US20220380417A1 - Cleavable peptides and insecticidal and nematicidal proteins comprising same - Google Patents

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US20220380417A1 US17/819,512 US202217819512A US2022380417A1 US 20220380417 A1 US20220380417 A1 US 20220380417A1 US 202217819512 A US202217819512 A US 202217819512A US 2022380417 A1 US2022380417 A1 US 2022380417A1
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  • Insecticidal and nematicidal peptides, polypeptides and proteins are peptide and protein polymers that are toxic to their targets, usually insects or nematodes.
  • the insecticidal peptides or toxins commonly derive from arthropod origins such as from scorpions or spiders.
  • the toxins can be delivered directly to the insect's gut or internal organs by injection or by inducing the insect to consume the toxin from its food, for example an insect feeding upon a transgenic plant.
  • toxins have been known to have the ability to inhibit the growth, impair the movement, or even kill an insect when the toxin is delivered to the insect by spreading the toxin to the locus inhabited by the insect or to the insect's environment by spraying, or other means. Through direct exposure, or ingestion, the insect comes into some form of contact with the toxic peptide, polypeptide or protein.
  • Insecticidal peptides however have enormous problems reaching the commercial market and to date there have been few if any insecticidal peptides approved and marketed for the commercial market, with one notable exception, peptides derived from Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt. There is presently, great concern over rising insect resistance to Bt proteins.
  • Bt proteins or Bt peptides, are effective insecticides used for crop protection in the form of both plant incorporated protectants and foliar sprays.
  • Commercial formulations of Bt proteins are widely used to control insects at the larval stage.
  • Inhibitory cysteine knot motif (ICK) proteins are also a class of insecticidal peptides which are derived from arthropod origins, such as the venoms of scorpions or spiders.
  • TMOF Trypsin modulating oostatic factor
  • TMOF peptides have to be delivered to their physiological site of action for insecticidal activity to ensue.
  • TMOF peptides have been identified as potential larvicides, with great potential, see D. Borovsky, Journal of Experimental Biology 206, 3869-3875, but like nearly all other insecticidal peptides, TMOF has not been commercialized or widely used by farmers and there are reasons for this.
  • the present invention provides several solutions to these major problems which have prevented commercialization and wide spread use of insecticidal peptides.
  • the present invention provides transgenic proteins that enable the synthesis and release of insecticidal and nematicidal toxic peptides in relatively large numbers at the site of activity, i.e., the gut or other organs of the insect or nematode.
  • the synthesis in the host is facilitated by directed expression in regions of the host cell that enables proper folding of the transgenic protein and enhances synthesis in the host cell.
  • the present invention provides cleavable peptides that are fused to toxic insecticidal and/or nematicidal toxic peptides and proteins that can be expressed and synthesized in a host cell, for example a plant cell that is subject to consumption by an insect or nematode pest.
  • the cleavable peptides may be cleaved in the gut environment and/or hemolymph environment of an insect and/or nematode and in the gastrointestinal system of a human being thereby releasing its payload comprising one or more insecticidal and/or nematicidal toxic peptides and proteins.
  • the present invention provides cleavable peptides comprising a binary or a tertiary peptide that contains at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, comprised of 2 or 3 different regions.
  • the binary peptides have two different regions (an insect or nematode cleavable region and an animal (e.g.
  • the cleavable peptides of the present invention cannot be cleaved in a plant cell with an endogenous plant protease, or by a naturally occurring plant protease.
  • exemplary binary peptides comprise an amino acid sequence of X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 - X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2
  • Y 1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y;
  • Y 3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • a tertiary peptide of the present invention contains at least 5 amino acids up to a maximum of 16 amino acids; wherein the tertiary peptide comprises a binary peptide and a spacer of 1 to 4 amino acids.
  • the spacer comprises the amino acid sequence GS and is fused in frame to the N-terminus of a binary peptide, or to the C-terminus of the binary peptide, or both to the N-terminus and the C-terminus of a binary peptide as disclosed herein.
  • the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having a cleavable peptide (a binary or a tertiary peptide) fused in frame with an insecticidal or nematicidal toxic protein.
  • the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable peptides, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L) n , wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein comprises an endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide (ERSP) fused in frame with: a binary peptide or tertiary peptide, which is fused in frame with an insecticidal or nematicidal toxic protein and/or a repeat construct (L-TP) n or (TP-L) n , wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10.
  • SFP endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a protein construct comprising: (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L) n , wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200.
  • TP is a toxic protein
  • L is a binary or tertiary peptide
  • n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the N-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its N-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable peptides, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a stabilizing domain (STA) fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • STA stabilizing domain
  • an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA), which is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, being fused to the N-terminus of a toxic protein, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • STA stabilizing domain
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct comprising: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (STA)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n .
  • an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, being fused to the N-terminus of a toxic protein, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct comprising: (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n .
  • TP is defined as a toxic protein, that is toxic to an insect and/or a nematode
  • L is a binary or tertiary peptide
  • n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10.
  • the C-terminal TP of a construct described herein and above is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the N-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its N-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the present invention provides a plant, or part thereof comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as exemplified herein.
  • the present invention provides a plant, or part thereof comprising a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, in a DNA construct, for example, an expression vector, wherein the polynucleotide encodes: an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a peptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions; wherein, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide can be cleaved by
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a repeat construct (L-TP) n or (TP-L) n wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10.
  • the binary and/or the tertiary peptide is operably fused at its N-terminus to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) and at its C-terminus operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP. See FIGS. 4 , 5 and 6 C .
  • the plant or part thereof comprises an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and/or a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as exemplified herein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L) n , or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a repeat construct (L-TP) n or (TP-L) n , wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10.
  • the plant or part thereof comprises an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and/or a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as exemplified herein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L) n or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with a binary peptide and/or a repeat construct (L-TP) n or (TP-L) n .
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with a binary peptide and/or a repeat construct (L-TP) n or (TP-L) n .
  • the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the construct: (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L).
  • a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA).
  • an operable promoter for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter
  • STA stabilizing domain
  • the STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (STA)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n .
  • TP is toxic protein, which may be an insecticidal protein and/or a nematicidal protein as described and exemplified in the present disclosure
  • L is a binary or tertiary peptide
  • n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 10 to 175, or from 20 to 150, or from 30 to 100, or from 40 to 100, or from 20 to 70, or from 20 to 60, or from 20 to 50, or from 20 to 40, or from 30-40.
  • n is an integer ranging from 1 to 20, or from 5 to 20, or from 10 to 20, or from 20 to 80, or from 30 to 60, or from 30 to 50 and preferably around or about or specifically 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the present invention provides a method of controlling a pest infection or infestation of a plant.
  • the method comprises providing in a diet of said pest, a plant, or part thereof, or a plant cell, said plant, part thereof, or plant cell comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as exemplified herein, and/or a DNA construct comprising at least one polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more cleavable binary and/or tertiary peptides.
  • the plant or part thereof comprises a DNA construct that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a binary or tertiary peptide which is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L) n or a repeat construct (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 10 to 175, or from 20 to 150, or from 30 to 100, or from 40 to 100, or from 20 to 70, or from 20 to 60, or from 20 to 50, or from 20 to 40, or from 30-40.
  • n is an integer ranging from 1 to 20, or from 5 to 20, or from 10 to 20, or from 20 to 80, or from 30 to 60, or from 30 to 50 and preferably around or about or specifically 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50.
  • the plant or part thereof comprises a DNA construct that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L) n or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with a binary peptide and/or a repeat construct (L-TP) n or (TP-L) n .
  • the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include: (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 10 to 175, or from 20 to 150, or from 30 to 100, or from 40 to 100, or from 20 to 70, or from 20 to 60, or from 20 to 50, or from 20 to 40, or from 30-40. In some embodiments, n is an integer ranging from 1 to 20, or from 5 to 20, or from 10 to 20, or from 20 to 80, or from 30 to 60, or from 30 to 50 and preferably around or about or specifically 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50.
  • the plant or part thereof comprises a DNA construct that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA).
  • STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (STA)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 10 to 175, or from 20 to 150, or from 30 to 100, or from 40 to 100, or from 20 to 70, or from 20 to 60, or from 20 to 50, or from 20 to 40, or from 30-40.
  • n is an integer ranging from 1 to 20, or from 5 to 20, or from 10 to 20, or from 20 to 80, or from 30 to 60, or from 30 to 50 and preferably around or about or specifically 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50.
  • the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n ,
  • TP is toxic protein
  • L is a binary or tertiary peptide
  • n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the pest may be an insect or a nematode as described in the present disclosure.
  • the DNA construct can be a vector, for example, a cloning vector or an expression vector containing a coding sequence comprising a polynucleotide encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention and one or more control sequences that permits the replication and/or expression of the coding sequence in a host cell, for example, a bacterial cell, a yeast cell or a plant cell.
  • a host cell for example, a bacterial cell, a yeast cell or a plant cell.
  • the binary and/or tertiary peptides of the present invention cannot be cleaved in a plant cell by an endogenous plant protease, or by a naturally occurring plant protease.
  • the present invention provides a modified toxic peptide or protein (TP) that comprises a binary or tertiary peptide inserted (e.g. fused in frame) between the active and inactive portions of the toxic peptide.
  • a binary or tertiary peptide is inserted between the cleavable pro inactive portion of the peptide and mature active portion of the peptide.
  • a modified toxic protein (TP) includes a stabilizing domain fused in frame with a binary or tertiary peptide of the present invention which is fused in frame with the active portion of the toxic protein (TP).
  • the modified toxic protein (TP) is a Bacillus thuringiensis or B.
  • Bt thuringiensis
  • Bt protein thuringiensis derived protein
  • Bt peptide peptides produced by Bt, collectively referred to herein as Bt toxic proteins or “Bt TPs”.
  • Bt toxic proteins Bt toxic proteins
  • Such peptides and proteins are frequently written as “cry”, “cyt” or “VIP” proteins encoded by the cry, cyt and vip genes.
  • Bt TPs are more usually attributed to insecticidal crystal proteins encoded by the cry genes.
  • Bt TPs are examples of PFIPS (Pore Forming Insecticidal Proteins).
  • a modified TP can include a Bt protein as described above and herein, in which the stabilizing domain (STA) is fused in frame with a binary or tertiary peptide or a construct containing one or two or more binary or tertiary peptides of the present invention.
  • STA stabilizing domain
  • the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with the active fragment of the Bt protein, such that upon exposure to the gut environment and/or hemolymph environment of an insect and/or nematode and in the gastrointestinal system of a human being, the binary or tertiary peptide is cleaved, thus separating the stabilizing or inactive portion of the TP from the active or mature form of the TP, rendering the cleaved active or mature portion insecticidal and/or nematicidal.
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprise a Bt TP and/or a modified Bt protein, one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides and one or more of an ERSP, and a STA as described above.
  • Bt TP and/or a modified Bt protein one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides and one or more of an ERSP, and a STA as described above.
  • a modified TP can include a Bt TP, for example, a cry, a cyt or a VIP protein, in which the TP inactive is a Bt (inactive) (the inactive portion of a Bt TP) and the TP active is a Bt (active) (the active portion of a Bt TP) are separated, and fused in frame with one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides designated as L as shown in FIG. 3 B ).
  • a Bt TP for example, a cry, a cyt or a VIP protein
  • the binary or tertiary peptide Upon exposure to the gut environment and/or hemolymph environment of an insect and/or nematode and in the gastrointestinal system of an animal subject, for example a human subject, the binary or tertiary peptide is cleaved, thus separating the inactive portion of the TP from the active or mature portion of the TP, rendering the cleaved active or mature portion insecticidal and/or nematicidal in the insect and/or nematode.
  • the modified TP as described above, for example, an exemplary Bt TP may also optionally include an ERSP fused in frame to the N-terminal portion of the modified TP.
  • FIG. 1 Demonstration of the FRET molecules in FRET kit (Cat. No. PSREPLI005, Mimotopes) to detect the specificity of amino acid sequence based cleavage by human simulated gastrointestinal fluid (SGF) and insect gut digestive enzymes. This figure is borrowed from the Mimotopes FRET kit to illustrate how cleavage generates detectable fluorescence.
  • FRET kit Cat. No. PSREPLI005, Mimotopes
  • FIG. 2 Demonstration of first and second aspects that are exemplary embodiments of the invention.
  • the first aspect is the graphical representation of a binary and/or tertiary cleavable linker peptide designated (L).
  • the second aspect illustrates various combinations of L fused to a toxic peptide or protein (TP) (from 1-200 repeats).
  • TP toxic peptide or protein
  • FIG. 3 A Demonstration of addition of an optional stability domain or stability protein (STA), fused to L fused to TP.
  • STA stability domain or stability protein
  • FIG. 3 B depicts an embodiment in which a modified TP comprising a TP inactive portion of the TP is fused in frame with a cleavable (L) peptide which is fused in frame to the TP active portion of the TP.
  • L cleavable
  • FIG. 3 B upon exposure to the animal and insect and/or nematode gut environment, the cleavable L peptide is cleaved, thus separating the TP inactive portion and the TP active portion, thus liberating the active portion of the TP in the insect and/or nematode.
  • the modified TP is a Bt TP as described herein.
  • FIG. 4 Demonstration of the Binary or Tertiary Cleavable Linking Peptide in an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein with two or more TPs and an ERSP.
  • This figure illustrates various embodiments from FIG. 2 with the addition of an N-terminal fusion of an ERSP.
  • FIG. 5 Demonstration of the Binary or Tertiary Cleavable Linking Peptides of an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein with two or more TPs and an ERSP fused to the N-terminal of the STA.
  • This figure illustrates various embodiments from FIG. 2 , with the addition of a STA and an N-terminal fusion of an ERSP to that STA.
  • FIG. 6 A depicts an illustrative insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a BAAS ERSP, fused in frame to ubiquitin which is fused to a U+2-ACTX-Hv1a TP which is fused to 3 L-TP fusion constructs (each repeating construct comprising a linking cleavable peptide L, wherein L is a tertiary cleavable linking peptide, having three regions (XYZ), and wherein the Z region is the dipeptide glycine-serine GS, and the TP is a U-ACTX-Hv1a) and where the last TP U-ACTX-Hv1a has a fused 10 His tag.
  • a BAAS ERSP fused in frame to ubiquitin which is fused to a U+2-ACTX-Hv1a TP which is fused to 3 L-TP fusion constructs (each repeating construct comprising a linking cle
  • FIG. 6 B depicts an illustrative insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a BAAS ERSP, fused in frame to a 3 repeating construct, the construct comprising a U-ACTX-Hv1a TP fused to a linker (L) which may be a binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptide.
  • L linker
  • the last U-ACTX-Hv1a TP has a 10 His tag.
  • FIG. 6 C depicts a graphical representation of an illustrative insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein shown in the form of a construct, wherein each depiction of the ERSP, STA, (TP-L) N and TP are fused in frame.
  • ERSP is fused to the N-terminus of a STA domain, which is fused to a repeating construct
  • the construct comprises units of TP fused to a linker peptide (L), wherein each TP in the repeating construct may be the same or different and each L in the repeating construct may be the same or different.
  • the last repeating unit of the TP-L construct is fused to the N-terminus of a TP.
  • N can be 1 to 10 repeating units, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 units, such that upon cleavage in an insect and/or nematode gut environment, each L is cleaved, thus releasing multiple copies of TP which is insecticidal and/or nematicidal to the insect or nematode that ingested the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
  • FIG. 7 Demonstration of detection of cleavage of the tertiary linking peptides, ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660) and IFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1674), in all digestive enzyme conditions compared to the control peptide, IGER, which only cleaves in the CEW gut extract.
  • This figure contains the three digestive enzyme conditions (rows) and three different proteins (columns) that each contain four TP units (U-ACTX-Hv1a) with intervening tertiary linking peptides or the control peptide, IGER.
  • the cleavage reactions are stopped by the addition of denaturing conditions (chemical and heat) at the time points listed below each gel image.
  • a His-tagged western blot detection illustrates the digestion and disappearance of the protein band for tertiary peptides ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660) and IFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO:1674) in all digestive conditions, or the retention of the intact protein band across the time points for the control peptide IGER in both the SCR gut extract and SGF.
  • FIG. 8 An example of a stable corn transformation vector. This figure depicts one example of a stable corn transformation vector. The white arrows depict the basic backbone components of the vector. The black arrows depict the T-DNA portion of the vector which is transformed into the corn genome and results in the selection and regeneration of transgenic corn plants expressing the insecticidal protein containing cleavable linking peptides.
  • FIG. 9 An example of efficacy data of a field trial of corn plants expressing the open reading frame (ORF) comprising an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as described in FIG. 6 A after transformation by a vector described in FIG. 8 .
  • ORF open reading frame
  • ACTX or “ACTX peptide” means a Family of insecticidal ICK TPs that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spider belonging to the Atracinae subfamily. One such spider is known as the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, which has the scientific name Hydronyche versuta . Three examples of ACTX peptides from this species are the Omega, Kappa, and U peptides.
  • Agroinfection means a plant transformation method where DNA is introduced into a plant cell by using Agrobacteria A. tumefaciens or A. rhizogenes.
  • BAAS barley alpha-amylase signal peptide. It is an example of an ERSP.
  • Bosset vector or “binary expression vector” means an expression vector which can replicate itself in both E. coli strains and Agrobacterium strains. Also, the vector contains a region of DNA (often referred to as t-DNA) bracketed by left and right border sequences that is recognized by virulence genes to be copied and delivered into a plant cell by Agrobacterium.
  • t-DNA region of DNA
  • Bt also known as Bacillus thuringiensis or B. thuringiensis , means a gram-positive soil bacterium that has been used worldwide for more than sixty years to control agricultural, forestry, and public health insect pests.
  • Bt proteins and “Bt peptides” are used interchangeably and include peptides produced by Bt are collectively referred to herein as Bt toxic proteins or “Bt TPs”. Such peptides are frequently written as “cry”, “cyt” or “VIP” proteins encoded by the cry, cyt and vip genes. Bt TPs are more usually attributed to insecticidal crystal proteins encoded by the cry genes. Bt TPs are examples of PFIPS (Pore Forming Insecticidal Proteins) see definition below. Examples of PFIPS and other Bt proteins are provided in the sequence listing.
  • PFIPS Pore Forming Insecticidal Proteins
  • Chimeric gene means a DNA sequence that encodes a gene derived from portions of one or more coding sequences to produce a new gene.
  • “Conditioned medium” means the cell culture medium which has been used by cells and is enriched with cell derived materials but does not contain cells.
  • Conversion or “converted” refers to the process of making an HP peptide.
  • Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein and Proteins are abbreviations for Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein and Proteins respectively.
  • Cysteine rich insecticidal peptides are peptides rich in cysteine which form disulfide bonds.
  • CRIPS contain at least four (4) sometimes six (6) and sometimes eight (8) cysteine amino acids among proteins or peptides having at least 10 amino acids where the cysteines form two (2), three (3) or four (4) disulfide bonds.
  • the disulfide bonds contribute to the folding, three-dimensional structure, and activity of the insecticidal peptide.
  • the cysteine-cysteine disulfide bonds and the three dimensional structure they form play a significant role in the toxicity of these insecticidal peptides.
  • a CRIP is exemplified by both inhibitory cysteine knot toxic proteins or ICK TPs (usually having 6-8 cysteines) and by examples of toxic peptides having disulfide bonds but that are not considered ICK TPs (Non-ICK CRIPS).
  • Examples of an ICK would be an ACTX peptide from a spider and defined above.
  • Representative example of ICK proteins include U-ACTX insecticidal peptides, Omega-ACTX insecticidal peptides and Kappa-ACTX insecticidal peptides.
  • Examples of a Non-ICK CRIP would be a peptide like Av2 and Av3 which are toxic peptides first identified from sea anemones.
  • Non-ICK CRIPS can have 4-8 cysteines which form 2-4 disulfide bonds. These cysteine-cysteine disulfide bonds stabilized toxic peptides (CRIPS) can have remarkable stability when exposed to the environment. Many CRIPS are isolated from venomous animals such as spiders, scorpions, snakes, sea snails and sea anemones and they are toxic to insects. Additional description is provided below.
  • Defined medium means a medium that is composed of known chemical components but does not contain crude proteinaceous extracts or by-products such as yeast extract or peptone.
  • Disulfide bond means a covalent bond between two cysteine amino acids derived by the coupling of two thiol groups on their side chains.
  • Double transgene peptide expression vector or “double transgene expression vector” means a yeast expression vector which contains two copies of the insecticidal peptide expression cassette.
  • ELISA or “iELISA” means a molecular biology protocol in which the samples are fixed to the surface of a plate and then detected as follows: a primary antibody is applied followed by a secondary antibody conjugated to an enzyme which converts a colorless substrate to colored substrate which can be detected and quantified across samples. During the protocol, antibodies are washed away such that only those that bind to their epitopes remain for detection. The samples, in our hands, are proteins isolated from plants, and ELISA allows for the quantification of the amount of expressed transgenic protein recovered.
  • “Expression ORF” means a nucleotide encoding a protein complex and is defined as the nucleotides in the ORF.
  • ER or “Endoplasmic reticulum” is a subcellular organelle common to all eukaryotes where some post translation modification processes occur.
  • ERSP Endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide
  • mRNA molecule encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein
  • a host cell signal-recognition particle which moves the protein translation ribosome/mRNA complex to the ER in the cytoplasm. The result is the protein translation is paused until it docks with the ER where it continues and the resulting protein is injected into the ER.
  • “ersp” means a nucleotide encoding the peptide, ERSP.
  • ER trafficking means transportation of a cell expressed protein into ER for post-translational modification, sorting and transportation.
  • FECT means a transient plant expression system using Foxtail mosaic virus with elimination of coating protein gene and triple gene block.
  • GFP means a green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria . It is an example of a translational stabilizing protein.
  • “High Production peptide” or “HP peptide” means a peptide which is capable of being made, or is “converted,” according to the procedures described herein and which, once converted can be produced at increased yields, or higher rates of production, or in greater than normal amounts, in a biological system.
  • the higher rates of production can be from 20 to 400% or greater than can be achieved with a peptide before conversion, using the same or similar production methods that were used to produce the peptide before conversion.
  • “Homology” when used in relation to nucleic acids refers to a degree of complementarity. There may be partial homology or complete homology (i.e., identity). “Sequence identity” refers to a measure of relatedness between two or more nucleic acids or proteins, and is given as a percentage with reference to the total comparison length. The identity calculation takes into account those nucleotide or amino acid residues that are identical and in the same relative positions in their respective larger sequences. Calculations of identity may be performed by algorithms contained within computer programs such as “GAP” (Genetics Computer Group, Madison, Wis.) and “ALIGN” (DNAStar, Madison, Wis.).
  • a partially complementary sequence is one that at least partially inhibits (or competes with) a completely complementary sequence from hybridizing to a target nucleic acid is referred to using the functional term “substantially homologous.”
  • the inhibition of hybridization of the completely complementary sequence to the target sequence may be examined using a hybridization assay (Southern or Northern blot, solution hybridization and the like) under conditions of low stringency.
  • a substantially homologous sequence or probe will compete for and inhibit the binding (i.e., the hybridization) of a sequence which is completely homologous to a target under conditions of low stringency.
  • low stringency conditions are such that non-specific binding is permitted; low stringency conditions require that the binding of two sequences to one another be a specific (i.e., selective) interaction.
  • the absence of non-specific binding may be tested by the use of a second target which lacks even a partial degree of complementarity (e.g., less than about 30% identity); in the absence of non-specific binding the probe will not hybridize to the second non-complementary target.
  • hybridization conditions are based on the melting temperature (Tm) of the nucleic acid binding complex and confer a defined “stringency”
  • Tm melting temperature
  • stringency The term “hybridization” refers to the pairing of complementary nucleic acids. Hybridization and the strength of hybridization (i.e., the strength of the association between the nucleic acids) is impacted by such factors as the degree of complementary between the nucleic acids, stringency of the conditions involved, the Tm of the formed hybrid, and the G:C ratio within the nucleic acids. A single molecule that contains pairing of complementary nucleic acids within its structure is said to be “self-hybridized.”
  • Tm refers to the “melting temperature” of a nucleic acid.
  • the melting temperature is the temperature at which a population of double-stranded nucleic acid molecules becomes half dissociated into single strands.
  • stringency refers to the conditions of temperature, ionic strength, and the presence of other compounds such as organic solvents, under which nucleic acid hybridizations are conducted.
  • Low stringency conditions when used in reference to nucleic acid hybridization comprise conditions equivalent to binding or hybridization at 42° C. in a solution consisting of 5 ⁇ SSPE (43.8 g/l NaCl, 6.9 g/l NaH2PO4.H2O and 1.85 g/l EDTA, pH adjusted to 7.4 with NaOH), 0.1% SDS, 5 ⁇ Denhardt's reagent [50 ⁇ Denhardt's contains per 500 ml: 5 g Ficoll (Type 400, Pharmacia), 5 g BSA (Fraction V; Sigma)] and 100 ⁇ g/mL denatured salmon sperm DNA followed by washing in a solution comprising 5 ⁇ SSPE, 0.1% SDS at 42° C. when a probe of about 500 nucleotides in length is employed.
  • 5 ⁇ SSPE 43.8 g/l NaCl, 6.9 g/l NaH2PO4.H2O and 1.85 g/l EDTA, pH adjusted to 7.4 with NaOH
  • “Medium stringency conditions” when used in reference to nucleic acid hybridization comprise conditions equivalent to binding or hybridization at 42° C. in a solution consisting of 5 ⁇ SSPE (43.8 g/l NaCl, 6.9 g/l NaH2PO4.H2O and 1.85 g/l EDTA, pH adjusted to 7.4 with NaOH), 0.5% SDS, 5 ⁇ Denhardt's reagent and 100 ⁇ g/mL denatured salmon sperm DNA followed by washing in a solution comprising 10 ⁇ SSPE, 1.0% SDS at 42° C. when a probe of about 500 nucleotides in length is employed.
  • “High stringency conditions” when used in reference to nucleic acid hybridization comprise conditions equivalent to binding or hybridization at 42° C. in a solution consisting of 5.times.SSPE (43.8 g/l NaCl, 6.9 g/l NaH2PO4.H2O and 1.85 g/l EDTA, pH adjusted to 7.4 with NaOH), 0.5% SDS, 5 ⁇ Denhardt's reagent and 100 ⁇ g/mL denatured salmon sperm DNA followed by washing in a solution comprising 0.1 ⁇ SSPE, 1.0% SDS at 42° C. when a probe of about 500 nucleotides in length is employed.
  • 5.times.SSPE 4.3.8 g/l NaCl, 6.9 g/l NaH2PO4.H2O and 1.85 g/l EDTA, pH adjusted to 7.4 with NaOH
  • 0.5% SDS 5 ⁇ Denhardt's reagent
  • 100 ⁇ g/mL denatured salmon sperm DNA followed by washing in a solution comprising
  • low stringency conditions factors such as the length and nature (DNA, RNA, base composition) of the probe and nature of the target (DNA, RNA, base composition, present in solution or immobilized, etc.) and the concentration of the salts and other components (e.g., the presence or absence of formamide, dextran sulfate, polyethylene glycol) are considered and the hybridization solution may be varied to generate conditions of low stringency hybridization different from, but equivalent to, the above listed conditions.
  • the art knows conditions that promote hybridization under conditions of high stringency (e.g., increasing the temperature of the hybridization and/or wash steps, the use of formamide in the hybridization solution, etc.).
  • Hybrid peptide aka “Hybrid”, aka “hybrid toxin,” aka “hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a,” aka “native hybridACTX-Hv1a,” as well as “U peptide,” aka “U toxin,” aka “native U,” aka “U-ACTX-Hv1a,” aka “native U-ACTX-Hv1a,” all refer to an ACTX peptide, which was discovered from a spider known as the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, Hydronyche versuta , and is a dual antagonist to insect voltage-gated Ca2+ channels and voltage-gated K+ channels.
  • IGER means a name for a short peptide, based on its actual sequence of one letter codes. It is an example of a peptide that is only cleaved in insects.
  • ICK motif means a 16 to 60 amino acid peptide with at least 6 half-cystine core amino acids having three disulfide bridges, wherein the 3 disulfide bridges are covalent bonds and of the six half-cystine residues the covalent disulfide bonds are between the first and fourth, the second and fifth, and the third and sixth half-cystines, of the six core half-cystine amino acids starting from the N-terminal amino acid.
  • this type of peptide comprises a beta-hairpin secondary structure, normally composed of residues situated between the fourth and sixth core half-cystines of the motif, the hairpin being stabilized by the structural crosslinking provided by the motif's three disulfide bonds.
  • additional cysteine/cystine or half-cystine amino acids may be present within the inhibitor cystine knot motif. Examples are provided in the sequence listing.
  • Representative example of ICK proteins include U-ACTX insecticidal peptides, Omega-ACTX insecticidal peptides and Kappa-ACTX insecticidal peptides.
  • ick means a nucleotide encoding an ICK motif protein.
  • ICK motif protein expression ORF or “expression ORF” means a nucleotide encoding an ICK motif protein complex and is defined as the nucleotides in the ORF.
  • ICK motif protein expression vector or “ICK expression vector”, or “ICK motif expression vector,” means a binary vector which contains an expression ORF.
  • the binary vector also contains the necessary transcription promoter and terminator sequence surrounding the expression ORF to promote expression of the ORF and the protein it encodes.
  • insects includes all organisms in the class “Insecta”.
  • pre-adult insects refers to any form of an organism prior to the adult stage, including, for example, eggs, larvae, and nymphs.
  • Insect gut environment or “gut environment” means the specific pH and protease conditions found within the fore, mid or hind gut of an insect or insect larva.
  • Insect hemolymph environment means the specific pH and protease conditions of found within an insect or insect larva.
  • insecticidal is generally used to refer to the ability of a polypeptide or protein used herein, to increase mortality or inhibit growth rate of insects.
  • nonematicidal refers to the ability of a polypeptide or protein used herein, to increase mortality or inhibit the growth rate of nematodes.
  • nematode comprises eggs, larvae, juvenile and mature forms of said organism.
  • “Insecticidal activity” means that on or after exposure of the insect to compounds or peptides, the insect either dies stops or slows its movement or its feeding, stops or slows its growth, fails to pupate, cannot reproduce or cannot produce fertile offspring.
  • Insecticidal peptide or “Insecticidal protein” or “toxic polypeptide” or “toxic protein” (used interchangeably herein) means a protein or polypeptide having insecticidal activity when ingested by, in contact with, or injected into an insect.
  • “Insecticidal peptide production strain screen” means a screening process that identifies the higher-yielding insecticidal peptide production yeast strains from the lower yielding strains. In the described methods herein, it refers to screens that use reverse-phase HPLC or the housefly injection bioassay.
  • “Integrative expression vector” or “integrative vector” means a yeast expression vector which can insert itself into a specific locus of the yeast cell genome and stably becomes a part of the yeast genome.
  • Known peptide means a peptide known to have biological activity and may be a mature peptide or any version or fragment thereof including pre and pro peptides and conjugates of active peptides.
  • a preferred known peptide is one with insecticidal activity.
  • L in the proper context means a cleavable intervening binary or tertiary peptide. When referring to amino acids, “L” can also mean leucine.
  • Linker Cleavable Linker, or Peptide Linker means a short peptide sequence (a binary or tertiary peptide) that is the target site of at least two types of proteases one of which is an insect and/or nematode protease and the other one of which is a human protease such that the linker can be separated by both types of protease that can cleave and separate the protein into two parts or a short DNA sequence that is placed in the reading frame in the ORF and encoding a short peptide sequence in the protein that is the target site of an insect and/or nematode and an animal (e.g. human) protease that can cleave and separate the protein into two parts.
  • a short peptide sequence a binary or tertiary peptide
  • Lepidopteran gut environment means the specific pH and protease conditions of found within the fore, mid or hind gut of a lepidopteran insect or larva.
  • Lepidopteran hemolymph environment means the specific pH and protease conditions of found within lepidopteran insect or larva.
  • Multiple ICK motif protein domain means a protein composed of multiple ICK motif TPs which are linked by multiple intervening linker peptides.
  • the ICK motif TPs in the multiple ICK motif TP domain can be same or different, and the intervening linker peptides in this domain can also be the same or different.
  • Nematicidal peptide or “nematicidal protein” means a peptide or protein having nematicidal activity when ingested by, in contact with, or injected into a nematode and is used as an example of a toxic peptide and toxic protein.
  • nematodes and “nematicidal” refers to the ability of a nematicidal peptide or nematicidal protein to increase mortality or inhibit the growth rate of nematodes.
  • nematode comprises eggs, larvae, juvenile and mature forms of said organism.
  • Non-ICK CRIPS can have 4-8 cysteines which form 2-4 disulfide bonds.
  • Non-ICK TPs include cystine knot peptides that are not ICK TPs.
  • Non-ICK TPs may have different connection orders of the cystine bonds than ICKs.
  • Examples of a Non-ICK CRIP are peptides like Av2 and Av3 which are peptides first identified from sea anemones. These anemone peptides are examples of a class of compounds that modulate sodium channels in the insect peripheral nervous system (PNS).
  • PNS insect peripheral nervous system
  • Non-Polar amino acid is an amino acid that is weakly hydrophobic and includes glycine, alanine, proline, valine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine and methionine. Glycine or gly is the most preferred non-polar amino acid for the dipeptides of this invention.
  • Normalized peptide yield means the peptide yield in the conditioned medium divided by the corresponding cell density at the point the peptide yield is measured.
  • the peptide yield can be represented by the mass of the produced peptide in a unit of volume, for example, mg per liter or mg/L, or by the UV absorbance peak area of the produced peptide in the HPLC chromatograph, for example, mAu ⁇ sec.
  • the cell density can be represented by visible light absorbance of the culture at wavelength of 600 nm (OD600).
  • “One letter code” means the peptide sequence which is listed in its one letter code to distinguish the various amino acids in the primary structure of a protein.
  • alanine A
  • cysteine C
  • glutamine or glutamic acid Z
  • isoleucine I
  • “Omega peptide” also referred to herein as “omega toxin,” which includes the example, “omega-ACTX-Hv1a,” aka “native omegaACTX-Hv1a,” all refer to a class of ACTX peptides which were first isolated from a spider known as the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, Hydronyche versuta , and which is an antagonist to the insect voltage-gated Ca2+ channel.
  • ORF Open reading frame or “peptide expression ORF” means that DNA sequence encoding a protein which begins with an ATG start codon and ends with a TGA, TAA or TAG stop codon. ORF can also mean the translated protein that the DNA encodes.
  • “Operably linked” means that the two adjacent DNA sequences are placed together such that the transcriptional activation of one can act on the other.
  • PEP Plant Expressed Peptide
  • “Peptide expression cassette”, or “expression cassette” means a DNA sequence which is composed of all the DNA elements necessary to complete transcription of an insecticidal peptide in a biological expression system. In the described methods herein, it includes a transcription promoter, a DNA sequence to encode an ⁇ -mating factor signal sequence and a Kex 2 cleavage site, an insecticidal peptide transgene, a stop codon and a transcription terminator.
  • Protein expression vector means a host organism expression vector which contains a heterologous insecticidal peptide transgene.
  • Protein expression yeast strain means a yeast strain which can produce a heterologous insecticidal peptide.
  • “Peptide made special” means a peptide previously having low peptide yield from a biological expression system that becomes an HP peptide because of the methods described herein used to increase its yield.
  • Protein transgene or “insecticidal peptide transgene” means a DNA sequence that encodes an insecticidal peptide and can be translated in a biological expression system.
  • “Peptide yield” means the insecticidal peptide concentration in the conditioned medium which is produced from the cells of a peptide expression yeast strain. It can be represented by the mass of the produced peptide in a unit of volume, for example, mg per liter or mg/L, or by the UV absorbance peak area of the produced peptide in the HPLC chromatograph, for example, mAu ⁇ sec.
  • Peritrophic membrane means a lining inside the insect gut that traps large food particles can aid in their movement through the gut while allowing digestion, but also protecting the gut wall.
  • Pest includes, but is not limited to: insects, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, mites, ticks, and the like.
  • PFIP means a protein that can form a pore or channel in the cells that line an insect gut, such as gut epithelium cells.
  • examples of PFIPS are Bt toxic peptides (Bt TPs) such as cry, crt and VIP other PFIP examples can be found in the sequence listing.
  • Plant regeneration media means any media that contains the necessary elements and vitamins for plant growth and plant hormones necessary to promote regeneration of a cell into an embryo which can germinate and generate a plantlet derived from tissue culture. Often the media contains a selectable agent to which the transgenic cells express a selection gene that confers resistance to the agent.
  • Plant transgenic protein means a protein from a heterologous species that is expressed in a plant after the DNA or RNA encoding it was delivered into one or more of the plant cells.
  • Polar amino acid is an amino acid that is polar and includes serine, threonine, cystine, cysteine, asparagine, glutamine, histidine, tryptophan and tyrosine; preferred polar amino acids are serine, threonine, cystine, cysteine, asparagine and glutamine; with serine being most highly preferred.
  • Post-transcriptional gene silencing means a cellular process within living cells that suppress the expression of a gene.
  • Protein has the same meaning as “Peptide” in this document.
  • Recombinant vector means a DNA plasmid vector into which foreign DNA has been inserted.
  • Selection gene means a gene which confers an advantage for a genomically modified organism to grow under the selective pressure.
  • Spacer or “spacers” means a peptide comprising 1 to 4 amino acids that is fused in frame to either the N-terminus of a binary peptide, or to the C-terminus of the binary peptide, or both to the N-terminus and the C-terminus of a binary peptide as is disclosed herein, thus forming a tertiary peptide.
  • Tertiary peptides differ from binary peptides in that they are like a binary peptide only with an additional region called a spacer comprising any 1 to 4 amino acids, more often 2 to 4 amino acids, sometimes 1, sometimes 2, sometimes 3 and sometimes 4 amino acids and is also sometimes called the “Z” region.
  • the spacer may be referred to as “+2” or “plus-2” which is in reference to the portion of the peptide that is a dipeptide comprising any two amino acid peptides as described herein, such as for example “GS.”
  • the so called tertiary peptides of the present invention have three regions, they are: the X and Y region and the third region is called either a “spacer” or “Z” region.
  • each of X and Y can be 2-4 amino acids in length, and Z can be an additional 1-4 amino acids in length per Z with 1 or 2 Z regions possible if one Z is before and one Z is after the binary peptide, thus allowing for a 16 amino acid linker.
  • STA Translational stabilizing protein
  • stabilizing domain or “stabilizing protein”
  • a STA means a protein with sufficient tertiary structure that it can accumulate in a cell without being targeted by the cellular process of protein degradation.
  • the protein can be between 5 and 50 amino acids (aa).
  • a STA may include an ICK-motif protein), 50 to 250 aa (GNA), 250 to 750 aa (e.g., chitinase) and 750 to 1500 aa (e.g., enhancin).
  • the translational stabilizing protein is coded by a DNA sequence for a protein that is fused in frame with a sequence encoding an insecticidal protein in the ORF.
  • the fusion protein can either be upstream or downstream of the toxic protein and can have any intervening sequence between the two sequences as long as the intervening sequence does not result in a frame shift of either DNA sequence.
  • the translational stabilizing protein can also have an activity which increases delivery of the ICK motif TP across the gut wall and into the hemolymph of the insect.
  • Such a delivery can be achieved by actively trafficking the entire ORF across the gut wall, or by cleavage within the gut environment to separate the ICK motif TP while the translational stabilizing protein damages the peritrophic membrane and/or gut wall to increase diffusion of the ICK motif TP into the hemolymph.
  • sta means a nucleotide encoding a translational stabilizing protein.
  • TMOF TMOF motif
  • TMOF TPs TMOF TPs
  • Toxic peptide or “toxic protein” or “TP” means a peptide or protein having insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity when ingested by, in contact with, or injected into an insect or nematode respectively.
  • TPs of the present invention also include modified TPs, mutant TPs or derivative TPs.
  • a mutant or variant TP encompasses a TP that may have one or more conservative amino acid substitutions, that when combined, the conservative amino acid substitutions do not substantially diminish the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the mutated TP in relation to its non-mutated TP, i.e.
  • TPs may also include peptides and proteins encoded by a polynucleotide having one or more point mutations, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 point mutations or more, such that when the mutated TP encoding polynucleotide is transcribed and/or translated, the expressed mutated TP peptide or protein retains insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity that is at least 90%, or at least 80%, or at least 70%, or at least 60%, or at least 50%, or at least 40%, or at least 30% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the peptide or protein encoded by the corresponding non-mutated TP polynucleotide.
  • TPs of the present invention may also include TP peptides and proteins that have at least 80%, or at least 85%, or at least 90%, or at least 95%, or at least 96% or at least 97% or at least 98% or at least 99% amino acid sequence identity to any TP disclosed in SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775 and 1761-1775, and still retains at least at least 90%, or at least 80%, or at least 70%, or at least 60%, or at least 50%, or at least 40%, or at least 30% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the corresponding TP set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • TPs of the present invention may also include TP peptides and proteins having 1-6 amino acid extensions fused in frame to the N-terminus or C-terminus or both termini of any TP having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • TSP total soluble protein
  • Transgene means a heterologous DNA sequence encoding a protein which is transformed into a plant.
  • Transgenic host cell means a cell which is transformed with a gene and has been selected for its transgenic status via an additional selection gene.
  • Transgenic plant means a plant that has been derived from a single cell that was transformed with foreign DNA such that every cell in the plant contains that transgene.
  • Transient expression system means an Agrobacterium tumefaciens -based system which delivers DNA encoding a disarmed plant virus into a plant cell where it is expressed.
  • the plant virus has been engineered to express a protein of interest at high concentrations, up to 40% of the TSP.
  • TRBO transient expression system
  • FECT FECT system
  • TRBO means a transient plant expression system using Tobacco mosaic virus with removal of the viral coating protein gene.
  • Trypsin cleavage means an in vitro assay that uses the protease enzyme trypsin (which recognizes exposed lysine and arginine amino acid residues) to separate a cleavable linker at that cleavage site. It also means the act of the trypsin enzyme cleaving that site.
  • trypsin which recognizes exposed lysine and arginine amino acid residues
  • U-ACTX peptide or a “U protein” or a “U toxin,” which may include examples of “native U,” or “U-ACTX-Hv1a,” or “native U-ACTX-Hv1a,” which includes the representative example, “Hybrid peptide,” aka “hybrid toxin,” aka “hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a,” aka “native hybridACTX-Hv1a,” all refer to a native protein or native toxin, that can be found in nature or is otherwise known as examples of U-ACTX peptides, which in the case of “U-ACTX-Hv1a,” aka “native U-ACTX-Hv1a,” is a native spider toxin, that was first discovered from a spider with origins in the Australian Blue Mountains and is dual antagonist against insect voltage gated Ca2+ channels and K+ channels. The spider from which the toxin was discovered is known as the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, which has the scientific
  • U+2 peptide “U+2 protein”, “U+2 toxin,” or “U+2,” or “U+2-ACTX-Hv1a,” all refer to either a toxin, which has an additional dipeptide operatively linked to the native peptide, and may refer to the spider toxin which is sometimes called the U peptide and other names noted above.
  • the additional dipeptide that is operatively linked to the U peptide and thus indicated as “+2” or “plus 2” can be selected among several peptides, any of which may result in a “U+2 peptide” with unique properties as discussed herein.
  • U+2-ACTX-Hv1a refers to a specific high production toxic peptide, comprising a naturally occurring peptide from the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, which has the scientific name Hydronyche versuta.
  • VIP proteins were discovered from screening the supernatant of vegetatively grown strains of Bt for possible insecticidal activity. They have little or no similarity to cry proteins and they were named Vegetative Insecticidal Proteins or VIP. Of particular use and preference for use with this document are what have been called VIP3, Vip3 proteins or Vip toxins which have Lepidopteran activity. They are thought to have a similar mode of action as Bt cry peptides. In this document VIP proteins are categorized as a PFIP type of protein.
  • yeast expression vector or “expression vector”, or “vector,” means a plasmid which can introduce a heterologous gene and/or expression cassette into yeast cells to be transcribed and translated.
  • Yield refers to the production of a peptide, and increased yields can mean increased amounts of production, increased rates of production, and an increased average or median yield and increased frequency at higher yields.
  • the present invention provides binary and tertiary peptides that are operable to be cleaved in the insect, or nematode gut or hemolymph environment and in an animal gastrointestinal system, for example, a human, gastrointestinal system.
  • the present invention therefore provides cleavable binary and tertiary peptides that when linked to other components of a larger insecticidal or nematicidal protein, may be cleaved by certain proteases and peptidases found in the human, insect and nematode gut environments.
  • N as shown in FIG. 2 second aspect can be any integer ranging from 1 to 200, or for example, 1 to 100, or preferably from 1 to 10 and any integer therebetween.
