP4 μ l. 1ul of each of the upstream and downstream primers, 1. mu.l of DNA, and 0.25. mu.l of Taq enzyme. Reaction procedure: pre-denaturation at 94 ℃ for 3 min; denaturation at 94 ℃ for 40 s; annealing at 40 deg.C for 40s, and extending at 72 deg.C for 10 min; storing at 4 ℃. No warm start is performed. 1% agarose gel electrophoresis, purification and recovery of the target fragment, using the fragment as a template, and performing a second round of error-prone PCR under the same conditions, followed by 1% agarose gel electrophoresis, purification and sequencing. The sequencing results were analyzed by alignment using the software DNAmann 6.0, and their allergenicity was analyzed online using the website of the online allergen database (www.allergenonline.org) according to the national standards for allergy analysis of foreign proteins.

Prolonging the time of each cycle by using low fidelity Taq DNA polymerase with different magnesium ion concentrations, reducing the final concentration of an initial template, performing error-prone PCR amplification by using a primer with a displacement site without hot start and the like, and finally determining the added 4 mu lMg through preliminary exploration²⁺(see FIG. 1), 70 cycles are suitable, and clear specific bands can be amplified by performing error-prone PCR (see FIG. 2).

EXAMPLE 2 construction of cloning vector

After two rounds of error-prone PCR, the purified and recovered target fragment was ligated with the vector PMD-18T overnight at 16 ℃. And (3) transforming the ligation product into an escherichia coli E.coli DH5 alpha competent cell, picking a single colony for overnight culture the next day, extracting a plasmid for PCR verification, purifying and recovering a PCR product, and sending the PCR product to Jilin province Kuumei biotechnology Limited for sequencing verification. Named Cry2Ab-2 gene sequence.

Cry2Ab-2 gene sequence and conserved structural domain analysis and function prediction

Deduced from the DNA sequence, the encoded protein contains 633 amino acids and has a theoretical molecular weight of 70.68 KDa. Homology comparison by online blast (ncbi) shows that this gene is most similar to Cry2 Aa. The structural analysis of the secondary proteins encoded by the mutated genes using the online software SOPMA showed that α -helix was 32.54%, β -turn was 5.06%, Randomcoil was 41.71%, and Ee-strand was 20.85%. CDD (Convsed Domain database) analysis of the amino acid sequence of the protein encoded by the gene at NCBI (national center for Biotechnology information) shows that the Domain I of Cry2Ab-2 encoded protein is that Glu165 to Leu183 are mainly involved in membrane penetration and pore formation, the Domain II is that Ser343 to Ser354 are mainly involved in receptor binding, and the Domain III is that Thr567 to Ala585 which is involved in carbohydrate binding and is part of endotoxin activation region, and can produce insecticidal toxin. As shown in the results of online allergenicity analysis of FIG. 3, the 70 amino acid sequences of the protein encoded by the Cry2Ab-2 gene have less than 35% sequence homology with known allergens, i.e., the protein encoded by the Cry2Ab-2 gene has no allergenicity.

Example 3 construction and characterization of prokaryotic expression vectors

Extraction of plasmid DNA of pMD18T-Cry2Ab-2 Normal PCR amplification was carried out using seamless primers with XhoI and SalII cleavage sites, under the conditions: pre-denaturation at 94 ℃ for 5 min; denaturation at 94 ℃ for 40 s; annealing at 62 ℃ for 40s, and extending at 72 ℃ for 2 min; extending for 10min after 72 ℃; 35X cycle. And (3) performing 1% agarose gel electrophoresis on the product after PCR, purifying and recovering a target fragment, connecting the target fragment with a prokaryotic expression vector p ET-22b by using a seamless connection kit, transforming an escherichia coli E.coli DH5 alpha competent cell, picking all single colonies overnight for culture on the next day, extracting plasmid DNA of the single colonies, performing PCR and enzyme digestion verification, and sending a PCR product which is preliminarily determined to be positive to sequencing verification of Kuumei biotechnology limited of Jilin province.

Construction of Cry2Ab-2 gene prokaryotic expression vector

All colonies are picked for overnight culture, plasmid PCR verification (shown in figure 4) is extracted the next day, stable positive clones are screened out, recombinant plasmid DNA is subjected to enzyme digestion verification to obtain 2 bands with the sizes of 5.5kb and 1902bp (shown in figure 5), and sequencing analysis shows that the sequence is correct, which indicates that the target gene fragment is successfully connected to a prokaryotic expression vector p ET22b (+).

Example 4 expression of Cry2Ab-2 Gene in E.coli

Extracting plasmid DNA of p ET22b-Cry2Ab-2, transforming the plasmid DNA into competent cells of escherichia coli BL21(DE3), picking up a single colony for overnight culture, inoculating the bacterial liquid into LB liquid culture medium (containing Kan100mg/ml) containing 50ml on the next day according to the ratio of 1:100, carrying out shake culture at the shaking table 198rpm of 37 ℃ for 3.5h, adding 100m M IPTG mother liquor to the final concentration of 1mM when the OD600 reaches 0.6, and continuing the shake culture for 3 h. The flask was placed on ice for 5min, the cells were collected by centrifugation (4 ℃, 10000r/min, 8min), and re-centrifuged with a pre-cooled sterile water resuspension of the cells, which was repeated twice. Discard the supernatant and resuspend with PBS Buffer. The suspension was disrupted by ultrasonication (1200W, 6s on, 5s off for 10min), centrifuged (4 ℃, 10000r/min, 10min) and the cells and supernatant collected for further use. And performing SDS-PAGE electrophoretic analysis to verify.