  • the binary and/or tertiary peptides may be linked to 1 or as many as 200 toxic peptides (i.e. insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptides), and any number there between, for example, 1 to 100, or more preferably 1 to 10, thus forming an insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic protein, that upon exposure to the insect, nematode or human gastric gut environment will cleave at specific substrate sequences in the binary and/or tertiary peptides, thereby liberating a plurality of toxic peptides from a polymer insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein structure.
  • toxic peptides i.e. insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptides
  • polynucleotides encoding insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic proteins can be used to transform plant cells.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic proteins may be formulated into compositions that can be sprayed or otherwise applied in any manner known to those skilled in the art to the surface of plants or parts thereof.
  • DNA constructs are provided herein, operable to encode one or more insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic proteins under the appropriate conditions in a host cell, for example, a plant cell.
  • Methods for controlling a pest infection by a parasitic insect, or a parasitic nematode of a plant cell comprises administering or introducing a polynucleotide encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic protein as described herein to a plant, plant tissue, or a plant cell by recombinant techniques and growing said recombinantly altered plant, plant tissue or plant cell in a field exposed to the pest.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic protein can be formulated into a sprayable composition and applied directly to susceptible plants by direct application, such that upon ingestion of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic protein by the infectious insect and/or nematode, one or more copies or monomers of the insecticidal and nematicidal peptide is cleaved from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein ingested by the infectious insect and/or nematode and produces its effect to destroy the insect and/or nematode.
  • the present invention provides cleavable binary and tertiary linking peptides that are cleaved in the presence of an animal, insect and nematode protease or peptidase found in the gastrointestinal system of an animal, for example, a human, an insect and/or a nematode.
  • an animal insect and nematode protease or peptidase found in the gastrointestinal system of an animal, for example, a human, an insect and/or a nematode.
  • the terms gastrointestinal and gut environment are used interchangeably, and is meant to include its common meaning, i.e. the location where ingested food items are proteolytically degraded.
  • the gastrointestinal environment that is capable of breaking down peptides and proteins can include the mouth, stomach and small intestine.
  • the digestive system of the insect is composed of the alimentary canal and associated glands. Food enters the mouth and is mixed with secretions that may or may not contain digestive proteases and peptidases.
  • the foregut and the hind gut are ectodermal in origin.
  • the foregut serves generally as a storage depot for raw food. From the foregut discrete packages of food pass into the midgut (mesenteron or ventriculus). The midgut is the site of digestion and absorption of food nutrients.
  • proteases and peptidases in the midgut follow the pH of the gut.
  • Certain proteases and peptidases in the human gastrointestinal system may include: pepsin, trypsin, chymotrypsin, elastase, carboxypeptidase, aminopeptidase, and dipeptidase.
  • Insect and nematode gut environment include the regions of the digestive system in the herbivore species where peptides and proteins are degraded during digestion.
  • Some of the available proteases and peptidases found in insect and nematode gut environments may include: (1) serine proteases; (2) cysteine proteases; (3) aspartic proteases, and (4) metalloproteases.
  • the two predominant protease classes in the digestive systems of phytophagous insects are the serine and cysteine proteases.
  • Murdock et al. (1987) carried out an elaborate study of the midgut enzymes of various pests belonging to Coleoptera, while Srinivasan et al. (2008) have reported on the midgut enzymes of various pests belonging to Lepidoptera.
  • Serine proteases are known to dominate the larval gut environment and contribute to about 95% of the total digestive activity in Lepidoptera, whereas the Coleopteran species have a wider range of dominant gut proteases, including cysteine proteases.
  • the papain family contains peptidases with a wide variety of activities, including endopeptidases with broad specificity (such as papain), endopeptidases with very narrow specificity (such as glycyl endopeptidases), aminopeptidases, dipeptidyl-peptidase, and peptidases with both endopeptidase and exopeptidase activities (such as cathepsins B and H).
  • endopeptidases with broad specificity such as papain
  • endopeptidases with very narrow specificity such as glycyl endopeptidases
  • aminopeptidases aminopeptidases
  • dipeptidyl-peptidase dipeptidyl-peptidase
  • peptidases with both endopeptidase and exopeptidase activities such as cathepsins B and H.
  • Other exemplary proteinases found in the midgut of various insects include trypsin-like enzymes, e.g. trypsin and chymotrypsin
  • Serine proteases are widely distributed in nearly all animals and microorganisms (Joanitti et al., 2006). In higher organisms, nearly 2% of genes code for these enzymes (Barrette-Ng et al., 2003). Being essentially indispensable to the maintenance and survival of their host organism, serine proteases play key roles in many biological processes.
  • Serine proteases are classically categorized by their substrate specificity, notably by whether the residue at P1: trypsin-like (Lys/Arg preferred at P1), chymotrypsin-like (large hydrophobic residues such as Phe/Tyr/Leu at P1), or elastase-like (small hydrophobic residues such as Ala/Val at P1) (revised by Tyndall et. al., 2005).
  • Serine proteases are a class of proteolytic enzymes whose central catalytic machinery is composed of three invariant residues, an aspartic acid, a histidine and a uniquely reactive serine, the latter giving rise to their name, the “catalytic triad”.
  • the Asp-His-Ser triad can be found in at least four different structural contexts (Hedstrom, 2002). These four clans of serine proteases are typified by chymotrypsin, subtilisin, carboxypeptidase Y, and Clp protease. The three serine proteases of the chymotrypsin-like clan that have been studied in greatest detail are chymotrypsin, trypsin, and elastase. More recently, serine proteases with novel catalytic triads and dyads have been discovered for their roles in digestion, including Ser-His-Glu, Ser-Lys/His, His-Ser-His, and N-terminal Ser.
  • peptidases All major types of peptidases have been described in nematodes. Aspartic peptidases have been described primarily in functions related to the digestion of nutrients. In invertebrates it is thought that, along with the cysteine peptidases, these have the same role as aspartic and serine peptidases in vertebrates. In parasitic nematodes, the cysteine peptidases cover virtually all functions in which peptidases are involved in parasitic nematodes. Accordingly, Cathepsins B and L are types of cysteine peptidases belonging to the papain family, and have been comprehensively studied in nematodes.
  • cysteine proteases One class of well-studied digestive enzymes found in the gut environment of insects and nematodes is the class of cysteine proteases.
  • cysteine proteases The term “cysteine protease” is intended to describe a protease that possesses a highly reactive thiol group of a cysteine residue at the catalytic site of the enzyme.
  • phytophagous insects and plant parasitic nematodes rely, at least in part, on midgut cysteine proteases for protein digestion.
  • Hemiptera especially squash bugs ( Anasa tristis ); green stink bug ( Acrosternum hilare ); Riptortus clavatus ; and almost all Coleoptera examined to date, especially, Colorado potato beetle ( Leptinotarsa deaemlineata ); three-lined potato beetle ( Lema trilineata ); asparagus beetle ( Crioceris asparagi ); Mexican bean beetle ( Epilachna varivestis ); red flour beetle ( Triolium castaneum ); confused flour beetle ( Tribolium confusum ); the flea beetles ( Chaetocnema spp., Haltica spp., and Epitrix spp.); corn rootworm ( Diabrotica Spp.); cowpea weevil ( Callosobruchus aculatue ); boll weevil ( Antonomus grandis ); rice weevil (
  • aspartic proteases Another class of digestive enzymes is the aspartic proteases.
  • the term “aspartic protease” is intended to describe a protease that possesses two highly reactive aspartic acid residues at the catalytic site of the enzyme and which is most often characterized by its specific inhibition with pepstatin, a low molecular weight inhibitor of nearly all known aspartic proteases.
  • pepstatin a low molecular weight inhibitor of nearly all known aspartic proteases.
  • Hemiptera especially ( Rhodnius prolixus ) and bedbug ( Cimex spp.) and members of the families Phymatidae, Pentatomidae, Lygaeidae and Belostomatidae; Coleoptera, in the families of the Meloidae, Chrysomelidae, Coccinelidae and Bruchidae all belonging to the series Cucujiformia, especially, Colorado potato beetle ( Leptinotarsa decemlineata ) three-lined potato beetle ( Lematri lineata ); southern and western corn rootworm ( Diabrotica undecimpunctata and D.
  • Hemiptera especially ( Rhodnius prolixus ) and bedbug ( Cimex spp.) and members of the families Phymatidae, Pentatomidae, Lygaeidae and Belostomatidae; Coleoptera, in the families of the Meloid
  • the present invention provides binary and tertiary peptides that act as substrates for human, insect and nematode proteinases, proteases and peptidases (collectively referred to herein as “proteases”) as described above.
  • binary peptides and tertiary peptides contain at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids comprised of 2 or 3 different regions. Accordingly, binary peptides have two different regions and tertiary peptides have three different regions.
  • the binary peptides and the tertiary peptides of the present invention are all cleavable by a human protease within one region and an insect and/or nematode protease in the second region.
  • Tertiary peptides differ from binary peptides in that they have an additional region called a spacer comprising 1 to 4 amino acids.
  • the spacer can be a “+2” or “plus-2” dipeptide comprising any two amino acids as described herein.
  • the first region of the binary and tertiary peptide is named “X” and “X” is a substrate for an insect and/or a nematode protease
  • the second region of the binary and tertiary peptide is called “Y”, which is a substrate for an animal for example, a human protease, for example, a human protease found in the human gastrointestinal system.
  • the tertiary peptides of the present invention have an X and Y region and the third region is called a spacer or “Z” region.
  • each of X and Y can be 2-4 amino acids in length, and Z can be 1-4 amino acids in length.
  • the binary and/or tertiary cleavable peptides cannot be cleaved by a plant protease, especially when the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is expressed in a plant, or part thereof.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein expressed by the plant cannot be cleaved by a plant protease in situ, but can be cleaved by a human or insect or nematode gut protease when the plant or part thereof expressing the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is ingested by the human or insect or nematode.
  • the binary peptide can comprise or consist of X( 2-4 )Y( 2-4 ), or Y( 2-4 )X( 2-4 ), and an exemplary tertiary peptide can comprise X( 2-4 )Y( 2-4 )Z( 1-4 ), or Z( 1-4 ) X( 2-4 )Y( 2-4 ), or Y( 2-4 )X( 2-4 )Z( 1-4 ), or Z( 1-4 )Y( 2-4 )X( 2-4 ), or Z( 1-4 )X( 2-4 )Y( 2-4 )Z( 1-4 ), or Z( 1-4 )Y( 2-4 )X( 2-4 )Z( 1-4 ), wherein each number in the parenthesis denotes the number of amino acids for that region.
  • X( 2-4 ) denotes an X region with two to four amino acids, for example, X 1 X 2 (two amino acids) or X 1 X 2 X 3 (three amino acids) or X 1 X 2 X 3 X 4 (four amino acids).
  • a binary peptide can include the amino acid sequence: X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 , Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -X 4 , Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -X 1 -X 2 , Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -X 4 , Y 1 -Y
  • Y 1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y;
  • Y 3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • exemplary X region peptide sequences i.e., peptide sequences that may be cleaved by one or more insect and/or nematode proteases found in the insect and/or nematode gut/hemolymph environment may include: AAG, AAK, AAR, AFG, AFK, AFR, AGF, AGI, AGK, AGL, AGN, AGQ, AGR, AGS, AGT, AGY, AIG, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AKG, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALG, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APF, APG, APK, APR, ARF, ARG, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASG, ASK, ASR, ATG, ATK, ATR, AVG
  • exemplary X region peptide sequences i.e., peptide sequences that may be cleaved by one or more insect and/or nematode proteases found in the insect and/or nematode gut/hemolymph environment may include: AAK, AAR, AFK, AFR, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APK, APR, ARF, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASK, ASR, ATK, ATR, AVK, AVR, AYK, AYR, DIK, DIR, DLK, DLR, EIK, EIR, ELK, ELR, IIK, IIR, IKA, IKF, IM, IKK, IKL
  • exemplary Y region peptide sequences i.e., peptide sequences that may be cleaved by one or more animal, for example human proteases found in the animal, for example, a human gastrointestinal environment may include: AFF, AFG, AFI, AFL, AFV, AFY, AGF, AGL, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALG, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFG, DFI, DFL, DFY, DGF, DGL, DIF, DLF, DLG, DLY, DYF, DYL, EFF, EFG, EFI, EFL, EFY, EGF, EGL, EIF, ELF, ELG, ELY, EYF, EYL, FF, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFG, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FGA, FGD, FGE
  • exemplary Y region peptide sequences i.e., peptide sequences that may be cleaved by one or more animal, for example a human protease found in the animal, for example, a human gastrointestinal environment may include: AFF, AFI, AFL, AFY, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFI, DFL, DFY, DIF, DLF, DLY, DYF, DYL, YFL, EFF, EFI, EFL, 0, EFY, EIF, ELF, ELY, EYF, EYL, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FYA, FYD, FYE, FYF, FYI, FYK, FYL, FYR, FYS, FYT, FYV, FYY, IFA, IFF, IFI, I
  • exemplary X or Y region peptide sequences i.e. peptide sequences that may be cleaved by one or more animal, for example, human protease found in the animal, for example, a human gastrointestinal environment, and one or more insect and/or nematode proteases found in the insect and/or nematode gut/hemolymph environment may include: AFG, AGF, AGL, ALG, DLG, ELG, GFK, GFR, IGF, IGL, ILG, LGA, LGF, LGI, LGL, LGV, LGY, LIG, LLG, NLG, QLG, VFG, VGF, VGL, or VLG.
  • a binary peptide of the present invention can comprise the formula: X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 - X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -
  • Y 1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y;
  • Y 3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • illustrative binary peptides comprise the following amino acid sequences: AFVRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1594), AKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1595), ALFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1596), ALFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1597), ALFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1598), ALFR (SEQ ID NO: 1599), ALFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1600), ALKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1601), ALKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1602), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), ALKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1604), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), FFADIK (SEQ ID NO: 1606), FFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1607), FFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1608), FFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1609), FFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1610), FGYRIK (SEQ ID NO: 1611), FLRL
  • exemplary binary peptides for use in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins, DNA constructs and incorporated into transgenic plants or parts thereof, of the present invention may include one or more cleavable binary peptides selected from the group of or consisting of: IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621).
  • IFVRLR SEQ ID NO: 1619
  • ALKLFV SEQ ID NO: 1605
  • ALKFLV SEQ ID NO: 1603
  • RRKAFV SEQ ID NO: 1644
  • LFAAPF SEQ ID NO: 1621
  • tertiary peptides can include all of the illustrative binary peptides illustrated above with the addition of 1 to 4 amino acids fused in frame to the N-terminus, the C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide.
  • the tertiary peptides of the present invention can include all of the illustrative binary peptides disclosed above having one, two, three or four amino acids fused in frame to the N-terminus, the C-terminus, or both termini of an exemplary binary peptide.
  • an illustrative tertiary peptide can include an X( 2-4 )Y( 2-4 ), or Y( 2-4 )X( 2-4 ), with the addition of a Z( 1-4 ) positioned in frame with the N-terminus, or the C-terminus or both termini, of a binary peptide as defined above.
  • various tertiary peptide examples can include the amino acid sequence: Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y
  • Y 1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y;
  • Y 3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • Specific exemplary tertiary peptides selected from the above groups of tertiary peptides are provided below.
  • the binary peptide can contain at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 8 amino acids, whereas the tertiary peptide can contain at least 5 amino acids up to a maximum of 16 amino acids.
  • cleavable binary linker peptides (L) comprising an X region and a Y region are described above, and exemplary Z regions (1-4 amino acid sequences, for example, 2 amino acid sequences) that may be fused in frame to the X and/or Y regions (either to the N-terminal sequence of an X or Y region, or the C-terminal sequence of an X or Y region) described above form the tertiary cleavable linking peptides.
  • Illustrative Z or spacer amino acid sequences may include: AA, AF, AM, AN, AQ, AV, AW, AY, DA, DD, DE, DF, DG, DI, DL, DP, DS, DT, DV, DW, DY, EA, ED, EE, EF, EG, EI, EL, EP, ES, ET, EV, EW, EY, FA, FD, FE, FF, FI, FK, FL, FM, FN, FQ, FR, FS, FT, FV, FW, FY, GA, GD, GE, GF, GI, GL, GM, GN, GQ, GS, GV, GW, GY, HA, HD, HE, HF, HH, HI, HK, HL, FIN, HP, HQ, HR, HS, HT, HV, HY, IA, ID, IE, IG, IH, II
  • individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is GS, WN, WQ, MA or MV.
  • the spacer portion of the tertiary peptide (Z region) comprises the amino acid sequence GS, which may be fused in frame to the N-terminus or C-terminus of the binary peptide or both.
  • exemplary binary peptides for use in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins, DNA constructs and incorporated into transgenic plants or parts thereof, of the present invention may include one or more cleavable tertiary peptides comprising, or selected from the group of, or consisting of: a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini with a Z region or spacer sequence, comprising, or selected from the group of, or consisting of: GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • IFVRLR SEQ ID NO: 1619
  • exemplary tertiary linking peptides (L) for use in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins, DNA constructs and incorporated into transgenic plants or parts thereof, of the present invention may include (ZXY or XYZ) comprising the following amino acid sequences: AFVRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1649), AKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1650), ALFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1651), ALFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1652), ALFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1653), ALFRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1654), ALFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1655), ALKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1656), ALKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1657), ALKFLVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1658), ALKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1659), ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660), FFADIKGS (SEQ ID NO:
  • a representative binary peptide of the present invention can include: IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621).
  • the present disclosure provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having a cleavable peptide (L) (a binary or a tertiary peptide) as described above fused in frame with an insecticidal or nematicidal toxic protein (TP).
  • L cleavable peptide
  • TP insecticidal or nematicidal toxic protein
  • the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable peptides, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising, consisting essentially of, or consisting of: (L-TP) n , or (L-TP) n -L, or (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n , wherein TP is a toxic peptide or protein, L is a binary or tertiary cleavable peptide, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein comprises an endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide (ERSP) fused in frame with: a binary peptide or tertiary peptide, which is fused in frame with an insecticidal and/or nematicidal toxic protein and/or a repeat construct (L-TP) n or (TP-L) n , wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10.
  • SFP endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a protein construct comprising: (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200.
  • TP is a toxic protein
  • L is a binary or tertiary peptide
  • n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the N-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its N-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable peptides, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a stabilizing domain (STA) fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • STA stabilizing domain
  • an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA), which is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, being fused to the N-terminus of a toxic protein, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • STA stabilizing domain
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct comprising: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (STA)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n .
  • an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, being fused to the N-terminus of a toxic protein, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct comprising: (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n .
  • TP is defined as a toxic protein, that is toxic to an insect and/or a nematode
  • L is a binary or tertiary peptide
  • n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10.
  • the C-terminal TP of a construct described herein and above is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the N-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its N-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the TP used in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can be a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs 5-1593 and 1761-1775, or a variant thereof.
  • the TP may be the same or different, and the linker (L) may be the same or different.
  • TPs useful in the various insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, polynucleotides and DNA constructs encoding these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, and transgenic plants or plant cells containing these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins include peptides having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof.
  • the binary and/or tertiary cleavable linking peptides may be linked, or fused, or coupled (i.e., connected in frame, and used interchangeably herein) with one or more additional components.
  • the binary and/or tertiary cleavable linking peptides are linked to an endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide (ERSP) as further described herein.
  • the N-terminus of an illustrative binary and/or tertiary cleavable linking peptide is linked to the C-terminus of the ERSP.
  • an ERSP refers to a short continuous stretch of amino acids residues at the amino-terminus of secreted and membrane-bound proteins.
  • the signal peptide targets the protein to the secretory pathway and is cleaved from the nascent chain once translocated in the endoplasmatic reticulum membrane.
  • the signal peptide consists of three regions: an amino-terminal polar region (N region), where frequently positive charged amino acid residues are observed, a central hydrophobic region (H region) of 7-8 amino acid residues and a carboxy-terminal region (C region) that includes the cleavage site. The cleavage of the signal peptide from the mature protein or polypeptide occurs at this cleavage site.
  • An exemplary ERSP is between 3 to 100 amino acids in length, or between 5 to 50 amino acids in length, or between 20 to 30 amino acids in length.
  • the ERSP is a signal peptide so called because it directs the transportation of a protein.
  • Signal peptides may also be called targeting signals, signal sequences, transit peptides, or localization signals.
  • the signal peptides for ER trafficking are often 15 to 30 amino acid residues in length and have a tripartite organization, comprised of a core of hydrophobic residues flanked by a positively charged amino terminal and a polar, but uncharged carboxy terminal region. (Zimmermann, et al., “Protein translocation across the ER membrane”, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2011, 1808: 912-924).
  • ERSPs are known. Many plant ERSPs are known. Many plant ERSPs are known. In various embodiments, illustrative ERSPs include the ERSP be derived from a plant ERSP. In some embodiments, illustrative ERSPs also include non-plant ERSPs, which are operable with the procedures described herein. Many plant ERSPs are however well known and certain exemplified plant derived ERSPs are useful in the present invention. As used herein, “plant ERSPs” include naturally occurring ERSPs from plant origin. They do not include non-plant originated ERSPs that have been transfected into plants or plant cells and expressed in plants.
  • a plant ERSP includes the barley alpha-amylase signal peptide (BAAS), for example, is derived from the plant, Hordeum vulgare , and has the amino acid sequence as follows: MANKHLSLSLFLVLLGLSASLASG (SEQ ID NO: 4).
  • BAAS barley alpha-amylase signal peptide
  • an exemplary ERSP can include a yeast ⁇ -mating factor prepro peptide signal leader consisting of a 19-amino acid signal (pre) sequence followed by a 67-residue (pro) sequence containing three consensus N-linked glycosylation sites and a dibasic Kex2 endopeptidase processing site.
  • an illustrative ERSP can include a mature yeast ⁇ -mating factor.
  • an exemplary yeast ⁇ -mating factor prepro peptide signal leader and mature yeast ⁇ -mating factor can be found in Pichia pastoris and Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strains.
  • Plant ERSPs which are selected from the genomic sequence for proteins that are known to be expressed and released into the apoplastic space of plants, and a few examples include: barley alpha-amylase signal peptide, carrot extensin, tobacco PR1.
  • barley alpha-amylase signal peptide carrot extensin
  • tobacco PR1 tobacco PR1.
  • De Loose, M. et al. “The extensin signal peptide allows secretion of a heterologous protein from protoplasts” Gene, 99 (1991) 95-100.
  • De Loose, M. et al. described the structural analysis of an extensin-encoding gene from Nicotiana plumbaginifolia , the sequence of which contains a typical signal peptide for translocation of the protein to the endoplasmic reticulum.
  • the ERSP can be a barley alpha-amylase signal peptide, or a tobacco extensin signal peptide, or a modified tobacco extensin signal peptide, or a Jun a 3 signal peptide of Juniperus ashei or J. ashei or a signal peptide of potato proteinase inhibitor (II) (pinII).
  • PCR primers operable to isolate the ERSP sequences from plants and other eukaryotic cells are known in the art and are commercially available.
  • the binary and/or tertiary cleavable linking peptides coupled to an ERSP is linked to the N-terminus of a toxic peptide (TP) (ERSP-TP).
  • TP toxic peptide
  • a TP of the present invention includes any polypeptide or protein having insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity when ingested by, in contact with, or injected into an insect or nematode respectively.
  • TPs that are polymers of amino acids, i.e., proteinaceous materials can be employed and synthesized as single units or multimers of the same TP species or a mixture of TP species contained within one transgenically expressed protein, wherein each of the plurality of TPs are flanked by one or two cleavable binary or tertiary peptides as described above.
  • exemplary classes of TPs useful in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins described herein can include: CRIP TPs, ICK TPs, non-ICK TPs, sea anemone peptides, TMOF peptides and Bt proteins.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present disclosure are non-natural, man-made constructs comprising at least one binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptide and at least one TP.
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present disclosure may be synthesized chemically, made recombinantly, and in some embodiments, are synthesized as an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein from a polynucleotide that is inserted into a yeast cell, a plant, plant tissue or is expressed under appropriate conditions in a plant, plant tissue or a plant seed.
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present disclosure include an ERSP.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins include an ERSP, two or more binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides and one or more TPs positioned adjacent to a binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides.
  • Other multimers and polymers comprising binary and/or tertiary cleavable linker peptides and TP subunits may be synthesized and are described further herein.
  • the multimers and polymers comprising binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides and TP subunits may also comprise an ERSP at the N-terminus of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, and may also comprise a stabilizing domain (STA).
  • STA may also include a TP, for example, an ICK TP. (See for example, FIGS. 3 A and 5 , 6 A and 6 C ).
  • a “construct” includes a polypeptide or protein that is made up of various polypeptide units, for example, ERSP, binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides, TPs and STA, each of these subunits are fused in frame and operable to be synthesized as a single protein.
  • ERSP binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides
  • TPs binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides
  • STA for stabilization domain.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present invention may comprise TPs that may be the same or they may be different.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present invention may comprise binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides that may be the same or different.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present invention may have the same types of TPs fused with the same type of linkers, as described in the various examples of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins disclosed and illustrated herein, and as represented by the various constructs, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and polynucleotides encoding all of the aforementioned insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present invention.
  • the TP in the case where a DNA construct or a polynucleotide contains an open reading frame with a single TP, the TP can include Bt TPs, in addition to all of the other described TPs, with the proviso that if the DNA construct or polynucleotide contains an open reading frame containing two or more TPs, the two or more TPs cannot be Bt TPs.
  • TPs include the Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Proteins (CRIPS).
  • the CRIPS have 4, 6 or 8 cysteines and 2, 3 or 4 disulfide bonds.
  • One example of this class of TPs are called inhibitor cysteine knot (ICK) motif protein.
  • ICK motif TPs are a class of proteins with at least six cysteine residues that form a specific ICK tertiary structure. Covalent cross-linking of the cysteine residues in the ICK motif TPs form disulfide bridges that result in a tertiary structures that makes the protein relatively resistant to proteases and sometimes to extreme physical conditions (pH, temperature, UV light, etc.), and confers activity against ion channels, which may be specific to insects.
  • ICK motif TPs have evolved in the venom of invertebrates and vertebrates that use the ICK motif TPs as a toxin to immobilize or kill their predators or prey.
  • Such insecticidal peptides often have scorpion, spider and sometimes snake origins.
  • toxic peptides can be directed to the insect's gut or to internal organs by injection.
  • the delivery of TPs is usually via the insect's consumption of insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein expressed in plant tissue.
  • the ICK motif TP may have the ability to inhibit the growth, impair the movement, or even kill an insect.
  • ICK motif TPs have been shown by others to lose their toxicity when they are expressed in plants. Unless the ICK motif TP is expressed as a properly folded protein it cannot successfully protect a plant or crop from insect damage. In some cases a plant expressed peptide will need to be activated by cleavage within the insect or during expression process in a plant in order to be active. Plant expressed inhibitory cysteine knot (ICK) motif proteins from spiders and scorpions have been described (Khan et al., Transgenic Res., 2006, 15: 349-357; Hernandez-Campuzano et al., Toxicon.
  • ICK Plant expressed inhibitory cysteine knot
  • ICK motif TP or “inhibitor cystine knot motif protein”, which is a 16 to 60 amino acid peptide with at least 6 half-cysteine core amino acids having three disulfide bridges, wherein the 3 disulfide bridges are covalent bonds and of the six half-cystine residues the covalent disulfide bonds are between the first and fourth, the second and fifth, and the third and sixth half-cystines, of the six core half-cystine amino acids starting from the N-terminal amino acid.
  • the ICK motif TP also comprises a beta-hairpin secondary structure, normally composed of residues situated between the fourth and sixth core half-cysteines of the motif, the hairpin being stabilized by the structural crosslinking provided by the motif's three disulfide bonds. Note that additional cysteine/cysteine or half-cystine amino acids may be present within the inhibitor cysteine knot motif.
  • the ICK motif is common in peptides isolated from the venom of numerous species. Invertebrate species include spiders, scorpions, cone snail, sea anemone etc., other examples are numerous, even snake venom has been known to have peptides having the ICK motif.
  • An example of ICK TPs include ACTX peptides (for example, a U-ACTX peptide, an Omega-ACTX peptide or a Kappa-ACTX peptide) from the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider.
  • Other ICK proteins described herein may be used to synthesize insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins described herein.
  • TPs with the ICK motif can be found in the following references.
  • the N-type calcium channel blocker w-Conotoxin was reviewed by Lew, M. J. et al. “Structure-Function Relationships of w-Conotoxin GVIA” Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 272, No. 18, Issue of May 2, pp. 12014-12023, 1997.
  • a summary of numerous arthropod toxic peptides from different spider and scorpion species was reviewed in, Quintero-Hernandez, V. et al. “Scorpion and Spider Venom Peptides: Gene Cloning and Peptide Expression” Toxicon, 58, pp. 644-663, 2011.
  • ICK motif TPs have between 26-60 amino acids in length. Some ICK motif TPs are between 16-48 amino acids in length. Some ICK motif TPs are between 26-48 amino acids in length. Some ICK motif TPs are between 30-44 amino acids in length. ICK motif TPs with natural insecticidal activity are preferred but ICK motif TPs with other types of activity such as salt and frost resistance are known to those skilled in the art and are claimed herein. Examples of ICK motif TPs include the ACTX peptides and genes, and including all of the peptides and their coding genes known as Magi6.
  • ICK motif TPs and peptides disclosed for purposes of providing examples and not intended to be limiting in any way, are the TPs and their homologs and peptide variants thereof as described above.
  • some preferred TPs are those particular peptides and nucleotides which originate from the venoms of Australian Funnel-web spiders.
  • illustrative TPs for use in the preparation of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, composition, insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, or polynucleotide encoding the same can include one or more TPs selected from the group: U-ACTX TPs, Kappa-ACTX TPs and Omega-ACTX TPs and polynucleotides encoding the same.
  • U-ACTX TPs U-ACTX TPs
  • Kappa-ACTX TPs Kappa-ACTX TPs
  • Omega-ACTX TPs Omega-ACTX
  • EP patent 1 812 464 B1 published and granted Aug. 10, 2008, see Bulletin 2008/41, specifically the peptide and nucleotide sequences listed in the sequence listing, and those the other toxins that can form 2 to 4 intra-chain disulfide bridges, and those sequences listed there as 1-39, and sequences named U-ACTX polypeptides, and variants thereof, and the peptides appearing in paragraphs 0023 to 0055, and appearing in FIG. 1 of EP patent 1 812 464 B1, the disclosures of all of the specifically enumerated patent references are incorporated by reference herein in their entireties.
  • TPs including the following: peptides and variants thereof found in, isolated from, or derived from spiders of the genus Atrax or Hadronyche , including the genus species, Hadronyche versuta , or the Blue Mountain funnel web spider, Atrax robustus, Atrax formidabilis, Atrax infensus , including TPs known as U-ACTX polypeptides, which include: U-ACTX-Hv1a, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or mutants or variants, especially peptides of any of these types and especially those less than about 200 amino acids but greater than about 10 amino acids, and especially peptides less than about 150 amino acids but greater than about 20 amino acids, especially peptides less than about 100 amino acids but greater than about 25 amino
  • the U peptides from the Australian Funnel Web Spider, genus Atrax and Hadronyche are particularly suitable and work well when treated by the methods, procedures or processes described by this invention. Examples of such suitable peptides tested and with data are provided herein.
  • the following species are also specifically known to carry toxic peptides suitable for plant expression as insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins by the methods disclosed in this invention. The following species are specifically named: Atrax formidabillis, Atrax infensus, Atrax robustus, Hadronyche infensa, Hadronyche versuta .
  • TPs derived from any of the genus and species listed above and/or genus species and may be homologous to the U peptide are suitable for plant expression as insecticidal and nematicidal proteins according to the present invention.
  • Other TPs suitable for use in the various insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins described herein, include: Kappa ACTX TPs, Omega-ACTX TPs and U-ACTX TPs.
  • specific TPs can be cloned into proper expression vectors and along with the ERSP and cleavable linking groups disclosed herein can be made into an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein suitable for transforming a plant, or a part thereof, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be formulated with appropriate excipients to be applied to the surface of a plant, or plant part.
  • a suitable TP can include an ICK motif TP: QYCVP VDQPC SLNTQ PCCDD ATCTQ ERNEN GHTVYYCRA (SEQ ID NO: 6), named “U-ACTX-Hv1a,” it has disulfide bridges at positions: 3-18, 10-23, 17-37. The molecular weight is 4426.84 Daltons.
  • specific TPs can be cloned into proper expression vectors and along with the ERSP and cleavable linking groups disclosed herein can be made into an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein suitable for transforming a plant, or a part thereof, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be formulated with appropriate excipients to be applied to the surface of a plant, or plant part.
  • a suitable TP can include an ICK motif TP: GSQYC VPVDQ PCSLN TQPCC DDATC TQERN ENGHT VYYCR A (SEQ ID NO: 5), named “U+2-ACTX-Hv1a,” it has disulfide bridges at positions: 5-20, 12-25, 19-39. The molecular weight is 4564.85 Daltons.
  • ICK TPs useful in the various insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, polynucleotides and DNA constructs encoding these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, and transgenic plants or plant cells containing these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins include peptides or proteins having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • ICK TPs useful in the various insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, polynucleotides and DNA constructs encoding these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, and transgenic plants or plant cells containing these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins include peptides or proteins having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof.
  • illustrative TPs can also include those TPs expressed, or isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis , (Bt).
  • Bacillus thuringiensis This ubiquitous Gram-positive spore-forming bacterium provides a valuable resource due to its ability to synthesize crystal parasporal inclusions during sporulation.
  • These crystals, which include insecticidal proteins called ⁇ -endotoxins have been extensively used as biological insecticides against insect pests of commercial interest.
  • Bt crystal toxins include the Cry proteins (crystal toxins) and Cyt proteins (cytolytic toxins). The Cry toxins are important virulence factors allowing for the development of the bacterium in dead or weakened insect larvae.
  • Cyt toxins have in vitro cytolytic activity, in addition to in vivo activity against various insects including mosquitos [5]. Cyt toxins which are active against certain Diptera, synergize the toxicity of Cry proteins against mosquitoes and delay the expression of resistance to the latter Bt proteins, or Bt peptides (collectively referred to herein as Bt TPs), are effective insecticides used for crop protection in the form of both plant incorporated protectants and foliar sprays. Commercial formulations of Bt proteins are widely used to control insects at the larval stage.
  • the Bt Cry and Cyt proteins require solubilization in the insect midgut to produce protoxins that are typically about 130 kDa, 70 kDa or 27 kDa for Cyt. These in turn are proteolytically cleaved at the C-terminus and/or at the N-terminus by midgut proteases, generating the activated core toxin. Cry protoxins are proteolytically activated to produce the mature active toxin. Processing of the Cry protoxin into its active form is essential for toxin activity. Processing is mediated by insect proteases that cleave the protoxin polypeptide at specific sequences.
  • the toxin then crosses the peritrophic matrix and binds to receptors in the apical membrane of the midgut cells, with receptor binding being an important determinant of toxin specificity.
  • Toxin insertion into the epithelial membrane forms ion channels or pores, leading to lysis of the cells, damage to the midgut epithelial tissue, and death of the larva.
  • the major gut proteases are of the serine type, while in Coleoptera the major proteases are cysteine and aspartic proteases, although some use cathepsin G serine proteases.
  • insects Since activation is a crucial step to achieve toxicity, it has been suggested that the type and/or abundance of insect proteases is important in contributing to toxin specificity. In some cases, certain insects lack the ability to cleave the inactive portion from the activated or “active” portion of the Bt TP.
  • the present invention provides for certain insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins that have a binary or tertiary cleavable linker positioned between the inactive portion and the activated or “active” portion of the Bt TP (See FIG.
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins that include multiple copies (for example, 2-10 copies of the Bt TP having an intervening cleavable linker positioned between the inactive and active portions of the Bt TP) in the form of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and polynucleotides that encode the Bt TPs and insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins referenced above.
  • the TP in the case where a DNA construct or a polynucleotide contains an open reading frame with a single TP, the TP can include Bt TPs, in addition to all of the other described TPs, with the proviso that if the DNA construct or polynucleotide contains an open reading frame containing two or more TPs, the two or more TPs cannot be two or more Bt TPs.
  • Bt TPs can include peptides where the Bt Protein is a Cry or Cyt protein, and/or the Bt Protein is selected from the group consisting of a Cry1, Cry3, TIC851, CryET70, Cry22, TIC901, TIC201, TIC407, TIC417, a binary insecticidal protein CryET80, and CryET76, a binary insecticidal protein TIC100 and TIC101, a combination of an insecticidal protein ET29 or ET37 with an insecticidal protein TIC810 or TIC812 and a binary insecticidal protein PS149B1.
  • the Bt TP can be selected from a Cry protein, a Cry1A protein or a Cry1F protein, or a combination Cry1F-Cry1A protein, or it comprises an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NOs: 10, 12, 14, 26, 28, or 34 of U.S. Pat. No. 7,304,206.
  • a transgenic plant wherein the Bt TP is Dipel and we describe a transgenic plant wherein the Bt TP is Thuricide.
  • a Cry Bt TP called Cry51 is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No.
  • This Cry Bt TP is insecticidal against the genus of lygus plant-feeding insects.
  • the exemplified Cry Bt TP is useful in the present invention, for example, as a TP in an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, or a plant or plant part thereof comprising said insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptide and protein, for example a plant cell, a plant tissue or plant seed.
  • isolated nucleic acid molecules corresponding to Bt TP encoding nucleic acid sequences are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed.
  • the present invention provides for an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence shown in US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference.
  • Nucleotide sequences encoding the proteins of the present invention include the sequences set forth in US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, including SEQ ID NOs: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, or 17, and variants, fragments, and complementary nucleotide sequences thereof of US 2009/0099081 are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
  • the term “complementary sequence” is intended a nucleotide sequence that is sufficiently complementary to a given nucleotide sequence such that it can hybridize to the given nucleotide sequence to thereby form a stable duplex.
  • Illustrative Bt protein amino acid sequences that may be used as a TP for the compositions, transgenic molecules (polynucleotides and proteins) are set forth in the present disclosure set forth as SEQ ID NOs: 33-533.
  • Nucleic acid molecules that are fragments of these Bt protein encoding nucleotide sequences are also encompassed by the present invention (for example, US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference from US 2009/0099081.
  • SEQ ID NO: 8 is a fragment of SEQ ID NOs: 4 and 12;
  • SEQ ID NO: 4 is a fragment of SEQ ID NO: 2 as disclosed in US 2009/0099081).
  • fragment is intended a portion of the nucleotide sequence encoding a Bt protein.
  • a fragment of a nucleotide sequence may encode a biologically active portion of a Bt protein, or it may be a fragment that can be used as a hybridization probe or PCR primer using methods disclosed below.
  • Nucleic acid molecules that are fragments of a Bt protein nucleotide sequence comprise at least about 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1050, 1100, 1150, 1200, 1250, 1300, 1350, 1400, 1450, 1500, 1550, 1600, 1650, 1700, 1750, 1800, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1885 contiguous nucleotides, or up to the number of nucleotides present in a full-length Bt-protein encoding nucleotide sequence disclosed herein (for example, 1890 nucleotides for US 2009/0099081, published on Apr.
  • SEQ ID NOs: 1 and 2 1806 nucleotides for SEQ ID NO: 4, 1743 nucleotides for SEQ ID NOs: 6, 7, 8, and 16, 1809 nucleotides for SEQ ID NO: 10, and 1752 nucleotides for SEQ ID NOs: 12 and 14, in the sequence listing of US 2009/0099081).
  • contiguous nucleotides is intended nucleotide residues that are immediately adjacent to one another. Fragments of the nucleotide sequences of the present invention will encode protein fragments that retain the biological activity of the Bt protein and, hence, retain pesticidal activity.
  • the fragment will have at least about 30%, at least about 50%, at least about 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or higher of the pesticidal activity of the Bt protein.
  • Methods for measuring pesticidal activity are well known in the art. See, for example, Czapla and Lang (1990) J. Econ. Entomol. 83:2480-2485; Andrews et al. (1988) Biochem. J. 252:199-206; Marrone et al. (1985) J. of Economic Entomology 78:290-293; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,743,477, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference.
  • a fragment of a Bt protein encoding nucleotide sequence that encodes a biologically active portion of a protein of the invention will encode at least about 15, 25, 30, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500, 550, 560, 570, 575, 580, 585, 590, 595, 600 contiguous amino acids, or up to the total number of amino acids present in a full-length Bt protein of the invention (for example, 580 amino acids for SEQ ID NO: 41, 602 amino acids for SEQ ID NO: 43, and 583 amino acids for SEQ ID NOs: 45 and 47).
  • Preferred Bt protein proteins of the present invention are encoded by a nucleotide sequence sufficiently identical to the nucleotide sequence of US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference, sequences 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, or 17.
  • “sufficiently identical” is intended an amino acid or nucleotide sequence that has at least about 60% or 65% sequence identity, about 70% or 75% sequence identity, about 80% or 85% sequence identity, about 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99% or greater sequence identity compared to a reference sequence using one of the alignment programs described herein using standard parameters.
  • these values can be appropriately adjusted to determine corresponding identity of proteins encoded by two nucleotide sequences by taking into account codon degeneracy, amino acid similarity, reading frame positioning, and the like.
  • the invention also encompasses variant nucleic acid molecules (for example, US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference, sequence 2 is a variant of sequence 1; sequences 7 and 8 are variants of sequence 6; sequence 10 is a variant of sequences 4 and 12; and sequence 14 is a variant of sequence 12).
  • “Variants” of the Bt protein encoding nucleotide sequences include those sequences that encode the Bt protein disclosed herein but that differ conservatively because of the degeneracy of the genetic code as well as those that are sufficiently identical as discussed above.
  • Naturally occurring allelic variants can be identified with the use of well-known molecular biology techniques, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and hybridization techniques as outlined below.
  • Variant nucleotide sequences also include synthetically derived nucleotide sequences that have been generated, for example, by using site-directed mutagenesis but which still encode the Bt proteins disclosed in the present invention as discussed below.
  • Variant proteins encompassed by the present invention are biologically active, that is they continue to possess the desired biological activity of the native protein that is, retaining insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity (also known as pesticidal activity).
  • the variant will have at least about 30%, or at least about 40%, or at least about 50%, or at least about 60%, or at least about 70%, or at least about 80%, or at least about 90% of the pesticidal activity of the native protein.
  • Methods for measuring pesticidal activity are well known in the art. See, for example, Czapla and Lang (1990) J. Econ. Entomol. 83: 2480-2485; Andrews et al. (1988) Biochem. J. 252:199-206; Marrone et al. (1985) J. of Economic Entomology 78:290-293; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,743,477, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference.
  • some TPs that can be employed in the design and synthesis of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins containing cleavable linking molecules can include one or more synthetic axmi-004 Bt protein sequences, such as those disclosed in US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference, (sequence 1) and synaxmi-004B (sequence 2). These synthetic sequences have an altered DNA sequence relative to the axmi-004 sequence (sequence 3) recited in U.S. Pat.
  • synaxmi-004B-2M (sequence 4) was designated and encodes the axmi-004 alternate start site (herein referred to as axmi-004B-2M and set forth in sequence 5) originally identified in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/782,020.
  • TPs included as possible designated axmi-004B-3M (US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference, sequence 16) and encodes the AXMI-004B-3M amino acid sequence set forth in sequence 9.
  • Synthetic sequences encoding the AXMI-004B-3M protein were also designated. These synthetic nucleotide sequences were designated synaxmi-004B-3M, synaxmi-004C-3M, and synaxmi-004D-3M and are set forth in sequences 6, 7, and 8, respectively.
  • modified versions of the nucleotide sequence encoding AXMI-004B-3M protein were designed such that additional N-terminal residues are added to the encoded protein.
  • These sequence are designated synaxmi-004B-3M-alt1 (US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, sequence 10), synaxmi-004B-3M-alt2 (sequence 12), synaxmi-004B-3M-alt3 (sequence 14), and synaxmi-004B-3M-alt4 (sequence 17).
  • the encoded proteins are designated AXMI-004B-3M-ALT1 (sequence 11), AXMI-004B-3M-ALT2 (sequence 13), AXMI-004B-3M-ALT3 (sequence 15), and AXMI-004B-3M-ALT4 (sequence 18).
  • sequence listing of the present disclosure includes exemplary Bt TP amino acid sequences SEQ ID NOs: 33-533. These amino acid sequences include examples of Bt protein Cry and Cyt protein sequences. Examples are numerous and one skilled in the art would know of many other examples of various Bt sequences that are suitable substitutes for those in this disclosure.
  • another source of TPs can include: Trypsin modulating oostatic factor (TMOF) peptides.
  • TMOF peptides have to be delivered to their physiological site of action in various ways, and TMOF peptides have been identified as a potential larvicides, with great potential, see D. Borovsky, Journal of Experimental Biology 206, 3869-3875, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • illustrative TPs include the ICK motif TP which can be any polypeptide or protein with the ICK motif ranging in length between 16 and 60 amino acids, with at least 6 cysteine residues that create covalent cross-linking disulfide bonds in the proper order.
  • illustrative TPs include the CRIP TPs for example the ICK TPs for example, an ICK TP derived from, or originates from, Hadronyche versuta, or the Blue Mountain funnel web spider, Atrax robustus, Atrax formidabilis, Atrax infensus , including TPs known as U-ACTX polypeptides, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or mutants or variants, Omega-ACTX polypeptides and variants and Kappa-ACTX polypeptides and variants.
  • CRIP TPs for example the ICK TPs for example, an ICK TP derived from, or originates from, Hadronyche versuta, or the Blue Mountain funnel web spider, Atrax robustus, Atrax formidabilis, Atrax infensus , including TPs known as U-ACTX polypeptides, U-ACTX-Hv1a
  • illustrative CRIP TPs include a Non-ICK CRIP TP, for example, a Non-ICK CRIP TP derived from, or originates from, animals having Non-ICK CRIPS such as sea anemones, sea urchins and sea slugs and variants thereof.
  • a Non-ICK CRIP TP can be a TP derived from the sea anemone named Anemonia viridi , optionally including the TPs named Av2 and Av3 especially TPs similar to Av2 and Av3 including such peptides listed in the sequence listing of the present application or mutants or variants thereof.
  • TPs that can be used in the recombinant constructs and insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and plants described herein can include one or more of an ACTX protein, and/or a TMOF protein.
  • TMOF motif or “TMOF proteins” include trypsin modulating oostatic factor peptide.
  • TMOF TPs Numerous examples and variants of TMOF TPs are provided.
  • SEQ ID NO: 708 in the present application is an exemplary wild type TMOF sequence.
  • Other non-limiting variants are provided in SEQ ID NOs: 709-721.
  • Other examples are known or could be created guided by the knowledge known in the field by one skilled in the art.
  • a representative Bt toxic protein can include a cleavable Bt TP as provided herein that comprises a binary or tertiary peptide inserted between the active and inactive portions of the Bt TP.
  • a binary or tertiary peptide is inserted between the cleavable pro inactive portion of the peptide and mature active portion of the peptide.
  • a Bt TP includes a stabilizing domain fused in frame with a binary or tertiary peptide of the present invention which is fused in frame with the active portion of the Bt TP.
  • the Bt TPs are frequently written as “cry”, “cyt” or “VIP” proteins encoded by the cry, cyt and vip genes. Bt TPs are more usually attributed to insecticidal crystal proteins encoded by the cry genes. Bt TPs are examples of PFIPS (Pore Forming Insecticidal Proteins).
  • an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may include a protein that includes two or more binary or tertiary peptides and at least one Bt TP fused in frame with the one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein useful to provide insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions when ingested and exposed to gut or hemolymph environments can contain a Bt TP and/or a cleavable Bt TP as described above, and further exemplified herein, containing a binary or tertiary peptide inserted between the cleavable pro (inactive) portion of the TP and mature (active) portion of the TP.
  • a binary or tertiary peptide when inserted between the cleavable pro inactive portion of the Bt TP and mature active portion of the Bt TP provides a cleavable Bt TP that upon ingestion and contact with an insect or nematode gut protease results in the cleavage of the cleavable Bt TP (See FIG. 3 B ).
  • an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing cleavable and/or non-cleavable Bt TPs can be encoded by a DNA construct that when transformed into plants, or parts thereof, or when applied directly to the surface of plants provide insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity when the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is ingested and exposed to the gut and/or hemolymph environment of a target insect and/or nematode.
  • TPs identified herein are variants or mutant peptides and proteins of the TP amino acid sequences mentioned above, specifically, peptides and proteins having an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775, having homology or sequence identity to such sequences or referred to herein, which are also identified and claimed as suitable for making special according to the processes described herein, including all homologous sequences having at least any of the following percent identities to any of the sequences disclosed here or to any sequence incorporated by reference: 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater amino acid sequence identity or 100% amino acid sequence identity to any and all sequences identified in the patents noted above, and to any other sequence identified herein, including each and every sequence in the sequence listing of this application.
  • homologous or homology when used herein with a number such as 50% or greater, then what is meant is percent identity or percent similarity between the two peptides.
  • percent identity or percent similarity when used without a numeric percent then it refers to two peptide sequences that are closely related in the evolutionary or developmental aspect in that they share common physical and functional aspects, like topical toxicity and similar size (i.e., the homolog being within 100% greater length or 50% shorter length of the peptide specifically mentioned herein or identified by reference herein as above).
  • TPs of the present invention also include variants of TPs specifically disclosed or described herein,
  • variant means a polypeptide or protein having insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity comprising an alteration, i.e., a substitution, insertion, and/or deletion, at one or more (e.g., several) positions.
  • a substitution means replacement of the amino acid occupying a position with a different amino acid;
  • a deletion means removal of the amino acid occupying a position;
  • an insertion means adding an amino acid adjacent to and immediately following the amino acid occupying a position.
  • the TP variants of the present invention have at least 20%, e.g., at least 40%, at least 50%, at least 60%, at least 70%, at least 80%, at least 90%, at least 95%, or at least 100% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the polypeptides and proteins of SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775 and the other specifically identified TPs disclosed herein.
  • the variants of the present invention have at least 20%, e.g., at least 40%, at least 50%, at least 60%, at least 70%, at least 80%, at least 90%, at least 95%, or at least 100% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of any one polypeptide or protein of SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • TPs may also include variant TP peptides and proteins encoded by a polynucleotide having one or more point mutations, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 point mutations or more, such that when the mutated TP encoding polynucleotide is transcribed and/or translated, the expressed mutated TP peptide or protein retains insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity that is at least: 90%, or 80%, or 70%, or 60%, or 50% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the peptide or protein encoded by the corresponding non-mutated TP polynucleotide.
  • TPs of the present invention may also include TP peptides and proteins that have at least 80%, or at least 85%, or at least 90%, or at least 95%, or at least 96% or at least 97% or at least 98% or at least 99% amino acid sequence identity to any TP disclosed in SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775, and still retains at least: 95%, or 90%, or 80%, or 70%, or 60%, or 50% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the corresponding TP set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • the variant TPs may further comprise one or more additional substitutions at one or more (e.g., several) other positions.
  • the amino acid changes may be of a minor nature, that is conservative amino acid substitutions or insertions that do not significantly affect the folding and/or activity of the peptide or the protein; small deletions, typically of 1-30 amino acids; small amino- or carboxyl-terminal extensions, such as an amino-terminal methionine residue; or a small extension that facilitates purification by changing net charge or another function, such as a poly-histidine tract, an antigenic epitope or a binding domain.
  • conservative substitutions are within the groups of basic amino acids (arginine, lysine and histidine), acidic amino acids (glutamic acid and aspartic acid), polar amino acids (glutamine and asparagine), hydrophobic amino acids (leucine, isoleucine and valine), aromatic amino acids (phenylalanine, tryptophan and tyrosine), and small amino acids (glycine, alanine, serine, threonine and methionine).
  • Amino acid substitutions that do not generally alter specific activity are known in the art and are described, for example, by H. Neurath and R. L. Hill, 1979, In, The Proteins, Academic Press, New York.
  • amino acid changes are of such a nature that the physico-chemical properties of the polypeptides are altered.
  • amino acid changes may improve the thermal stability of the polypeptide, alter the substrate specificity, change the pH optimum, and the like.
  • Essential amino acids in a peptide or protein can be identified according to procedures known in the art, such as site-directed mutagenesis or alanine-scanning mutagenesis (Cunningham and Wells, 1989, Science 244:1081-1085). In the latter technique, single alanine mutations are introduced at every residue in the molecule, and the resultant mutant molecules are tested for insecticidal or nematicidal activity to identify amino acid residues that are critical to the activity of the molecule. See also, Hilton et al., 1996, J. Biol. Chem. 271: 4699-4708.
  • the active site of insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptide or protein or other biological interaction can also be determined by physical analysis of structure, as determined by such techniques as nuclear magnetic resonance, crystallography, electron diffraction, or photoaffinity labeling, in conjunction with mutation of putative contact site amino acids. See, for example, de Vos et al., 1992, Science 255:306-312; Smith et al., 1992, J. Mol. Biol. 224:899-904; Wlodaver et al., 1992, FEBS Lett. 309:59-64.
  • the identity of essential amino acids can also be inferred from an alignment with a related TP peptide or protein as disclosed herein and/or as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • TPs of the present invention may also include TP peptides and proteins having 1-6 amino acid extensions fused in frame to the N-terminus or C-terminus or both termini of any TP described herein, for example a TP having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • the variants can be prepared using any mutagenesis procedure known in the art, such as site-directed mutagenesis, synthetic gene construction, semi-synthetic gene construction, random mutagenesis, shuffling, etc.
  • Site-directed mutagenesis is a technique in which one or more (e.g., several) mutations are introduced at one or more defined sites in a polynucleotide encoding the parent.
  • Site-directed mutagenesis can be accomplished in vitro by PCR involving the use of oligonucleotide primers containing the desired mutation.
  • Site-directed mutagenesis can also be performed in vitro by cassette mutagenesis involving the cleavage by a restriction enzyme at a site in the plasmid comprising a polynucleotide encoding the parent and subsequent ligation of an oligonucleotide containing the mutation in the polynucleotide.
  • restriction enzyme that digests the plasmid and the oligonucleotide is the same, permitting sticky ends of the plasmid and the insert to ligate to one another.
  • Site-directed mutagenesis can also be accomplished in vivo by methods known in the art. See, e.g., U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0171154; Storici et al., 2001, Nature Biotechnol.
  • Synthetic gene construction entails in vitro synthesis of a designed polynucleotide molecule to encode a polypeptide of interest. Gene synthesis can be performed utilizing a number of techniques, such as the multiplex microchip-based technology described by Tian et al. (2004, Nature 432:1050-1054) and similar technologies wherein oligonucleotides are synthesized and assembled upon photo-programmable microfluidic chips.
  • Single or multiple amino acid substitutions, deletions, and/or insertions can be made and tested using known methods of mutagenesis, recombination, and/or shuffling, followed by a relevant screening procedure, such as those disclosed by Reidhaar-Olson and Sauer, 1988, Science 241:53-57; Bowie and Sauer, 1989, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:2152-2156; WO 95/17413; or WO 95/22625.
  • Other methods that can be used include error-prone PCR, phage display (e.g., Lowman et al., 1991, Biochemistry 30:10832-10837; U.S. Pat. No. 5,223,409; WO 92/06204) and region-directed mutagenesis (Derbyshire et al., 1986, Gene 46:145; Ner et al., 1988, DNA 7:127).
  • Mutagenesis/shuffling methods can be combined with high-throughput, automated screening methods to detect activity of cloned, mutagenized polypeptides expressed by host cells (Ness et al., 1999, Nature Biotechnology 17:893-896). Mutagenized DNA molecules that encode active polypeptides can be recovered from the host cells and rapidly sequenced using standard methods in the art. These methods allow the rapid determination of the importance of individual amino acid residues in a peptide or protein.
  • Semi-synthetic gene construction is accomplished by combining aspects of synthetic gene construction, and/or site-directed mutagenesis, and/or random mutagenesis, and/or shuffling.
  • Semi-synthetic construction is typified by a process utilizing polynucleotide fragments that are synthesized, in combination with PCR techniques. Defined regions of genes may thus be synthesized de novo, while other regions may be amplified using site-specific mutagenic primers, while yet other regions may be subjected to error-prone PCR or non-error prone PCR amplification. Polynucleotide subsequences may then be shuffled.
  • TPs of the present invention also encompass (includes within its definition) variant and mutant and mutated TPs as described above within the definition of a TP or toxic peptide.
  • a TP specifically described herein include any TP having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775, any TP recited in any patent or non-patent reference described herein and any variant or mutant or mutated peptide or protein thereof.
  • an insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins described herein include a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof.
  • the present invention provides insecticidal and nematicidal polypeptides, proteins and DNA constructs and polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides and proteins.
  • DNA constructs encoding such insecticidal and nematicidal polypeptides, and proteins may encompass a single polynucleotide containing the open reading frame (ORF) encoding one long fusion protein, or may encompass a number of polynucleotides which when provided in a vector enables the transcription of mRNA that encodes such insecticidal and nematicidal polypeptides as described herein.
  • a DNA construct of the present invention can include a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes: an insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, the binary or a tertiary peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions.
  • the binary or a tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect and/or nematode gut protease.
  • the binary or a tertiary peptide is operably fused (i.e. fused in frame) to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) as described herein and is operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP, for example a CRIP TP. (See for example, FIGS. 4 - 6 C ).
  • TPs useful in the manufacture of are combinant insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino
  • an illustrative DNA construct encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be codon optimized for the species in which the DNA construct will be introduced.
  • the DNA construct can be codon optimized for expression and replication in plant cells.
  • the DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide that encodes a binary peptide comprising the amino acid sequence: X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , Y 1 -Y 2 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , Y 1 -Y 2 -X 1 -
  • Y 1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y;
  • Y 3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • an illustrative DNA construct may encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising one or more illustrative binary peptides (XY or YX).
  • an exemplary DNA construct may encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a cleavable binary peptide having the following amino acid sequence: AFVRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1594), AKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1595), ALFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1596), ALFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1597), ALFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1598), ALFR (SEQ ID NO: 1599), ALFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1600), ALKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1601), ALKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1602), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), ALKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1604), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), FFADIK (SEQ ID NO: 1594),
  • an exemplary DNA construct may encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a cleavable tertiary peptide having the following amino acid sequence construct: Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1
  • Y 1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y;
  • Y 3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • cleavable binary linker peptides (L) comprising an X region and a Y region are described above, and exemplary Z regions (1-4 amino acid sequences, for example, 2 amino acid sequences) that may be fused in frame to the X and/or Y regions (either to the N-terminal sequence of an X or Y region, or the C-terminal sequence of an X or Y region) described above form the tertiary cleavable linking peptides.
  • Illustrative Z or spacer amino acid sequences may include: AA, AF, AM, AN, AQ, AV, AW, AY, DA, DD, DE, DF, DG, DI, DL, DP, DS, DT, DV, DW, DY, EA, ED, EE, EF, EG, EI, EL, EP, ES, ET, EV, EW, EY, FA, FD, FE, FF, FI, FK, FL, FM, FN, FQ, FR, FS, FT, FV, FW, FY, GA, GD, GE, GF, GI, GL, GM, GN, GQ, GS, GV, GW, GY, HA, HD, HE, HF, HH, HI, HK, HL, FIN, HP, HQ, HR, HS, HT, HV, HY, IA, ID, IE, IG, IH, II
  • individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is GS, WN, WQ, MA or MV.
  • the spacer portion of the tertiary peptide (Z region) comprises the amino acid sequence GS, which may be fused in frame to the N-terminus or C-terminus of the binary peptide or both.
  • exemplary binary peptides for use in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins, DNA constructs and polynucleotides encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptide and protein and incorporated into a transgenic plants or part thereof, of the present invention may include one or more cleavable tertiary peptides selected from the group of or consisting of: a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES
  • an exemplary DNA construct may encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a cleavable tertiary peptide having one or more of the following illustrative amino acid sequences (ZXY or XYZ): AFVRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1649), AKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1650), ALFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1651), ALFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1652), ALFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1653), ALFRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1654), ALFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1655), ALKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1656), ALKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1657), ALKFLVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1658), ALKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1659), ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660), FFADIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1661), FFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1649),
  • the DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide that encodes a tertiary peptide having the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide with the addition of a spacer to the N-terminus of the binary peptide, and/or to the C-terminus of the binary peptide, wherein the spacer is an amino acid or peptide comprising 1 to 4 amino acids, preferably two amino acids, for example GS, WN, WQ, MA, or MV.
  • Other specific spacer examples and optimal amino acids for use as spacers are provided below.
  • an exemplary DNA construct encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises one or more polynucleotides which in combination or singly encode one or more binary peptides comprising the amino acid sequence: IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621) fused in frame at the N-terminal and/or the C-terminal with one or more spacer sequences selected from the amino acid sequences: GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, and DT.
  • IFVRLR SEQ ID NO: 1619
  • ALKLFV SEQ ID NO: 1605
  • ALKFLV SEQ ID NO: 1603
  • RRKAFV SEQ ID NO: 1644
  • LFAAPF SEQ ID NO:
  • the one or more binary or tertiary peptides (designated linker L) described above are fused in frame with a TP, and optionally, an ERSP and/or optionally a STA, for example, (from N-terminus to C-terminus): (L-TP) n -L, or (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein encoded by the one or more polynucleotides may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • tertiary peptides may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • IFVRLR SEQ ID NO: 1619
  • ALKLFV SEQ ID NO: 1605
  • ALKFLV SEQ ID NO: 1603
  • RRKAFV SEQ ID NO: 1644
  • LFAAPF SEQ ID NO: 1621
  • the DNA construct of the present invention encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal TP that contains one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides as described herein.
  • the one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides are cleavable linking units that can be cleaved in both an animal gut environment, for example a human gut through the action of a human digestive protease, and also in the gut environment of an insect or nematode.
  • the various proteases available in the gut of an animal, for example a human gut, and an insect or nematode are provided herein.
  • the DNA construct of the present invention encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal TP that contains one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides which are cleavable in the gut of a Lepidoptera or a Coleoptera insect species.
  • the same DNA constructs which encode a binary and/or tertiary peptide which is cleavable in the gut of a Lepidoptera or a Coleoptera insect species is also cleavable in a human gut via the action of a human digestive protease.
  • DNA constructs are also provided that comprise a polynucleotide that encodes a cleavable binary and/or tertiary peptide fused in frame to a TP, which when in the presence of an appropriate gut protease is released from the encoded binary and/or tertiary peptide, and provides insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity in the intended target insect or nematode.
  • the TP can be a class of TPs commonly referred to as CRIP peptides, ICK TPs, non-ICK TPs, e.g. sea anemone peptides, TMOF peptides and Bt proteins.
  • the TP is a protein selected from the group consisting of a Pore Forming Insecticidal Protein (PFIP) and a Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein (CRIP).
  • PFIP Pore Forming Insecticidal Protein
  • CRIP Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein
  • the present invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs comprising a polynucleotide encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising at least one cleavable linker and one TP.
  • the nucleic acid construct can be a DNA nucleic acid construct or an RNA nucleic acid construct.
  • a nucleic acid construct can include at least one coding sequence operable to encode at least one insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein operably linked to one or more control sequences that direct the expression of the coding sequence in a suitable host cell under conditions compatible with the control sequences.
  • the term “operably linked” means a configuration in which a control sequence is placed at an appropriate position relative to the coding sequence of a polynucleotide such that the control sequence directs expression of the coding sequence.
  • the polynucleotide may be manipulated in a variety of ways to provide for expression of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. Manipulation of the polynucleotide prior to its insertion into a vector may be desirable or necessary depending on the expression vector.
  • the techniques for modifying polynucleotides utilizing recombinant DNA methods are well known in the art.
  • the control sequence may be or include a promoter, a polynucleotide which is recognized by a host cell for expression of the polynucleotide.
  • the promoter contains transcriptional control sequences that mediate the expression of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
  • the promoter may be any polynucleotide that shows transcriptional activity in the host cell including mutant, truncated, and hybrid promoters, and may be obtained from genes encoding extracellular or intracellular polypeptides either homologous or heterologous to the host cell.
  • useful promoters are obtained from the genes for Saccharomyces cerevisiae enolase (ENO-1), Saccharomyces cerevisiae galactokinase (GAL1), Saccharomyces cerevisiae alcohol dehydrogenase/glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (ADH1, ADH2/GAP), Saccharomyces cerevisiae triose phosphate isomerase (TPI), Saccharomyces cerevisiae metallothionein (CUP1), and Saccharomyces cerevisiae 3-phosphoglycerate kinase.
  • ENO-1 Saccharomyces cerevisiae enolase
  • GAL1 Saccharomyces cerevisiae galactokinase
  • ADH1, ADH2/GAP Saccharomyces cerevisiae triose phosphate isomerase
  • TPI Saccharomyces cerevisiae metallothionein
  • the control sequence may also be a transcription terminator, which is recognized by a host cell to terminate transcription.
  • the terminator sequence is operably linked to the 3′-terminus of the polynucleotide encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. Any terminator that is functional in the host cell may be used.
  • Preferred terminators for bacterial host cells are obtained from the genes for Bacillus clausii alkaline protease (aprH), Bacillus licheniformis alpha-amylase (amyL), and Escherichia coli ribosomal RNA (rrnB).
  • Preferred terminators for yeast host cells are obtained from the genes for Saccharomyces cerevisiae enolase, Saccharomyces cerevisiae cytochrome C (CYC1), and Saccharomyces cerevisiae glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. Other useful terminators for yeast host cells are described by Romanos et al., 1992, supra.
  • the control sequence may also be an mRNA stabilizer region downstream of a promoter and upstream of the coding sequence of a gene which increases expression of the gene.
  • the control sequence may also include a leader, a nontranslated region of an mRNA that is important for translation by the host cell.
  • the leader sequence is operably linked to the 5′-terminus of the polynucleotide encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. Any leader that is functional in the host cell may be used.
  • Suitable leaders for yeast host cells are obtained from the genes for Saccharomyces cerevisiae enolase (ENO-1), Saccharomyces cerevisiae 3-phosphoglycerate kinase, Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-factor, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae alcohol dehydrogenase/glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (ADH2/GAP).
  • ENO-1 Saccharomyces cerevisiae enolase
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae 3-phosphoglycerate kinase Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-factor
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae alcohol dehydrogenase/glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase ADH2/GAP
  • the control sequence may also include a polyadenylation sequence, a sequence operably linked to the 3′-terminus of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein-encoding sequence and, when transcribed, is recognized by the host cell as a signal to add polyadenosine residues to transcribed mRNA.
  • a polyadenylation sequence Any polyadenylation sequence that is functional in the host cell may be used.
  • Useful polyadenylation sequences for yeast host cells are described by Guo and Sherman, 1995, Mol. Cellular Biol. 15:5983-5990.
  • regulatory sequences that regulate expression of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein relative to the growth of the host cell.
  • regulatory systems are those that cause expression of the gene to be turned on or off in response to a chemical or physical stimulus, including the presence of a regulatory compound.
  • Regulatory systems in prokaryotic systems include the lac, tac, and trp operator systems. In yeast, the ADH2 system or GAL1 system may be used.
  • Other examples of regulatory sequences are those that allow for gene amplification. In eukaryotic systems, these regulatory sequences include the dihydrofolate reductase gene that is amplified in the presence of methotrexate, and the metallothionein genes that are amplified with heavy metals. In these cases, the polynucleotide encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal would be operably linked with the regulatory sequence.
  • the present invention also relates to recombinant expression vectors comprising a polynucleotide encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention, a promoter, and transcriptional and translational stop signals.
  • the various nucleotide and control sequences may be joined together to produce a recombinant expression vector that may include one or more convenient restriction sites to allow for insertion or substitution of the polynucleotide encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein at such sites.
  • the polynucleotide may be expressed by inserting the polynucleotide or a nucleic acid construct comprising the polynucleotide into an appropriate vector for expression.
  • the coding sequence is located in the vector so that the coding sequence is operably linked with the appropriate control sequences for expression.
  • the recombinant expression vector may be any vector (e.g., a plasmid or virus) that can be conveniently subjected to recombinant DNA procedures and can bring about expression of the polynucleotide.
  • the choice of the vector will typically depend on the compatibility of the vector with the host cell into which the vector is to be introduced.
  • the vector may be a linear or closed circular plasmid.
  • the vector may be an autonomously replicating vector, i.e., a vector that exists as an extrachromosomal entity, the replication of which is independent of chromosomal replication, e.g., a plasmid, an extrachromosomal element, a minichromosome, or an artificial chromosome.
  • the vector may contain any means for assuring self-replication.
  • the vector may be one that, when introduced into the host cell, is integrated into the genome, for example, a plant genome, and replicated together with the chromosome(s) into which it has been integrated.
  • a single vector or plasmid or two or more vectors or plasmids that together contain the total DNA to be introduced into the genome of the host cell, or a transposon may be used.
  • the vector preferably contains one or more selectable markers that permit easy selection of transformed, transfected, transduced, or the like cells.
  • a selectable marker is a gene the product of which provides for biocide or viral resistance, resistance to heavy metals, prototrophy to auxotrophs, and the like.
  • Examples of bacterial selectable markers are Bacillus licheniformis or Bacillus subtilis dal genes, or markers that confer antibiotic resistance such as ampicillin, chloramphenicol, kanamycin, neomycin, spectinomycin or tetracycline resistance.
  • Suitable markers for yeast host cells include, but are not limited to, ADE2, HIS3, LEU2, LYS2, MET3, TRP1, and URA3.
  • Selectable markers for use in a filamentous fungal host cell include, but are not limited to, amdS (acetamidase), argB (ornithine carbamoyltransferase), bar (phosphinothricin acetyltransferase), hph (hygromycin phosphotransferase), niaD (nitrate reductase), pyrG (orotidine-5′-phosphate decarboxylase), sC (sulfate adenyltransferase), and trpC (anthranilate synthase), as well as equivalents thereof.
  • amdS acetamidase
  • argB ornithine carbamoyltransferase
  • bar phosphinothricin acetyltransferase
  • hph hygromycin phosphotransferase
  • niaD nitrate reductase
  • the vector preferably contains an element(s) that permits integration of the vector into the host cell's genome or autonomous replication of the vector in the cell independent of the genome.
  • the vector may rely on the polynucleotide's sequence encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or any other element of the vector for integration into the genome by homologous or non-homologous recombination.
  • the vector may contain additional polynucleotides for directing integration by homologous recombination into the genome of the host cell at a precise location(s) in the chromosome(s).
  • the integrational elements should contain a sufficient number of nucleic acids, such as 100 to 10,000 base pairs, 400 to 10,000 base pairs, and 800 to 10,000 base pairs, which have a high degree of sequence identity to the corresponding target sequence to enhance the probability of homologous recombination.
  • the integrational elements may be any sequence that is homologous with the target sequence in the genome of the host cell.
  • the integrational elements may be non-encoding or encoding polynucleotides.
  • the vector may be integrated into the genome of the host cell by non-homologous recombination.
  • the vector may further comprise an origin of replication enabling the vector to replicate autonomously in the host cell in question.
  • the origin of replication may be any plasmid replicator mediating autonomous replication that functions in a cell.
  • the term “origin of replication” or “plasmid replicator” means a polynucleotide that enables a plasmid or vector to replicate in vivo.
  • Examples of bacterial origins of replication are the origins of replication of plasmids pBR322, pUC19, pACYC177, and pACYC184 permitting replication in E. coli , and pUB110, pE194, pTA1060, and pAM.beta.1 permitting replication in Bacillus .
  • origins of replication for use in a yeast host cell are the 2 micron origin of replication, ARS1, ARS4, the combination of ARS1 and CEN3, and the combination of ARS4 and CEN6. More than one copy of a polynucleotide of the present invention may be inserted into a host cell to increase production of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
  • An increase in the copy number of the polynucleotide can be obtained by integrating at least one additional copy of the sequence into the host cell genome or by including an amplifiable selectable marker gene with the polynucleotide where cells containing amplified copies of the selectable marker gene, and thereby additional copies of the polynucleotide, can be selected for by cultivating the cells in the presence of the appropriate selectable agent.
  • the procedures used to ligate the elements described above to construct the recombinant expression vectors of the present invention are well known to one skilled in the art (see, e.g., Sambrook et al., 1989, supra).
  • each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include an ERSP fused to a binary or tertiary peptide which is fused in frame to a construct comprising: (TP-L), wherein TP is a toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200. See FIG. 4 .
  • the TPs in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be the same or different.
  • TPs are described herein and all of these classes may be incorporated into the DNA constructs described herein wherein at least one TP is encoded in frame with at least one binary or tertiary peptide, preferably two or more TPs are flanked in frame by at least one or at least two cleavable binary or tertiary peptides for example: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(
  • the present invention provides insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and DNA constructs comprising a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that may comprise one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides and one or more TPs.
  • a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may comprise one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides and one or more TPs.
  • Each of the binary and/or tertiary peptides may be the same or different and each of the TPs may be the same or different.
  • the present invention provides insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and DNA constructs comprising a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that may comprise two or more binary and/or tertiary peptides and two or more TPs.
  • a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may comprise two or more binary and/or tertiary peptides and two or more TPs.
  • Each of the binary and/or tertiary peptides may be the same or different and each of the TPs may be the same or different.
  • the present invention provides a DNA construct comprising at least one polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more TPs and two or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides. See FIG. 2 .
  • the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L) n or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (L-TP) n .
  • DNA constructs described herein at least one TP is encoded in frame with at least one binary or tertiary peptide, preferably two or more TPs are flanked in frame by at least one or at least two cleavable binary or tertiary peptides cleavable binary linker peptides (L) comprising an X region and a Y region are described above, and exemplary Z regions (1-4 amino acid sequences, for example, 2 amino acid sequences) that may be fused in frame to the X and/or Y regions (either to the N-terminal sequence of an X or Y region, or the C-terminal sequence of an X or Y region) described above form the tertiary cleavable linking peptides.
  • Illustrative Z or spacer amino acid sequences may include: AA, AF, AM, AN, AQ, AV, AW, AY, DA, DD, DE, DF, DG, DI, DL, DP, DS, DT, DV, DW, DY, EA, ED, EE, EF, EG, EI, EL, EP, ES, ET, EV, EW, EY, FA, FD, FE, FF, FI, FK, FL, FM, FN, FQ, FR, FS, FT, FV, FW, FY, GA, GD, GE, GF, GI, GL, GM, GN, GQ, GS, GV, GW, GY, HA, HD, HE, HF, HH, HI, HK, HL, FIN, HP, HQ, HR, HS, HT, HV, HY, IA, ID, IE, IG, IH, II
  • individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is GS, WN, WQ, MA or MV.
  • the spacer portion of the tertiary peptide (Z region) comprises the amino acid sequence GS, which may be fused in frame to the N-terminus or C-terminus of the binary peptide or both.
  • exemplary binary peptides for use in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins, DNA constructs and polynucleotides encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptide and protein and incorporated into a transgenic plants or part thereof, of the present invention may include one or more cleavable tertiary peptides selected from the group of or consisting of: a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and the binary or tertiary peptides may be the same or different.
  • tertiary peptides (designated above as L), may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • TPs useful in the manufacture of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • tertiary peptides may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • IFVRLR SEQ ID NO: 1619
  • ALKLFV SEQ ID NO: 1605
  • ALKFLV SEQ ID NO: 1603
  • RRKAFV SEQ ID NO: 1644
  • LFAAPF SEQ ID NO: 1621
  • a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA). See FIGS. 5 and 6 C .
  • an operable promoter for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter
  • STA stabilizing domain
  • the STA can be fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L), or L-(TP-L) n .
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, and/or the DNA construct comprising one or more polynucleotides each or in combination encoding such insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins can include the construct: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (STA)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , wherein TP is toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides may be the same or different. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein has the C-terminal TP fused with or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • DNA constructs encoding a cleavable linking peptide operatively fused to a TP can be constructed with a variety of host cell specific regulatory components.
  • the DNA constructs may be transformed into a variety of host cells for expression, synthesis of encoded proteins or for genetic manipulation.
  • the host cell can be a bacterial cell, a yeast cell, a plant cell, or an animal cell, for example, an Agrobacterium cell, a Bacillus cell, an Escherichia cell, a Salmonella cell, a Pseudomonas cell, and a Rhizobium cell.
  • the host cell is a plant cell.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions comprising cleavable linking peptides described herein are intended for the dissemination of TPs into insect and/or nematode pests that ingest or otherwise come into contact with the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions.
  • the present invention provides a plant, or part thereof, (a “plant or part thereof”, is defined herein as including, without limitation, a plant and the plant's tissue (for example, a plant's roots, stem, leaves, flowers or parts thereof), a plant cell, or a plant seed of said plant) comprising: an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or polypeptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions; wherein, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease, and in some embodiments, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide is operably
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions comprising cleavable linking peptides described herein are intended for the dissemination or consumption of TPs into or by insect and/or nematode pests that ingest or otherwise come into contact with the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions.
  • the present invention provides a plant, or part thereof, (a “plant or part thereof”, is defined herein as including, without limitation, a plant and the plant tissue, a plant cell, or a plant seed of said plant) comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or polypeptide comprising one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions; wherein, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease, (for example a human gut protease) and an insect or nematode gut protease, and in some embodiments, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide is operably fused to the C-terminus
  • exemplary tertiary peptides may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • IFVRLR SEQ ID NO: 1619
  • ALKLFV SEQ ID NO: 1605
  • ALKFLV SEQ ID NO: 1603
  • RRKAFV SEQ ID NO: 1644
  • LFAAPF SEQ ID NO: 1621
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions comprising cleavable linking peptides described herein are intended for the dissemination or consumption of TPs into or by insect and/or nematode pests that ingest or otherwise come into contact with the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions.
  • the present invention provides a plant, or part thereof, (a “plant or part thereof”, is defined herein as including, without limitation, a plant and the plant tissue, a plant cell, or a plant seed of said plant) comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or polypeptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions; wherein, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease, and in some embodiments, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide is operably fused to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide
  • the plant or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with a binary peptide and/or a repeat construct (L-TP)n or (TP-L)n. See FIG. 4 .
  • the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L
  • exemplary tertiary peptides may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • IFVRLR SEQ ID NO: 1619
  • ALKLFV SEQ ID NO: 1605
  • ALKFLV SEQ ID NO: 1603
  • RRKAFV SEQ ID NO: 1644
  • LFAAPF SEQ ID NO: 1621
  • a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA).
  • STA stabilizing domain
  • the STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n , or (STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), or (STA)-(TP-L) n , or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , wherein TP is toxic protein as described herein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having a construct as shown above may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having a construct as shown above may contain a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include
  • the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. See FIGS. 2 , 4 and 5 .
  • exemplary tertiary peptides may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • TP-Linker construct (the Linker being defined as including a cleavable binary or tertiary peptide) that can be written as (TP-L) n , or the variations shown in FIG. 2 could also be written out in long form. For example, when n is 5 then (TP-L), written out in long form would appear as: TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L.
  • the L or Linkers will be split apart by insect and/or nematode proteases in the gut or hemolymph environment of the insect and/or nematode to allow large numbers single toxic peptides to be released and exert their toxic effects, killing or immobilizing or slowing the feeding of the insects and/or nematodes.
  • the L or Linker can be cleaved between different amino acids in the linker or between the Toxic Peptide and the linker such that on either side of the TP or Toxic Peptide there can be from 0 to 16 amino acids still attached to the toxic peptide remaining from the L or Linker that had an initial length of from 1-16 amino acids to start with.
  • the TP could either have no amino acids from the Linker attached to it, or it could have one or two “stubs” aka “nubbins” (one or both stubs fused to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus) made of remnants of the Linker, that vary in size from one to 16 amino acids, but more often from 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 or 14 amino acids.
  • the stubs can be on the N-terminal, the C-terminal, or both the N-terminal and the C-terminals.
  • stubs are not always the same size, it depends on how they are cleaved by the proteases in the insect and/or human gut environment and this can vary depending on the protease and the Linker used. Normally there will be stubs attached to both “sides” of the Toxic Peptides with both stubs originating from different parts of the Linking Peptide. Sometimes there are no stubs or only 1 stub attached to the TP after cleavage.
  • the stubs can range in size from 1-16 amino acids, (and there may be no stubs) depending on the length of the starting Linker, more often the stubs will be from 2-14 amino acids, from 3-12, from 4-8, or from 5-7 amino acids or but they could be any of the following lengths of amino acids: from: 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, 1-7, 1-8, 1-9, 10, 1-11, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10, and 2-11, or 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 3-7, 3-8, 3-9, 3-10, and 3-11, or 4-5, 4-6, 4-7, 4-8, 4-9, 4-10 and 4-11; or 5-6, 5-7, 5-8, 5-9, 5-10 and 5-11; or 6-7, 6-8, 6-9, 6-10 and 6-11; or 7-8, 7-9, 7-10, and 7-11; and 8-9, 8-10, or 8-11, and 9-10 or 9-11, or 10 or 11 amino
  • the construct when, before cleavage, the construct might appear as TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L, (our example above, and shown in equation form in FIG. 2 ) where, for example, if the Linker has 6 aa (or amino acids), then after protease cleavage, the TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L construct is broken up into individual Toxic Peptides (TPs) with stubs, which might appear as follows: the first peptide could be TP-2aa (2aa from one side of the 6 aa Linker) and then 4aa from the last part of the Linker attached to the other end of the toxic peptide as in: 4aa-TP-2aa, and a third peptide 4aa-TP-2aa, and a fourth 4aa-TP-2aa and then the fifth and last cleaved TP would appear as 4aa-TP-6aa, because the last Linker may not
  • cleavage does not always take place because the last TP of the construct is not attached to another TP. Or it might be cleaved leaving a 4aa-TP-2aa. These bits of aa fragments attached to the toxic peptides following peptidase cleavage are what we call “stubs” and they do not typically affect or inhibit the activity of the cleaved toxic peptides produced from cleavage in the insects' gut.
  • Stubs may also appear when an ERSP is fused to the (TP-L) n or (L-TP) n as in FIG. 4 and in such a construct the stub could include pieces of the ERSP, and or in FIG. 5 where the L-TP is further fused to a STA or BAAS, or Ubiquitin, whatever is used in the construct.
  • the stubs could be any combination of any length of peptide of 1 amino acid or greater up to 16 amino acids in length. They may be irregularly attached to the TP. Stubs may not have the same length or number of amino acids before and after the Toxic Peptide.
  • a host cell that has been transformed with a DNA construct described herein that is operable to express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention.
  • the host cell may be a eukaryotic cell, for example, a yeast cell, for example, a yeast cell from the genus Saccharomyces, Pichia, Hansenula, Kluyveromyces, Schizosaccharomyces, Schwanniomyces, Yarrowia, Aspergillus ; plant cells; and mammalian cells.
  • the intended host cell that is transformed (transiently, or stably) with the DNA constructs encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a cleavable linking peptide operatively fused to a TP are plant cells.
  • the plant cells that may be transformed with the DNA constructs described herein may include but not limited to: alfalfa, banana, barley, bean, broccoli, cabbage, canola, carrot, cassava, castor, cauliflower, celery, chickpea, Chinese cabbage, citrus, coconut, coffee, corn, clover, cotton, a cucurbit, cucumber, Douglas fir, eggplant, eucalyptus , flax, garlic, grape, hops, leek, lettuce, Loblolly pine, millets, melons, nut, oat, olive, onion, ornamental, palm, pasture grass, pea, peanut, pepper, pigeon pea, pine, potato, poplar, pumpkin, Radiata pine, radish, rapeseed, rice, rootstocks, rye, safflower, shrub, sorghum, Southern pine, soybean, spinach, squash, strawberry, sugar beet, sugarcane, sunflower, sweet corn, sweet gum, sweet potato, switchgrass, tea, tobacco, tomato, tritica
  • the present invention provides insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, such that when the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is ingested by an insect and/or a nematode, the gut environment proteases of the insect and/or nematode cleaves the binary and/or tertiary peptide thereby liberating the fused TPs and is killed, immobilized, rendered unable to function normally or slowing the feeding or growth of the insects and/or nematodes contacted with the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
  • the selection of TPs to be incorporated into the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can be made to target a specific insect or nematode pest, or for expression in a specific plant or specific conditions experienced by the plant.
  • an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which is produced by a transgenic plant, plant tissue, or plant seed or a composition comprising one or more insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins having the same or different TPs formulated for direct application to a plant, has TPs comprised of a combination of ICK TPs and Bt TPs.
  • the transgenic plant, plant tissue, or plant seed can express an insecticidal protein, or one or more polynucleotides encoding an insecticidal protein comprising one or more ICK TPs derived from any species of Australian Funnel-web spider, or the Australian Funnel-web spiders of genus Atrax or Hadronyche , and the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web, Hadronyche versuta .
  • the present invention provides a transgenic plant, or part thereof, (for example, a plant tissue, a plant cell, or a plant seed) wherein the transgenic plant or part thereof contains an insecticidal protein comprising a construct (from N-terminal to C-terminal) (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)
  • the transgenic plant or part thereof may express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the transgenic plant, or part thereof, contains one or more polynucleotides each or in combination, operable to express an insecticidal protein comprising a construct, comprising, selected from the group consisting of, or consisting of: (from N-terminal to C-terminal) (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERS
  • TPs useful in the manufacture of a transgenic plant or part thereof comprising a DNA construct or polynucleotide encoding: (1) an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b or one or more TPs having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%
  • the one or more polynucleotides are provided in an expression vector, operable to express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as described above and herein, and is under the control of a constitutive or inducible promoter, wherein the expression vector is transiently expressed in a host cell, for example, a plant cell, or wherein the polynucleotide operable to encode the insecticidal protein is stably integrated into the plant's, or part thereof nuclear DNA.
  • methods for controlling an insect and/or nematode pest may include applying a formulation comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) TP and an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP to said insect and/or nematode.
  • a formulation comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) TP and an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP to said insect and/or nematode.
  • the ratio of Bt TP to ICK TP, on a dry weight basis thus released can be selected from at least about the following ratios: 99:1, 95:5, 90:10, 85:15, 80:20, 75:25, 70:30, 65:35, 60:40, 55:45, 50:50, 45:55, 40:60, 35:65, 30:70, 25:75, 20:80, 15:85, 10:90, 5:95 and 1:99, or any combination of any two of these values.
  • the ratio of Bt TP to ICK TP, on a dry weight basis thus released can be selected from about the following ratios: 50:50, 45:55, 40:60, 35:65, 30:70, 25:75, 20:80, 15:85, 10:90, 5:95, 1:99, 0.5:99.5, 0.1:99.9 and 0.01:99.99 or any combination of any two of these values.
  • the formulation may comprise the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and appropriate excipients, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be expressed by a culture of one or more bacterial strains, that when formulated and applied to the plant, the bacterial strains produce the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which is subsequently ingested by the insect and/or nematode pest.
  • the total concentration of Bt TP and ICK TP in the composition is selected from the following percent concentrations: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 or 99%, or any range between any two of these values, and the remaining percentage of the composition is comprised of excipients.
  • Any of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and plants described herein can be used to control insects and/or nematodes, their growth and damage, especially their damage to plants.
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprising the combination of Bt TP and ICK TP can be applied by being sprayed on a plant, or the insect's locus, or the locus of a plant in need of protecting.
  • illustrative methods for controlling a pest infection comprises preparing a formulation comprising: an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt TP; and an ICK TP, which can include any of the compositions described herein or capable of being made by one skilled in the art given this disclosure.
  • Some of the described formulations include the use of a polar aprotic solvent, and or water, and or where the polar aprotic solvent is present in an amount of 1-99 wt %, the polar protic solvent is present in an amount of 1-99 wt %, and the water is present in an amount of 0-98 wt %.
  • the formulations include formulations where the Bt TP is Dipel and where the ICK TP is a hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a peptide, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different).
  • polar aprotic solvent formulations are especially effective when they contain MSO.
  • the examples below are intended to illustrate and not limit the invention in any manner.
  • an insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins which are produced by a transgenic plant, or part thereof or formulated for direct application to a plant comprises a combination of a Bt TP and a TMOF TP, that when combined in a single insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, may inhibit the growth, impair the movement, or even kill an insect when the combination of TPs is appropriately delivered to the locus inhabited by the insect.
  • the spray-dried powders are can be made using as the primary active agent an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as described herein comprising a combination of TPs as discussed above, and one or more various excipients and fermentation by-products.
  • methods for controlling an insect and/or nematode pest may include applying a formulation comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) TP and a TMOF TP to said insect and/or nematode.
  • the ratio of Bt TP to TMOF TP can be selected from about any or all of the following ratios: 99:1, 95:5, 90:10, 85:15, 80:20, 75:25, 70:30, 65:35, 60:40, 55:45, 50:50, 45:55, 40:60, 35:65, 30:70, 25:75, 20:80, 15:85, 10:90, 5:95 and 1:99, or any combination of any two of these values.
  • the formulation may comprise the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and appropriate excipients, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be expressed by a culture of one or more bacterial strains, that when formulated and applied to the plant, the bacterial strains produce the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which is subsequently ingested by the insect and/or nematode pest.
  • the total concentration of Bt TP and TMOF TP in the composition is selected from the following percent concentrations: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 or 99%, or any range between any two of these values, and the remaining percentage of the composition is comprised of excipients.
  • Any of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and plants described herein can be used to control insects and/or nematodes, their growth and damage, especially their damage to plants.
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprising the combination of Bt TP and TMOF TP can be applied by being sprayed on a plant, or the insect's locus, or the locus of a plant in need of protecting.