Expression analysis of Cry2Ab-2 gene in Escherichia coli

SDS-PAGE electrophoretic analysis shows (figure 6), Cry2Ab-2 engineering bacteria (non-soluble components) after IPTG induction express an obvious specific strip at about 70.68KDa, which is identical with the expected size, and the result shows that the insecticidal protein coded by Cry2Ab-2 gene is correctly expressed in escherichia coli BL 21.

Example 5 bioassay of insecticidal Activity of Cry2Ab-2 proteins

After the recombinant bacteria are induced and expressed, carrying out ultrasonic crushing and recovering Cry2Ab-2 protein for the following identification of insecticidal activity.

The insecticidal activity of armyworm is identified by adopting an artificial feed method: the artificial feed is prepared according to the method and the conditions of Jiang SJ. The crushed bacterial liquid containing Cry2Ab-2 and Cry2Ab carriers is used as a positive control, and the crushed bacterial liquid containing empty carriers is used as a negative control.

Biological identification of Cry2Ab-2 protein insecticidal Activity (FIG. 7)

(1) Weighing 30g of artificial feed and placing the artificial feed in a sterilized 9cm culture dish;

(2) adding 3mL of protein solution to be detected, fully stirring, evenly mixing, and evenly distributing in three 9cm culture dishes;

(3) and (4) placing the feed in a super clean bench for a period of time according to the dry and wet degree of the feed until no obvious water drops are formed on the surface of the feed.

(4) 30 newly hatched larvae are inoculated into each dish, 3 times of repeated treatments are carried out, and 90 test insects are treated in total (after the insects are inoculated, three layers of toilet paper are laid on the insect mat, the culture dish is tightly covered, and the three layers of toilet paper are tightly tied by a rubber band so as to prevent the insects from escaping);

(5) placing the sample in a 24 ℃ illumination incubator for culture, wherein the photoperiod is 12: 12, humidity is about 70-80%, and the dry and wet degree of the feed is observed every day and is adjusted properly;

(6) after 7d of culture, the number of dead insects and live insects is investigated, and the mortality is calculated.

As shown in Table 1, within 24h, three groups of myxoplasma larvae all feed in large quantities, and as the treatment time is prolonged, the feeding of the larvae of the newly hatched myxoplasma containing the target protein shows the phenomenon of atrophy and dead larvae, while the negative treatment group feeds normally. After 7 days of treatment, the mortality rate of the armyworms was counted, and as shown in Table 1, the mortality rate of the initially hatched armyworms fed with the Cry2Ab protein and the Cry2Ab-2 protein was 87.78% and 88.83%.

TABLE 1 mortality of Cry2Ab proteins to armyworms

Compared with the prior art, random mutagenesis research is carried out on the base sequence of the Cry2Ab gene by an error-prone PCR method, and the sequence analysis result after mutagenesis shows that: the 20 th Thr of the Cry2Ab-2 gene amino acid sequence is converted into Ala, the 582 th Gly is converted into Asp, the consistency with the original sequence reaches 99.05%, online analysis by using an online allergen database shows that the sequence has low homology with the known allergen and no allergenicity, and SDS-PAGE electrophoresis analysis results show that an obvious specific band appears at about 70.68KDa, which indicates that the Cry2Ab-2 gene is correctly expressed under the induction of IPTG. The result of insect-resisting (armyworm) test with the protein of induction expression shows that the expressed protein has strong insecticidal activity, the death rate of armyworm larva reaches 88.98%, and the growth of the living pests is also severely inhibited, which is obviously different from the contrast. The research is proved to be successful in mutating an improved Cry2Ab gene, the gene has strong insecticidal activity, and can provide candidate genes for the cultivation of transgenic insect-resistant breeding and the construction of engineering strains.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.

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Claims

1. The mutant gene Cry2Ab-2 is characterized in that the base sequence of the mutant gene Cry2Ab-2 is shown in a sequence table SEQ ID NO. 1.

2. The mutant gene Cry2Ab-2 of claim 1, wherein said gene is artificially synthesized.

Cry2Ab-2 protein, characterized in that the Cry2Ab-2 protein is expressed by a gene shown in a sequence table SEQ ID NO. 1.

4. Use of the Cry2Ab-2 protein of claim 3 as a preparation of an insecticide.

5. The use of claim 4, wherein the insect is armyworm.

6. Use of the mutant gene Cry2Ab-2 of claim 1 for breeding an anti-armyworm transgenic plant variety.

7. The use of claim 6, wherein the plant is maize.

8. Biomaterial containing the mutant gene Cry2Ab-2 of claim 1, wherein said biomaterial is an expression cassette, a vector, an engineered bacterium, or a cell.

9. The biomaterial of claim 8, wherein the vector comprises a prokaryotic expression vector, a cloning vector.

10. The biomaterial of claim 8, wherein the engineered bacterium is escherichia coli.