  • illustrative methods for controlling a pest infection comprises preparing a formulation comprising: an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt TP; and a TMOF TP, which can include any of the compositions described herein or capable of being made by one skilled in the art given this disclosure.
  • Some of the described formulations include the use of a polar aprotic solvent, and or water, and or where the polar aprotic solvent is present in an amount of 1-99 wt %, the polar protic solvent is present in an amount of 1-99 wt %, and the water is present in an amount of 0-98 wt %.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein for any combination of TPs can include one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include one or more TPs from the illustrative combination linked to a tertiary peptide, in which the spacer is positioned either to the N-terminal side of the binary peptide portion of the tertiary peptide or to the C-terminal side of the binary peptide portion of the tertiary peptide.
  • the spacer is a dipeptide, for example, GS, which may be operably linked to the TMOF TP units within the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
  • the spacer dipeptide is linked at the N-terminal of the TMOF TP; and wherein the spacer is comprised of one nonpolar amino acid on the N-terminal of the dipeptide and one polar amino acid on the C-terminal of the dipeptide, including embodiments where the dipeptide is glycine-serine, including embodiments where the TMOF TP includes embodiments where the TMOF TP is at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater sequence identity to any of the TMOF sequences disclosed herein, including embodiments where the Bt Protein is any Bt TP, including embodiments where the Bt TP is a Cry or Cyt protein, including
  • methods for controlling an insect and/or nematode pest may include applying a formulation comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) TP and a TMOF TP to said insect and/or nematode.
  • a formulation comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) TP and a TMOF TP to said insect and/or nematode.
  • the ratio of Bt TP to TMOF TP can be selected from at least about the following ratios: 99:1, 95:5, 90:10, 85:15, 80:20, 75:25, 70:30, 65:35, 60:40, 55:45, 50:50, 45:55, 40:60, 35:65, 30:70, 25:75, 20:80, 15:85, 10:90, 5:95 and 1:99, or any combination of any two of these values.
  • the ratio of Bt TP to TMOF TP, on a dry weight basis thus released can be selected from about the following ratios: 50:50, 45:55, 40:60, 35:65, 30:70, 25:75, 20:80, 15:85, 10:90, 5:95, 1:99, 0.5:99.5, 0.1:99.9 and 0.01:99.99 or any combination of any two of these values.
  • the formulation may comprise the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and appropriate excipients, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be expressed by a culture of one or more bacterial strains, that when formulated and applied to the plant, the bacterial strains produce the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which is subsequently ingested by the insect and/or nematode pest.
  • the total concentration of Bt TP and TMOF TP in the composition is selected from the following percent concentrations: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 or 99%, or any range between any two of these values, and the remaining percentage of the composition is comprised of excipients.
  • Any of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and plants described herein can be used to control insects and/or nematodes, their growth and damage, especially their damage to plants.
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprising the combination of Bt TP and TMOF TP can be applied by being sprayed on a plant, or the insect's locus, or the locus of a plant in need of protecting.
  • the method for controlling a pest infection includes providing a transformed plant expressing an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein expressing the combination of Bt TP and TMOF TPs described herein where the average concentration of each of Bt and TMOF TPs as a percentage weight of the total amount of expressed TP in an average leaf of a transformed plant is about: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 or 99%, or any range between any two of these values.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein expressing the combination of Bt TP and TMOF TPs described herein is expressed in corn, soybean, cotton, rice, sorghum, switchgrass, sugarcane, alfalfa, potatoes or tomatoes.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is expressed in a transgenic seed having an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as described above.
  • a transformed plant expressing properly folded combination of Bt TP and TMOF TPs described herein in the transformed plant and to cause the accumulation of the expressed and properly folded combination of Bt TP and TMOF TPs described herein in said plant and to cause an increase in the plant's yield or resistance to insect and/or nematode damage and they control insect and/or nematode pests in crops and natural or man-made forests.
  • transgenic plants made by any of the products and processes described herein.
  • Methods of the invention involve introducing a nucleotide or DNA construct into a host cell, for example, a plant.
  • introducing is intended to present to the plant the DNA construct in such a manner that the construct gains access to the interior of a cell of the plant.
  • the methods of the invention do not require that a particular method for introducing a DNA construct to a plant is used, only that the DNA construct gains access to the interior of at least one cell of the plant.
  • Methods for introducing DNA constructs into plants are known in the art including, but not limited to, stable transformation methods, transient transformation methods, and virus-mediated methods.
  • Methods for transforming polynucleotides including cloning and expression vectors containing insecticidal proteins are known in the art.
  • plant is intended whole plants, plant organs (e.g., leaves, stems, roots, etc.), seeds, plant cells, propagules, embryos and progeny of the same.
  • Plant cells can be differentiated or undifferentiated (e.g. callus, suspension culture cells, protoplasts, leaf cells, root cells, phloem cells, pollen).
  • Transgenic plants or “transformed plants” or “stably transformed” plants or cells or tissues refers to plants that have incorporated or integrated exogenous nucleic acid sequences or DNA fragments into the plant cell. These nucleic acid sequences include those that are exogenous, or not present in the untransformed plant cell, as well as those that may be endogenous, or present in the untransformed plant cell. “Heterologous” generally refers to the nucleic acid sequences that are not endogenous to the cell or part of the native genome in which they are present, and have been added to the cell by infection, transfection, microinjection, electroporation, microprojection, or the like.
  • Transformation of plant cells can be accomplished by one of several techniques known in the art.
  • the DNA construct of the invention may be modified to obtain or enhance expression in plant cells.
  • a construct that expresses such a protein would contain a promoter to drive transcription of the gene, as well as a 3′ untranslated region to allow transcription termination and polyadenylation.
  • the organization of such constructs is well known in the art.
  • the gene can be engineered to contain a signal peptide to facilitate transfer of the peptide to the endoplasmic reticulum.
  • DNA constructs comprising a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention may be transiently or stably transformed into unmodified plant cells or may be transformed into previously genetically altered plant cells.
  • DNA constructs comprising a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention may be stably transformed into unmodified plant cells, i.e. plant cells that have not previously been transformed or transfected with any heterologous DNA or RNA material. Methods for stable integration of foreign or heterologous expression vectors, are described below.
  • the genetically unaltered plant cells can be transformed with one DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide operable to encode one insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein contains only one type of TP, for example, an ICK motif TP.
  • the genetically unaltered plant cells can be transformed with two different DNA constructs, each construct comprising a polynucleotide operable to encode one insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of each construct comprises different TPs, for example, in one DNA construct, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises one or more copies of an ICK motif TP and the other DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide that encodes a different TP, for example a Bt TP.
  • Expression of both types of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins can be manipulated by using the same promoter or different promoters and other control sequences to cause the differential expression of either insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, or both insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins together.
  • a transgenic plant or part thereof can produce or express one or more insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins containing one or more TPs.
  • the TP is an ICK TP, for example, a Hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a, for example, a TP having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 or 6 (or a variant thereof) and/or the ICK TP expressed may contain 20-100 amino acids and 2-4 disulfide bonds and or the ICK TP is any insecticidal peptide with at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater sequence identity to any of the ICK TPs described herein and/or a Bt TP and specifically exemplified in any TP having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775, or a variant thereof.
  • a transgenic plant may express and produce one or more ICK TPs, which may be the same or they may be different, (for example, an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP or a U-ACTX TP, for example, a Hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a TP) n or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different).
  • ICK TPs for example, an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP or a U-ACTX TP, for example, a Hybrid-ACTX-H
  • a transgenic plant or part thereof may express and produce one or more Bt TPs, which may be the same or different. It is to be understood, that although a transgenic plant, or part thereof may express and produce the same type of TPs or different TPs, a transgenic plant will not have a single DNA construct which is operable to encode and express an ICK TP and a Bt TP from the same DNA construct. These two types of TPs may be expressed and produced in a plant or part thereof, but these two types of TPs originate from separate DNA constructs as described herein.
  • the transgenic plants disclosed herein can contain, express, and produce an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing a known Bt TP, including a Cry or Cyt protein TP, and/or a Bt TP selected from the group consisting of a Cry1, Cry3, TIC851, CryET70, Cry22, TIC901, TIC201, TIC407, TIC417, a CryET80, and CryET76, TIC100 TIC101, ET29, ET37, TIC810, TIC812, PS149B1, and combinations thereof.
  • a known Bt TP including a Cry or Cyt protein TP, and/or a Bt TP selected from the group consisting of a Cry1, Cry3, TIC851, CryET70, Cry22, TIC901, TIC201, TIC407, TIC417, a CryET80, and CryET76, TIC100 TIC101, ET29, ET37, TIC
  • the Bt TP can be selected from a Cry protein, a Cry1A protein or a Cry1F protein, or a combination Cry1F-Cry1A protein, or it comprises an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 10, 12, 14, 26, 28, or 34 of U.S. Pat. No. 7,304,206.
  • a transgenic plant can produce an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a Bt TP, for example, Dipel and/or Thuricide.
  • a transgenic plant expressing the TPs described herein where the average concentration of each of Bt and ICK TPs as a percentage weight of the total amount of expressed TP in an average leaf of a transformed plant is about: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 or 99%, or any range between any two of these values.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein is expressed in corn, soybean, cotton, rice, sorghum, switchgrass, sugarcane, alfalfa, potatoes or tomatoes. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is expressed in a transgenic seed having an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as described above.
  • a DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide operable to encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention can be transiently or stably expressed in a plant cell that has been previously genetically modified, for example, a plant cell that has been previously transformed with another TP, for example, an ICK motif TP or a Bt TP as described herein.
  • the DNA construct of the present invention can be transformed such that the expression of either the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or the previously introduced TP can be controlled by the same promoters or each of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and previously introduced TP can be controlled using different promoters or expression conditions to facilitate differential expression of both. It is to be understood, that transformation of two different Bt TPs cannot occur, whether the DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operable to encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having multiple TPs or transformation of multiple DNA constructs containing single TPs. In either case, only a single species of Bt TP can be transformed into the plant, whether expressed as a single TP or in insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins containing multiple copies of the same species of Bt TP.
  • the present invention provides a transgenic plant comprising a combination of a Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) TP and an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP.
  • This transgenic plant can be made from independent and separate stable genetic insertions of DNA constructs as provided herein that create a first flowering plant expressing a Bt TP and a second flowering plant expressing an ICK TP.
  • the pollen of one of those plants will be crossed onto the female flower organs of the other plant to form a genetic hybridization that contains both an insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprising a Bt TP and a different insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that comprises an ICK TP genetic traits.
  • the progeny of that sexual cross and further crossing that results in the inheritance of both traits will result in a transgenic plant comprising a combination of a Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) TP and an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP.
  • transgenic plants or parts thereof are operable to express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein encoded by a DNA construct encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L) n or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with a binary peptide and/or a repeat construct (L-TP) n or (TP-L) n .
  • the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the construct: (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L).
  • a transgenic plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA).
  • STA stabilizing domain
  • the STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERS
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • transgenic plants or parts thereof may comprise one or more TPs useful in the manufacture of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
  • Transgenic plants or parts thereof may comprise an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a peptide, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a
  • the plant or part thereof has been previously transformed with a Bt TP and the plant or part thereof, for example a plant cell containing a Bt TP is subsequently transformed with a DNA construct operable to encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a peptide, or a TP
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins can also be integrated into plant genome using stable plant transformation technology, and therefore insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins can be stably expressed in plants and protect the transformed plants from generation to generation.
  • an expression vector comprising the DNA construct can be circular or linear. A few critical components must be included in the vector DNA.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein ORF for stable plant transformation should be carefully designed for optimal expression in plants based on the study in the transient plant expression as described above.
  • the expression of insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is usually controlled by a promoter that drives transcription in some of all cells of the transgenic plant.
  • the promoter can be a strong plant viral promoter, for example, the constitutive 35S promoter from Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV); it also can be a strong plant promoter, for example, the hydroperoxide lyase promoter (pHPL) from Arabidopsis thaliana ; the Glycine max polyubiquitin (Gmubi) promoter from soybean; the ubiquitin promoters from different plant species (rice, corn, potato, etc.), etc.
  • CaMV Cauliflower Mosaic Virus
  • a plant transcriptional terminator often occurs after the stop codon of the ORF to halt the RNA polymerase and transcription of the mRNA.
  • a reporter gene can be included in the expression vector, for example, beta-glucuronidase gene (GUS) for GUS straining assay, green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene for green fluorescence detection under UV light, etc.
  • GUS beta-glucuronidase gene
  • GFP green fluorescent protein
  • a selection marker gene is usually included in the expression vector.
  • the marker gene expression product can provide the transformed plant with resistance to specific antibiotics, for example, kanamycin, hygromycin, etc., or specific herbicide, for example, glyphosate etc.
  • T-DNA left border and right border sequences are also included in the expression vector to transport the T-DNA portion into the plant.
  • the constructed expression vector can be transformed into plant cells or tissues using any number of established and well known transformation technologies.
  • Agroinfection is a very popular way to transform a plant using an Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain or an Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain.
  • Particle bombardment also called Gene Gun, or Biolistics
  • Other less commonly used transformation methods include tissue electroporation, silicon carbide whiskers, direct injection of DNA, etc.
  • the transformed plant cells or tissues placed on plant regeneration media to regenerate successfully transformed plant cells or tissues into transgenic plants.
  • the evaluation of the integration and expression of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein ORF in the transformed plant can be performed.
  • a “plant expression cassette” can be inserted into a “plant transformation vector”.
  • the illustrative plant transformation vector may be comprised of one or more DNA vectors needed for achieving plant transformation.
  • DNA vectors needed for achieving plant transformation.
  • Binary vectors as well as vectors with helper plasmids are most often used for Agrobacterium -mediated transformation, where the size and complexity of DNA segments needed to achieve efficient transformation is quite large, and it is advantageous to separate functions onto separate DNA molecules.
  • Binary vectors typically contain a plasmid vector that contains the cis-acting sequences required for T-DNA transfer (such as left border and right border), a selectable marker that is engineered to be capable of expression in a plant cell, and a “gene of interest” (a gene engineered to be capable of expression in a plant cell for which generation of transgenic plants is desired). Also present on this plasmid vector are sequences required for bacterial replication. The cis-acting sequences are arranged in a fashion to allow efficient transfer into plant cells and expression therein. For example, the selectable marker gene and the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein are located between the left and right borders.
  • a second plasmid vector contains the trans-acting factors that mediate T-DNA transfer from Agrobacterium to plant cells.
  • This plasmid often contains the virulence functions (Vir genes) that allow infection of plant cells by Agrobacterium , and transfer of DNA by cleavage at border sequences and vir-mediated DNA transfer, as is understood in the art (Hellens and Mullineaux (2000) Trends in Plant Science 5:446-451).
  • Several types of Agrobacterium strains e.g., LBA4404, GV3101, EHA101, EHA105, etc.
  • the second plasmid vector is not necessary for transforming the plants by other methods such as microprojection, microinjection, electroporation, polyethylene glycol, etc.
  • plant transformation methods involve transferring heterologous DNA into target plant cells (e.g., immature or mature embryos, suspension cultures, undifferentiated callus, protoplasts, etc.), followed by applying a maximum threshold level of appropriate selection (depending on the selectable marker gene) to recover the transformed plant cells from a group of untransformed cell mass.
  • Explants are typically transferred to a fresh supply of the same medium and cultured routinely.
  • the transformed cells are differentiated into shoots after placing on regeneration medium supplemented with a maximum threshold level of selecting agent.
  • the shoots are then transferred to a selective rooting medium for recovering rooted shoot or plantlet.
  • the transgenic plantlet then grows into a mature plant and produces fertile seeds (e.g. Hiei et al.
  • Transformation protocols as well as protocols for introducing nucleotide sequences into plants may vary depending on the type of plant or plant cell, i.e., monocot or dicot, targeted for transformation.
  • Generation of transgenic plants may be performed by one of several methods, including, but not limited to, microinjection, electroporation, direct gene transfer, introduction of heterologous DNA by Agrobacterium into plant cells ( Agrobacterium -mediated transformation), bombardment of plant cells with heterologous foreign DNA adhered to particles, ballistic particle acceleration, aerosol beam transformation (U.S. Published Application No. 20010026941; U.S. Pat. No. 4,945,050; International Publication No. WO 91/00915; U.S. Published Application No. 2002015066), Led 1 transformation, and various other non-particle direct-mediated methods to transfer DNA.
  • plastid transformation can be accomplished by transactivation of a silent plastid-borne transgene by tissue-preferred expression of a nuclear-encoded and plastid-directed RNA polymerase.
  • tissue-preferred expression of a nuclear-encoded and plastid-directed RNA polymerase Such a system has been reported in McBride et al. (1994) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:7301-7305.
  • heterologous foreign DNA Following integration of heterologous foreign DNA into plant cells, one then applies a maximum threshold level of appropriate selection in the medium to kill the untransformed cells and separate and proliferate the putatively transformed cells that survive from this selection treatment by transferring regularly to a fresh medium. By continuous passage and challenge with appropriate selection, one identifies and proliferates the cells that are transformed with the plasmid vector. Molecular and biochemical methods can then be used to confirm the presence of the integrated heterologous gene of interest into the genome of the transgenic plant.
  • the cells that have been transformed may be grown into plants in accordance with conventional ways. See, for example, McCormick et al. (1986) Plant Cell Reports 5:81-84. These plants may then be grown, and either pollinated with the same transformed strain or different strains, and the resulting hybrid having constitutive expression of the desired phenotypic characteristic identified. Two or more generations may be grown to ensure that expression of the desired phenotypic characteristic is stably maintained and inherited and then seeds harvested to ensure expression of the desired phenotypic characteristic has been achieved. In this manner, the present invention provides transformed seed (also referred to as “transgenic seed”) having a nucleotide construct of the invention, for example, an expression cassette of the invention, stably incorporated into their genome.
  • heterologous foreign DNA Following introduction of heterologous foreign DNA into plant cells, the transformation or integration of heterologous gene in the plant genome is confirmed by various methods such as analysis of nucleic acids, proteins and metabolites associated with the integrated gene.
  • PCR analysis is a rapid method to screen transformed cells, tissue or shoots for the presence of incorporated gene at the earlier stage before transplanting into the soil (Sambrook and Russell (2001) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.). PCR is carried out using oligonucleotide primers specific to the gene of interest or Agrobacterium vector background, etc.
  • Plant transformation may be confirmed by Southern blot analysis of genomic DNA (Sambrook and Russell, 2001, supra).
  • total DNA is extracted from the transformant, digested with appropriate restriction enzymes, fractionated in an agarose gel and transferred to a nitrocellulose or nylon membrane.
  • the membrane or “blot” is then probed with, for example, radiolabeled.sup.32P target DNA fragment to confirm the integration of introduced gene into the plant genome according to standard techniques (Sambrook and Russell, 2001, supra).
  • RNA is isolated from specific tissues of transformant, fractionated in a formaldehyde agarose gel, and blotted onto a nylon filter according to standard procedures that are routinely used in the art (Sambrook and Russell, 2001, supra). Expression of RNA encoded by the Bt-protein is then tested by hybridizing the filter to a radioactive probe derived from a Bt-protein, by methods known in the art (Sambrook and Russell, 2001, supra).
  • Western blot, biochemical assays and the like may be carried out on the transgenic plants to confirm the presence of the transformed TP by standard procedures (Sambrook and Russell, 2001, supra) using antibodies that bind to one or more epitopes present on the TP.
  • the present invention provides a transgenic plant or part thereof, which comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes: a peptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide as described herein.
  • the binary or tertiary peptide can include an amino acid sequence of at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids.
  • the binary peptide has two regions and the tertiary has the same two regions and one additional region called a spacer.
  • Each of the binary and/or tertiary peptides can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease, for example a human gastrointestinal protease and an insect or nematode gut protease.
  • the polynucleotide also encodes an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) which is fused at its C-terminus with the N-terminus of a binary and/or tertiary peptide.
  • the binary and/or tertiary peptides are also operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP.
  • the transgenic plant may contain a cell or a plurality of cells transformed with a DNA construct comprising at least one polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides.
  • a DNA construct comprising at least one polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame at its C-terminus with the N-terminus of the binary or tertiary peptide, and the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame at its C-terminus with a construct comprising: (TP-L) n wherein TP is toxic peptide or protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10.
  • the last TP of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein i.e.
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the structure: (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP)-(L).
  • a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA).
  • STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can comprise, or selected from the group consisting of, or consisting of a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP)-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • transgenic plants or parts thereof that may be receptive to the expression of insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptide compositions comprising a cleavable linking peptide described herein, can include: alfalfa, banana, barley, bean, broccoli, cabbage, canola, carrot, cassava, castor, cauliflower, celery, chickpea, Chinese cabbage, citrus, coconut, coffee, corn, clover, cotton, a cucurbit, cucumber, Douglas fir, eggplant, eucalyptus , flax, garlic, grape, hops, leek, lettuce, Loblolly pine, millets, melons, nut, oat, olive, onion, ornamental, palm, pasture grass, pea, peanut, pepper, pigeonpea, pine, potato, poplar, pumpkin, Radiata pine, radish, rapeseed, rice, rootstocks, rye, safflower, shrub, sorghum, Southern pine, soybean, spinach,
  • the transgenic plant may be grown from cells that were initially transformed with the DNA constructs described herein.
  • the transgenic plant may express the encoded insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptide compositions in a specific tissue, or plant part, for example, a leaf, a stem a flower, a sepal, a fruit, a root, or a seed or combinations thereof.
  • Methods described above by way of example may be utilized to generate transgenic plants, but the manner in which the transgenic plant cells are generated is not critical to this invention.
  • Methods known or described in the art such as Agrobacterium -mediated transformation, biolistic transformation (See for example, Kikkert J R1, Vidal J R, Reisch B I., “Stable transformation of plant cells by particle bombardment/biolistics.”, Methods Mol Biol.
  • Plants expressing an insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be isolated by common methods described in the art, for example by transformation of callus, selection of transformed callus, and regeneration of fertile plants from such transgenic callus. In such process, one may use any gene as a selectable marker so long as its expression in plant cells confers ability to identify or select for transformed cells.
  • markers have been developed for use with plant cells, such as resistance to chloramphenicol, the aminoglycoside G418, hygromycin, or the like.
  • Other genes that encode a product involved in chloroplast metabolism may also be used as selectable markers.
  • genes that provide resistance to plant herbicides such as glyphosate, bromoxynil, or imidazolinone may find particular use.
  • Such genes have been reported (Stalker et al. (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 263:6310-6314 (bromoxynil resistance nitrilase gene); and Sathasivan et al. (1990) Nucl. Acids Res. 18:2188 (AHAS imidazolinone resistance gene).
  • genes disclosed herein are useful as markers to assess transformation of bacterial or plant cells.
  • Methods for detecting the presence of a transgene in a plant, plant organ (e.g., leaves, stems, roots, etc.), seed, plant cell, propagule, embryo or progeny of the same are well known in the art.
  • the presence of the transgene is detected by testing for pesticidal activity.
  • Fertile plants expressing an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be tested for pesticidal activity, and the plants showing optimal activity selected for further breeding. Methods are available in the art to assay for pest activity. Generally, the cleaved TP is mixed and used in feeding assays. See, for example Marrone et al. (1985) J. of Economic Entomology 78:290-293.
  • the present invention provides a transgenic plant, meaning a plant, or part thereof that has been transformed with a DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter that is operable in the plant cell thus transformed.
  • the transformed polynucleotide encodes: a peptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, wherein the peptide contains at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions.
  • the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions.
  • the binary and tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal, for example a human, gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease.
  • the binary or tertiary peptide is operably fused to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) and operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP.
  • ESP Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide
  • the plant cell is transformed with a DNA construct comprising at least one polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides.
  • an operable promoter for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter
  • the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of the binary or tertiary peptide, and the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L) n wherein TP is toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200 and wherein the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the present invention provides a transgenic plant wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that is expressed in the transgenic plant, or part thereof, is derived from a DNA construct that encodes an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of the binary or tertiary peptide, and the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L) n wherein TP is toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200 and wherein the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the structure: (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L).
  • a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA).
  • STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus comprising: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • the transgenic plant expresses and produces an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing one or more copies of a CRIP TP which may be derived from an Australian Funnel-web spider or sea anemone.
  • a CRIP TP which may be derived from an Australian Funnel-web spider or sea anemone.
  • real or notional examples of transformed plants described and exemplified herein are transformed with a CRIP TP from a spider selected from the Australian Funnel-web spiders of genus Atrax or Hadronyche or a sea anemone selected from Anemonia viridis .
  • the transgenic plant can produce an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising one or more ICK TPs, for example, Hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a.
  • the CRIP TP can be an ICK TP or Non-ICK TP that when expressed contains 20-100 amino acids and 2-4 disulfide bonds.
  • the TPs useful in the transgenic peptides disclosed herein can have at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs: 5 or 6, SEQ ID NO: 33-1032 and SEQ ID NO: 1761-1775 and variants thereof.
  • one or more of the CRIP TPs become active when the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein's binary and/or tertiary peptides are cleaved by an appropriate protease found in the insect and/or nematode gut environment, thereby releasing the one or more TPs from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein to exert its insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity in the insect or nematode.
  • methods are provided for controlling a pest infection or infestation (used interchangeably), wherein the pest may be an insect, a nematode or both.
  • the method for controlling such a pest infection includes providing in a diet of the pest, a plant, or part thereof, wherein the plant or part thereof, contains and expresses a polynucleotide which encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal TP as described herein.
  • a pesticidally effective amount of a composition comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is applied to a plant, prior to the exposure to the pest, or during the pest infection or infestation, such that, the application of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing composition reduces the number of pests affecting the plant, or the severity of the pest infection on the plant thus contacted with the composition, and optionally enables the plant to survive and/or grow compared to similar plants exposed to the same pests in the absence of the composition.
  • the plant expresses a polynucleotide which is operable to express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein constitutively, or inducibly.
  • the polynucleotide may be operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the structure: (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L).
  • a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA).
  • an operable promoter for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter
  • the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA).
  • STA stabilizing domain
  • the STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can comprise, or is selected from the group consisting of, or consists of: a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • TPs useful in the above constructs disclosed above and herein can have at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs: 5 or 6, SEQ ID NO: 33 and/or a TP selected from SEQ ID NOs: 33-1032 and variants thereof.
  • the method for controlling a pest infection provides expression and synthesis of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein in a plant or part thereof, for example, a plant tissue, a plant cell, and/or a plant seed.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises one or more cleavable linker peptides fused in frame to one or more TPs.
  • the cleavable linker peptide is a binary peptide comprising an amino acid sequence of: X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2
  • Y 1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y;
  • Y 3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • an illustrative insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein for use in a method to control a pest comprises one or more illustrative binary peptides (XY or YX).
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a cleavable binary peptide having the following amino acid sequence: AFVRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1594), AKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1595), ALFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1596), ALFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1597), ALFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1598), ALFR (SEQ ID NO: 1599), ALFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1600), ALKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1601), ALKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1602), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), ALKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1604), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), FFADIK (SEQ ID NO:
  • an illustrative insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a cleavable tertiary peptide having the following amino acid sequence construct: Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , Z 1 -X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 ,
  • Y 1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y;
  • Y 3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • the method for controlling a pest infection provides expression and synthesis of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein in a plant or part thereof, for example, a plant tissue, a plant cell, and/or a plant seed.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a binary peptide as described above and can include a two amino acid spacer sequence (a Z region) fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid spacer sequence Z 1 Z 2 sequence can be one or more of GS, WN, WQ, MA, and MV.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein for use in methods described above can comprise a cleavable tertiary peptide having one or more of the following illustrative amino acid sequences (ZXY or XYZ): AFVRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1649), AKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1650), ALFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1651), ALFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1652), ALFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1653), ALFRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1654), ALFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1655), ALKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1656), ALKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1657), ALKFLVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1658), ALKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1659), ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660), FFADIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1661), FFALKGS (SEQ ID NO:
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein for use in methods described above may be encoded by a polynucleotide that encodes a cleavable tertiary peptide having the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide as described above and herein, with the addition of a spacer to the N-terminus of the binary peptide, and/or to the C-terminus of the binary peptide, wherein the spacer is an amino acid or peptide comprising 1 to 4 amino acids, preferably two amino acids, for example GS, WN, WQ, MA, or MV.
  • Other specific spacer examples and optimal amino acids for use as spacers are provided below.
  • Exemplary binary and tertiary peptides fused to one or more TPs as described herein may be used to produce an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which when expressed and synthesized by a transgenic plant can fight a pest infection.
  • ALKLFV SEQ ID NO: 1605
  • ALKFLV SEQ ID NO: 1603
  • IFVRLR SEQ ID NO: 1619
  • the method for controlling a pest infection of a plant includes planting a seed or a plant in a field, wherein the plant or seed is operable to express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein in the plant or the application of a composition containing an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising one or more TP proteins selected from the group consisting of a Pore Forming Insecticidal Protein (PFIP) and a Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein (CRIP), for example, the TP may be an Inhibitor Cysteine Knot (ICK) motif protein, a non-ICK protein, a Bt protein or any combination of these, and growing the plant or seed in the field which in the presence of the pest, is able to continue to survive and/or grow in the field in the presence of the pest.
  • PFIP Pore Forming Insecticidal Protein
  • CRIP Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein
  • the pest infection is reduced, by the death of at least a portion of the pests, after consuming the plant expressing the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or coated at least in part, with the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
  • the TP useful in the method for controlling a pest infection can include an Inhibitor Cysteine Knot (ICK) motif protein derived from, or originates from, Hadronyche versuta, Atrax robustus, Atrax formidabilis, Atrax infensus , including TPs known as U-ACTX polypeptides, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a peptide, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%,
  • the method of controlling a pest infection of a plant provides a pesticidally effective amount of one or more TPs synthesized by the plant or part thereof, in the form of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
  • an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising one or more TPs that are cleavable upon exposure to the gut environment of an insect and/or nematode can be produced from a DNA construct transformed into a plant or part thereof.
  • an exemplary DNA construct encodes one or more insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins
  • each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide
  • the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L) n or (L-TP) n , wherein each TP is toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200 and wherein the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • n is greater than 1, each TP and each L may be the same or different.
  • an exemplary method for controlling such a pest infection includes providing in a diet of the pest, a plant, or part thereof, wherein the plant or part thereof, contains and expresses a polynucleotide which encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising one or more TPs as described herein.
  • the plant expresses a polynucleotide constitutively, or inducibly.
  • the polynucleotide may be operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the structure: (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , or (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L).
  • a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA).
  • STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP) n , (L-TP) n -L, (TP-L) n , or L-(TP-L) n .
  • an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different.
  • the TPs useful in the transgenic plants or parts thereof disclosed herein can have at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs: 5 or 6, SEQ ID NO: 33 and/or a peptide selected from SEQ ID NOs: 33-1032 and variants thereof.
  • the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • methods for controlling an insect and/or a nematode pest infection or infestation may include the creation of a transgenic plant comprising a combination of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein including a Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) TP or an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP which when predated upon by said insect and/or nematode, will exert insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity and control or reduce or eliminate the pest infection and/or infestation.
  • Bt Bacillus thuringiensis
  • ICK Inhibitor Cystine Knot
  • This plant can be made from independent stable genetic insertions of DNA that create a flowering plant expressing a Bt TP and a second flowering plant expressing a ICK TP.
  • the pollen of one of those plants will be crossed onto the female flower organs of the other plant to form a genetic hybridization that contains both the Bt TP and the ICK TP genetic traits.
  • the progeny of that sexual cross and further crossing that results in the inheritance of both traits will result in a transgenic plant comprising a combination of a Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis ) TP and an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP to said insect and/or nematode.
  • Bt Bacillus thuringiensis
  • ICK Inhibitor Cystine Knot
  • the DNA constructs described herein may encode insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins that contain specific TPs that are suited to treat a specific pest infestation in a specific plant or groups of plants, for example, a particular type of crop.
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present invention may comprise a TP selected from one or more of: Cry 1A.105, Cry2Ab2, Cry1F, Cry3Bb1, Cry34Ab1 and Cry35Ab1. These TPs may be expressed singly or in combinations to treat a specific crop, for example, corn.
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins having the structure from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different, wherein TP is toxic protein selected from Cry 1A.105, Cry2Ab2, Cry1F, Cry3Bb1, Cry34Ab1 and Cry35Ab1, or combinations thereof, and L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10 can be used to treat the following corn pests: European corn borer (ECB) Scontaminated corn borer (SWCB) Southern cornstalk borer (SCSB), Corn earworm (CEW), Fall armyworm (FAW), Stalk borer, Lesser corn stalk borer, Sugarcane borer (SCB), Western bean cutworm (WBC), Black cutworm, Western com rootworm (WCRW), Northern corn rootworm
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins having the structure from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different, wherein TP is cotton Cry1AC, can be used to treat the following cotton PIP (Bollgard I and II—first one gene, then two genes) pests: cotton bollworm (CBW) Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), tobacco budworm (TBW) Heliothis virescens , and pink bollworm (PBW) Pectinophora gossypiella (Sanders).
  • cotton PIP Cotton bollgard I and II—first one gene, then two genes
  • CBW cotton bollworm
  • TW tobacco budworm
  • PBW pink bollworm
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins having the structure from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different, wherein TP is Cotton Cry1Ac and/or Cry2Ab, can be used to treat the following cotton pests: cotton bollworm (CBW) Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), tobacco budworm (TBW) Heliothis virescens , pink bollworm (PBW) Pectinophora gossypiella (Sanders), Fall armyworm (FAW), Beet armyworm (BAW), and Soybean looper (SBL).
  • CBW Cotton bollworm
  • CBW Cotton Cry1Ac and/or Cry2Ab
  • insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins having the structure from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP) n -L, (L-TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n , (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP) n -(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L) n , or (ERSP)-(STA)
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different, wherein TP is Soybean Cry1Ac, can be used to treat the following soyabean PIP pests: velvetbean caterpillar ( Anticarcia gemmatalis ), soybean looper ( Pseudoplusia includens ), soybean anxil borer ( Epinotia aporema ), and sunflower looper ( Rachiplusia nu ).
  • soyabean PIP pests velvetbean caterpillar ( Anticarcia gemmatalis ), soybean looper ( Pseudoplusia includens ), soybean anxil borer ( Epinotia aporema ), and sunflower looper ( Rachiplusia nu ).
  • the method provides transforming a plant cell or a plurality of plant cells with a DNA construct which encodes insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing compositions.
  • the transformed plant may be a recombinant plant, a part of the plant, or a product of the plant or the plant part. While transformation of a plant or plant part may be pursued, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions may be produced recombinantly in host cells including a bacterial host cell, a yeast host cell, a plant host cell or an animal host cell.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP, one or more cleavable linking peptides and one or more TPs can be synthesized in a yeast production strain or in a bacterial production strain to produce milligram, gram or kilogram quantities of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein for application to a plurality of plants or a field of plants, i.e., crops to control or prevent a pest infection.
  • a pesticidally effective amount of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can be provided in one or more formulations topically applied on the plant or a part of the plant, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is formulated in bacterial cells, bacterial spores, fungal cells, fungal spores, or parasporal crystals that comprise the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions containing the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins can be applied directly to the surface of the plants.
  • pesticidally effective amounts of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins described herein includes any amount that may inhibit the growth, impair the movement, or even kill an insect and/or nematode when the TP cleaved from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is appropriately delivered to the locus inhabited by the insect and/or nematode.
  • the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing compositions can be formulated as powders, emulsions, solutions, granules, micronized particles, and the like and other formulations and forms of compositions used in the art for applying insecticidal proteins such as Bt proteins that can be applied to the surface of the plants for which pest control is desired.
  • Amounts of TPs thus distributed assuming at least 50% cleavage and release of the TPs from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can be quantified using C 18 rpHPLC methods known by those skilled in the art.
  • the present insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprising one or more TPs and one or more cleavable linkers are effective against a variety of insects and nematodes.
  • the methods provided herein can be used to control, or prevent, or reduce the severity of a pest infection, to kill insects and/or nematodes which consume plants or parts thereof in their diets, to optimize the growth potential of a plant, to increase the yield of a crop susceptible to a pest infection, and various other methods requiring the control and/or elimination of insects and/or nematodes which predate on plant tissue.
  • Various types of insects and nematodes susceptible to the methods, compositions and procedures described herein are as follows.
  • Insect and nematodes may be selected from the orders Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mallophaga, Homoptera, Hemiptera, Orthroptera, Thysanoptera, Dermaptera, Isoptera, Anoplura, Siphonaptera, Trichoptera, and the like. More particularly, insect pests include Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Diptera.
  • Insects of suitable agricultural, household and/or medical/veterinary importance for treatment with the insecticidal polypeptides include, but are not limited to, members of the following classes and orders.
  • the order Coleoptera includes the suborders Adephaga and Polyphaga.
  • Suborder Adephaga includes the superfamilies Caraboidea and Gyrinoidea.
  • Suborder Polyphaga includes the superfamilies Hydrophiloidea, Staphylinoidea, Cantharoidea, Cleroidea, Elateroidea, Dascilloidea, Dryopoidea, Byrrhoidea, Cucujoidea, Meloidea, Mordelloidea, Tenebrionoidea, Bostrichoidea, Scarabaeoidea, Cerambycoidea, Chrysomeloidea, and Curculionoidea.
  • Superfamily Caraboidea includes the families Cicindelidae, Carabidae, and Dytiscidae.
  • Superfamily Gyrinoidea includes the family Gyrinidae.
  • Superfamily Hydrophiloidea includes the family Hydrophilidae.
  • Superfamily Staphylinoidea includes the families Silphidae and Staphylinidae.
  • Superfamily Cantharoidea includes the families Cantharidae and Lampyridae.
  • Superfamily Cleroidea includes the families Cleridae and Dermestidae.
  • Superfamily Elateroidea includes the families Elateridae and Buprestidae.
  • Superfamily Cucujoidea includes the family Coccinellidae.
  • Superfamily Meloidea includes the family Meloidae.
  • Superfamily Tenebrionoidea includes the family Tenebrionidae.
  • Superfamily Scarabaeoidea includes the families Passalidae and Scarabaeidae.
  • Superfamily Cerambycoidea includes the family Cerambycidae.
  • Superfamily Chrysomeloidea includes the family Chrysomelidae.
  • Superfamily Curculionoidea includes the families Curculionidae and Scolytidae.
  • Coleoptera examples include, but are not limited to: the American bean weevil Acanthoscelides obtectus , the leaf beetle Agelastica alni , click beetles ( Agriotes lineatus, Agriotes obscurus, Agriotes bicolor ), the grain beetle Ahasverus advena , the summer schafer Amphimallon solstitialis , the furniture beetle Anobium punctatum, Anthonomus spp.
  • spider beetles the lesser grain borer Rhizopertha dominica , the pea and been weevil Sitona lineatus , the rice and granary beetles Sitophilus oryzae and Sitophilus granaries , the red sunflower seed weevil Smicronyx fulvus , the drugstore beetle Stegobiurn paniceum, the yellow mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor , the flour beetles Tribolium castaneum and Tribolium confusum , warehouse and cabinet beetles (Trogoderma spp.), and the sunflower beetle Zygogramma exclamation's.
  • Dermaptera examples include, but are not limited to: the European earwig Forficula auricularia , and the striped earwig Labidura riparia.
  • Dictvontera examples include, but are not limited to: the oriental cockroach Blatta orientalis , the German cockroach Blatella germanica , the Madeira cockroach Leucophaea maderae , the American cockroach Periplaneta americana , and the smokybrown cockroach Periplaneta fuliginosa.
  • Diplonoda examples include, but are not limited to: the spotted snake millipede Blaniulus guttulatus, the flat-back millipede Brachydesmus superus , and the greenhouse millipede Oxidus gracilis.
  • the order Diptera includes the Suborders Nematocera, Brachycera, and Cyclorrhapha.
  • Suborder Nematocera includes the families Tipulidae, Psychodidae, Culicidae, Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, Simuliidae, Bibionidae, and Cecidomyiidae.
  • Suborder Brachycera includes the families Stratiomyidae, Tabanidae, Therevidae, Asilidae, Mydidae, Bombyliidae, and Dolichopodidae.
  • Suborder Cyclorrhapha includes the Divisions Aschiza and Aschiza.
  • Division Aschiza includes the families Phoridae, Syrphidae, and Conopidae.
  • Division Aschiza includes the Sections Acalyptratae and Calyptratae.
  • Section Acalyptratae includes the families Otitidae, Tephritidae, Agromyzidae, and Drosophilidae.
  • Section Calyptratae includes the families Hippoboscidae, Oestridae, Tachinidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae, Calliphoridae, and Sarcophagidae.
  • Diptera examples include, but are not limited to: the house fly ( Musca domestica ), the African tumbu fly ( Cordylobia anthropophaga ), biting midges ( Culicoides spp.), bee louse ( Braula spp.), the beet fly Pegomyia betae , black flies ( Cnephia spp., Eusimulium spp., Simulium spp.), bot flies ( Cuterebra spp., Gastrophilus spp., Oestrus spp.), craneflies ( Tipula spp.), eye gnats ( Hippelates spp.), filth-breeding flies ( Calliphora spp., Fannia spp., Hermetia spp., Lucilia spp., Musca spp., Muscina spp., Phaenicia spp., Phormia spp.), flesh
  • Isontera examples include, but are not limited to: species from the familes Hodotennitidae, Kalotermitidae, Mastotermitidae, Rhinotennitidae, Serritermitidae, Termitidae, Termopsidae.
  • Heteroptera examples include, but are not limited to: the bed bug Cimex lectularius , the cotton stainer Dysdercus intermedius , the Sunn pest Eurygaster integriceps , the tarnished plant bug Lygus lineolaris , the green stink bug Nezara antennata , the southern green stink bug Nezara viridula , and the triatomid bugs Panstrogylus megistus, Rhodnius ecuadoriensis, Rhodnius pallescans, Rhodnius prolixus, Rhodnius robustus, Triatoma dimidiata, Triatoma infestans , and Triatoma sordida.
  • Homoptera examples include, but are not limited to: the California red scale Aonidiella aurantii , the black bean aphid Aphis fabae , the cotton or melon aphid Aphis gossypii , the green apple aphid Aphis pomi , the citrus spiny whitefly Aleurocanthus spiniferus , the oleander scale Aspidiotus hederae , the sweet potato whitefly Bemesia tabaci , the cabbage aphid Brevicoryne brassicae , the pear psylla Cacopsylla pyricola , the currant aphid Cryptomyzus ribis , the grape phylloxera Daktulosphaira vitifoliae , the citrus psylla Diaphorina citri , the potato leafhopper Empoasca fabae , the bean leafhopper Empoasca solana , the vine leafhopper Empoasca
  • Isopoda examples include, but are not limited to: the common pillbug Armadillidium vulgare and the common woodlouse Oniscus asellus.
  • the order Lepidoptera includes the families Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Danaidae, Satyridae, Hesperiidae, Sphingidae, Saturniidae, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Noctuidae, Lymantriidae, Sesiidae, and Tineidae.
  • Lepidoptera examples include, but are not limited to: Adoxophyes orana (summer fruit tortrix moth), Agrotis ipsolon (black cutworm), Archips podana (fruit tree tortrix moth), Bucculatrix pyrivorella (pear leafminer), Bucculatrix thurberiella (cotton leaf perforator), Bupalus piniarius (pine looper), Carpocapsa pomonella (codling moth), Chilo suppressalis (striped rice borer), Choristoneura fumiferana (eastern spruce budworm), Cochylis hospes (banded sunflower moth), Diatraea grandiosella (southwestern corn borer), Earls insulana (Egyptian bollworm), Euphestia kuehniella (Mediterranean flour moth), Eupoecilia ambiguella (European grape berry moth), Euproctis chrysor
  • Orthoptera examples include, but are not limited to: the common cricket Acheta domesticus , tree locusts ( Anacridium spp.), the migratory locust Locusta migratoria , the twostriped grasshopper Melanoplus bivittatus , the differential grasshopper Melanoplus dfferentialis, the redlegged grasshopper Melanoplus femurrubrum , the migratory grasshopper Melanoplus sanguinipes , the northern mole cricket Neocurtilla hexadectyla , the red locust Nomadacris septemfasciata , the shortwinged mole cricket Scapteriscus abbreviatus, the southern mole cricket Scapteriscus borellii, the tawny mole cricket Scapteriscus vicinus, and the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria.
  • Phthiraptera examples include, but are not limited to: the cattle biting louse Bovicola bovis , biting lice ( Damalinia spp.), the cat louse Felicola subrostrata, the shortnosed cattle louse Haematopinus eloysternus , the tail-switch louse Haematopinus quadriperiussus , the hog louse Haematopinus suis , the face louse Linognathus ovillus , the foot louse Linognathus pedalis , the dog sucking louse Linognathus setosus , the long-nosed cattle louse Linognathus vituli , the chicken body louse Menacanthus stramineus , the poultry shaft louse Menopon gallinae , the human body louse Pediculus humanus , the pubic louse Phthirus pubis, the little blue cattle louse Solenopotes capillat
  • Psocoptera examples include, but are not limited to: the booklice Liposcelis bostrychophila, Liposcelis decolor, Liposcelis entomophila , and Trogium pulsatorium.
  • Siphonaptera examples include, but are not limited to: the bird flea Ceratophyllus gallinae , the dog flea Ctenocephalides canis , the cat flea Ctenocephalides fells , the human flea Pulex irritans , and the oriental rat flea Xenopsylla cheopis.
  • Symphyla examples include, but are not limited to: the garden symphylan Scutigerella immaculate.
  • Thysanura examples include, but are not limited to: the gray silverfish Ctenolepisma longicaudata , the four-lined silverfish Ctenolepisma quadriseriata , the common silverfish Lepisma saccharina , and the firebrat Thennobia domestica.
  • Thysanoptera examples include, but are not limited to: the tobacco thrips Frankliniella fusca , the flower thrips Frankliniella intonsa , the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis , the cotton bud thrips Frankliniella schultzei , the banded greenhouse thrips Hercinothrips femoralis , the soybean thrips Neohydatothrips variabilis , Kelly's citrus thrips Pezothrips kellyanus , the avocado thrips Scirtothrips perseae , the melon thrips Thrips palmi , and the onion thrips Thrips tabaci.
  • Nematodes include, but are not limited to: parasitic nematodes such as root-knot, cyst, and lesion nematodes, including Heterodera spp., Meloidogyne spp., and Globodera spp.; particularly members of the cyst nematodes, including, but not limited to: Heterodera glycines (soybean cyst nematode); Heterodera schachtii (beet cyst nematode); Heterodera avenae (cereal cyst nematode); and Globodera rostochiensis and Globodera pailida (potato cyst nematodes).
  • Lesion nematodes include, but are not limited to: Pratylenchus spp.
  • the insecticidal and nematicidal compositions comprising the polypeptides, polynucleotides, cells, vectors, etc. described herein, can be employed to treat ectoparasites.
  • Ectoparasites include, but are not limited to: fleas, ticks, mange, mites, mosquitoes, nuisance and biting flies, lice, and combinations comprising one or more of the foregoing ectoparasites.
  • the term “fleas” includes the usual or accidental species of parasitic flea of the order Siphonaptera, and in particular the species Ctenocephalides , in particular C. fells and C. cams , rat fleas ( Xenopsylla cheopis ) and human fleas ( Pulex irritans ).
  • Insect pests of the invention for the major crops include, but are not limited to: Maize: Ostrinia nubilalis , European corn borer; Agrotis ipsilon , black cutworm; Helicoverpa zea , corn earworm; Spodoptera frugiperda , fall armyworm; Diatraea grandiosella , southwestern corn borer; Elasmopalpus lignosellus , lesser cornstalk borer; Diatraea saccharalis, surgarcane borer; Diabrotica virgifera , western corn rootworm; Diabrotica longicornis barberi , northern corn rootworm; Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi, southern corn rootworm; Melanotus spp., wireworms; Cyclocephala borealis , northern masked chafer (white grub); Cyclocephala immaculata , southern masked chafer (white grub); Popillia japonica
  • insecticidal compositions can be employed to treat combinations comprising one or more of the foregoing insects.
  • insects that are susceptible to the peptides of this invention include but are not limited to the following: Blattaria, Coleoptera, Collembola, Diptera, Echinostomida, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Isoptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Rhabditida, Siphonoptera, Thysanoptera.
  • Genus-Species are indicated as follows: Actebia - fennica, Agrotis - ipsilon, A .- segetum, Anticarsia - gemmatalis, Argyrotaenia - citrana, Artogeia - rapae, Bombyx - mori, Busseola - fusca, Cacyreus - marshall, Chilo - suppressalis, Christoneura - fumiferana, C .- occidentalis, C.
  • pinus pinus C .- rosacena, Cnaphalocrocis - medinalis, Conopomorpha - cramerella, Ctenopsuestis - obliquana, Cydia - pomonella, Danaus - plexippus, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi, Diatraea - saccharallis, D .- grandiosella, Earias - vittella, Elasmolpalpus - lignoselius, Eldana - saccharina, Ephestia - kuehniella, Epinotia - aporema, Epiphyas - postvittana, Galleria - mellonella, Helicoverpa - zea, H - punctigera, H - armigera, Heliothis - virescens, Hyphantria - cunea, Lambdina - fiscellaria, Leguminivora -
  • insect pests and nematode pests are those species of insects and nematodes that are susceptible to the insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic protein compositions and polypeptides that encode them.
  • insects and nematodes are also susceptible to the compositions and treatments identified in the application and claims.
  • insects and nematodes below are considered especially suitable and susceptible to the compositions and treatments identified in the specification and claims.
  • Stalk borer Busseola fusca , Southern Cornstalk Borer— Diatraea crambidoides , True armyworm— Pseudaletia unipuncta , Western bean cutworm— Striacosta albicosta , Black cutworm— Agrotis Ipsilon , Corn earworm— Helicoverpa zea , European corn borer— Ostrinia nubilalis , Fall armyworm— Spodoptera frugiperda , Western corn rootworm— Diabrotica virgifera virgifera , Southern Corn Rootworm— Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi , Northern Corn Rootworm— Diabrotica barberi , Western tarnished plant bug— Lygus hesperus , Tarnished plant bug— Lygus lineolaris , Soybean cyst nematode— Heterodera glycines , Root-Knot Nematode— Meloidogyne hapla , Lesion
  • a FRET kit contains pools of FRET molecules with a stretch of 3 variable amino acid sequences (grid pattern circle) bracketed by a series of glycine amino acids (horizontal line pattern) attached to either a dye (solid black circle with a protruding square) or a quencher (solid black circle with a square-shaped indent).
  • FIG. 1 a FRET kit contains pools of FRET molecules with a stretch of 3 variable amino acid sequences (grid pattern circle) bracketed by a series of glycine amino acids (horizontal line pattern) attached to either a dye (solid black circle with a protruding square) or a quencher (solid black circle with a square-shaped indent).
  • each FRET molecule gives no signal if the variable region is not cleaved but can be excited if it is cleaved.
  • the speed at which the cleavage occurs i.e. the specificity of the sequence for the proteases
  • the FRET kit used (Cat. No. PSREPLI005, Mimotopes, Victoria, Australia) contains 512 pools of up to 8 different FRET molecules per pool.
  • the FRET reaction is very high-throughput, with the enzymes added to the plate of pooled material with a multichannel loading pipet and then the plate is read once a minute for detectable fluorescence. The output of fluorescence detection is recorded for each reaction.
  • FRET samples were prepared immediately prior to assay as recommended by the manufacturer (add 5 ⁇ L 50% acetonitrile in water to each well and agitate plate on shaker for 5 minutes. Then add 45 ⁇ L of assay buffer and agitate again for 5 minutes). At this point, the FRET pools were ready of the addition of 50 ⁇ L of the working enzyme stock to start the reactions.
  • the assay buffer was 35 mM NaCl, pH 1.2.
  • the commercially sourced enzyme (Sigma P6887) enzyme was prepared by dissolving 1 mg/ml pepsin in the assay buffer. Pepsin stock was then diluted 1:200 by adding 250 ⁇ L of stock enzyme to 50 mL of assay buffer. This working solution was then used for all plate screenings.
  • gut enzymes were isolated from Southern Corn Rootworm ( Diabrotica undecimpunctata ). Southern Corn Rootworm were commercially obtained from Crop Characteristics (Farmington, Minn.) as 3rd instar larvae. Insects were anesthetized by placing them on a cold pack for several minutes before the dissection began. To isolate the gut, the posterior end was pinned to a dissection plate and another pin was used to nick the soft tissue behind the head. The pin was inserted behind the head capsule and then pulled away from pinned insect, pulling the digestive tract out of the body with the head. The gut could then be collected.
  • CELOP gut enzymes
  • the gut contents where then diluted 10 ⁇ by mixing 7004 stock to 7 mL with assay buffer for each plate.
  • 50 ⁇ L of 1 ⁇ gut extract was added to each well and read immediately as described above.
  • gut enzymes were isolated from Corn Earworm ( Helicoverpa zea ). Corn Earworm insects were obtained commercially from Benzon Research (Carlisle, Pa.) as eggs. Hatched larvae were raised on artificial diet until 4 ⁇ 5 th instar (20 mm long) before guts were isolated. Before gut extract, larvae were anesthetized using CO 2 . The larva was then pinned on the dissection plate at both the head and the tail. Using dissection scissors, the cuticle was nicked. The dissection scissors were then inserted into the nick and the cuticle was lengthwise along the insect.
  • the cuticle was then carefully pulled back and pinned open to reveal the digestive track. Using DI water, the insect was thoroughly rinsed to remove hemolymph. The gut was then excised with tweezers and placed in a solution of 500 ⁇ L of 200 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.1 150 mM NaCl (assay buffer). The tube was pre-weighed and post-weighed to calculate the total amount of gut added. CEW gut was diluted to a stock concentration of 7 mg/ml (10 ⁇ ) in 200 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.1 150 mM NaCl. This was diluted fresh each plate by 20 ⁇ with the assay buffer. Using a multichannel, repeat pipetter, 50 ⁇ L of 1 ⁇ gut extract was added to each well and read immediately as described above.
  • the FRET kits (Cat. No. PSREPLI005, Mimotopes, Victoria, Australia) were tested against LEP, COLEOP and SGF gut simulated protease environments and data was recovered. There were two types of data (slope of cleavage over time (which is presented as either a raw slope, or as an indexed value where the steepest slope is 100% and each slope is represented as a percentage of the highest slope) and cleaved components) were generated. The first type of data was the slope of fluorescence detection over 10 minutes. The slope of the reaction allowed the ranking of the two or three amino acid sequences for their speed to cleave in the various protease environments.
  • Table 4 shows the top 50 sequences that cleaved for each of the digestive conditions (SGF represents human gastrointestinal environment; COLEOP is the gut environment of Coleoptera insects; and LEP is the gut environment of Lepidopteran insects). Shown in Table 5 are sample sequences that did not cleave in the digestive conditions, and represent an example of sequences outside of the Markush that are not cleavable in the X and Y conditions.
  • the amino acids represented in the top 5% of wells from each digestive condition were used to create the Markush group that constitutes a binary peptide that comprises of an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of: X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -X 4 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -Y 1 -Y 2 -Y 3 -Y 4 , X 1 -X 2 -X 3 -Y 1 -Y
  • Y 1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y;
  • Y 3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y;
  • Y 4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • the human gut protease cleavable substrate may include one or more of the following peptides: AFF, AFG, AFI, AFL, AFV, AFY, AGF, AGL, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALG, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFG, DFI, DFL, DFY, DGF, DGL, DIF, DLF, DLG, DLY, DYF, DYL, EFF, EFG, EFI, EFL, EFY, EGF, EGL, EIF, ELF, ELG, ELY, EYF, EYL, FF, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFG, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FGA, FGD, FGE, FGF, FGI, FG
  • Y SGF cleavable peptides may include one or more of: AFF, AFI, AFL, AFY, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFI, DFL, DFY, DIF, DLF, DLY, DYF, DYL, YFL, EFF, EFI, EFL, 0, EFY, EIF, ELF, ELY, EYF, EYL, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FYA, FYD, FYE, FYF, FYI, FYK, FYL, FYR, FYS, FYT, FYV, FYY, IFA, IFF, IFI, IFL, IFV, IFY, IIF, IIL, ILF, ILI, ILL, ILY, IYF, IYL
  • the X region may include one or more insect and/or nematode gut protease cleavable peptide sequences: AAG, AAK, AAR, AFG, AFK, AFR, AGF, AGI, AGK, AGL, AGN, AGQ, AGR, AGS, AGT, AGY, AIG, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AKG, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALG, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APF, APG, APK, APR, ARF, ARG, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASG, ASK, ASR, ATG, ATK, ATR, AVG, AVK, AVR, AYG, AYK, AYR, ASG, ASK, ASR, ATG, ATK, ATR,
  • the X region may include one or more insect and/or nematode gut protease cleavable peptide sequences: AAK, AAR, AFK, AFR, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APK, APR, ARF, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASK, ASR, ATK, ATR, AVK, AVR, AYK, AYR, DIK, DIR, DLK, DLR, EIK, EIR, ELK, ELR, IIK, IIR, IKA, IKF, IKI, IKK, IKL, IKN, IKQ, IKR, IKS, IKT, IKV,
  • Round 2 data from FRET molecules that represented a subset of binary combinations based on the observed top hits in Round 1 provided a hierarchical ranking of the various binary combinations.
  • Round 2 FRET molecules were synthesized, resuspended, and tested in cleavage enzyme assays as described above in Round 1. Many combinations of binary cleavable linking peptides were tested against LEP, COLEOP and SGF conditions.
  • AFVRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1649), AKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1650), ALFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1651), ALFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1652), ALFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1653), ALFRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1654), ALFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1655), ALKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1656), ALKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1657), ALKFLVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1658), ALKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1659), ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660), FFADIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1661), FFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1662), FFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1663), FFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1664), FFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1665), FGYRIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1666), FLRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1667),
  • the cloning and expression of a proteins containing multiple copies of TP intervened by binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptides was performed using a tobacco transient expression system technology referred to as FECT (Liu Z & Kearney C M, BMC Biotechnology, 2010, 10:88, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety).
  • the FECT vector contains a T-DNA region for agroinfection, which contains a CaMV 35S promoter that drives the expression of the foxtail mosaic virus RNA without the genes encoding the viral coating protein and the triple gene block.
  • a pair of subcloning sites (PacI and AvrII) that allow an ORF to be subcloned N′ to C′ following the PacI site for high levels of transient viral expression.
  • This “disarmed” virus genome prevents plant to plant transmission.
  • a second FECT vector is co-expressed that encodes P19, a RNA silencing suppressor protein from tomato bushy stunt virus, to prevent the post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) of the introduced T-DNA.
  • PTGS post-transcriptional gene silencing
  • FIGS. 2 - 5 various designs of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and DNA construct encoding insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins are illustrated.
  • a TP repeat with intervening binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptides is shown.
  • An illustrative ERSP motif which can be used in accordance with the exemplary embodiments provided here is the Barley Alpha-Amylase Signal peptide (BAAS), which is comprised of 24 Amino acids as shown below (N′ to C′, one letter code):
  • the Zea mays ubiquitin monomer used in some of the proteins was comprised of 75 Amino acids as shown below (N′ to C′, one letter code): QIFVKTLTGKTITLEVESSDTIDNVKAKIQDKEGIPPDQQRLIFAGKQLEDGRTLADYN IQKESTLHLVLRLRGG (Accession Number XP 020404049.1, SEQ ID NO: 1759).
  • An exemplary TP useful in the example described here can include: U-ACTX-Hv1a, which has the following amino acid sequence (N′ to C′, one letter code): QYCVPVDQPCSLNTQPCCDDATCTQERNENGHTVYYCRA (SEQ ID NO: 6) or U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, which has the following amino acid sequence (N′ to C′, one letter code):
  • HHHHHHHH SEQ ID NO: 1760
  • HHHHHHHHHH SEQ ID NO: 1760
  • GV3101 cells were cloned into the Pac I and Avr II restriction sites of the FECT expression vector to create the transient vectors which were then transformed into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain, GV3101 cells using a freeze-thaw method as follows: the stored competent GV3101 cells were thawed on ice and then mixed with 1-5 ⁇ g pure transient vectors DNA. The cell-DNA mixture was then kept on ice for 5 minutes, then transferred to ⁇ 80° C. for 5 minutes, and then incubated in a 37° C. water bath for 5 minutes. The freeze-thaw treated cells were then diluted into 1 mL LB medium and shaken on a rocking table for 2-4 hours at room temperature.
  • Cell-LB mixture was then spun down at 5,000 rcf for 2 minutes to pellet cells and then 800 ⁇ L of LB supernatant is removed. The cells are then resuspended in the remaining liquid and the entire volume, approximately 200 ⁇ L, of the transformed cell-LB mixture was then spread onto LB agar plates with the appropriate antibiotics (10 ⁇ g/mL rifampicin, 25 ⁇ g/mL gentamycin, and 50 ⁇ g/mL kanamycin) and incubated at 28° C. for two days. Resulting transformed colonies were then picked and culture in 6 mL aliquots of LB medium with the appropriate antibiotics for transformed DNA analysis and making glycerol stocks of the transformed GV3101 cells.
  • the appropriate antibiotics (10 ⁇ g/mL rifampicin, 25 ⁇ g/mL gentamycin, and 50 ⁇ g/mL kanamycin
  • the transformed GV3101 cells were streaked onto an LB plate with the appropriate antibiotics (as described above) from their glycerol stock and incubated at 28° C. for two days.
  • a colony of transformed GV3101 cells was used to inoculate 5 mL of LB-MESA medium (LB media supplemented with 10 mM MES, 20 ⁇ M acetosyringone) and the same antibiotics described above, and grown overnight at 28° C.
  • the cells of the overnight culture were collected by centrifugation at 5000 rpm for 10 minutes and resuspended in the induction medium (10 mM MES, 10 mM MgCl2, 100 ⁇ M acetosyringone) at a final OD600 of 1.0.
  • the cells were then incubated in the induction medium for 2 hours to overnight at room temperature and were then ready for transient transformation of tobacco leaves. Because FECT uses a mixture of P19 expression and the gene of interest expression, cultures of cells for the pFECT-P19 transformed GV3101 cells and the gene of interest cultures were mixed together in equal amounts for infiltration of tobacco leaves before injection into the plant leaves. The treated cells were infiltrated into the underside of attached leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana plants by injection, using a 3 mL syringe without a needle attached. Protein expression in tobacco leaves was evaluated at 6-8 days post-infiltration.
  • Full length gene-of-interest proteins were purified from the tobacco by using a syringe vacuum extraction technique.
  • the leaf tissue was rolled up and placed inside the barrel of a 60 mL syringe with the needle port capped along with 10 mL of buffer (35 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, 1 Roche cOmplete Tab protease inhibitor tab, pH 1.2 using HCl).
  • the plunger was then inserted into the barrel, inverted so the needle port was up, the cap was removed and excess air was removed by forcing the plunger in. Once the majority of the air had been removed, the syringe was capped and the plunger was pulled back as far as possible, creating a vacuum, and held for 30 seconds.
  • the vacuum was then slowly released by allowing the plunger to go back to the point in which there is no vacuum. This was then repeated three more times. After the third time, the liquid was then expelled out of the syringe by applying light pressure to the leaves, the liquid was saved, and the process was repeated again before the leaves were discarded.
  • the extracted liquid was then sterile filtered using a Pall 0.2 ⁇ m Nylon syringe filter and then concentrated in a GE Healthcare Viva Spin 500, 10K mwco rinsing samples with an additional 20 mL of the buffer and spinning the samples down until they were concentrated about 30 ⁇ .
  • Samples were then analyzed using standard Western Blotting techniques. Samples were prepared for a protein gel by mixing 10 ⁇ L of protein sample with 9 ⁇ L Invitrogen 2 ⁇ SDS loading buffer and 2 ⁇ L Novex 10 ⁇ Reducing agent and heating the sample at 85° C. for 5 minutes. The samples were then loaded and ran on a Novex Precast, 16% Tricine gel in 1 ⁇ Invitrogen Tricine running buffer with 0.1% sodium thioglycolate in the top tank. The gel was run at 150V for 75 minutes. The gel was then transferred to a Novel PVDF membrane using a 7-minute transfer program on the iBLOT system.
  • the blot membrane was then moved to a container and washed with Buffer A (1 ⁇ TBS made from Quality Biological's 10 ⁇ TBS (0.25M tris base, 1.37M NaCl, 0.03M KCL, pH 7.4)), for five minutes by rocking gently at room temperature. This was then followed with a blocking step using Buffer B (Buffer A with 1% BSA) for 1 hour. The blot was then rinsed three times with 5 minute washes of Buffer C (Buffer B with 0.05% Tween 20). This was followed with a 1:10000 dilution of Maine Biotech Anti-His antibody in Buffer C for 1 hour. The blot was then rinsed three times with Buffer C for 5 minutes each.
  • Buffer A made from Quality Biological's 10 ⁇ TBS (0.25M tris base, 1.37M NaCl, 0.03M KCL, pH 7.4
  • Buffer B Buffer A with 1% BSA
  • Buffer C Buffer B with 0.05% Tween 20
  • Indirect ELISA (iELISA) assay was performed as follows to quantitatively evaluate the ICK motif TP from the tobacco leaves transiently transformed with the FECT expression systems. 1 ⁇ L of the leaf extracted protein was diluted into 99 ⁇ L CB2 solution (Immunochemistry Technologies) in the well of an Immulon 2HD 96-well plate, with serial dilutions performed as necessary. Leaf proteins were from the extract samples were then allowed to coat the well walls for 3 hours in the dark at room temperature, and then the CB2 solution was removed, and each well was washed twice with 200 ⁇ L PBS (Gibco).
  • CB2 solution Immulon 2HD 96-well plate
  • blocking solution 150 ⁇ L blocking solution (Block BSA in PBS with 5% non-fat dry milk) was then added into each well and incubated for 1 hour, in the dark, at room temperature. After the removal of the blocking solution and a PBS wash off the wells, 100 ⁇ L of rabbit anti-U-ACTX-Hv1a antibody (primary antibody) (1:250 dilution in blocking solution) was added to each well and incubated for 1 hour in the dark at room temperature. The primary antibody was then removed and each well was was washed with PBS 4 times. Then 100 ⁇ L of HRP-conjugated goat anti-rabbit antibody (secondary antibody, used at 1:1000 dilution in the blocking solution) was added into each well and incubated for 1 hour in the dark at room temperature.
  • primary antibody 1:250 dilution in blocking solution
  • the peptides are digested with simulated gastric fluid (SGF, 35 mM NaCl, pH 1.2 with 1 mg/ml pepsin from porcine gastric mucosa).
  • SGF simulated gastric fluid
  • Purified protein samples were mixed with 1:3, SGF:protein (v:v) and were incubated shaking at 37° C. A sample is taken at 0, 2 and 10 minutes immediately prepared for a protein gel (see above). The samples were then run on a Western Blot using the technique described above. See FIG. 6 .
  • the proteins were digested with gut extract isolated from Southern Corn Rootworm ( Diabrotica undecimpunctata ). Isolation of the gut contents is explained in Example A.1. Prior to peptide digestion, the proteins were buffer exchanged into 100 mM Phosphate buffer, 150 mM NaCl, pH 5.83 using a GE Healthcare Viva Spin 20 returning the final volume to the same as the starting volume. Digests were carried out using SCR gut extract at a 1:3 dilution of SCR gut extract stock:protein (v:v) shaking at 500 rpm, 25° C. Samples were taken at 0, 30 and 210 minutes. Samples were then prepared for SDS-PAGE and western blot as described above.
  • the binary/tertiary peptides were also tested for cleavability against CEW gut extract (described in Example A.1).
  • the peptides were buffer exchanged, just like they were for the SCR assay above, into 200 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.1 150 mM NaCl.
  • the assay conditions are repeated as listed above for SCR gut extract digest.
  • ALKLFV SEQ ID NO: 1605
  • IFVRLR SEQ ID NO: 1619
  • a proteolytic enzyme In order for the binary cleavable linking peptide to cleave, a proteolytic enzyme has to be able to recognize and land on the recognized sequence. If the space is tight or too small, it may cause slower or lower digesting efficiency.
  • the speed in which the peptides cleave should increase.
  • spacers allows for such increased peptidase cleavage and increased insecticidal activity.
  • FRET peptides were ordered as the binary peptide ALKLFVZ1Z2 and varied amino acids in positions Z1 and Z2. Some of the amino acids were screened as individuals and some were screened as pools. The peptides were re-suspended using 50% acetonitrile in water at a concentration of 2 ⁇ M of each peptide. For the one containing more than one FRET peptide, they were re-suspended so that each peptide was as 2 ⁇ M (assuming an equal portion of each one). These were then re-suspended and screened as described above for Round 1. The data does confirm that some amino acids in the Z position are more favorable than others.
  • Table 7 shows representative amino acids for Z 1 and Z 2 based on the FRET peptide speed to cleave data. The greater the value of the slope in in Table 7 the greater the activity of the amino acid when part of a spacer.
  • the column in Table 7 labeled “Slope” indicates the speed of cleavage of the Linker.
  • FIGS. 6 A and 6 B An example of the gene construction for the transient Tobacco expression system can be seen in FIGS. 6 A and 6 B .
  • the Linker sequences ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660) and IFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1674) are represented in portions of FIG. 6 A as (L).
  • FIG. 7 these show as 2 top bands for intact 4 ⁇ (w & w/o Ubiquitin).
  • Example Linker sequence IGER is represented by portions of FIG. 6 B . In gels it shows as 1 top band for intact 4 ⁇ .
  • This example details an example of methods to recover a transgenic corn plant with the stable expression of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing binary and tertiary cleavable linking peptides and a TP.
  • the first component is the (standard binary) vector design required for corn transformation, which involves the creation of a vector which has two regions: a backbone ( FIG. 8 : white arrows) and a t-DNA region ( FIG. 8 : black arrows).
  • the backbone has two components: an origin of replication (Ori or ori) and a selectable marker.
  • the backbone described in this example has two Oris so it can be replicated in both E. coli for subcloning purposes (for example the ColE1 a high copy Ori) and Agrobacterium for propagation of the plasmid (for example the OriV a low copy ori and its trfA initiation protein).
  • the backbone described in this example has a bacterial neomycin phosphotransferase II (nptII) gene for resistance to kanamycin. This gene allows the selection for E. coli or Agrobacterium transformed with the plasmid.
  • the t-DNA region contains three components: borders, an expression cassette for selection of transgenic plant cells on tissue culture media, and an expression cassette for the stable expression of the transgenic promoter.
  • T-DNA borders are repeat sequences (25 bp) that flank the T-DNA in direct orientation and delineate the region that the virulence genes will replicate and package for genetic transformation.
  • the backbone and the T-DNA sequences are published by Coutu et al., in, Transgenic Res (2007) 16:771-781, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • the expression cassettes for both the selectable marker and the gene of interest are similar in design and differ only in the region encoding the open reading frame (ORF) for their respective proteins.
  • this expression cassette is the corn Ubi-1 promoter and expression cassette defined by Christensen and Quail in Transgenic Res. 1996 May; 5(3):213-8, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • the promoter region from a constitutively expressing gene cassette from a plant can be subcloned and the gene removed and replaced by a multicloning site (MCS) to drop in the other genes of interest.
  • MCS multicloning site
  • the 906 bp promoter region (UBI-1 prom) promotes the transcription of an 81 bp 5′ untranslated region (5′UTR) and a Ubi-1 1025 bp intron (UBI-1 intron) which is followed by a MCS.
  • the cassette is terminated by the insertion of a terminator sequence, in this example the terminator sequence is about 250 bp of nopaline synthase (NOS) 3′ untranslated sequence and polyadenylation signals.
  • the insertion of a gene which confers plant resistance to an herbicidal chemical can be used such that cells expressing that cassette will be resistant to the inclusion of the herbicidal chemical in the tissue culture media.
  • the selectable marker gene can be a gene that encodes phosphinothricin acetyltransferase activity (see U.S. Pat. No. 5,648,477, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety).
  • Example A The expression of an insecticidal transgenic protein containing binary and tertiary cleavable linking peptide and a TP is exemplified herein, specifically in Example A, where such a gene is transiently expressed in tobacco.
  • the linear composition of the entire labeled exemplary corn transformation vector example can be seen in FIG. 8 .
  • the second component to this example is corn plant transformation by standard binary vectors and subsequence transgenic plant regeneration which is well known in the art, and is defined and documented by Frame et al., Plant Physiology, May 2002, Vol. 129, pp. 13-22 and Vega et al., Plant Cell Rep (2008) 27:297-305, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties. Following these protocols will result in the recovery of a transgenic plant with the t-DNA described above.
  • the third component to this section is the validation of expression of the intact protein.
  • Transgenic plant tissue can be prepared to isolate the total soluble protein and this can be quantified on an iELISA using a primary antibody specifically binds the TP recombinantly generated (as defined in Example A as provided herein).
  • the intact nature of the protein can be validated using a similar total soluble protein isolation followed by a protein gel and western blotting procedures (also as defined and exemplified in Example A herein).
  • modified Bt proteins are described that when exposed to the contents of insect and nematode and human gut environments, the Bt protein is more efficiently cleaved by the constituent insect or nematode proteases.
  • the presence of the binary or tertiary cleavable peptide results in a more complete dissociation of the stabilizing or inactive region of the Bt protein resulting in the enhanced production of insecticidal and nematicidal TPs.
  • This example details how to subclone an exemplary Bt cry TP to contain binary and tertiary cleavable linking peptide (L).
  • the simplest method to insert a binary or tertiary cleavable peptide (L) into a cry gene is to order the synthesis of the DNA encoding the entire gene with the inserted sequence.
  • the Bt cry TP gene can be any number of genes; a good example of a Bt TP gene is the Cry3a gene.
  • AAPF is recognized by the Chymotrypsin/Cathepsin G enzyme in gut of Diabrotica and leads to more rapid conversation of the full length 67 kDa protein to a cleavage and the 55 kDa form which is the insecticidal mature protein and exhibits specific binding to western corn rootworm brush border membrane compared to the 67 kDa form.
  • This AAPF amino acid sequence was analyzed via FRET and yeast-produced dimers of the TP “U+2-ACTX-Hv1a” separated by AAPF amino acids in our hands and neither FRET nor protein showed any cleavability by human gastrointestinal proteases (data not shown).
  • the peptide amino acid sequence AAPF used in the Walters et al. reference cited above is not a binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptide as described herein.
  • the cloning of the DNA sequence described in Walters et al. is performed such that the base pairs encoding the AAPF amino acids are removed and in their place (in frame) are the codons encoding the amino acids for a binary cleavable linking peptide ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605) or the tertiary cleavable linking peptide ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660).
  • the binary peptide of the present invention is the binary peptide that has an amino acid sequence that can be assembled by combining a sequence from the SGF screening Y set and the insect cleavability X set, in X-Y or Y-X orientation from the X sequences and Y sequences.
  • sequences discovered from SGF screening, Y are: AFF, AFG, AFI, AFL, AFV, AFY, AGF, AGL, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALG, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFG, DFI, DFL, DFY, DGF, DGL, DIF, DLF, DLG, DLY, DYF, DYL, EFF, EFG, EFI, EFL, EFY, EGF, EGL, EIF, ELF, ELG, ELY, EYF, EYL, FF, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFG, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FGA, FGD, FGE, FGF, FGI, FGK, FGL, FGR, FGS, FGT, FGV, FGY, FLV, FLR, FYA, FYD, FYE, FYF
  • Another embodiment of the sequences discovered from SGF screening, Y are: AFF, AFI, AFL, AFY, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFI, DFL, DFY, DIF, DLF, DLY, DYF, DYL, YFL, EFF, EFI, EFL, 0, EFY, EIF, ELF, ELY, EYF, EYL, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FYA, FYD, FYE, FYF, FYI, FYK, FYL, FYR, FYS, FYT, FYV, FYY, IFA, IFF, IFI, IFL, IFV, IFY, IIF, IIL, ILF, ILI, ILL, ILY, IYF, IYL, LFA, LFF, LFI, LFL, LF
  • sequences discovered from insect cleavability, X are: AAG, AAK, AAR, AFG, AFK, AFR, AGF, AGI, AGK, AGL, AGN, AGQ, AGR, AGS, AGT, AGY, AIG, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AKG, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALG, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APF, APG, APK, APR, ARF, ARG, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASG, ASK, ASR, ATG, ATK, ATR, AVG, AVK, AVR, AYG, AYK, AYR, DGK, DGR, DIG, DIK, DIR, DLG, DLK, DLR, EGK, EGR, E
  • Example 8 The Insecticidal Efficacy of a Transgenic Plant Expressing the Insecticidal and/or Nematicidal Proteins of the Present Invention
  • Transgenic corn plants were made using the vector described in FIG. 8 .
  • the ORF comprising the components STA, L, and TP was defined by FIG. 6 B and prepared as a polynucleotide operable for transformation into corn plant cells.
  • a field trial was performed by planting seeds at 6 inch spacing, with 125 seeds per row with 6 reps.
  • the UTC corn line was the parent line used as an explant for corn transformation and the transgenic corn line was the resulting transgenic plant expressing the transgene of FIG. 6 B .
  • Each plant was infested with 600 western corn rootworm eggs and then scored once the crop reached maturity. Scoring was performed on a 0-3 scale where the three whorls of roots underground were scored for damage using (Oleson, J. D., Y. Park, T.
  • the Field trial data of non-transgenic and transgenic corn plants where transgenic plants displayed reduced damage by western corn rootworm shown in FIG. 9 is the average score of 30 plants, 5 from each of the 6 reps picked at random.
  • the transgenic plant comprising the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein shown in FIG. 6 B turned in a score of 1.55 damage compared to the 1.90 damage in the untransformed corn line that was used as an explant to generate the transgenic corn line.
  • the use of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein shown in FIG. 6 B when transformed into corn demonstrates the efficacy of the transgene in controlling a pest of corn, western corn rootworm.

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Abstract

A peptide comprised of either a binary or a tertiary peptide, the peptide contains at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptides have 2 different regions and the tertiary peptides have 3 different regions; wherein, the peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease.

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    CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
  • This application is a Continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 16/343,715, filed Apr. 19, 2019 which is a 371 of PCT International Application No. PCT/US2017/055596, filed Oct. 6, 2017, which claims the benefit of, and priority to, U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 62/411,117, filed on Oct. 21, 2016. The entire contents of these applications are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
  • SEQUENCE LISTING
  • This application incorporates by reference in its entirety the Sequence Listing XML entitled “225312-508329.xml (2.229 MB), which was created on Aug. 9, 2022, and filed electronically herewith.
  • FIELD OF THE INVENTION
  • New insecticidal and nematicidal proteins, cleavable peptides, DNA constructs encoding same, transgenic proteins, their expression in plants, methods of producing the transgenic proteins, new processes, production techniques, new peptides, new formulations, and combinations of new and known insecticidal and nematicidal proteins contained within transgenic proteins that produce greater pest resistance than would be expected of related insecticidal and nematicidal proteins for the control of insects and nematodes are described and claimed.
  • BACKGROUND
  • The global security of food produced by modern agriculture and horticulture is challenged by insect pests. Farmers rely on insecticides to suppress insect damage, yet commercial options for safe and functional insecticides available to farmers are diminishing through the removal of dangerous chemicals from the marketplace and the evolution of insect strains that are resistant to all major classes of chemical and biological insecticides. New insecticides are necessary for farmers to maintain crop protection.
  • Insecticidal and nematicidal peptides, polypeptides and proteins are peptide and protein polymers that are toxic to their targets, usually insects or nematodes. The insecticidal peptides or toxins commonly derive from arthropod origins such as from scorpions or spiders. The toxins can be delivered directly to the insect's gut or internal organs by injection or by inducing the insect to consume the toxin from its food, for example an insect feeding upon a transgenic plant. These toxins have been known to have the ability to inhibit the growth, impair the movement, or even kill an insect when the toxin is delivered to the insect by spreading the toxin to the locus inhabited by the insect or to the insect's environment by spraying, or other means. Through direct exposure, or ingestion, the insect comes into some form of contact with the toxic peptide, polypeptide or protein.
  • Insecticidal peptides however have enormous problems reaching the commercial market and to date there have been few if any insecticidal peptides approved and marketed for the commercial market, with one notable exception, peptides derived from Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt. There is presently, great concern over rising insect resistance to Bt proteins.
  • Bt proteins, or Bt peptides, are effective insecticides used for crop protection in the form of both plant incorporated protectants and foliar sprays. Commercial formulations of Bt proteins are widely used to control insects at the larval stage. Inhibitory cysteine knot motif (ICK) proteins are also a class of insecticidal peptides which are derived from arthropod origins, such as the venoms of scorpions or spiders.
  • Other classes and types of potential peptides have been identified, such as Trypsin modulating oostatic factor (TMOF) peptides. TMOF peptides have to be delivered to their physiological site of action for insecticidal activity to ensue. TMOF peptides have been identified as potential larvicides, with great potential, see D. Borovsky, Journal of Experimental Biology 206, 3869-3875, but like nearly all other insecticidal peptides, TMOF has not been commercialized or widely used by farmers and there are reasons for this.
  • The ability to successfully produce insecticidal peptides on a commercial scale, with reproducible peptide formation and folding, at a reasonable and economical price, can be a significant obstacle to commercialization. The wide variety, unique properties and special nature of insecticidal peptides, combined with the huge variety of possible production techniques, can present an overwhelming number of approaches to peptide application and production, but few, if any, are commercially successful.
  • There are several reasons why so few of the multitude insecticidal peptides that have been identified have ever made it to market. First, most insecticidal peptides are either too delicate or not toxic enough to be used commercially. Second, insecticidal peptides are difficult and costly to produce commercially. Third, many insecticidal peptides quickly degrade and have a short half-life. Fourth, very few insecticidal peptides fold properly when then are expressed by a plant, thus they lose their toxicity in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) such as genetically modified plants. Fifth, most of the identified insecticidal peptides are blocked from systemic distribution in the insect and/or lose their toxic nature when consumed by insects. Bt proteins are an exception to this last problem and because they disrupt insect feeding they have been widely used.
  • The present invention provides several solutions to these major problems which have prevented commercialization and wide spread use of insecticidal peptides. The present invention provides transgenic proteins that enable the synthesis and release of insecticidal and nematicidal toxic peptides in relatively large numbers at the site of activity, i.e., the gut or other organs of the insect or nematode. The synthesis in the host is facilitated by directed expression in regions of the host cell that enables proper folding of the transgenic protein and enhances synthesis in the host cell.
  • SUMMARY OF THE EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION
  • The present invention provides cleavable peptides that are fused to toxic insecticidal and/or nematicidal toxic peptides and proteins that can be expressed and synthesized in a host cell, for example a plant cell that is subject to consumption by an insect or nematode pest. The cleavable peptides may be cleaved in the gut environment and/or hemolymph environment of an insect and/or nematode and in the gastrointestinal system of a human being thereby releasing its payload comprising one or more insecticidal and/or nematicidal toxic peptides and proteins.
  • In a first aspect, the present invention provides cleavable peptides comprising a binary or a tertiary peptide that contains at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, comprised of 2 or 3 different regions. In one example, the binary peptides have two different regions (an insect or nematode cleavable region and an animal (e.g. human) gut cleavable region) and the tertiary peptides have the same two regions of a binary peptide but also includes one additional region not found in a binary peptide; and wherein the binary and tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease. In some embodiments, the cleavable peptides of the present invention (binary and tertiary cleavable peptides (L)) cannot be cleaved in a plant cell with an endogenous plant protease, or by a naturally occurring plant protease.
  • In a related embodiment, exemplary binary peptides comprise an amino acid sequence of X1-X2-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2- X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Y1-Y2-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4, wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid and wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • In another related aspect, a tertiary peptide of the present invention contains at least 5 amino acids up to a maximum of 16 amino acids; wherein the tertiary peptide comprises a binary peptide and a spacer of 1 to 4 amino acids. In some embodiments, the spacer comprises the amino acid sequence GS and is fused in frame to the N-terminus of a binary peptide, or to the C-terminus of the binary peptide, or both to the N-terminus and the C-terminus of a binary peptide as disclosed herein.
  • In a second aspect, the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having a cleavable peptide (a binary or a tertiary peptide) fused in frame with an insecticidal or nematicidal toxic protein. In another embodiment, the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable peptides, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n, wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10. In another embodiment, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein comprises an endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide (ERSP) fused in frame with: a binary peptide or tertiary peptide, which is fused in frame with an insecticidal or nematicidal toxic protein and/or a repeat construct (L-TP)n or (TP-L)n, wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a protein construct comprising: (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L)n, wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200. In various related embodiments described above, TP is a toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In some embodiments, the N-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its N-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • In another embodiment, the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable peptides, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a stabilizing domain (STA) fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In some related embodiments, an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA), which is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, being fused to the N-terminus of a toxic protein, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct comprising: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n. In some related embodiments, an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, being fused to the N-terminus of a toxic protein, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct comprising: (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments as described herein and above, TP is defined as a toxic protein, that is toxic to an insect and/or a nematode, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP of a construct described herein and above is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In some embodiments, the N-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its N-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • In another related aspect, the present invention provides a plant, or part thereof comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as exemplified herein. In related embodiments, the present invention provides a plant, or part thereof comprising a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, in a DNA construct, for example, an expression vector, wherein the polynucleotide encodes: an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a peptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions; wherein, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease (for example a human gut protease) and an insect or nematode gut protease, and wherein the binary or tertiary peptide (L) is fused in frame to a toxic protein (TP). In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a repeat construct (L-TP)n or (TP-L)n wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10. In related embodiments, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide is operably fused at its N-terminus to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) and at its C-terminus operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP. See FIGS. 4, 5 and 6C. In a related embodiment, the plant or part thereof, comprises an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and/or a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as exemplified herein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a repeat construct (L-TP)n or (TP-L)n, wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10. In a related embodiment, the plant or part thereof, comprises an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and/or a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as exemplified herein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with a binary peptide and/or a repeat construct (L-TP)n or (TP-L)n. See FIGS. 4, 5, and 6C. In various embodiments, the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the construct: (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L). In another embodiment, a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA). See FIG. 3 , FIG. 5 , and FIG. 6C. The STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, TP is toxic protein, which may be an insecticidal protein and/or a nematicidal protein as described and exemplified in the present disclosure, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 10 to 175, or from 20 to 150, or from 30 to 100, or from 40 to 100, or from 20 to 70, or from 20 to 60, or from 20 to 50, or from 20 to 40, or from 30-40. In some embodiments, n is an integer ranging from 1 to 20, or from 5 to 20, or from 10 to 20, or from 20 to 80, or from 30 to 60, or from 30 to 50 and preferably around or about or specifically 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • In a third aspect, the present invention provides a method of controlling a pest infection or infestation of a plant. The method comprises providing in a diet of said pest, a plant, or part thereof, or a plant cell, said plant, part thereof, or plant cell comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as exemplified herein, and/or a DNA construct comprising at least one polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more cleavable binary and/or tertiary peptides. In a related embodiment, the plant or part thereof, comprises a DNA construct that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a binary or tertiary peptide which is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n or a repeat construct (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 10 to 175, or from 20 to 150, or from 30 to 100, or from 40 to 100, or from 20 to 70, or from 20 to 60, or from 20 to 50, or from 20 to 40, or from 30-40. In some embodiments, n is an integer ranging from 1 to 20, or from 5 to 20, or from 10 to 20, or from 20 to 80, or from 30 to 60, or from 30 to 50 and preferably around or about or specifically 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50. In a related embodiment, the plant or part thereof, comprises a DNA construct that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with a binary peptide and/or a repeat construct (L-TP)n or (TP-L)n. In various embodiments, the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include: (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 10 to 175, or from 20 to 150, or from 30 to 100, or from 40 to 100, or from 20 to 70, or from 20 to 60, or from 20 to 50, or from 20 to 40, or from 30-40. In some embodiments, n is an integer ranging from 1 to 20, or from 5 to 20, or from 10 to 20, or from 20 to 80, or from 30 to 60, or from 30 to 50 and preferably around or about or specifically 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50.
  • In another embodiment the plant or part thereof, comprises a DNA construct that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA). The STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 10 to 175, or from 20 to 150, or from 30 to 100, or from 40 to 100, or from 20 to 70, or from 20 to 60, or from 20 to 50, or from 20 to 40, or from 30-40. In some embodiments, n is an integer ranging from 1 to 20, or from 5 to 20, or from 10 to 20, or from 20 to 80, or from 30 to 60, or from 30 to 50 and preferably around or about or specifically 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50. In various embodiments, the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, TP is toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In each of the exemplified embodiments above, the pest may be an insect or a nematode as described in the present disclosure. In various embodiments, the DNA construct can be a vector, for example, a cloning vector or an expression vector containing a coding sequence comprising a polynucleotide encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention and one or more control sequences that permits the replication and/or expression of the coding sequence in a host cell, for example, a bacterial cell, a yeast cell or a plant cell. In some of the embodiments above, the binary and/or tertiary peptides of the present invention cannot be cleaved in a plant cell by an endogenous plant protease, or by a naturally occurring plant protease.
  • In a fourth aspect, the present invention provides a modified toxic peptide or protein (TP) that comprises a binary or tertiary peptide inserted (e.g. fused in frame) between the active and inactive portions of the toxic peptide. In one example, a binary or tertiary peptide is inserted between the cleavable pro inactive portion of the peptide and mature active portion of the peptide. In another example, a modified toxic protein (TP) includes a stabilizing domain fused in frame with a binary or tertiary peptide of the present invention which is fused in frame with the active portion of the toxic protein (TP). In another example, the modified toxic protein (TP) is a Bacillus thuringiensis or B. thuringiensis (“Bt”) derived protein, known herein as a “Bt protein” and “Bt peptide” which are used interchangeably and include peptides produced by Bt, collectively referred to herein as Bt toxic proteins or “Bt TPs”. Such peptides and proteins are frequently written as “cry”, “cyt” or “VIP” proteins encoded by the cry, cyt and vip genes. Bt TPs are more usually attributed to insecticidal crystal proteins encoded by the cry genes. Bt TPs are examples of PFIPS (Pore Forming Insecticidal Proteins). In various embodiments, a modified TP can include a Bt protein as described above and herein, in which the stabilizing domain (STA) is fused in frame with a binary or tertiary peptide or a construct containing one or two or more binary or tertiary peptides of the present invention. The binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with the active fragment of the Bt protein, such that upon exposure to the gut environment and/or hemolymph environment of an insect and/or nematode and in the gastrointestinal system of a human being, the binary or tertiary peptide is cleaved, thus separating the stabilizing or inactive portion of the TP from the active or mature form of the TP, rendering the cleaved active or mature portion insecticidal and/or nematicidal. In some embodiments, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprise a Bt TP and/or a modified Bt protein, one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides and one or more of an ERSP, and a STA as described above. In some exemplary embodiments as shown in FIG. 3B, a modified TP can include a Bt TP, for example, a cry, a cyt or a VIP protein, in which the TPinactive is a Bt(inactive) (the inactive portion of a Bt TP) and the TPactive is a Bt(active) (the active portion of a Bt TP) are separated, and fused in frame with one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides designated as L as shown in FIG. 3B). Upon exposure to the gut environment and/or hemolymph environment of an insect and/or nematode and in the gastrointestinal system of an animal subject, for example a human subject, the binary or tertiary peptide is cleaved, thus separating the inactive portion of the TP from the active or mature portion of the TP, rendering the cleaved active or mature portion insecticidal and/or nematicidal in the insect and/or nematode. In some related embodiments, the modified TP as described above, for example, an exemplary Bt TP, may also optionally include an ERSP fused in frame to the N-terminal portion of the modified TP.
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  • FIG. 1 . Demonstration of the FRET molecules in FRET kit (Cat. No. PSREPLI005, Mimotopes) to detect the specificity of amino acid sequence based cleavage by human simulated gastrointestinal fluid (SGF) and insect gut digestive enzymes. This figure is borrowed from the Mimotopes FRET kit to illustrate how cleavage generates detectable fluorescence.
  • FIG. 2 . Demonstration of first and second aspects that are exemplary embodiments of the invention. The first aspect is the graphical representation of a binary and/or tertiary cleavable linker peptide designated (L). The second aspect illustrates various combinations of L fused to a toxic peptide or protein (TP) (from 1-200 repeats).
  • FIG. 3A. Demonstration of addition of an optional stability domain or stability protein (STA), fused to L fused to TP. This figure demonstrates an illustrative usage of a STA positioned in the N terminal position and fused in frame to an L and a TP to form an illustrative STA-L-TP construct.
  • FIG. 3B depicts an embodiment in which a modified TP comprising a TPinactive portion of the TP is fused in frame with a cleavable (L) peptide which is fused in frame to the TPactive portion of the TP. As illustrated in FIG. 3B, upon exposure to the animal and insect and/or nematode gut environment, the cleavable L peptide is cleaved, thus separating the TPinactive portion and the TPactive portion, thus liberating the active portion of the TP in the insect and/or nematode. In various embodiments, the modified TP is a Bt TP as described herein.
  • FIG. 4 . Demonstration of the Binary or Tertiary Cleavable Linking Peptide in an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein with two or more TPs and an ERSP. This figure illustrates various embodiments from FIG. 2 with the addition of an N-terminal fusion of an ERSP.
  • FIG. 5 . Demonstration of the Binary or Tertiary Cleavable Linking Peptides of an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein with two or more TPs and an ERSP fused to the N-terminal of the STA. This figure illustrates various embodiments from FIG. 2 , with the addition of a STA and an N-terminal fusion of an ERSP to that STA.
  • FIG. 6A depicts an illustrative insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a BAAS ERSP, fused in frame to ubiquitin which is fused to a U+2-ACTX-Hv1a TP which is fused to 3 L-TP fusion constructs (each repeating construct comprising a linking cleavable peptide L, wherein L is a tertiary cleavable linking peptide, having three regions (XYZ), and wherein the Z region is the dipeptide glycine-serine GS, and the TP is a U-ACTX-Hv1a) and where the last TP U-ACTX-Hv1a has a fused 10 His tag.
  • FIG. 6B depicts an illustrative insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a BAAS ERSP, fused in frame to a 3 repeating construct, the construct comprising a U-ACTX-Hv1a TP fused to a linker (L) which may be a binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptide. The last U-ACTX-Hv1a TP has a 10 His tag.
  • FIG. 6C depicts a graphical representation of an illustrative insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein shown in the form of a construct, wherein each depiction of the ERSP, STA, (TP-L)N and TP are fused in frame. In this construct, ERSP is fused to the N-terminus of a STA domain, which is fused to a repeating construct, the construct comprises units of TP fused to a linker peptide (L), wherein each TP in the repeating construct may be the same or different and each L in the repeating construct may be the same or different. Finally, the last repeating unit of the TP-L construct is fused to the N-terminus of a TP. In this exemplary embodiment, N can be 1 to 10 repeating units, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 units, such that upon cleavage in an insect and/or nematode gut environment, each L is cleaved, thus releasing multiple copies of TP which is insecticidal and/or nematicidal to the insect or nematode that ingested the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
  • FIG. 7 . Demonstration of detection of cleavage of the tertiary linking peptides, ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660) and IFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1674), in all digestive enzyme conditions compared to the control peptide, IGER, which only cleaves in the CEW gut extract. This figure contains the three digestive enzyme conditions (rows) and three different proteins (columns) that each contain four TP units (U-ACTX-Hv1a) with intervening tertiary linking peptides or the control peptide, IGER. The cleavage reactions are stopped by the addition of denaturing conditions (chemical and heat) at the time points listed below each gel image. A His-tagged western blot detection illustrates the digestion and disappearance of the protein band for tertiary peptides ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660) and IFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO:1674) in all digestive conditions, or the retention of the intact protein band across the time points for the control peptide IGER in both the SCR gut extract and SGF.
  • FIG. 8 . An example of a stable corn transformation vector. This figure depicts one example of a stable corn transformation vector. The white arrows depict the basic backbone components of the vector. The black arrows depict the T-DNA portion of the vector which is transformed into the corn genome and results in the selection and regeneration of transgenic corn plants expressing the insecticidal protein containing cleavable linking peptides.
  • FIG. 9 . An example of efficacy data of a field trial of corn plants expressing the open reading frame (ORF) comprising an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as described in FIG. 6A after transformation by a vector described in FIG. 8 .
  • DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Definitions
  • “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” means a Family of insecticidal ICK TPs that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spider belonging to the Atracinae subfamily. One such spider is known as the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, which has the scientific name Hydronyche versuta. Three examples of ACTX peptides from this species are the Omega, Kappa, and U peptides.
  • “Agroinfection” means a plant transformation method where DNA is introduced into a plant cell by using Agrobacteria A. tumefaciens or A. rhizogenes.
  • “BAAS” means barley alpha-amylase signal peptide. It is an example of an ERSP.
  • “Binary vector” or “binary expression vector” means an expression vector which can replicate itself in both E. coli strains and Agrobacterium strains. Also, the vector contains a region of DNA (often referred to as t-DNA) bracketed by left and right border sequences that is recognized by virulence genes to be copied and delivered into a plant cell by Agrobacterium.
  • “Bt,” also known as Bacillus thuringiensis or B. thuringiensis, means a gram-positive soil bacterium that has been used worldwide for more than sixty years to control agricultural, forestry, and public health insect pests.
  • “Bt proteins” and “Bt peptides” are used interchangeably and include peptides produced by Bt are collectively referred to herein as Bt toxic proteins or “Bt TPs”. Such peptides are frequently written as “cry”, “cyt” or “VIP” proteins encoded by the cry, cyt and vip genes. Bt TPs are more usually attributed to insecticidal crystal proteins encoded by the cry genes. Bt TPs are examples of PFIPS (Pore Forming Insecticidal Proteins) see definition below. Examples of PFIPS and other Bt proteins are provided in the sequence listing.
  • “Chimeric gene” means a DNA sequence that encodes a gene derived from portions of one or more coding sequences to produce a new gene.
  • “Cleavable Linker” see Linker.
  • “Conditioned medium” means the cell culture medium which has been used by cells and is enriched with cell derived materials but does not contain cells.
  • “Conversion” or “converted” refers to the process of making an HP peptide.
  • “CRIP” and “CRIPS” are abbreviations for Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein and Proteins respectively. Cysteine rich insecticidal peptides (CRIPS) are peptides rich in cysteine which form disulfide bonds. CRIPS contain at least four (4) sometimes six (6) and sometimes eight (8) cysteine amino acids among proteins or peptides having at least 10 amino acids where the cysteines form two (2), three (3) or four (4) disulfide bonds. The disulfide bonds contribute to the folding, three-dimensional structure, and activity of the insecticidal peptide. The cysteine-cysteine disulfide bonds and the three dimensional structure they form play a significant role in the toxicity of these insecticidal peptides. A CRIP is exemplified by both inhibitory cysteine knot toxic proteins or ICK TPs (usually having 6-8 cysteines) and by examples of toxic peptides having disulfide bonds but that are not considered ICK TPs (Non-ICK CRIPS). Examples of an ICK would be an ACTX peptide from a spider and defined above. Representative example of ICK proteins include U-ACTX insecticidal peptides, Omega-ACTX insecticidal peptides and Kappa-ACTX insecticidal peptides. Examples of a Non-ICK CRIP would be a peptide like Av2 and Av3 which are toxic peptides first identified from sea anemones. These peptides are examples of a class of compounds that modulate sodium channels in the insect peripheral nervous system (PNS). Non-ICK CRIPS can have 4-8 cysteines which form 2-4 disulfide bonds. These cysteine-cysteine disulfide bonds stabilized toxic peptides (CRIPS) can have remarkable stability when exposed to the environment. Many CRIPS are isolated from venomous animals such as spiders, scorpions, snakes, sea snails and sea anemones and they are toxic to insects. Additional description is provided below.
  • “Defined medium” means a medium that is composed of known chemical components but does not contain crude proteinaceous extracts or by-products such as yeast extract or peptone.
  • “Disulfide bond” means a covalent bond between two cysteine amino acids derived by the coupling of two thiol groups on their side chains.
  • “Double transgene peptide expression vector” or “double transgene expression vector” means a yeast expression vector which contains two copies of the insecticidal peptide expression cassette.
  • “ELISA” or “iELISA” means a molecular biology protocol in which the samples are fixed to the surface of a plate and then detected as follows: a primary antibody is applied followed by a secondary antibody conjugated to an enzyme which converts a colorless substrate to colored substrate which can be detected and quantified across samples. During the protocol, antibodies are washed away such that only those that bind to their epitopes remain for detection. The samples, in our hands, are proteins isolated from plants, and ELISA allows for the quantification of the amount of expressed transgenic protein recovered.
  • “Expression ORF” means a nucleotide encoding a protein complex and is defined as the nucleotides in the ORF.
  • “ER” or “Endoplasmic reticulum” is a subcellular organelle common to all eukaryotes where some post translation modification processes occur.
  • “ERSP” or “Endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide” is an N-terminus sequence of amino acids that during protein translation of the mRNA molecule encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is recognized and bound by a host cell signal-recognition particle, which moves the protein translation ribosome/mRNA complex to the ER in the cytoplasm. The result is the protein translation is paused until it docks with the ER where it continues and the resulting protein is injected into the ER.
  • “ersp” means a nucleotide encoding the peptide, ERSP.
  • “ER trafficking” means transportation of a cell expressed protein into ER for post-translational modification, sorting and transportation.
  • “FECT” means a transient plant expression system using Foxtail mosaic virus with elimination of coating protein gene and triple gene block.
  • “GFP” means a green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria. It is an example of a translational stabilizing protein.
  • “High Production peptide” or “HP peptide” means a peptide which is capable of being made, or is “converted,” according to the procedures described herein and which, once converted can be produced at increased yields, or higher rates of production, or in greater than normal amounts, in a biological system. The higher rates of production can be from 20 to 400% or greater than can be achieved with a peptide before conversion, using the same or similar production methods that were used to produce the peptide before conversion.
  • “Homology” when used in relation to nucleic acids refers to a degree of complementarity. There may be partial homology or complete homology (i.e., identity). “Sequence identity” refers to a measure of relatedness between two or more nucleic acids or proteins, and is given as a percentage with reference to the total comparison length. The identity calculation takes into account those nucleotide or amino acid residues that are identical and in the same relative positions in their respective larger sequences. Calculations of identity may be performed by algorithms contained within computer programs such as “GAP” (Genetics Computer Group, Madison, Wis.) and “ALIGN” (DNAStar, Madison, Wis.). A partially complementary sequence is one that at least partially inhibits (or competes with) a completely complementary sequence from hybridizing to a target nucleic acid is referred to using the functional term “substantially homologous.” The inhibition of hybridization of the completely complementary sequence to the target sequence may be examined using a hybridization assay (Southern or Northern blot, solution hybridization and the like) under conditions of low stringency. A substantially homologous sequence or probe will compete for and inhibit the binding (i.e., the hybridization) of a sequence which is completely homologous to a target under conditions of low stringency. This is not to say that conditions of low stringency are such that non-specific binding is permitted; low stringency conditions require that the binding of two sequences to one another be a specific (i.e., selective) interaction. The absence of non-specific binding may be tested by the use of a second target which lacks even a partial degree of complementarity (e.g., less than about 30% identity); in the absence of non-specific binding the probe will not hybridize to the second non-complementary target.
  • In preferred embodiments, hybridization conditions are based on the melting temperature (Tm) of the nucleic acid binding complex and confer a defined “stringency” The term “hybridization” refers to the pairing of complementary nucleic acids. Hybridization and the strength of hybridization (i.e., the strength of the association between the nucleic acids) is impacted by such factors as the degree of complementary between the nucleic acids, stringency of the conditions involved, the Tm of the formed hybrid, and the G:C ratio within the nucleic acids. A single molecule that contains pairing of complementary nucleic acids within its structure is said to be “self-hybridized.”
  • The term “Tm” refers to the “melting temperature” of a nucleic acid. The melting temperature is the temperature at which a population of double-stranded nucleic acid molecules becomes half dissociated into single strands. The equation for calculating the Tm of nucleic acids is well known in the art. As indicated by standard references, a simple estimate of the Tm value may be calculated by the equation: Tm=81.5+0.41(% G+C), when a nucleic acid is in aqueous solution at 1 M NaCl. The term “stringency” refers to the conditions of temperature, ionic strength, and the presence of other compounds such as organic solvents, under which nucleic acid hybridizations are conducted. With “high stringency” conditions, nucleic acid base pairing will occur only between nucleic acid fragments that have a high frequency of complementary base sequences. Thus, conditions of “low” stringency are often required with nucleic acids that are derived from organisms that are genetically diverse, as the frequency of complementary sequences is usually less.
  • “Low stringency conditions” when used in reference to nucleic acid hybridization comprise conditions equivalent to binding or hybridization at 42° C. in a solution consisting of 5×SSPE (43.8 g/l NaCl, 6.9 g/l NaH2PO4.H2O and 1.85 g/l EDTA, pH adjusted to 7.4 with NaOH), 0.1% SDS, 5×Denhardt's reagent [50×Denhardt's contains per 500 ml: 5 g Ficoll (Type 400, Pharmacia), 5 g BSA (Fraction V; Sigma)] and 100 μg/mL denatured salmon sperm DNA followed by washing in a solution comprising 5×SSPE, 0.1% SDS at 42° C. when a probe of about 500 nucleotides in length is employed.
  • “Medium stringency conditions” when used in reference to nucleic acid hybridization comprise conditions equivalent to binding or hybridization at 42° C. in a solution consisting of 5×SSPE (43.8 g/l NaCl, 6.9 g/l NaH2PO4.H2O and 1.85 g/l EDTA, pH adjusted to 7.4 with NaOH), 0.5% SDS, 5×Denhardt's reagent and 100 μg/mL denatured salmon sperm DNA followed by washing in a solution comprising 10×SSPE, 1.0% SDS at 42° C. when a probe of about 500 nucleotides in length is employed.
  • “High stringency conditions” when used in reference to nucleic acid hybridization comprise conditions equivalent to binding or hybridization at 42° C. in a solution consisting of 5.times.SSPE (43.8 g/l NaCl, 6.9 g/l NaH2PO4.H2O and 1.85 g/l EDTA, pH adjusted to 7.4 with NaOH), 0.5% SDS, 5×Denhardt's reagent and 100 μg/mL denatured salmon sperm DNA followed by washing in a solution comprising 0.1×SSPE, 1.0% SDS at 42° C. when a probe of about 500 nucleotides in length is employed.
  • It is well known that numerous equivalent conditions may be employed to comprise low stringency conditions; factors such as the length and nature (DNA, RNA, base composition) of the probe and nature of the target (DNA, RNA, base composition, present in solution or immobilized, etc.) and the concentration of the salts and other components (e.g., the presence or absence of formamide, dextran sulfate, polyethylene glycol) are considered and the hybridization solution may be varied to generate conditions of low stringency hybridization different from, but equivalent to, the above listed conditions. In addition, the art knows conditions that promote hybridization under conditions of high stringency (e.g., increasing the temperature of the hybridization and/or wash steps, the use of formamide in the hybridization solution, etc.).
  • “Hybrid peptide,” aka “Hybrid”, aka “hybrid toxin,” aka “hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a,” aka “native hybridACTX-Hv1a,” as well as “U peptide,” aka “U toxin,” aka “native U,” aka “U-ACTX-Hv1a,” aka “native U-ACTX-Hv1a,” all refer to an ACTX peptide, which was discovered from a spider known as the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, Hydronyche versuta, and is a dual antagonist to insect voltage-gated Ca2+ channels and voltage-gated K+ channels.
  • “IGER” means a name for a short peptide, based on its actual sequence of one letter codes. It is an example of a peptide that is only cleaved in insects.
  • “ICK motif,” “ICK motif protein,” “ICK polypeptides”, “ICK proteins”, “inhibitor cystine knot motif,” “Toxic insect ICK TPs,” “ICK motif TPs,” “CK” peptides,” “cystine knot motif,” or “cystine knot peptides” (all used interchangeably herein), means a 16 to 60 amino acid peptide with at least 6 half-cystine core amino acids having three disulfide bridges, wherein the 3 disulfide bridges are covalent bonds and of the six half-cystine residues the covalent disulfide bonds are between the first and fourth, the second and fifth, and the third and sixth half-cystines, of the six core half-cystine amino acids starting from the N-terminal amino acid. In general this type of peptide comprises a beta-hairpin secondary structure, normally composed of residues situated between the fourth and sixth core half-cystines of the motif, the hairpin being stabilized by the structural crosslinking provided by the motif's three disulfide bonds. Note that additional cysteine/cystine or half-cystine amino acids may be present within the inhibitor cystine knot motif. Examples are provided in the sequence listing. Representative example of ICK proteins include U-ACTX insecticidal peptides, Omega-ACTX insecticidal peptides and Kappa-ACTX insecticidal peptides.
  • “ick” means a nucleotide encoding an ICK motif protein.
  • “ICK motif protein expression ORF” or “expression ORF” means a nucleotide encoding an ICK motif protein complex and is defined as the nucleotides in the ORF.
  • “ICK motif protein expression vector” or “ICK expression vector”, or “ICK motif expression vector,” means a binary vector which contains an expression ORF. The binary vector also contains the necessary transcription promoter and terminator sequence surrounding the expression ORF to promote expression of the ORF and the protein it encodes.
  • “Insect” includes all organisms in the class “Insecta”. The term “pre-adult” insects refers to any form of an organism prior to the adult stage, including, for example, eggs, larvae, and nymphs.
  • “Insect gut environment” or “gut environment” means the specific pH and protease conditions found within the fore, mid or hind gut of an insect or insect larva.
  • “Insect hemolymph environment” means the specific pH and protease conditions of found within an insect or insect larva.
  • As used herein, the term “insecticidal” is generally used to refer to the ability of a polypeptide or protein used herein, to increase mortality or inhibit growth rate of insects. As used herein, the term “nematicidal” refers to the ability of a polypeptide or protein used herein, to increase mortality or inhibit the growth rate of nematodes. In general, the term “nematode” comprises eggs, larvae, juvenile and mature forms of said organism.
  • “Insecticidal activity” means that on or after exposure of the insect to compounds or peptides, the insect either dies stops or slows its movement or its feeding, stops or slows its growth, fails to pupate, cannot reproduce or cannot produce fertile offspring.
  • “Insecticidal peptide” or “Insecticidal protein” or “toxic polypeptide” or “toxic protein” (used interchangeably herein) means a protein or polypeptide having insecticidal activity when ingested by, in contact with, or injected into an insect.
  • “Insecticidal peptide production strain screen” means a screening process that identifies the higher-yielding insecticidal peptide production yeast strains from the lower yielding strains. In the described methods herein, it refers to screens that use reverse-phase HPLC or the housefly injection bioassay.
  • “Integrative expression vector” or “integrative vector” means a yeast expression vector which can insert itself into a specific locus of the yeast cell genome and stably becomes a part of the yeast genome.
  • “Known peptide” means a peptide known to have biological activity and may be a mature peptide or any version or fragment thereof including pre and pro peptides and conjugates of active peptides. A preferred known peptide is one with insecticidal activity.
  • “L” in the proper context means a cleavable intervening binary or tertiary peptide. When referring to amino acids, “L” can also mean leucine.
  • “Linker, Cleavable Linker, or Peptide Linker” means a short peptide sequence (a binary or tertiary peptide) that is the target site of at least two types of proteases one of which is an insect and/or nematode protease and the other one of which is a human protease such that the linker can be separated by both types of protease that can cleave and separate the protein into two parts or a short DNA sequence that is placed in the reading frame in the ORF and encoding a short peptide sequence in the protein that is the target site of an insect and/or nematode and an animal (e.g. human) protease that can cleave and separate the protein into two parts.
  • “Lepidopteran gut environment” means the specific pH and protease conditions of found within the fore, mid or hind gut of a lepidopteran insect or larva.
  • “Lepidopteran hemolymph environment” means the specific pH and protease conditions of found within lepidopteran insect or larva.
  • “Multiple ICK motif protein domain” means a protein composed of multiple ICK motif TPs which are linked by multiple intervening linker peptides. The ICK motif TPs in the multiple ICK motif TP domain can be same or different, and the intervening linker peptides in this domain can also be the same or different.
  • “Nematicidal peptide” or “nematicidal protein” means a peptide or protein having nematicidal activity when ingested by, in contact with, or injected into a nematode and is used as an example of a toxic peptide and toxic protein.
  • “Nematicides” and “nematicidal” refers to the ability of a nematicidal peptide or nematicidal protein to increase mortality or inhibit the growth rate of nematodes. In general, the term “nematode” comprises eggs, larvae, juvenile and mature forms of said organism.
  • “Non-ICK CRIPS” can have 4-8 cysteines which form 2-4 disulfide bonds. Non-ICK TPs include cystine knot peptides that are not ICK TPs. Non-ICK TPs may have different connection orders of the cystine bonds than ICKs. Examples of a Non-ICK CRIP are peptides like Av2 and Av3 which are peptides first identified from sea anemones. These anemone peptides are examples of a class of compounds that modulate sodium channels in the insect peripheral nervous system (PNS).
  • “Non-Polar amino acid” is an amino acid that is weakly hydrophobic and includes glycine, alanine, proline, valine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine and methionine. Glycine or gly is the most preferred non-polar amino acid for the dipeptides of this invention.
  • “Normalized peptide yield” means the peptide yield in the conditioned medium divided by the corresponding cell density at the point the peptide yield is measured. The peptide yield can be represented by the mass of the produced peptide in a unit of volume, for example, mg per liter or mg/L, or by the UV absorbance peak area of the produced peptide in the HPLC chromatograph, for example, mAu·sec. The cell density can be represented by visible light absorbance of the culture at wavelength of 600 nm (OD600).
  • “One letter code” means the peptide sequence which is listed in its one letter code to distinguish the various amino acids in the primary structure of a protein. alanine=A, arginine=R, asparagine=N, aspartic acid=D, asparagine or aspartic acid=B, cysteine=C, glutamic acid=E, glutamine=Q, glutamine or glutamic acid=Z, glycine=G, histidine=H, isoleucine=I, leucine=L, lysine=K, methionine=M, phenylalanine=F, proline=P, serine=S, threonine=T, tryptophan=W, tyrosine=Y, valine=V.
  • “Omega peptide” also referred to herein as “omega toxin,” which includes the example, “omega-ACTX-Hv1a,” aka “native omegaACTX-Hv1a,” all refer to a class of ACTX peptides which were first isolated from a spider known as the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, Hydronyche versuta, and which is an antagonist to the insect voltage-gated Ca2+ channel.
  • “ORF” or “Open reading frame” or “peptide expression ORF” means that DNA sequence encoding a protein which begins with an ATG start codon and ends with a TGA, TAA or TAG stop codon. ORF can also mean the translated protein that the DNA encodes.
  • “Operably linked” means that the two adjacent DNA sequences are placed together such that the transcriptional activation of one can act on the other.
  • “PEP” means Plant Expressed Peptide.
  • “Peptide expression cassette”, or “expression cassette” means a DNA sequence which is composed of all the DNA elements necessary to complete transcription of an insecticidal peptide in a biological expression system. In the described methods herein, it includes a transcription promoter, a DNA sequence to encode an α-mating factor signal sequence and a Kex 2 cleavage site, an insecticidal peptide transgene, a stop codon and a transcription terminator.
  • “Peptide expression vector” means a host organism expression vector which contains a heterologous insecticidal peptide transgene.
  • “Peptide expression yeast strain”, “peptide expression strain” or “peptide production strain” means a yeast strain which can produce a heterologous insecticidal peptide.
  • “Peptide made special” means a peptide previously having low peptide yield from a biological expression system that becomes an HP peptide because of the methods described herein used to increase its yield.
  • “Peptide Linker” see Linker.
  • “Peptide transgene” or “insecticidal peptide transgene” means a DNA sequence that encodes an insecticidal peptide and can be translated in a biological expression system.
  • “Peptide yield” means the insecticidal peptide concentration in the conditioned medium which is produced from the cells of a peptide expression yeast strain. It can be represented by the mass of the produced peptide in a unit of volume, for example, mg per liter or mg/L, or by the UV absorbance peak area of the produced peptide in the HPLC chromatograph, for example, mAu·sec.
  • “Peritrophic membrane” means a lining inside the insect gut that traps large food particles can aid in their movement through the gut while allowing digestion, but also protecting the gut wall.
  • “Pest” includes, but is not limited to: insects, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, mites, ticks, and the like.
  • “PFIP” means a protein that can form a pore or channel in the cells that line an insect gut, such as gut epithelium cells. Examples of PFIPS are Bt toxic peptides (Bt TPs) such as cry, crt and VIP other PFIP examples can be found in the sequence listing.
  • “Plant regeneration media” means any media that contains the necessary elements and vitamins for plant growth and plant hormones necessary to promote regeneration of a cell into an embryo which can germinate and generate a plantlet derived from tissue culture. Often the media contains a selectable agent to which the transgenic cells express a selection gene that confers resistance to the agent.
  • “Plant transgenic protein” means a protein from a heterologous species that is expressed in a plant after the DNA or RNA encoding it was delivered into one or more of the plant cells.
  • “Polar amino acid” is an amino acid that is polar and includes serine, threonine, cystine, cysteine, asparagine, glutamine, histidine, tryptophan and tyrosine; preferred polar amino acids are serine, threonine, cystine, cysteine, asparagine and glutamine; with serine being most highly preferred.
  • “Post-transcriptional gene silencing”, or “PTGS”, means a cellular process within living cells that suppress the expression of a gene.
  • “Protein” has the same meaning as “Peptide” in this document.
  • “Recombinant vector” means a DNA plasmid vector into which foreign DNA has been inserted.
  • “Selection gene” means a gene which confers an advantage for a genomically modified organism to grow under the selective pressure.
  • “Spacer” or “spacers” means a peptide comprising 1 to 4 amino acids that is fused in frame to either the N-terminus of a binary peptide, or to the C-terminus of the binary peptide, or both to the N-terminus and the C-terminus of a binary peptide as is disclosed herein, thus forming a tertiary peptide. Tertiary peptides differ from binary peptides in that they are like a binary peptide only with an additional region called a spacer comprising any 1 to 4 amino acids, more often 2 to 4 amino acids, sometimes 1, sometimes 2, sometimes 3 and sometimes 4 amino acids and is also sometimes called the “Z” region. In some specific embodiments, the spacer may be referred to as “+2” or “plus-2” which is in reference to the portion of the peptide that is a dipeptide comprising any two amino acid peptides as described herein, such as for example “GS.” In some embodiments, the so called tertiary peptides of the present invention have three regions, they are: the X and Y region and the third region is called either a “spacer” or “Z” region. In some embodiments, each of X and Y can be 2-4 amino acids in length, and Z can be an additional 1-4 amino acids in length per Z with 1 or 2 Z regions possible if one Z is before and one Z is after the binary peptide, thus allowing for a 16 amino acid linker.
  • “STA”, or “Translational stabilizing protein”, or “stabilizing domain”, or “stabilizing protein”, (used interchangeably herein) means a protein with sufficient tertiary structure that it can accumulate in a cell without being targeted by the cellular process of protein degradation. The protein can be between 5 and 50 amino acids (aa). In some embodiments used throughout the exemplary embodiments herein, a STA may include an ICK-motif protein), 50 to 250 aa (GNA), 250 to 750 aa (e.g., chitinase) and 750 to 1500 aa (e.g., enhancin). The translational stabilizing protein is coded by a DNA sequence for a protein that is fused in frame with a sequence encoding an insecticidal protein in the ORF. The fusion protein can either be upstream or downstream of the toxic protein and can have any intervening sequence between the two sequences as long as the intervening sequence does not result in a frame shift of either DNA sequence. The translational stabilizing protein can also have an activity which increases delivery of the ICK motif TP across the gut wall and into the hemolymph of the insect. Such a delivery can be achieved by actively trafficking the entire ORF across the gut wall, or by cleavage within the gut environment to separate the ICK motif TP while the translational stabilizing protein damages the peritrophic membrane and/or gut wall to increase diffusion of the ICK motif TP into the hemolymph.
  • “sta” means a nucleotide encoding a translational stabilizing protein.
  • “TMOF” “TMOF motif,” or “TMOF TPs” means “trypsin modulating oostatic factor” protein sequences. Examples are provided in the sequence listing. Numerous examples and variants are provided herein. SEQ ID NO: 708 is the wild type TMOF sequence. Other non-limiting variants are provided in SEQ ID NOs: 709-721. Other examples would be known or could be created by one skilled in the art.
  • “Toxic peptide” or “toxic protein” or “TP” (all used interchangeably) means a peptide or protein having insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity when ingested by, in contact with, or injected into an insect or nematode respectively. TPs of the present invention also include modified TPs, mutant TPs or derivative TPs. In some embodiments, a mutant or variant TP encompasses a TP that may have one or more conservative amino acid substitutions, that when combined, the conservative amino acid substitutions do not substantially diminish the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the mutated TP in relation to its non-mutated TP, i.e. retains the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of at least 90%, or at least 80%, or at least 70%, or at least 60%, or at least 50%, or at least 40%, or at least 30% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the non-mutated TP. TPs may also include peptides and proteins encoded by a polynucleotide having one or more point mutations, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 point mutations or more, such that when the mutated TP encoding polynucleotide is transcribed and/or translated, the expressed mutated TP peptide or protein retains insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity that is at least 90%, or at least 80%, or at least 70%, or at least 60%, or at least 50%, or at least 40%, or at least 30% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the peptide or protein encoded by the corresponding non-mutated TP polynucleotide. TPs of the present invention may also include TP peptides and proteins that have at least 80%, or at least 85%, or at least 90%, or at least 95%, or at least 96% or at least 97% or at least 98% or at least 99% amino acid sequence identity to any TP disclosed in SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775 and 1761-1775, and still retains at least at least 90%, or at least 80%, or at least 70%, or at least 60%, or at least 50%, or at least 40%, or at least 30% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the corresponding TP set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775. TPs of the present invention may also include TP peptides and proteins having 1-6 amino acid extensions fused in frame to the N-terminus or C-terminus or both termini of any TP having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • “TSP” or “total soluble protein” means the total amount of protein that can be extracted from a plant tissue sample and solubilized into the extraction buffer.
  • “Transgene” means a heterologous DNA sequence encoding a protein which is transformed into a plant.
  • “Transgenic host cell” means a cell which is transformed with a gene and has been selected for its transgenic status via an additional selection gene.
  • “Transgenic plant” means a plant that has been derived from a single cell that was transformed with foreign DNA such that every cell in the plant contains that transgene.
  • “Transient expression system” means an Agrobacterium tumefaciens-based system which delivers DNA encoding a disarmed plant virus into a plant cell where it is expressed. The plant virus has been engineered to express a protein of interest at high concentrations, up to 40% of the TSP. In the technical proof, there are two transient expression systems used, a TRBO and a FECT system and the plant cells are leaf tissue of a tobacco plant “Nicotiana benthamiana.”
  • “TRBO” means a transient plant expression system using Tobacco mosaic virus with removal of the viral coating protein gene.
  • “Trypsin cleavage” means an in vitro assay that uses the protease enzyme trypsin (which recognizes exposed lysine and arginine amino acid residues) to separate a cleavable linker at that cleavage site. It also means the act of the trypsin enzyme cleaving that site.
  • “U-ACTX peptide,” or a “U protein” or a “U toxin,” which may include examples of “native U,” or “U-ACTX-Hv1a,” or “native U-ACTX-Hv1a,” which includes the representative example, “Hybrid peptide,” aka “hybrid toxin,” aka “hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a,” aka “native hybridACTX-Hv1a,” all refer to a native protein or native toxin, that can be found in nature or is otherwise known as examples of U-ACTX peptides, which in the case of “U-ACTX-Hv1a,” aka “native U-ACTX-Hv1a,” is a native spider toxin, that was first discovered from a spider with origins in the Australian Blue Mountains and is dual antagonist against insect voltage gated Ca2+ channels and K+ channels. The spider from which the toxin was discovered is known as the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, which has the scientific name Hydronyche versuta.
  • “U+2 peptide,” “U+2 protein”, “U+2 toxin,” or “U+2,” or “U+2-ACTX-Hv1a,” all refer to either a toxin, which has an additional dipeptide operatively linked to the native peptide, and may refer to the spider toxin which is sometimes called the U peptide and other names noted above. The additional dipeptide that is operatively linked to the U peptide and thus indicated as “+2” or “plus 2” can be selected among several peptides, any of which may result in a “U+2 peptide” with unique properties as discussed herein. These are also sometimes called “high production peptides.” When the term “U+2-ACTX-Hv1a” is used, it refers to a specific high production toxic peptide, comprising a naturally occurring peptide from the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider, which has the scientific name Hydronyche versuta.
  • “VIP” proteins were discovered from screening the supernatant of vegetatively grown strains of Bt for possible insecticidal activity. They have little or no similarity to cry proteins and they were named Vegetative Insecticidal Proteins or VIP. Of particular use and preference for use with this document are what have been called VIP3, Vip3 proteins or Vip toxins which have Lepidopteran activity. They are thought to have a similar mode of action as Bt cry peptides. In this document VIP proteins are categorized as a PFIP type of protein.
  • “Yeast expression vector,” or “expression vector”, or “vector,” means a plasmid which can introduce a heterologous gene and/or expression cassette into yeast cells to be transcribed and translated.
  • “Yield” refers to the production of a peptide, and increased yields can mean increased amounts of production, increased rates of production, and an increased average or median yield and increased frequency at higher yields.
  • (1). Cleavable Linking Groups for Insecticidal and/or Nematicidal Proteins
  • The present invention provides binary and tertiary peptides that are operable to be cleaved in the insect, or nematode gut or hemolymph environment and in an animal gastrointestinal system, for example, a human, gastrointestinal system. The present invention therefore provides cleavable binary and tertiary peptides that when linked to other components of a larger insecticidal or nematicidal protein, may be cleaved by certain proteases and peptidases found in the human, insect and nematode gut environments. Advantageously, multiple copies of insecticidal and nematicidal peptides can be joined or linked, each copy being separated by one or more binary or tertiary peptides, that upon ingestion or contact with the insect and/or nematode peptidase or protease in the gut environment, the binary or tertiary peptides are cleaved releasing the active forms of the linked insecticidal and nematicidal peptides (See for example FIG. 2 , second aspect) In these illustrative embodiments, N as shown in FIG. 2 second aspect, can be any integer ranging from 1 to 200, or for example, 1 to 100, or preferably from 1 to 10 and any integer therebetween. In various embodiments of the present invention, the binary and/or tertiary peptides may be linked to 1 or as many as 200 toxic peptides (i.e. insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptides), and any number there between, for example, 1 to 100, or more preferably 1 to 10, thus forming an insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic protein, that upon exposure to the insect, nematode or human gastric gut environment will cleave at specific substrate sequences in the binary and/or tertiary peptides, thereby liberating a plurality of toxic peptides from a polymer insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein structure. In various embodiments, polynucleotides encoding insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic proteins can be used to transform plant cells. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic proteins may be formulated into compositions that can be sprayed or otherwise applied in any manner known to those skilled in the art to the surface of plants or parts thereof. Accordingly, DNA constructs are provided herein, operable to encode one or more insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic proteins under the appropriate conditions in a host cell, for example, a plant cell. Methods for controlling a pest infection by a parasitic insect, or a parasitic nematode of a plant cell comprises administering or introducing a polynucleotide encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic protein as described herein to a plant, plant tissue, or a plant cell by recombinant techniques and growing said recombinantly altered plant, plant tissue or plant cell in a field exposed to the pest. Alternatively, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic protein can be formulated into a sprayable composition and applied directly to susceptible plants by direct application, such that upon ingestion of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic protein by the infectious insect and/or nematode, one or more copies or monomers of the insecticidal and nematicidal peptide is cleaved from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein ingested by the infectious insect and/or nematode and produces its effect to destroy the insect and/or nematode.
  • (1A). Cleavable Binary and Tertiary Linking Peptides
  • In various embodiments, the present invention provides cleavable binary and tertiary linking peptides that are cleaved in the presence of an animal, insect and nematode protease or peptidase found in the gastrointestinal system of an animal, for example, a human, an insect and/or a nematode. As used herein, the terms gastrointestinal and gut environment are used interchangeably, and is meant to include its common meaning, i.e. the location where ingested food items are proteolytically degraded. In the human model, the gastrointestinal environment that is capable of breaking down peptides and proteins can include the mouth, stomach and small intestine.
  • Some of the available proteases and peptidases found in insect and nematode gut environment are dependent on the life-stage of the insect as these enzymes are often spatially and temporally expressed. The digestive system of the insect is composed of the alimentary canal and associated glands. Food enters the mouth and is mixed with secretions that may or may not contain digestive proteases and peptidases. The foregut and the hind gut are ectodermal in origin. The foregut serves generally as a storage depot for raw food. From the foregut discrete packages of food pass into the midgut (mesenteron or ventriculus). The midgut is the site of digestion and absorption of food nutrients. Generally, the presence of certain proteases and peptidases in the midgut follow the pH of the gut. Certain proteases and peptidases in the human gastrointestinal system may include: pepsin, trypsin, chymotrypsin, elastase, carboxypeptidase, aminopeptidase, and dipeptidase. Insect and nematode gut environment, include the regions of the digestive system in the herbivore species where peptides and proteins are degraded during digestion. Some of the available proteases and peptidases found in insect and nematode gut environments may include: (1) serine proteases; (2) cysteine proteases; (3) aspartic proteases, and (4) metalloproteases.
  • The two predominant protease classes in the digestive systems of phytophagous insects are the serine and cysteine proteases. Murdock et al. (1987) carried out an elaborate study of the midgut enzymes of various pests belonging to Coleoptera, while Srinivasan et al. (2008) have reported on the midgut enzymes of various pests belonging to Lepidoptera. Serine proteases are known to dominate the larval gut environment and contribute to about 95% of the total digestive activity in Lepidoptera, whereas the Coleopteran species have a wider range of dominant gut proteases, including cysteine proteases. The papain family contains peptidases with a wide variety of activities, including endopeptidases with broad specificity (such as papain), endopeptidases with very narrow specificity (such as glycyl endopeptidases), aminopeptidases, dipeptidyl-peptidase, and peptidases with both endopeptidase and exopeptidase activities (such as cathepsins B and H). Other exemplary proteinases found in the midgut of various insects include trypsin-like enzymes, e.g. trypsin and chymotrypsin, pepsin, carboxypeptidase-B and aminotripeptidases.
  • Serine proteases are widely distributed in nearly all animals and microorganisms (Joanitti et al., 2006). In higher organisms, nearly 2% of genes code for these enzymes (Barrette-Ng et al., 2003). Being essentially indispensable to the maintenance and survival of their host organism, serine proteases play key roles in many biological processes. Serine proteases are classically categorized by their substrate specificity, notably by whether the residue at P1: trypsin-like (Lys/Arg preferred at P1), chymotrypsin-like (large hydrophobic residues such as Phe/Tyr/Leu at P1), or elastase-like (small hydrophobic residues such as Ala/Val at P1) (revised by Tyndall et. al., 2005). Serine proteases are a class of proteolytic enzymes whose central catalytic machinery is composed of three invariant residues, an aspartic acid, a histidine and a uniquely reactive serine, the latter giving rise to their name, the “catalytic triad”. The Asp-His-Ser triad can be found in at least four different structural contexts (Hedstrom, 2002). These four clans of serine proteases are typified by chymotrypsin, subtilisin, carboxypeptidase Y, and Clp protease. The three serine proteases of the chymotrypsin-like clan that have been studied in greatest detail are chymotrypsin, trypsin, and elastase. More recently, serine proteases with novel catalytic triads and dyads have been discovered for their roles in digestion, including Ser-His-Glu, Ser-Lys/His, His-Ser-His, and N-terminal Ser.
  • All major types of peptidases have been described in nematodes. Aspartic peptidases have been described primarily in functions related to the digestion of nutrients. In invertebrates it is thought that, along with the cysteine peptidases, these have the same role as aspartic and serine peptidases in vertebrates. In parasitic nematodes, the cysteine peptidases cover virtually all functions in which peptidases are involved in parasitic nematodes. Accordingly, Cathepsins B and L are types of cysteine peptidases belonging to the papain family, and have been comprehensively studied in nematodes. High variability has been found among the cathepsins B from different species of nematodes regarding optimum temperature and pH, and substrate affinity. It is thought that their main role is to digest nutrients and that the high interspecific variability observed is due to the nematode adapting to the ecological niche it occupies. Cathepsins L also seem to be involved in the digestion of nutrients.
  • One class of well-studied digestive enzymes found in the gut environment of insects and nematodes is the class of cysteine proteases. The term “cysteine protease” is intended to describe a protease that possesses a highly reactive thiol group of a cysteine residue at the catalytic site of the enzyme. There is evidence that many phytophagous insects and plant parasitic nematodes rely, at least in part, on midgut cysteine proteases for protein digestion. These include but are not limited to Hemiptera, especially squash bugs (Anasa tristis); green stink bug (Acrosternum hilare); Riptortus clavatus; and almost all Coleoptera examined to date, especially, Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa deaemlineata); three-lined potato beetle (Lema trilineata); asparagus beetle (Crioceris asparagi); Mexican bean beetle (Epilachna varivestis); red flour beetle (Triolium castaneum); confused flour beetle (Tribolium confusum); the flea beetles (Chaetocnema spp., Haltica spp., and Epitrix spp.); corn rootworm (Diabrotica Spp.); cowpea weevil (Callosobruchus aculatue); boll weevil (Antonomus grandis); rice weevil (Sitophilus oryza); maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais); granary weevil (Sitophilus granarius); Egyptian alfalfa weevil (Hypera postica); bean weevil (Acanthoseelides obtectus); lesser grain borer (Rhyzopertha dominica); yellow meal worm (Tenebrio molitor); Thysanoptera, especially, western flower thrips (Franklini ella occidentalis); Diptera, especially, leafminer spp. (Liriomyza trifolii); plant parasitic nematodes especially the potato cyst nematodes (Globodera spp.), the beet cyst nematode (Heterodera schachtii) and root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.).
  • Another class of digestive enzymes is the aspartic proteases. The term “aspartic protease” is intended to describe a protease that possesses two highly reactive aspartic acid residues at the catalytic site of the enzyme and which is most often characterized by its specific inhibition with pepstatin, a low molecular weight inhibitor of nearly all known aspartic proteases. There is evidence that many phytophagous insects rely, in part, on midgut aspartic proteases for protein digestion most often in conjunction with cysteine proteases. These include but are not limited to Hemiptera especially (Rhodnius prolixus) and bedbug (Cimex spp.) and members of the families Phymatidae, Pentatomidae, Lygaeidae and Belostomatidae; Coleoptera, in the families of the Meloidae, Chrysomelidae, Coccinelidae and Bruchidae all belonging to the series Cucujiformia, especially, Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) three-lined potato beetle (Lematri lineata); southern and western corn rootworm (Diabrotica undecimpunctata and D. virgifera), boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis), squash bug (Anasatristis); flea beetle (Phyllotreta crucifera), bruchid beetle (Callosobruchus maculatus), mexican bean beetle (Epilachna varivestis), soybean leafminer (Odontota horni), margined blister beetle (Epicauta pestifera) and the red flour beetle (Triolium castaneum); Diptera, especially housefly (Musca domestica) (Terra and Ferreira (1994) Comn. Biochem. Physiol. 109B: 1-62; Wolfson and Murdock (1990) J. Chem. Ecol. 16: 1089-1102).
  • In various embodiments, the present invention provides binary and tertiary peptides that act as substrates for human, insect and nematode proteinases, proteases and peptidases (collectively referred to herein as “proteases”) as described above. In various embodiments, binary peptides and tertiary peptides contain at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids comprised of 2 or 3 different regions. Accordingly, binary peptides have two different regions and tertiary peptides have three different regions. In various embodiments, the binary peptides and the tertiary peptides of the present invention are all cleavable by a human protease within one region and an insect and/or nematode protease in the second region. Tertiary peptides differ from binary peptides in that they have an additional region called a spacer comprising 1 to 4 amino acids. In some embodiments, the spacer can be a “+2” or “plus-2” dipeptide comprising any two amino acids as described herein.
  • As used herein, simply for describing the different permutations and combinations of amino acids that can form the binary and tertiary peptides, for illustrative purposes only, the first region of the binary and tertiary peptide is named “X” and “X” is a substrate for an insect and/or a nematode protease, and the second region of the binary and tertiary peptide is called “Y”, which is a substrate for an animal for example, a human protease, for example, a human protease found in the human gastrointestinal system. In some embodiments, the tertiary peptides of the present invention have an X and Y region and the third region is called a spacer or “Z” region. In some embodiments, each of X and Y can be 2-4 amino acids in length, and Z can be 1-4 amino acids in length. In some embodiments, the binary and/or tertiary cleavable peptides cannot be cleaved by a plant protease, especially when the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is expressed in a plant, or part thereof. In these embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein expressed by the plant cannot be cleaved by a plant protease in situ, but can be cleaved by a human or insect or nematode gut protease when the plant or part thereof expressing the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is ingested by the human or insect or nematode.
  • (1B). Descriptions and Examples of Binary Peptides
  • Accordingly, the binary peptide can comprise or consist of X(2-4)Y(2-4), or Y(2-4)X(2-4), and an exemplary tertiary peptide can comprise X(2-4)Y(2-4)Z(1-4), or Z(1-4) X(2-4)Y(2-4), or Y(2-4)X(2-4)Z(1-4), or Z(1-4)Y(2-4)X(2-4), or Z(1-4)X(2-4)Y(2-4)Z(1-4), or Z(1-4)Y(2-4)X(2-4)Z(1-4), wherein each number in the parenthesis denotes the number of amino acids for that region. For example X(2-4) denotes an X region with two to four amino acids, for example, X1X2 (two amino acids) or X1X2X3 (three amino acids) or X1X2X3X4 (four amino acids). For example, a binary peptide can include the amino acid sequence: X1-X2-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4, wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • In various embodiments, exemplary X region peptide sequences, i.e., peptide sequences that may be cleaved by one or more insect and/or nematode proteases found in the insect and/or nematode gut/hemolymph environment may include: AAG, AAK, AAR, AFG, AFK, AFR, AGF, AGI, AGK, AGL, AGN, AGQ, AGR, AGS, AGT, AGY, AIG, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AKG, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALG, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APF, APG, APK, APR, ARF, ARG, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASG, ASK, ASR, ATG, ATK, ATR, AVG, AVK, AVR, AYG, AYK, AYR, DGK, DGR, DIG, DIK, DIR, DLG, DLK, DLR, EGK, EGR, EIG, EIK, EIR, ELG, ELK, ELR, ER, FVR, GAF, GAI, GAK, GAL, GAR, GAY, GFK, GFR, GIK, GIN, GIQ, GIR, GKA, GKD, GKE, GKF, GM, GKK, GKL, GKN, GKQ, GKR, GKS, GKT, GKV, GKY, GLK, GLN, GLQ, GLR, GNA, GNK, GNR, GNV, GPK, GPR, GQA, GQK, GQR, GQV, GRA, GRD, GRE, GRF, GRI, GRK, GRL, GRN, GRQ, GRR, GRS, GRT, GRV, GRY, GSI, GSK, GSL, GSR, GTI, GTK, GTL, GTR, GVF, GVI, GVK, GVL, GVR, GVY, GYK, GYR, IGA, IGF, IGI, IGK, IGL, IGN, IGQ, IGR, IGS, IGT, IGV, IGY, IIG, IIK, IIR, IKA, IKF, IKG, IM, IKK, IKL, IKN, IKQ, IKR, IKS, IKT, IKV, IKY, ILG, ILK, ILR, INA, ING, INK, INR, INV, IPG, IPK, IPR, IQA, IQG, IQK, IQR, IQV, IRA, IRF, IRG, IRI, IRK, IRL, IRN, IRQ, IRR, IRS, IRT, IRV, IRY, ISG, ISK, ISR, ITG, ITK, ITR, KAF, KAG, KAI, KAK, KAL, KAR, KAY, KFF, KFG, KFK, KFR, KGA, KGD, KGE, KGF, KGI, KGK, KGL, KGN, KGQ, KGR, KGS, KGT, KGV, KGY, MG, KIK, KIN, MQ, MR, KKA, KKD, KKE, KKF, KKG, KKN, KKQ, KKS, KKT, KKV, KKY, KLG, KLK, KLN, KLQ, KLR, KNG, KNK, KNR, KPG, KPK, KPR, KQG, KQK, KQR, KRA, KRD, KRE, KRF, KRG, KRN, KRQ, KRS, KRT, KRV, KRY, KSG, KSI, KSK, KSL, KSR, KTG, KTI, KTK, KTL, KTR, KVF, KVG, KVI, KVK, KVL, KVR, KVY, KYG, KYK, KYR, LFR, LGA, LGF, LGI, LGK, LGL, LGN, LGQ, LGR, LGS, LGT, LGV, LGY, LIG, LIK, LIR, LK, LKA, LKF, LKG, LM, LKK, LKL, LKN, LKQ, LKR, LKS, LKT, LKV, LKY, LLG, LLK, LLR, LNA, LNG, LNK, LNR, LNV, LPG, LPK, LPR, LQA, LQG, LQK, LQR, LQV, LRA, LRF, LRG, LRI, LRK, LRL, LRN, LRQ, LRR, LRS, LRT, LRV, LRY, LSG, LSK, LSR, LTG, LTK, LTR, NGK, NGR, NIG, NIK, NIR, NLG, NLK, NLR, PGK, PGR, PIG, PIK, PIR, PKG, PKK, PKR, PLG, PLK, PLR, PRG, PRK, PRR, QGK, QGR, QIG, QIK, QIR, QLG, QLK, QLR, RAF, RAG, RAI, RAK, RAL, RAR, RAY, RFF, RFG, RFK, RFR, RGA, RGD, RGE, RGF, RGI, RGK, RGL, RGN, RGQ, RGR, RGS, RGT, RGV, RGY, RIG, RIK, RIN, RIQ, RIR, RKA, RKD, RKE, RKF, RKG, RKK, RKN, RKQ, RKS, RKT, RKV, RKY, RLF, RLFL, RLG, RLK, RLN, RLQ, RLR, RNG, RNK, RNR, RPG, RPK, RPR, RQG, RQK, RQR, RRA, RRD, RRE, RRF, RRG, RRK, RRN, RRQ, RRR, RRS, RRT, RRV, RRY, RSG, RSI, RSK, RSL, RSR, RTG, RTI, RTK, RTL, RTR, RVF, RVG, RVI, RVK, RVL, RVR, RVY, RYG, RYK, RYR, VAG, VAK, VAR, VFG, VFK, VFR, VGF, VGI, VGK, VGL, VGN, VGQ, VGR, VGS, VGT, VGY, VIG, VIK, VIN, VIQ, VIR, VKF, VKG, VKI, VKK, VKL, VKN, VKQ, VKR, VKS, VKT, VKY, VLG, VLK, VLN, VLQ, VLR, VPG, VPK, VPR, VR, VRF, VRG, VRI, VRK, VRL, VRN, VRQ, VRR, VRS, VRT, VRY, VSG, VSK, VSR, VTG, VTK, VTR, VVG, VVK, VVR, VYG, VYK, or VYR.
  • In various embodiments, exemplary X region peptide sequences, i.e., peptide sequences that may be cleaved by one or more insect and/or nematode proteases found in the insect and/or nematode gut/hemolymph environment may include: AAK, AAR, AFK, AFR, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APK, APR, ARF, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASK, ASR, ATK, ATR, AVK, AVR, AYK, AYR, DIK, DIR, DLK, DLR, EIK, EIR, ELK, ELR, IIK, IIR, IKA, IKF, IM, IKK, IKL, IKN, IKQ, IKR, IKS, IKT, IKV, IKY, ILK, ILR, INA, INK, INR, INV, IPK, IPR, IQA, IQK, IQR, IQV, IRA, IRF, IRI, IRK, IRL, IRN, IRQ, IRR, IRS, IRT, IRV, IRY, ISK, ISR, ITK, ITR, KAF, KAI, KAK, KAL, KAR, KAY, KFK, KFR, KIK, KIN, MQ, MR, KKA, KKD, KKE, KKF, KKN, KKQ, KKS, KKT, KKV, KKY, KLK, KLN, KLQ, KLR, KNK, KNR, KPK, KPR, KQK, KQR, KRA, KRD, KRE, KRF, KRN, KRQ, KRS, KRT, KRV, KRY, KSI, KSK, KSL, KSR, KTI, KTK, KTL, KTR, KVF, KVI, KVK, KVL, KVR, KVY, KYK, KYR, LIK, LIR, LKA, LKF, LM, LKK, LKL, LKN, LKQ, LKR, LKS, LKT, LKV, LKY, LLK, LLR, LNA, LNK, LNR, LNV, LPK, LPR, LQA, LQK, LQR, LQV, LRA, LRF, LRI, LRK, LRL, LRN, LRQ, LRR, LRS, LRT, LRV, LRY, LSK, LSR, LTK, LTR, NIK, NIR, NLK, NLR, PIK, PIR, PKK, PKR, PLK, PLR, PRK, PRR, QIK, QIR, QLK, QLR, RAF, RAI, RAK, RAL, RAR, RAY, RFK, RFR, RIK, RIN, RIQ, RIR, RKA, RKD, RKE, RKF, RKN, RKQ, RKS, RKT, RKV, RKY, RLK, RLN, RLQ, RLR, RNK, RNR, RPK, RPR, RQK, RQR, RRA, RRD, RRE, RRF, RRN, RRQ, RRS, RRT, RRV, RRY, RSI, RSK, RSL, RSR, RTI, RTK, RTL, RTR, RVF, RVI, RVK, RVL, RVR, RVY, RYK, RYR, VAK, VAR, VFK, VFR, VIK, VIN, VIQ, VIR, VKF, VKI, VKK, VKL, VKN, VKQ, VKR, VKS, VKT, VKY, VLK, VLN, VLQ, VLR, VPK, VPR, VRF, VRI, VRK, VRL, VRN, VRQ, VRR, VRS, VRT, VRY, VSK, VSR, VTK, VTR, VVK, VVR, VYK, or VYR.
  • In various embodiments, exemplary Y region peptide sequences, i.e., peptide sequences that may be cleaved by one or more animal, for example human proteases found in the animal, for example, a human gastrointestinal environment may include: AFF, AFG, AFI, AFL, AFV, AFY, AGF, AGL, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALG, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFG, DFI, DFL, DFY, DGF, DGL, DIF, DLF, DLG, DLY, DYF, DYL, EFF, EFG, EFI, EFL, EFY, EGF, EGL, EIF, ELF, ELG, ELY, EYF, EYL, FF, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFG, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FGA, FGD, FGE, FGF, FGI, FGK, FGL, FGR, FGS, FGT, FGV, FGY, FLV, FLR, FYA, FYD, FYE, FYF, FYG, FYI, FYK, FYL, FYR, FYS, FYT, FYV, FYY, GFA, GFD, GFE, GFF, GFI, GFK, GFL, GFR, GFS, GFT, GFV, GFY, GGL, GIF, GIL, GLF, GLI, GLL, GLY, GYF, GYL, IF, IFA, IFF, IFG, IFI, IFL, IFV, IFY, IGF, IGL, IIF, IIL, ILF, ILG, ILI, ILL, ILY, IYF, IYL, LFA, LFF, LFG, LFI, LFL, LFV, LFY, LG, LGA, LGE, LGF, LGI, LGL, LGV, LGY, LIF, LIG, LII, LIL, LIY, LLF, LLG, LLI, LLL, LLY, LYA, LYF, LYG, LYI, LYL, LYV, LYY, NFF, NFG, NFI, NFL, NFY, NGF, NGL, NIL, NLG, NLI, NLL, NYF, NYL, QFF, QFG, QFI, QFL, QFY, QGF, QGL, QIL, QLG, QLI, QLL, QYF, QYL, SFF, SFG, SFI, SFL, SFY, SGF, SGL, SIF, SIL, SLF, SLG, SLI, SLL, SLY, SYF, SYL, TFF, TFG, TFI, TFL, TFY, TGF, TGL, TIF, TIL, TLF, TLG, TLI, TLL, TLY, TYF, TYL, VFF, VFG, VFI, VFL, VFY, VGF, VGL, VIF, VIL, VLF, VLG, VLI, VLL, VLY, VYF, VYL, YFA, YFD, YFE, YFF, YFG, YFI, YFK, YFL, YFR, YFS, YFT, YFV, YFY, YGF, YGL, YYF, or YYL.
  • In various embodiments, exemplary Y region peptide sequences, i.e., peptide sequences that may be cleaved by one or more animal, for example a human protease found in the animal, for example, a human gastrointestinal environment may include: AFF, AFI, AFL, AFY, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFI, DFL, DFY, DIF, DLF, DLY, DYF, DYL, YFL, EFF, EFI, EFL, 0, EFY, EIF, ELF, ELY, EYF, EYL, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FYA, FYD, FYE, FYF, FYI, FYK, FYL, FYR, FYS, FYT, FYV, FYY, IFA, IFF, IFI, IFL, IFV, IFY, IIF, IIL, ILF, ILI, ILL, ILY, IYF, IYL, LFA, LFF, LFI, LFL, LFV, LFY, LIF, LII, LIL, LIY, LLF, LLI, LLL, LLY, LYA, LYF, LYI, LYL, LYV, LYY, NFF, NFI, NFL, NFY, NIL, NLI, NLL, NYF, NYL, QFF, QFI, QFL, QFY, QIL, QLI, QLL, QYF, QYL, SFF, SFI, SFL, SFY, SIF, SIL, SLF, SLI, SLL, SLY, SYF, SYL, TFF, TFI, TFL, TFY, TIF, TIL, TLF, TLI, TLL, TLY, TYF, TYL, VFF, VFI, VFL, VFY, VIF, VIL, VLF, VLI, VLL, VLY, VYF, VYL, YFA, YFD, YFE, YFF, YFI, YFK, YFL, YFR, YFS, YFT, YFV, YFY, YYF, or YYL.
  • In various embodiments, exemplary X or Y region peptide sequences, i.e. peptide sequences that may be cleaved by one or more animal, for example, human protease found in the animal, for example, a human gastrointestinal environment, and one or more insect and/or nematode proteases found in the insect and/or nematode gut/hemolymph environment may include: AFG, AGF, AGL, ALG, DLG, ELG, GFK, GFR, IGF, IGL, ILG, LGA, LGF, LGI, LGL, LGV, LGY, LIG, LLG, NLG, QLG, VFG, VGF, VGL, or VLG.
  • In some illustrative examples, a binary peptide of the present invention can comprise the formula: X1-X2-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1- X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Y1-Y2-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4, wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • In some embodiments, illustrative binary peptides (XY or YX) comprise the following amino acid sequences: AFVRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1594), AKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1595), ALFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1596), ALFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1597), ALFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1598), ALFR (SEQ ID NO: 1599), ALFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1600), ALKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1601), ALKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1602), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), ALKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1604), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), FFADIK (SEQ ID NO: 1606), FFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1607), FFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1608), FFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1609), FFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1610), FGYRIK (SEQ ID NO: 1611), FLRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1612), FYARR (SEQ ID NO: 1613), GGLRKK (SEQ ID NO: 1614), IFVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1615), IFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1616), IFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1617), IFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1618), IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ILFNIK (SEQ ID NO: 1620), LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), FVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1622), LFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1623), LFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1624), LFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1625), LFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1626), LFVRVFL (SEQ ID NO: 1627), LGER (SEQ ID NO: 1628), LKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1629), LKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1630), LKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1631), LKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1632), LRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1633), LRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1634), LRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1635), LRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1636), RALF (SEQ ID NO: 1637), RIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1638), RLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1639), RLRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1640), RLRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1641), RLRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1642), RLRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1643), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), RRKLIF (SEQ ID NO: 1645), RRRFFA (SEQ ID NO: 1646), VFGRKG (SEQ ID NO: 1647), and YFVRK (SEQ ID NO: 1648).
  • In various embodiments, exemplary binary peptides for use in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins, DNA constructs and incorporated into transgenic plants or parts thereof, of the present invention may include one or more cleavable binary peptides selected from the group of or consisting of: IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621).
  • (1C). Descriptions and Examples of Tertiary Peptides
  • In various embodiments, tertiary peptides can include all of the illustrative binary peptides illustrated above with the addition of 1 to 4 amino acids fused in frame to the N-terminus, the C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide. In some embodiments, the tertiary peptides of the present invention can include all of the illustrative binary peptides disclosed above having one, two, three or four amino acids fused in frame to the N-terminus, the C-terminus, or both termini of an exemplary binary peptide. In another example, an illustrative tertiary peptide can include an X(2-4)Y(2-4), or Y(2-4)X(2-4), with the addition of a Z(1-4) positioned in frame with the N-terminus, or the C-terminus or both termini, of a binary peptide as defined above. In some illustrative examples, various tertiary peptide examples can include the amino acid sequence: Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2-Z3, 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Z1-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. Specific exemplary tertiary peptides selected from the above groups of tertiary peptides are provided below.
  • In some illustrative embodiments, the binary peptide can contain at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 8 amino acids, whereas the tertiary peptide can contain at least 5 amino acids up to a maximum of 16 amino acids.
  • In related embodiments, cleavable binary linker peptides (L) comprising an X region and a Y region are described above, and exemplary Z regions (1-4 amino acid sequences, for example, 2 amino acid sequences) that may be fused in frame to the X and/or Y regions (either to the N-terminal sequence of an X or Y region, or the C-terminal sequence of an X or Y region) described above form the tertiary cleavable linking peptides. Illustrative Z or spacer amino acid sequences may include: AA, AF, AM, AN, AQ, AV, AW, AY, DA, DD, DE, DF, DG, DI, DL, DP, DS, DT, DV, DW, DY, EA, ED, EE, EF, EG, EI, EL, EP, ES, ET, EV, EW, EY, FA, FD, FE, FF, FI, FK, FL, FM, FN, FQ, FR, FS, FT, FV, FW, FY, GA, GD, GE, GF, GI, GL, GM, GN, GQ, GS, GV, GW, GY, HA, HD, HE, HF, HH, HI, HK, HL, FIN, HP, HQ, HR, HS, HT, HV, HY, IA, ID, IE, IG, IH, II, IK, IL, IM, IN, IP, IQ, IR, IS, IT, IV, IW, KA, KD, KE, KF, KI, KL, KN, KQ, KV, KY, LA, LD, LE, LG, LH, LI, LK, LL, LM, LN, LP, LQ, LR, LS, LT, LV, LW, MA, MF, MG, MI, MK, ML, MM, MN, MQ, MR, MS, MT, MV, MY, NA, ND, NE, NF, NI, NL, NM, NN, NQ, NS, NT, NV, NY, QA, QD, QE, QF, QI, QL, QM, QN, QQ, QS, QT, QV, QY, RA, RD, RE, RF, RI, RL, RN, RQ, RV, RY, SA, SF, SG, SK, SN, SP, SQ, SR, SS, ST, SV, SW, SY, TA, TF, TG, TK, TN, TP, TQ, TR, TS, TT, TV, TW, TY, VA, VF, VM, VN, VQ, VV, VW, VY, WA, WF, WI, WK, WL, WN, WP, WQ, WR, WS, WT, WV, WW, WY, YA, YD, YE, YF, YI, YK, YL, YM, YN, YQ, YR, YS, YT, YV, YW, or YY.
  • In exemplary embodiments, individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In exemplary embodiments, individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is GS, WN, WQ, MA or MV.
  • In some embodiments, the spacer portion of the tertiary peptide (Z region) comprises the amino acid sequence GS, which may be fused in frame to the N-terminus or C-terminus of the binary peptide or both.
  • In various embodiments, exemplary binary peptides for use in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins, DNA constructs and incorporated into transgenic plants or parts thereof, of the present invention may include one or more cleavable tertiary peptides comprising, or selected from the group of, or consisting of: a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini with a Z region or spacer sequence, comprising, or selected from the group of, or consisting of: GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In some embodiments, exemplary tertiary linking peptides (L) for use in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins, DNA constructs and incorporated into transgenic plants or parts thereof, of the present invention may include (ZXY or XYZ) comprising the following amino acid sequences: AFVRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1649), AKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1650), ALFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1651), ALFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1652), ALFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1653), ALFRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1654), ALFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1655), ALKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1656), ALKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1657), ALKFLVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1658), ALKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1659), ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660), FFADIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1661), FFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1662), FFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1663), FFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1664), FFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1665), FGYRIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1666), FLRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1667), FYARRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1668), GGLRKKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1669), IFVALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1670), IFVLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1671), IFVLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1672), IFVRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1673), IFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1674), ILFNIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1675), LFAAPFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1676), LFVALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1677), LFVLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1678), LFVLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1679), LFVRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1680), LFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1681), LFVRVFLGS (SEQ ID NO: 1682), LGERGS (SEQ ID NO: 1683), LKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1684), LKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1685), LKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1686), LKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1687), LRALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1688), LRFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1689), LRIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1690), LRLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1691), RALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1692), RIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1693), RLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1694), RLRALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1695), RLRFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1696), RLRIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1697), RLRLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1698), RRKAFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1699), RRKLIFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1700), RRRFFAGS (SEQ ID NO: 1701), VFGRKGGS (SEQ ID NO: 1702), YFVRKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1703), GSAFVRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1704), GSAKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1705), GSALFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1706), GSALFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1707), GSALFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1708), GSALFR (SEQ ID NO: 1709), GSALFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1710), GSALKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1711), GSALKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1712), GSALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1713), GSALKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1714), GSALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1715), GSFFADIK (SEQ ID NO: 1716), GSFFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1717), GSFFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1718), GSFFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1719), GSFFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1720), GSFGYRIK (SEQ ID NO: 1721), GSFLRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1722), GSFYARR (SEQ ID NO: 1723), GSGGLRKK (SEQ ID NO: 1724), GSIFVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1725), GSIFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1726), GSIFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1727), GSIFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1728), GSIFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1729), GSILFNIK (SEQ ID NO: 1730), GSLFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1731), GSLFVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1732), GSLFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1733), GSLFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1734), GSLFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1735), GSLFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1736), GSLFVRVFL (SEQ ID NO: 1737), GSLGER (SEQ ID NO: 1738), GSLKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1739), GSLKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1740), GSLKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1741), GSLKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1742), GSLRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1743), GSLRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1744), GSLRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1745), GSLRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1746), GSRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1747), GSRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1748), GSRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1749), GSRLRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1750), GSRLRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1751), GSRLRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1752), GSRLRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1753), GSRRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1754), GSRRKLIF (SEQ ID NO: 1755), GSRRRFFA (SEQ ID NO: 1756), GSVFGRKG (SEQ ID NO: 1757), and GSYFVRK (SEQ ID NO: 1758).
  • In various embodiments, a representative binary peptide of the present invention can include: IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621).
  • (1D). Insecticidal and/or Nematicidal Proteins
  • In various embodiments of the present invention, the present disclosure provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having a cleavable peptide (L) (a binary or a tertiary peptide) as described above fused in frame with an insecticidal or nematicidal toxic protein (TP). In another embodiment, the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable peptides, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising, consisting essentially of, or consisting of: (L-TP)n, or (L-TP)n-L, or (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n, wherein TP is a toxic peptide or protein, L is a binary or tertiary cleavable peptide, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10. In another embodiment, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein comprises an endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide (ERSP) fused in frame with: a binary peptide or tertiary peptide, which is fused in frame with an insecticidal and/or nematicidal toxic protein and/or a repeat construct (L-TP)n or (TP-L)n, wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a protein construct comprising: (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200. In various related embodiments described above, TP is a toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In some embodiments, the N-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its N-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • In another embodiment, the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable peptides, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a stabilizing domain (STA) fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In some related embodiments, an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA), which is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, being fused to the N-terminus of a toxic protein, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct comprising: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n. In some related embodiments, an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, being fused to the N-terminus of a toxic protein, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct comprising: (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments as described herein and above, TP is defined as a toxic protein, that is toxic to an insect and/or a nematode, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP of a construct described herein and above is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In some embodiments, the N-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its N-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In some of the above embodiments, the TP used in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can be a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs 5-1593 and 1761-1775, or a variant thereof. In various embodiments, the TP may be the same or different, and the linker (L) may be the same or different. In some related embodiments, TPs useful in the various insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, polynucleotides and DNA constructs encoding these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, and transgenic plants or plant cells containing these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, include peptides having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof.
  • (2). Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP)
  • In various embodiments, the binary and/or tertiary cleavable linking peptides may be linked, or fused, or coupled (i.e., connected in frame, and used interchangeably herein) with one or more additional components. In some embodiments, the binary and/or tertiary cleavable linking peptides are linked to an endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide (ERSP) as further described herein. In various embodiments, the N-terminus of an illustrative binary and/or tertiary cleavable linking peptide is linked to the C-terminus of the ERSP.
  • As used herein, an ERSP refers to a short continuous stretch of amino acids residues at the amino-terminus of secreted and membrane-bound proteins. The signal peptide targets the protein to the secretory pathway and is cleaved from the nascent chain once translocated in the endoplasmatic reticulum membrane. The signal peptide consists of three regions: an amino-terminal polar region (N region), where frequently positive charged amino acid residues are observed, a central hydrophobic region (H region) of 7-8 amino acid residues and a carboxy-terminal region (C region) that includes the cleavage site. The cleavage of the signal peptide from the mature protein or polypeptide occurs at this cleavage site. An exemplary ERSP is between 3 to 100 amino acids in length, or between 5 to 50 amino acids in length, or between 20 to 30 amino acids in length. The ERSP is a signal peptide so called because it directs the transportation of a protein. Signal peptides may also be called targeting signals, signal sequences, transit peptides, or localization signals. The signal peptides for ER trafficking are often 15 to 30 amino acid residues in length and have a tripartite organization, comprised of a core of hydrophobic residues flanked by a positively charged amino terminal and a polar, but uncharged carboxy terminal region. (Zimmermann, et al., “Protein translocation across the ER membrane”, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2011, 1808: 912-924).
  • Many ERSPs are known. Many plant ERSPs are known. In various embodiments, illustrative ERSPs include the ERSP be derived from a plant ERSP. In some embodiments, illustrative ERSPs also include non-plant ERSPs, which are operable with the procedures described herein. Many plant ERSPs are however well known and certain exemplified plant derived ERSPs are useful in the present invention. As used herein, “plant ERSPs” include naturally occurring ERSPs from plant origin. They do not include non-plant originated ERSPs that have been transfected into plants or plant cells and expressed in plants. In one illustrative embodiment, a plant ERSP includes the barley alpha-amylase signal peptide (BAAS), for example, is derived from the plant, Hordeum vulgare, and has the amino acid sequence as follows: MANKHLSLSLFLVLLGLSASLASG (SEQ ID NO: 4).
  • In other embodiments, an exemplary ERSP can include a yeast α-mating factor prepro peptide signal leader consisting of a 19-amino acid signal (pre) sequence followed by a 67-residue (pro) sequence containing three consensus N-linked glycosylation sites and a dibasic Kex2 endopeptidase processing site. In some embodiments, an illustrative ERSP can include a mature yeast α-mating factor. In these embodiments, an exemplary yeast α-mating factor prepro peptide signal leader and mature yeast α-mating factor can be found in Pichia pastoris and Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strains.
  • Plant ERSPs, which are selected from the genomic sequence for proteins that are known to be expressed and released into the apoplastic space of plants, and a few examples include: barley alpha-amylase signal peptide, carrot extensin, tobacco PR1. The following references provide further descriptions, and are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety. De Loose, M. et al. “The extensin signal peptide allows secretion of a heterologous protein from protoplasts” Gene, 99 (1991) 95-100. De Loose, M. et al. described the structural analysis of an extensin-encoding gene from Nicotiana plumbaginifolia, the sequence of which contains a typical signal peptide for translocation of the protein to the endoplasmic reticulum. Chen, M. H. et al. “Signal peptide-dependent targeting of a rice alpha-amylase and cargo proteins to plastids and extracellular compartments of plant cells” Plant Physiology, 2004 July; 135(3): 1367-77. Epub 2004 Jul. 2. Chen, M. H. et al. studied the subcellular localization of α-amylases in plant cells by analyzing the expression of α-amylase, with and without its signal peptide, in transgenic tobacco. These references and others teach and disclose the signal peptide that can be used in the methods, procedures and peptide, protein and nucleotide complexes and constructs described herein.
  • In some embodiments, the ERSP can be a barley alpha-amylase signal peptide, or a tobacco extensin signal peptide, or a modified tobacco extensin signal peptide, or a Jun a 3 signal peptide of Juniperus ashei or J. ashei or a signal peptide of potato proteinase inhibitor (II) (pinII). PCR primers operable to isolate the ERSP sequences from plants and other eukaryotic cells are known in the art and are commercially available.
  • In related embodiments, the binary and/or tertiary cleavable linking peptides coupled to an ERSP is linked to the N-terminus of a toxic peptide (TP) (ERSP-TP).
  • (3). Toxic Peptides (TP)
  • A TP of the present invention includes any polypeptide or protein having insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity when ingested by, in contact with, or injected into an insect or nematode respectively. In various embodiments, several classes of TPs that are polymers of amino acids, i.e., proteinaceous materials can be employed and synthesized as single units or multimers of the same TP species or a mixture of TP species contained within one transgenically expressed protein, wherein each of the plurality of TPs are flanked by one or two cleavable binary or tertiary peptides as described above. In various embodiments, exemplary classes of TPs useful in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins described herein can include: CRIP TPs, ICK TPs, non-ICK TPs, sea anemone peptides, TMOF peptides and Bt proteins. In various embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present disclosure, are non-natural, man-made constructs comprising at least one binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptide and at least one TP. The insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present disclosure may be synthesized chemically, made recombinantly, and in some embodiments, are synthesized as an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein from a polynucleotide that is inserted into a yeast cell, a plant, plant tissue or is expressed under appropriate conditions in a plant, plant tissue or a plant seed. In some embodiments, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present disclosure include an ERSP. In related embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins include an ERSP, two or more binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides and one or more TPs positioned adjacent to a binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides. Other multimers and polymers comprising binary and/or tertiary cleavable linker peptides and TP subunits may be synthesized and are described further herein. In related embodiments, the multimers and polymers comprising binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides and TP subunits may also comprise an ERSP at the N-terminus of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, and may also comprise a stabilizing domain (STA). In some embodiments, a STA may also include a TP, for example, an ICK TP. (See for example, FIGS. 3A and 5, 6A and 6C).
  • As used herein a “construct” includes a polypeptide or protein that is made up of various polypeptide units, for example, ERSP, binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides, TPs and STA, each of these subunits are fused in frame and operable to be synthesized as a single protein. These constructs which may be written in short form designated as L for binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides or “linker”, TP for toxic proteins, ERSP for endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide, and STA for stabilization domain. In various embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present invention may comprise TPs that may be the same or they may be different. In addition, in some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present invention may comprise binary or tertiary cleavable linker peptides that may be the same or different. In various embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present invention may have the same types of TPs fused with the same type of linkers, as described in the various examples of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins disclosed and illustrated herein, and as represented by the various constructs, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and polynucleotides encoding all of the aforementioned insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present invention. In some embodiments, in the case where a DNA construct or a polynucleotide contains an open reading frame with a single TP, the TP can include Bt TPs, in addition to all of the other described TPs, with the proviso that if the DNA construct or polynucleotide contains an open reading frame containing two or more TPs, the two or more TPs cannot be Bt TPs.
  • An exemplary class of TPs include the Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Proteins (CRIPS). The CRIPS have 4, 6 or 8 cysteines and 2, 3 or 4 disulfide bonds. One example of this class of TPs are called inhibitor cysteine knot (ICK) motif protein. ICK motif TPs are a class of proteins with at least six cysteine residues that form a specific ICK tertiary structure. Covalent cross-linking of the cysteine residues in the ICK motif TPs form disulfide bridges that result in a tertiary structures that makes the protein relatively resistant to proteases and sometimes to extreme physical conditions (pH, temperature, UV light, etc.), and confers activity against ion channels, which may be specific to insects. Many ICK motif TPs have evolved in the venom of invertebrates and vertebrates that use the ICK motif TPs as a toxin to immobilize or kill their predators or prey. Such insecticidal peptides often have scorpion, spider and sometimes snake origins. In nature, toxic peptides can be directed to the insect's gut or to internal organs by injection. In the case of a TP of the present invention, the delivery of TPs is usually via the insect's consumption of insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein expressed in plant tissue. Upon this consumption of the toxin from its food, for example an insect feeding upon a transgenic plant, the ICK motif TP may have the ability to inhibit the growth, impair the movement, or even kill an insect.
  • ICK motif TPs have been shown by others to lose their toxicity when they are expressed in plants. Unless the ICK motif TP is expressed as a properly folded protein it cannot successfully protect a plant or crop from insect damage. In some cases a plant expressed peptide will need to be activated by cleavage within the insect or during expression process in a plant in order to be active. Plant expressed inhibitory cysteine knot (ICK) motif proteins from spiders and scorpions have been described (Khan et al., Transgenic Res., 2006, 15: 349-357; Hernandez-Campuzano et al., Toxicon. 2009 January; 53(1):122-8.) ICK motif TP,” or “inhibitor cystine knot motif protein”, which is a 16 to 60 amino acid peptide with at least 6 half-cysteine core amino acids having three disulfide bridges, wherein the 3 disulfide bridges are covalent bonds and of the six half-cystine residues the covalent disulfide bonds are between the first and fourth, the second and fifth, and the third and sixth half-cystines, of the six core half-cystine amino acids starting from the N-terminal amino acid. The ICK motif TP also comprises a beta-hairpin secondary structure, normally composed of residues situated between the fourth and sixth core half-cysteines of the motif, the hairpin being stabilized by the structural crosslinking provided by the motif's three disulfide bonds. Note that additional cysteine/cysteine or half-cystine amino acids may be present within the inhibitor cysteine knot motif.
  • The ICK motif is common in peptides isolated from the venom of numerous species. Invertebrate species include spiders, scorpions, cone snail, sea anemone etc., other examples are numerous, even snake venom has been known to have peptides having the ICK motif. An example of ICK TPs include ACTX peptides (for example, a U-ACTX peptide, an Omega-ACTX peptide or a Kappa-ACTX peptide) from the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web Spider. Other ICK proteins described herein may be used to synthesize insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins described herein.
  • Examples of TPs with the ICK motif can be found in the following references. The N-type calcium channel blocker w-Conotoxin was reviewed by Lew, M. J. et al. “Structure-Function Relationships of w-Conotoxin GVIA” Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 272, No. 18, Issue of May 2, pp. 12014-12023, 1997. A summary of numerous arthropod toxic peptides from different spider and scorpion species was reviewed in, Quintero-Hernandez, V. et al. “Scorpion and Spider Venom Peptides: Gene Cloning and Peptide Expression” Toxicon, 58, pp. 644-663, 2011. The three-dimensional structure of Hanatoxin1 using NMR spectroscopy was identified as an inhibitor cysteine knot motif in Takahashi, H. et al. “Solution structure of hanatoxin1, a gating modifier of voltage-dependent K+ channels: common surface features of gating modifier toxins” Journal of Molecular Biology, Volume 297, Issue 3, 31 Mar. 2000, pp. 771-780. The isolation and identification of cDNA encoding a scorpion venom ICK toxin peptide, Opicalcine1, was published by Zhu, S. et al. “Evolutionary origin of inhibitor cystine knot peptides” FASEB J., 2003 Sep. 17, (12):1765-7, Epub 2003 Jul. 3. The sequence-specific assignment and the secondary structure identification of BgK, a K+ channel-blocking toxin from the sea anemone Bunodosoma granulifera, was disclosed by Dauplais, M. et. al. “On the convergent evolution of animal toxins” Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1997 Feb. 14; 272(7): 4302-9. A review of the composition and pharmacology of spider venoms with emphasis on polypeptide toxin structure, mode of action, and molecular evolution showing cysteine bridges, cysteine knot formations and the “knotting-type” fold was published by Escoubas, P. et al. “Structure and pharmacology of spider venom neurotoxins” Biochimie, Vol. 82, Issues 9-10, 10 Sep. 2000, pp. 893-907. The purified peptide, iberiotoxin, an inhibitor of the Ca2+-activated K+ channel, from scorpion (Buthus tamulus) venom was disclosed in Galvez, A. et al. “Purification and characterization of a unique, potent, peptidyl probe for the high conductance calcium-activated potassium channel from venom of the scorpion Buthus tamulus” Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1990 Jul. 5; 265(19): 11083-90. The purified peptide, charybdotoxin, an inhibitor of the Ca2+-activated K+ channel, from the venom of the scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus was disclosed in Gimenez-Gallego, G. et al. “Purification, sequence, and model structure of charybdotoxin, a potent selective inhibitor of calcium-activated potassium channels” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 1988 May; 85(10): 3329-3333. From these and other publications, one skilled in the art should be able to readily identify proteins and peptides having what we describe as the ICK motif TP (which is used interchangeably with “ICK motif”, “ICK motif protein” and the “inhibitor cystine knot motif”).
  • In some examples, ICK motif TPs have between 26-60 amino acids in length. Some ICK motif TPs are between 16-48 amino acids in length. Some ICK motif TPs are between 26-48 amino acids in length. Some ICK motif TPs are between 30-44 amino acids in length. ICK motif TPs with natural insecticidal activity are preferred but ICK motif TPs with other types of activity such as salt and frost resistance are known to those skilled in the art and are claimed herein. Examples of ICK motif TPs include the ACTX peptides and genes, and including all of the peptides and their coding genes known as Magi6.
  • Specific examples of ICK motif TPs and peptides disclosed for purposes of providing examples and not intended to be limiting in any way, are the TPs and their homologs and peptide variants thereof as described above. In some embodiments, some preferred TPs are those particular peptides and nucleotides which originate from the venoms of Australian Funnel-web spiders. In various embodiments, illustrative TPs for use in the preparation of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, composition, insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, or polynucleotide encoding the same, can include one or more TPs selected from the group: U-ACTX TPs, Kappa-ACTX TPs and Omega-ACTX TPs and polynucleotides encoding the same. The following documents are incorporated by reference in the United States in their entirety, are known to one skilled in the art, and have all been published. They disclose numerous ICK motif TPs which, their full peptide sequence, their full nucleotide sequence, are specifically disclosed and are incorporated by reference, and in addition the full disclosures are incorporated by reference including all of their sequence listings. See the following references: (all incorporated herein by reference in their entireties): U.S. Pat. No. 7,354,993 B2, issued Apr. 8, 2008, specifically the peptide and nucleotide sequences listed there as SEQ ID NOs: 1-39, from U.S. Pat. No. 7,354,993 B2, and those named U-ACTX polypeptides, and these and other toxins that can form 2 to 4 intra-chain disulfide bridges, and variants thereof, and the peptides appearing on columns 4 to 9 and in FIG. 2 of U.S. Pat. No. 7,354,993 B2. Other specific sequences can be found in EP patent 1 812 464 B1, published and granted Aug. 10, 2008, see Bulletin 2008/41, specifically the peptide and nucleotide sequences listed in the sequence listing, and those the other toxins that can form 2 to 4 intra-chain disulfide bridges, and those sequences listed there as 1-39, and sequences named U-ACTX polypeptides, and variants thereof, and the peptides appearing in paragraphs 0023 to 0055, and appearing in FIG. 1 of EP patent 1 812 464 B1, the disclosures of all of the specifically enumerated patent references are incorporated by reference herein in their entireties.
  • Described and incorporated by reference herein as examples of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and peptides are TPs including the following: peptides and variants thereof found in, isolated from, or derived from spiders of the genus Atrax or Hadronyche, including the genus species, Hadronyche versuta, or the Blue Mountain funnel web spider, Atrax robustus, Atrax formidabilis, Atrax infensus, including TPs known as U-ACTX polypeptides, which include: U-ACTX-Hv1a, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or mutants or variants, especially peptides of any of these types and especially those less than about 200 amino acids but greater than about 10 amino acids, and especially peptides less than about 150 amino acids but greater than about 20 amino acids, especially peptides less than about 100 amino acids but greater than about 25 amino acids, especially peptides less than about 65 amino acids but greater than about 25 amino acids, especially peptides less than about 55 amino acids but greater than about 25 amino acids, especially peptides of about 37 or 39 or about 36 to 42 amino acids, especially peptides with less than about 55 amino acids but greater than about 25 amino acids, especially peptides with less than about 45 amino acids but greater than about 35 amino acids, especially peptides with less than about 115 amino acids but greater than about 75 amino acids, especially peptides with less than about 105 amino acids but greater than about 85 amino acids, especially peptides with less than about 100 amino acids but greater than about 90 amino acids, including peptide toxins of any of the lengths mentioned here that can form 2, 3 and or 4 or more intrachain disulfide bridges, including toxins that disrupt calcium channel currents, including toxins that disrupt potassium channel currents, especially toxins that disrupt insect calcium channels or Us thereof, especially toxins or variants thereof of any of these types, and any combination of any of the types of toxins described herein that have oral or topical insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity, can be made special by the processes described herein.
  • The U peptides from the Australian Funnel Web Spider, genus Atrax and Hadronyche are particularly suitable and work well when treated by the methods, procedures or processes described by this invention. Examples of such suitable peptides tested and with data are provided herein. The following species are also specifically known to carry toxic peptides suitable for plant expression as insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins by the methods disclosed in this invention. The following species are specifically named: Atrax formidabillis, Atrax infensus, Atrax robustus, Hadronyche infensa, Hadronyche versuta. Any TPs derived from any of the genus and species listed above and/or genus species and may be homologous to the U peptide are suitable for plant expression as insecticidal and nematicidal proteins according to the present invention. Other TPs suitable for use in the various insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins described herein, include: Kappa ACTX TPs, Omega-ACTX TPs and U-ACTX TPs.
  • In some embodiments, specific TPs can be cloned into proper expression vectors and along with the ERSP and cleavable linking groups disclosed herein can be made into an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein suitable for transforming a plant, or a part thereof, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be formulated with appropriate excipients to be applied to the surface of a plant, or plant part. In some embodiments, a suitable TP can include an ICK motif TP: QYCVP VDQPC SLNTQ PCCDD ATCTQ ERNEN GHTVYYCRA (SEQ ID NO: 6), named “U-ACTX-Hv1a,” it has disulfide bridges at positions: 3-18, 10-23, 17-37. The molecular weight is 4426.84 Daltons. In another embodiment, specific TPs can be cloned into proper expression vectors and along with the ERSP and cleavable linking groups disclosed herein can be made into an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein suitable for transforming a plant, or a part thereof, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be formulated with appropriate excipients to be applied to the surface of a plant, or plant part. In some embodiments, a suitable TP can include an ICK motif TP: GSQYC VPVDQ PCSLN TQPCC DDATC TQERN ENGHT VYYCR A (SEQ ID NO: 5), named “U+2-ACTX-Hv1a,” it has disulfide bridges at positions: 5-20, 12-25, 19-39. The molecular weight is 4564.85 Daltons. Other ICK TPs useful in the various insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, polynucleotides and DNA constructs encoding these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, and transgenic plants or plant cells containing these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, include peptides or proteins having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775. In related embodiments, ICK TPs useful in the various insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, polynucleotides and DNA constructs encoding these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, and transgenic plants or plant cells containing these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, include peptides or proteins having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof.
  • (3A). Bt TPs
  • In some embodiments, illustrative TPs can also include those TPs expressed, or isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis, (Bt). This ubiquitous Gram-positive spore-forming bacterium provides a valuable resource due to its ability to synthesize crystal parasporal inclusions during sporulation. These crystals, which include insecticidal proteins called δ-endotoxins have been extensively used as biological insecticides against insect pests of commercial interest. Bt crystal toxins include the Cry proteins (crystal toxins) and Cyt proteins (cytolytic toxins). The Cry toxins are important virulence factors allowing for the development of the bacterium in dead or weakened insect larvae. The largest group of Cry toxins has three distinct structural domains; the so-called three-domain (3D) Cry toxins provide the primary focus for this review. The Cyt toxins have in vitro cytolytic activity, in addition to in vivo activity against various insects including mosquitos [5]. Cyt toxins which are active against certain Diptera, synergize the toxicity of Cry proteins against mosquitoes and delay the expression of resistance to the latter Bt proteins, or Bt peptides (collectively referred to herein as Bt TPs), are effective insecticides used for crop protection in the form of both plant incorporated protectants and foliar sprays. Commercial formulations of Bt proteins are widely used to control insects at the larval stage. The Bt Cry and Cyt proteins require solubilization in the insect midgut to produce protoxins that are typically about 130 kDa, 70 kDa or 27 kDa for Cyt. These in turn are proteolytically cleaved at the C-terminus and/or at the N-terminus by midgut proteases, generating the activated core toxin. Cry protoxins are proteolytically activated to produce the mature active toxin. Processing of the Cry protoxin into its active form is essential for toxin activity. Processing is mediated by insect proteases that cleave the protoxin polypeptide at specific sequences. The toxin then crosses the peritrophic matrix and binds to receptors in the apical membrane of the midgut cells, with receptor binding being an important determinant of toxin specificity. Toxin insertion into the epithelial membrane forms ion channels or pores, leading to lysis of the cells, damage to the midgut epithelial tissue, and death of the larva. Among susceptible species in the orders Lepidoptera and Diptera, the major gut proteases are of the serine type, while in Coleoptera the major proteases are cysteine and aspartic proteases, although some use cathepsin G serine proteases. Since activation is a crucial step to achieve toxicity, it has been suggested that the type and/or abundance of insect proteases is important in contributing to toxin specificity. In some cases, certain insects lack the ability to cleave the inactive portion from the activated or “active” portion of the Bt TP. The present invention provides for certain insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins that have a binary or tertiary cleavable linker positioned between the inactive portion and the activated or “active” portion of the Bt TP (See FIG. 3B) and insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins that include multiple copies (for example, 2-10 copies of the Bt TP having an intervening cleavable linker positioned between the inactive and active portions of the Bt TP) in the form of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and polynucleotides that encode the Bt TPs and insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins referenced above. In some embodiments, in the case where a DNA construct or a polynucleotide contains an open reading frame with a single TP, the TP can include Bt TPs, in addition to all of the other described TPs, with the proviso that if the DNA construct or polynucleotide contains an open reading frame containing two or more TPs, the two or more TPs cannot be two or more Bt TPs.
  • Specific examples of Bt TPs can include peptides where the Bt Protein is a Cry or Cyt protein, and/or the Bt Protein is selected from the group consisting of a Cry1, Cry3, TIC851, CryET70, Cry22, TIC901, TIC201, TIC407, TIC417, a binary insecticidal protein CryET80, and CryET76, a binary insecticidal protein TIC100 and TIC101, a combination of an insecticidal protein ET29 or ET37 with an insecticidal protein TIC810 or TIC812 and a binary insecticidal protein PS149B1. The Bt TP can be selected from a Cry protein, a Cry1A protein or a Cry1F protein, or a combination Cry1F-Cry1A protein, or it comprises an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NOs: 10, 12, 14, 26, 28, or 34 of U.S. Pat. No. 7,304,206. We describe a transgenic plant wherein the Bt TP is Dipel and we describe a transgenic plant wherein the Bt TP is Thuricide. In another example of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptide and protein described herein, is a Cry Bt TP called Cry51. This Bt TP is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 8,609,936 B2 (issued on Dec. 17, 2013, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety). This Cry Bt TP is insecticidal against the genus of lygus plant-feeding insects. The exemplified Cry Bt TP is useful in the present invention, for example, as a TP in an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, or a plant or plant part thereof comprising said insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptide and protein, for example a plant cell, a plant tissue or plant seed.
  • In various embodiments, isolated nucleic acid molecules corresponding to Bt TP encoding nucleic acid sequences are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence shown in US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference. Various insecticidal polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding same as disclosed in US 2009/0099081, for example, SEQ ID NOs: 9, 11, 13, 15, or 18, or a nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, or 17, as well as variants and fragments thereof are incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Nucleotide sequences that are complementary to a nucleotide sequence of the invention, or that hybridize to a sequence of the invention are also encompassed.
  • Nucleotide sequences encoding the proteins of the present invention include the sequences set forth in US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, including SEQ ID NOs: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, or 17, and variants, fragments, and complementary nucleotide sequences thereof of US 2009/0099081 are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. The term “complementary sequence” is intended a nucleotide sequence that is sufficiently complementary to a given nucleotide sequence such that it can hybridize to the given nucleotide sequence to thereby form a stable duplex. Illustrative Bt protein amino acid sequences that may be used as a TP for the compositions, transgenic molecules (polynucleotides and proteins) are set forth in the present disclosure set forth as SEQ ID NOs: 33-533.
  • Nucleic acid molecules that are fragments of these Bt protein encoding nucleotide sequences are also encompassed by the present invention (for example, US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference from US 2009/0099081. SEQ ID NO: 8 is a fragment of SEQ ID NOs: 4 and 12; SEQ ID NO: 4 is a fragment of SEQ ID NO: 2 as disclosed in US 2009/0099081). By “fragment” is intended a portion of the nucleotide sequence encoding a Bt protein. A fragment of a nucleotide sequence may encode a biologically active portion of a Bt protein, or it may be a fragment that can be used as a hybridization probe or PCR primer using methods disclosed below. Nucleic acid molecules that are fragments of a Bt protein nucleotide sequence comprise at least about 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1050, 1100, 1150, 1200, 1250, 1300, 1350, 1400, 1450, 1500, 1550, 1600, 1650, 1700, 1750, 1800, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1885 contiguous nucleotides, or up to the number of nucleotides present in a full-length Bt-protein encoding nucleotide sequence disclosed herein (for example, 1890 nucleotides for US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, Here these are provided as SEQ ID NOs: 1 and 2, 1806 nucleotides for SEQ ID NO: 4, 1743 nucleotides for SEQ ID NOs: 6, 7, 8, and 16, 1809 nucleotides for SEQ ID NO: 10, and 1752 nucleotides for SEQ ID NOs: 12 and 14, in the sequence listing of US 2009/0099081). By “contiguous” nucleotides is intended nucleotide residues that are immediately adjacent to one another. Fragments of the nucleotide sequences of the present invention will encode protein fragments that retain the biological activity of the Bt protein and, hence, retain pesticidal activity. By “retains activity” is intended that the fragment will have at least about 30%, at least about 50%, at least about 70%, 80%, 90%, 95% or higher of the pesticidal activity of the Bt protein. Methods for measuring pesticidal activity are well known in the art. See, for example, Czapla and Lang (1990) J. Econ. Entomol. 83:2480-2485; Andrews et al. (1988) Biochem. J. 252:199-206; Marrone et al. (1985) J. of Economic Entomology 78:290-293; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,743,477, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference.
  • A fragment of a Bt protein encoding nucleotide sequence that encodes a biologically active portion of a protein of the invention will encode at least about 15, 25, 30, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500, 550, 560, 570, 575, 580, 585, 590, 595, 600 contiguous amino acids, or up to the total number of amino acids present in a full-length Bt protein of the invention (for example, 580 amino acids for SEQ ID NO: 41, 602 amino acids for SEQ ID NO: 43, and 583 amino acids for SEQ ID NOs: 45 and 47).
  • Preferred Bt protein proteins of the present invention are encoded by a nucleotide sequence sufficiently identical to the nucleotide sequence of US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference, sequences 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, or 17. By “sufficiently identical” is intended an amino acid or nucleotide sequence that has at least about 60% or 65% sequence identity, about 70% or 75% sequence identity, about 80% or 85% sequence identity, about 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99% or greater sequence identity compared to a reference sequence using one of the alignment programs described herein using standard parameters. One of skill in the art will recognize that these values can be appropriately adjusted to determine corresponding identity of proteins encoded by two nucleotide sequences by taking into account codon degeneracy, amino acid similarity, reading frame positioning, and the like.
  • The invention also encompasses variant nucleic acid molecules (for example, US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference, sequence 2 is a variant of sequence 1; sequences 7 and 8 are variants of sequence 6; sequence 10 is a variant of sequences 4 and 12; and sequence 14 is a variant of sequence 12). “Variants” of the Bt protein encoding nucleotide sequences include those sequences that encode the Bt protein disclosed herein but that differ conservatively because of the degeneracy of the genetic code as well as those that are sufficiently identical as discussed above.
  • Naturally occurring allelic variants can be identified with the use of well-known molecular biology techniques, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and hybridization techniques as outlined below. Variant nucleotide sequences also include synthetically derived nucleotide sequences that have been generated, for example, by using site-directed mutagenesis but which still encode the Bt proteins disclosed in the present invention as discussed below. Variant proteins encompassed by the present invention are biologically active, that is they continue to possess the desired biological activity of the native protein that is, retaining insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity (also known as pesticidal activity). By “retains activity” is intended that the variant will have at least about 30%, or at least about 40%, or at least about 50%, or at least about 60%, or at least about 70%, or at least about 80%, or at least about 90% of the pesticidal activity of the native protein. Methods for measuring pesticidal activity are well known in the art. See, for example, Czapla and Lang (1990) J. Econ. Entomol. 83: 2480-2485; Andrews et al. (1988) Biochem. J. 252:199-206; Marrone et al. (1985) J. of Economic Entomology 78:290-293; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,743,477, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference.
  • In one aspect of the invention, some TPs that can be employed in the design and synthesis of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins containing cleavable linking molecules (i.e. binary and tertiary peptides) can include one or more synthetic axmi-004 Bt protein sequences, such as those disclosed in US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference, (sequence 1) and synaxmi-004B (sequence 2). These synthetic sequences have an altered DNA sequence relative to the axmi-004 sequence (sequence 3) recited in U.S. Pat. No. 7,355,099, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference), and encode the original AXMI-004 protein. Likewise, synaxmi-004B-2M (sequence 4) was designated and encodes the axmi-004 alternate start site (herein referred to as axmi-004B-2M and set forth in sequence 5) originally identified in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/782,020.
  • Additional TPs included as possible designated axmi-004B-3M (US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety, and all sequences identified by number specifically incorporated by reference, sequence 16) and encodes the AXMI-004B-3M amino acid sequence set forth in sequence 9. Synthetic sequences encoding the AXMI-004B-3M protein were also designated. These synthetic nucleotide sequences were designated synaxmi-004B-3M, synaxmi-004C-3M, and synaxmi-004D-3M and are set forth in sequences 6, 7, and 8, respectively. In another aspect of the invention, modified versions of the nucleotide sequence encoding AXMI-004B-3M protein were designed such that additional N-terminal residues are added to the encoded protein. These sequence are designated synaxmi-004B-3M-alt1 (US 2009/0099081, published on Apr. 18, 2009, sequence 10), synaxmi-004B-3M-alt2 (sequence 12), synaxmi-004B-3M-alt3 (sequence 14), and synaxmi-004B-3M-alt4 (sequence 17). The encoded proteins are designated AXMI-004B-3M-ALT1 (sequence 11), AXMI-004B-3M-ALT2 (sequence 13), AXMI-004B-3M-ALT3 (sequence 15), and AXMI-004B-3M-ALT4 (sequence 18).
  • Other Bt proteins and gene descriptions can be found in the following. Each and every patent publication referred to below with a note as to the Bt toxin to which the publication refers to, is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirely. These documents have also published and they and their sequences are in the public domain.
  • Additional examples of Bt genes, proteins suitable as polynucleotides encoding TPs and TPs of the present invention, and the patent documents that describe them are found in Tables 1, 2, and 3 below. The patent documents in Tables 1, 2, 3, in particular the US patents and US applications, are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entireties.
  • (e)
  • TABLE 1
    Bt Toxins
    Toxin Patents or Patent Publication Number
    Crv1 US2003046726, U.S. Pat. No. 6,833,449,
    CN1260397, US201026939,
    US2006174372, US2006174372,
    U.S. Pat. No. 642,241, U.S. Pat. No. 6,229,004,
    US2004194165, U.S. Pat. No. 6,573,240,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,424,409, U.S. Pat. No. 5,407,825,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,135,867, U.S. Pat. No. 5,055,294,
    Cry1 WO2007107302, U.S. Pat. No. 6,855,873,
    WO2004020636, US2007061919,
    U.S. Pat. No. 6,048,839, US2007061919,
    AU784649B, US2007061919, U.S. Pat. No. 6,150,589,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,679,343, U.S. Pat. No. 5,616,319,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,322,687,
    Cry1 WO2007107302, US2006174372,
    US2005091714, US2004058860,
    US2008020968, U.S. Pat. No. 6,043,415,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,942,664,
    Cry1 WO2007107302, US2007061919,
    U.S. Pat. No. 6,172,281,
    Crv1 WO03082910, MX9606262, U.S. Pat. No. 5,530,195,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,407,825, U.S. Pat. No. 5,045,469,
    Cry1 US2006174372,
    Cry1 US2007061919,
    Crv1 US2007061919,
    Crv1 US2007061919, CN1401772, U.S. Pat. No. 6,063,605,
    Crv1 US2007061919, AU784649B, U.S. Pat. No. 5,723,758,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,616,319, U.S. Pat. No. 5,356,623,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,322,687
    Crv1 U.S. Pat. No. 5,723,758
    Crv2 CN1942582, WO9840490,
    US2007061919, UA75570,
    MXPA03006130, US2003167517,
    U.S. Pat. No. 6,107,278, U.S. Pat. No. 6,096,708,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,073,632,
    U.S. Pat. No. 7,208,474, U.S. Pat. No. 7,244,880,
    Crv3 US2002152496, RU2278161,
    US2003054391,
    Cry3 U.S. Pat. No. 5,837,237, U.S. Pat. No. 5,723,756,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,683,691,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,104,974, U.S. Pat. No. 4,996,155,
    Crv3 U.S. Pat. No. 5,837,237, U.S. Pat. No. 5,723,756,
    Cry5 WO9840491, US2004018982, U.S. Pat. No. 6,166,195,
    US2001010932, U.S. Pat. No. 5,985,831,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,824,792, U.S. Pat. No. 528,153
    Cry5 WO2007062064, US2001010932,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,824,792,
    Cry6 WO2007062064, US2004018982,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,973,231, U.S. Pat. No. 5,874,288,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,236,843, U.S. Pat. No. 683,106
    Cry6 US2004018982, U.S. Pat. No. 6,166,195,
    Cry7 U.S. Pat. No. 6,048,839, U.S. Pat. No. 5,683,691,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,378,625, U.S. Pat. No. 518,709
    Crv7 CN195215
    Cry8
    Crv8
    Crv8 US200301796
    Cry8 WO2006053473, US2007245430,
    Crv8 WO200605347
    Cry9 US2007061919,
    Cry9 WO200506620
    Crv9 US2007061919, U.S. Pat. No. 6,448,226,
    US2005097635, WO2005066202,
    U.S. Pat. No. 6,143,550, U.S. Pat. No. 6,028,246,
    U.S. Pat. No. 6,727,409,
    Cry9 US2005097635, WO2005066202,
    Crv9 U.S. Pat. No. 6,570,005,
    Cry9 AU784649B, US2007074308,
    US736180
    Cry11 MXPA0200870
    Cry12 US2004018982, U.S. Pat. No. 6,166,195,
    Cry13 US6077937, U.S. Pat. No. 5,824,792,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,753,492,
    US2004018982, U.S. Pat. No. 6,166,195,
    U.S. Pat. No. 6,077,937, U.S. Pat. No. 5,824,792,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,753,492,
    Cry14 JP2007006895, U.S. Pat. No. 5,831,011,
    Crv21 U.S. Pat. No. 5,831,011, U.S. Pat. No. 5,670,365,
    Crv22 US2006218666, US2001010932,
    MXPA01004361, U.S. Pat. No. 5,824,792,
    Cry22 US2003229919,
    Crv23 US2006051822, US2003144192,
    UA75317, U.S. Pat. No. 6,399,330,
    U.S. Pat. No. 6,326,351, U.S. Pat. No. 6,949,626,
    Cry26 US200315001
    Crv28 US200315001
    Crv31 CA2410153,
    Crv34 US200316752
    Cry35 US2003167522,
    Cry37 US2006051822, US2003144192,
    UA75317, U.S. Pat. No. 6,399,330,
    U.S. Pat. No. 6,326,351, U.S. Pat. No. 6,949,626,
    Crv43 US200527164
    Cyt1 WO2007027776,
    Cyt1 U.S. Pat. No. 6,150,165,
    Cyt2 US2007163000, EP1681351,
    U.S. Pat. No. 6,686,452, U.S. Pat. No. 6,537,756,
  • (f)
  • TABLE 2
    Hybrid Insecticidal Crystal Proteins and Patents
    Patentsa Holotype Toxinb
    US2008020967 Cry29Aa
    US2008040827 Cry1Ca
    US2007245430 Cry8Aa
    US2008016596 Cry8Aa
    US2008020968 Cry1Cb
  • (g)
  • TABLE 3
    Patents Relating to Other Hybrid Insecticidal Crystal Proteins
    Source toxinsa Patentsb
    Cry1A, Cry1C U.S. Pat. No. 5,593,881,
    U.S. Pat. No. 5,932,209
    Cry1C, Cry1A, Cry1F U.S. Pat. No. 6,962,705,
    U.S. Pat. No. 7,250,501, US2004093637
    Cry23A, Cry37A U.S. Pat. No. 7,214,788
    Cry1A U.S. Pat. No. 7,019,197
    Cry1A, Cry1B U.S. Pat. No. 6,320,100
    Cry1A, Cry1C AU2001285900B
    Cry23A, Cry37A US2007208168
    Cry3A, Cry1I, Cry1B WO0134811
    Cry3A, Cry3B, Cry3C US2004033523
    Cry1A, Cry1C, Cry1E, U.S. Pat. No. 6,780,408
    Cry1A, Cry1F US2008047034
  • The sequence listing of the present disclosure includes exemplary Bt TP amino acid sequences SEQ ID NOs: 33-533. These amino acid sequences include examples of Bt protein Cry and Cyt protein sequences. Examples are numerous and one skilled in the art would know of many other examples of various Bt sequences that are suitable substitutes for those in this disclosure.
  • (3B). TMOF TPs
  • In some embodiments, another source of TPs can include: Trypsin modulating oostatic factor (TMOF) peptides. TMOF peptides have to be delivered to their physiological site of action in various ways, and TMOF peptides have been identified as a potential larvicides, with great potential, see D. Borovsky, Journal of Experimental Biology 206, 3869-3875, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
  • In various embodiments, illustrative TPs include the ICK motif TP which can be any polypeptide or protein with the ICK motif ranging in length between 16 and 60 amino acids, with at least 6 cysteine residues that create covalent cross-linking disulfide bonds in the proper order.
  • In various embodiments, illustrative TPs include the CRIP TPs for example the ICK TPs for example, an ICK TP derived from, or originates from, Hadronyche versuta, or the Blue Mountain funnel web spider, Atrax robustus, Atrax formidabilis, Atrax infensus, including TPs known as U-ACTX polypeptides, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or mutants or variants, Omega-ACTX polypeptides and variants and Kappa-ACTX polypeptides and variants. In some embodiments, illustrative CRIP TPs include a Non-ICK CRIP TP, for example, a Non-ICK CRIP TP derived from, or originates from, animals having Non-ICK CRIPS such as sea anemones, sea urchins and sea slugs and variants thereof. In one exemplary embodiment, a Non-ICK CRIP TP can be a TP derived from the sea anemone named Anemonia viridi, optionally including the TPs named Av2 and Av3 especially TPs similar to Av2 and Av3 including such peptides listed in the sequence listing of the present application or mutants or variants thereof.
  • In other embodiments, other TPs that can be used in the recombinant constructs and insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and plants described herein can include one or more of an ACTX protein, and/or a TMOF protein. TMOF motif,” or “TMOF proteins” include trypsin modulating oostatic factor peptide. Numerous examples and variants of TMOF TPs are provided. SEQ ID NO: 708 in the present application is an exemplary wild type TMOF sequence. Other non-limiting variants are provided in SEQ ID NOs: 709-721. Other examples are known or could be created guided by the knowledge known in the field by one skilled in the art.
  • (3C). Cleavable Bt TPs
  • In some embodiments, a representative Bt toxic protein (TP) can include a cleavable Bt TP as provided herein that comprises a binary or tertiary peptide inserted between the active and inactive portions of the Bt TP. In one example, a binary or tertiary peptide is inserted between the cleavable pro inactive portion of the peptide and mature active portion of the peptide. In another example, a Bt TP includes a stabilizing domain fused in frame with a binary or tertiary peptide of the present invention which is fused in frame with the active portion of the Bt TP. In another example, the Bt TPs are frequently written as “cry”, “cyt” or “VIP” proteins encoded by the cry, cyt and vip genes. Bt TPs are more usually attributed to insecticidal crystal proteins encoded by the cry genes. Bt TPs are examples of PFIPS (Pore Forming Insecticidal Proteins). In various embodiments, an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may include a protein that includes two or more binary or tertiary peptides and at least one Bt TP fused in frame with the one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides, In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein useful to provide insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions when ingested and exposed to gut or hemolymph environments can contain a Bt TP and/or a cleavable Bt TP as described above, and further exemplified herein, containing a binary or tertiary peptide inserted between the cleavable pro (inactive) portion of the TP and mature (active) portion of the TP.
  • For example, a binary or tertiary peptide when inserted between the cleavable pro inactive portion of the Bt TP and mature active portion of the Bt TP provides a cleavable Bt TP that upon ingestion and contact with an insect or nematode gut protease results in the cleavage of the cleavable Bt TP (See FIG. 3B). In some embodiments, an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing cleavable and/or non-cleavable Bt TPs can be encoded by a DNA construct that when transformed into plants, or parts thereof, or when applied directly to the surface of plants provide insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity when the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is ingested and exposed to the gut and/or hemolymph environment of a target insect and/or nematode.
  • Described and incorporated by reference to the TPs identified herein are variants or mutant peptides and proteins of the TP amino acid sequences mentioned above, specifically, peptides and proteins having an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775, having homology or sequence identity to such sequences or referred to herein, which are also identified and claimed as suitable for making special according to the processes described herein, including all homologous sequences having at least any of the following percent identities to any of the sequences disclosed here or to any sequence incorporated by reference: 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater amino acid sequence identity or 100% amino acid sequence identity to any and all sequences identified in the patents noted above, and to any other sequence identified herein, including each and every sequence in the sequence listing of this application. When the term homologous or homology is used herein with a number such as 50% or greater, then what is meant is percent identity or percent similarity between the two peptides. When homologous or homology is used without a numeric percent then it refers to two peptide sequences that are closely related in the evolutionary or developmental aspect in that they share common physical and functional aspects, like topical toxicity and similar size (i.e., the homolog being within 100% greater length or 50% shorter length of the peptide specifically mentioned herein or identified by reference herein as above). TPs of the present invention also include variants of TPs specifically disclosed or described herein, The term “variant” means a polypeptide or protein having insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity comprising an alteration, i.e., a substitution, insertion, and/or deletion, at one or more (e.g., several) positions. A substitution means replacement of the amino acid occupying a position with a different amino acid; a deletion means removal of the amino acid occupying a position; and an insertion means adding an amino acid adjacent to and immediately following the amino acid occupying a position. The TP variants of the present invention have at least 20%, e.g., at least 40%, at least 50%, at least 60%, at least 70%, at least 80%, at least 90%, at least 95%, or at least 100% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the polypeptides and proteins of SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775 and the other specifically identified TPs disclosed herein. The variants of the present invention have at least 20%, e.g., at least 40%, at least 50%, at least 60%, at least 70%, at least 80%, at least 90%, at least 95%, or at least 100% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of any one polypeptide or protein of SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • TPs may also include variant TP peptides and proteins encoded by a polynucleotide having one or more point mutations, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 point mutations or more, such that when the mutated TP encoding polynucleotide is transcribed and/or translated, the expressed mutated TP peptide or protein retains insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity that is at least: 90%, or 80%, or 70%, or 60%, or 50% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the peptide or protein encoded by the corresponding non-mutated TP polynucleotide. TPs of the present invention may also include TP peptides and proteins that have at least 80%, or at least 85%, or at least 90%, or at least 95%, or at least 96% or at least 97% or at least 98% or at least 99% amino acid sequence identity to any TP disclosed in SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775, and still retains at least: 95%, or 90%, or 80%, or 70%, or 60%, or 50% of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity of the corresponding TP set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • The variant TPs may further comprise one or more additional substitutions at one or more (e.g., several) other positions. The amino acid changes may be of a minor nature, that is conservative amino acid substitutions or insertions that do not significantly affect the folding and/or activity of the peptide or the protein; small deletions, typically of 1-30 amino acids; small amino- or carboxyl-terminal extensions, such as an amino-terminal methionine residue; or a small extension that facilitates purification by changing net charge or another function, such as a poly-histidine tract, an antigenic epitope or a binding domain. Examples of conservative substitutions are within the groups of basic amino acids (arginine, lysine and histidine), acidic amino acids (glutamic acid and aspartic acid), polar amino acids (glutamine and asparagine), hydrophobic amino acids (leucine, isoleucine and valine), aromatic amino acids (phenylalanine, tryptophan and tyrosine), and small amino acids (glycine, alanine, serine, threonine and methionine). Amino acid substitutions that do not generally alter specific activity are known in the art and are described, for example, by H. Neurath and R. L. Hill, 1979, In, The Proteins, Academic Press, New York. Common substitutions are Ala/Ser, Val/Ile, Asp/Glu, Thr/Ser, Ala/Gly, Ala/Thr, Ser/Asn, Ala/Val, Ser/Gly, Tyr/Phe, Ala/Pro, Lys/Arg, Asp/Asn, Leu/Ile, Leu/Val, Ala/Glu, and Asp/Gly. Alternatively, the amino acid changes are of such a nature that the physico-chemical properties of the polypeptides are altered. For example, amino acid changes may improve the thermal stability of the polypeptide, alter the substrate specificity, change the pH optimum, and the like.
  • Essential amino acids in a peptide or protein can be identified according to procedures known in the art, such as site-directed mutagenesis or alanine-scanning mutagenesis (Cunningham and Wells, 1989, Science 244:1081-1085). In the latter technique, single alanine mutations are introduced at every residue in the molecule, and the resultant mutant molecules are tested for insecticidal or nematicidal activity to identify amino acid residues that are critical to the activity of the molecule. See also, Hilton et al., 1996, J. Biol. Chem. 271: 4699-4708. The active site of insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptide or protein or other biological interaction can also be determined by physical analysis of structure, as determined by such techniques as nuclear magnetic resonance, crystallography, electron diffraction, or photoaffinity labeling, in conjunction with mutation of putative contact site amino acids. See, for example, de Vos et al., 1992, Science 255:306-312; Smith et al., 1992, J. Mol. Biol. 224:899-904; Wlodaver et al., 1992, FEBS Lett. 309:59-64. The identity of essential amino acids can also be inferred from an alignment with a related TP peptide or protein as disclosed herein and/or as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
  • TPs of the present invention may also include TP peptides and proteins having 1-6 amino acid extensions fused in frame to the N-terminus or C-terminus or both termini of any TP described herein, for example a TP having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775. The variants can be prepared using any mutagenesis procedure known in the art, such as site-directed mutagenesis, synthetic gene construction, semi-synthetic gene construction, random mutagenesis, shuffling, etc.
  • Site-directed mutagenesis is a technique in which one or more (e.g., several) mutations are introduced at one or more defined sites in a polynucleotide encoding the parent. Site-directed mutagenesis can be accomplished in vitro by PCR involving the use of oligonucleotide primers containing the desired mutation. Site-directed mutagenesis can also be performed in vitro by cassette mutagenesis involving the cleavage by a restriction enzyme at a site in the plasmid comprising a polynucleotide encoding the parent and subsequent ligation of an oligonucleotide containing the mutation in the polynucleotide. Usually the restriction enzyme that digests the plasmid and the oligonucleotide is the same, permitting sticky ends of the plasmid and the insert to ligate to one another. See, e.g., Scherer and Davis, 1979, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76:4949-4955; and Barton et al., 1990, Nucleic Acids Res. 18:7349-4966. Site-directed mutagenesis can also be accomplished in vivo by methods known in the art. See, e.g., U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2004/0171154; Storici et al., 2001, Nature Biotechnol. 19:773-776; Kren et al., 1998, Nat. Med. 4:285-290; and Calissano and Macino, 1996, Fungal Genet. Newslett. 43:15-16. Any site-directed mutagenesis procedure can be used in the present invention. There are many commercial kits available that can be used to prepare variant TPs of the present invention.
  • Synthetic gene construction entails in vitro synthesis of a designed polynucleotide molecule to encode a polypeptide of interest. Gene synthesis can be performed utilizing a number of techniques, such as the multiplex microchip-based technology described by Tian et al. (2004, Nature 432:1050-1054) and similar technologies wherein oligonucleotides are synthesized and assembled upon photo-programmable microfluidic chips.
  • Single or multiple amino acid substitutions, deletions, and/or insertions can be made and tested using known methods of mutagenesis, recombination, and/or shuffling, followed by a relevant screening procedure, such as those disclosed by Reidhaar-Olson and Sauer, 1988, Science 241:53-57; Bowie and Sauer, 1989, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:2152-2156; WO 95/17413; or WO 95/22625. Other methods that can be used include error-prone PCR, phage display (e.g., Lowman et al., 1991, Biochemistry 30:10832-10837; U.S. Pat. No. 5,223,409; WO 92/06204) and region-directed mutagenesis (Derbyshire et al., 1986, Gene 46:145; Ner et al., 1988, DNA 7:127).
  • Mutagenesis/shuffling methods can be combined with high-throughput, automated screening methods to detect activity of cloned, mutagenized polypeptides expressed by host cells (Ness et al., 1999, Nature Biotechnology 17:893-896). Mutagenized DNA molecules that encode active polypeptides can be recovered from the host cells and rapidly sequenced using standard methods in the art. These methods allow the rapid determination of the importance of individual amino acid residues in a peptide or protein.
  • Semi-synthetic gene construction is accomplished by combining aspects of synthetic gene construction, and/or site-directed mutagenesis, and/or random mutagenesis, and/or shuffling. Semi-synthetic construction is typified by a process utilizing polynucleotide fragments that are synthesized, in combination with PCR techniques. Defined regions of genes may thus be synthesized de novo, while other regions may be amplified using site-specific mutagenic primers, while yet other regions may be subjected to error-prone PCR or non-error prone PCR amplification. Polynucleotide subsequences may then be shuffled.
  • For purposes of describing the insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptides, proteins, polynucleotides encoding such insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptides and proteins, DNA constructs encoding such insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptides and proteins, transgenic plants or parts thereof containing such insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptides and proteins, and methods for controlling a pest infection or infestation and methods for increasing the yield of a crop incorporating such insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptides and proteins, TPs of the present invention also encompass (includes within its definition) variant and mutant and mutated TPs as described above within the definition of a TP or toxic peptide. In various embodiments, a TP specifically described herein include any TP having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775, any TP recited in any patent or non-patent reference described herein and any variant or mutant or mutated peptide or protein thereof. IN various embodiments, an insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins described herein, include a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof.
  • (4). Recombinant Insecticidal & Nematicidal Peptide DNA Compositions
  • In various embodiments, the present invention provides insecticidal and nematicidal polypeptides, proteins and DNA constructs and polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides and proteins. DNA constructs encoding such insecticidal and nematicidal polypeptides, and proteins may encompass a single polynucleotide containing the open reading frame (ORF) encoding one long fusion protein, or may encompass a number of polynucleotides which when provided in a vector enables the transcription of mRNA that encodes such insecticidal and nematicidal polypeptides as described herein. The DNA construct may also contain the necessary regulatory elements such as promoters, termination sequences, enhancers and antibiotic resistance genes that permit the DNA construct or portions thereof to be efficiently transcribed and translated in a host cell. In some embodiments, a DNA construct of the present invention can include a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes: an insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, the binary or a tertiary peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions. The binary or a tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect and/or nematode gut protease. In various embodiments the binary or a tertiary peptide is operably fused (i.e. fused in frame) to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) as described herein and is operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP, for example a CRIP TP. (See for example, FIGS. 4-6C). In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of are combinant insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR, ALKLFV, ALKFLV, RRKAFV, or LFAAPF, fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • (4A). DNA Constructs Encoding Insecticidal and Nematicidal Transgenic Proteins
  • In various embodiments, an illustrative DNA construct encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be codon optimized for the species in which the DNA construct will be introduced. For example, where the DNA construct will be transformed into plants, the DNA construct can be codon optimized for expression and replication in plant cells.
  • In some embodiments, the DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide that encodes a binary peptide comprising the amino acid sequence: X1-X2-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Y1-Y2-X1-X2, Y Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4, wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • In some embodiments, an illustrative DNA construct may encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising one or more illustrative binary peptides (XY or YX). In some embodiments, an exemplary DNA construct may encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a cleavable binary peptide having the following amino acid sequence: AFVRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1594), AKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1595), ALFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1596), ALFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1597), ALFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1598), ALFR (SEQ ID NO: 1599), ALFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1600), ALKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1601), ALKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1602), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), ALKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1604), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), FFADIK (SEQ ID NO: 1606), FFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1607), FFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1608), FFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1609), FFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1610), FGYRIK (SEQ ID NO: 1611), FLRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1612), FYARR (SEQ ID NO: 1613), GGLRKK (SEQ ID NO: 1614), IFVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1615), IFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1616), IFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1617), IFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1618), IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ILFNIK (SEQ ID NO: 1620), LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), FVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1622), LFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1623), LFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1624), LFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1625), LFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1626), LFVRVFL (SEQ ID NO: 1627), LGER (SEQ ID NO: 1628), LKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1629), LKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1630), LKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1631), LKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1632), LRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1633), LRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1634), LRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1635), LRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1636), RALF (SEQ ID NO: 1637), RIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1638), RLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1639), RLRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1640), RLRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1641), RLRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1642), RLRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1643), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), RRKLIF (SEQ ID NO: 1645), RRRFFA (SEQ ID NO: 1646), VFGRKG (SEQ ID NO: 1647), and YFVRK (SEQ ID NO: 1648).
  • In various embodiments, an exemplary DNA construct may encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a cleavable tertiary peptide having the following amino acid sequence construct: Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1-Z2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2-Z3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1-Z2-Z3, 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Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • In related embodiments, cleavable binary linker peptides (L) comprising an X region and a Y region are described above, and exemplary Z regions (1-4 amino acid sequences, for example, 2 amino acid sequences) that may be fused in frame to the X and/or Y regions (either to the N-terminal sequence of an X or Y region, or the C-terminal sequence of an X or Y region) described above form the tertiary cleavable linking peptides. Illustrative Z or spacer amino acid sequences may include: AA, AF, AM, AN, AQ, AV, AW, AY, DA, DD, DE, DF, DG, DI, DL, DP, DS, DT, DV, DW, DY, EA, ED, EE, EF, EG, EI, EL, EP, ES, ET, EV, EW, EY, FA, FD, FE, FF, FI, FK, FL, FM, FN, FQ, FR, FS, FT, FV, FW, FY, GA, GD, GE, GF, GI, GL, GM, GN, GQ, GS, GV, GW, GY, HA, HD, HE, HF, HH, HI, HK, HL, FIN, HP, HQ, HR, HS, HT, HV, HY, IA, ID, IE, IG, IH, II, IK, IL, IM, IN, IP, IQ, IR, IS, IT, IV, IW, KA, KD, KE, KF, KI, KL, KN, KQ, KV, KY, LA, LD, LE, LG, LH, LI, LK, LL, LM, LN, LP, LQ, LR, LS, LT, LV, LW, MA, MF, MG, MI, MK, ML, MM, MN, MQ, MR, MS, MT, MV, MY, NA, ND, NE, NF, NI, NL, NM, NN, NQ, NS, NT, NV, NY, QA, QD, QE, QF, QI, QL, QM, QN, QQ, QS, QT, QV, QY, RA, RD, RE, RF, RI, RL, RN, RQ, RV, RY, SA, SF, SG, SK, SN, SP, SQ, SR, SS, ST, SV, SW, SY, TA, TF, TG, TK, TN, TP, TQ, TR, TS, TT, TV, TW, TY, VA, VF, VM, VN, VQ, VV, VW, VY, WA, WF, WI, WK, WL, WN, WP, WQ, WR, WS, WT, WV, WW, WY, YA, YD, YE, YF, YI, YK, YL, YM, YN, YQ, YR, YS, YT, YV, YW, or YY. In exemplary embodiments, individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In exemplary embodiments, individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is GS, WN, WQ, MA or MV.
  • In some embodiments, the spacer portion of the tertiary peptide (Z region) comprises the amino acid sequence GS, which may be fused in frame to the N-terminus or C-terminus of the binary peptide or both.
  • In various embodiments, exemplary binary peptides for use in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins, DNA constructs and polynucleotides encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptide and protein and incorporated into a transgenic plants or part thereof, of the present invention, may include one or more cleavable tertiary peptides selected from the group of or consisting of: a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In some embodiments, an exemplary DNA construct may encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a cleavable tertiary peptide having one or more of the following illustrative amino acid sequences (ZXY or XYZ): AFVRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1649), AKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1650), ALFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1651), ALFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1652), ALFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1653), ALFRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1654), ALFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1655), ALKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1656), ALKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1657), ALKFLVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1658), ALKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1659), ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660), FFADIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1661), FFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1662), FFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1663), FFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1664), FFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1665), FGYRIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1666), FLRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1667), FYARRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1668), GGLRKKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1669), IFVALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1670), IFVLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1671), IFVLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1672), IFVRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1673), IFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1674), ILFNIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1675), LFAAPFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1676), LFVALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1677), LFVLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1678), LFVLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1679), LFVRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1680), LFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1681), LFVRVFLGS (SEQ ID NO: 1682), LGERGS (SEQ ID NO: 1683), LKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1684), LKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1685), LKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1686), LKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1687), LRALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1688), LRFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1689), LRIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1690), LRLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1691), RALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1692), RIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1693), RLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1694), RLRALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1695), RLRFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1696), RLRIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1697), RLRLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1698), RRKAFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1699), RRKLIFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1700), RRRFFAGS (SEQ ID NO: 1701), VFGRKGGS (SEQ ID NO: 1702), YFVRKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1703), GSAFVRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1704), GSAKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1705), GSALFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1706), GSALFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1707), GSALFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1708), GSALFR (SEQ ID NO: 1709), GSALFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1710), GSALKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1711), GSALKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1712), GSALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1713), GSALKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1714), GSALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1715), GSFFADIK (SEQ ID NO: 1716), GSFFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1717), GSFFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1718), GSFFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1719), GSFFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1720), GSFGYRIK (SEQ ID NO: 1721), GSFLRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1722), GSFYARR (SEQ ID NO: 1723), GSGGLRKK (SEQ ID NO: 1724), GSIFVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1725), GSIFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1726), GSIFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1727), GSIFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1728), GSIFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1729), GSILFNIK (SEQ ID NO: 1730), GSLFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1731), GSLFVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1732), GSLFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1733), GSLFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1734), GSLFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1735), GSLFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1736), GSLFVRVFL (SEQ ID NO: 1737), GSLGER (SEQ ID NO: 1738), GSLKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1739), GSLKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1740), GSLKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1741), GSLKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1742), GSLRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1743), GSLRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1744), GSLRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1745), GSLRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1746), GSRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1747), GSRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1748), GSRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1749), GSRLRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1750), GSRLRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1751), GSRLRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1752), GSRLRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1753), GSRRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1754), GSRRKLIF (SEQ ID NO: 1755), GSRRRFFA (SEQ ID NO: 1756), GSVFGRKG (SEQ ID NO: 1757), and GSYFVRK (SEQ ID NO: 1758).
  • In various embodiments, the DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide that encodes a tertiary peptide having the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide with the addition of a spacer to the N-terminus of the binary peptide, and/or to the C-terminus of the binary peptide, wherein the spacer is an amino acid or peptide comprising 1 to 4 amino acids, preferably two amino acids, for example GS, WN, WQ, MA, or MV. Other specific spacer examples and optimal amino acids for use as spacers are provided below.
  • In some embodiments, an exemplary DNA construct encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises one or more polynucleotides which in combination or singly encode one or more binary peptides comprising the amino acid sequence: IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621) fused in frame at the N-terminal and/or the C-terminal with one or more spacer sequences selected from the amino acid sequences: GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, and DT. In various embodiments, an exemplary DNA construct for use in transforming or transfecting a eukaryotic cell, for example, a yeast cell, or a plant cell comprises a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that includes one or more cleavable tertiary peptides selected from the group of or consisting of: a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT and one or more TPs as described herein, for example, a CRIP TP, for example, an ICK TP or a non-ICK CRIP TP, a TMOF TP, or a Bt TP as exemplified throughout the present disclosure. In related embodiments, the one or more binary or tertiary peptides (designated linker L) described above are fused in frame with a TP, and optionally, an ERSP and/or optionally a STA, for example, (from N-terminus to C-terminus): (L-TP)n-L, or (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein n is 1 to 200, for example, from 1-100, or from 1-20, or from 1-10. In embodiments related to the above, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein encoded by the one or more polynucleotides may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In related embodiments of the above, tertiary peptides (designated above as L), may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of a DNA construct or polynucleotide encoding: (1) an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT, wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different, and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In various embodiments, the DNA construct of the present invention encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal TP that contains one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides as described herein. The one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides are cleavable linking units that can be cleaved in both an animal gut environment, for example a human gut through the action of a human digestive protease, and also in the gut environment of an insect or nematode. The various proteases available in the gut of an animal, for example a human gut, and an insect or nematode are provided herein. In some embodiments, the DNA construct of the present invention encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal TP that contains one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides which are cleavable in the gut of a Lepidoptera or a Coleoptera insect species. The same DNA constructs which encode a binary and/or tertiary peptide which is cleavable in the gut of a Lepidoptera or a Coleoptera insect species is also cleavable in a human gut via the action of a human digestive protease.
  • As disclosed herein DNA constructs are also provided that comprise a polynucleotide that encodes a cleavable binary and/or tertiary peptide fused in frame to a TP, which when in the presence of an appropriate gut protease is released from the encoded binary and/or tertiary peptide, and provides insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity in the intended target insect or nematode. In various embodiments, the TP can be a class of TPs commonly referred to as CRIP peptides, ICK TPs, non-ICK TPs, e.g. sea anemone peptides, TMOF peptides and Bt proteins. In some embodiments, the TP is a protein selected from the group consisting of a Pore Forming Insecticidal Protein (PFIP) and a Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein (CRIP). The compositions and methods of the present invention can utilize any amino acid polymer based TP, including those described in International PCT Application Serial No. PCT/US2013/030042 filed on Mar. 8, 2013, the contents of the disclosure are incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
  • The present invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs comprising a polynucleotide encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising at least one cleavable linker and one TP. IN some embodiments, the nucleic acid construct can be a DNA nucleic acid construct or an RNA nucleic acid construct. In some embodiments of the present invention, a nucleic acid construct can include at least one coding sequence operable to encode at least one insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein operably linked to one or more control sequences that direct the expression of the coding sequence in a suitable host cell under conditions compatible with the control sequences. The term “operably linked” means a configuration in which a control sequence is placed at an appropriate position relative to the coding sequence of a polynucleotide such that the control sequence directs expression of the coding sequence.
  • The polynucleotide may be manipulated in a variety of ways to provide for expression of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. Manipulation of the polynucleotide prior to its insertion into a vector may be desirable or necessary depending on the expression vector. The techniques for modifying polynucleotides utilizing recombinant DNA methods are well known in the art.
  • The control sequence may be or include a promoter, a polynucleotide which is recognized by a host cell for expression of the polynucleotide. The promoter contains transcriptional control sequences that mediate the expression of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. The promoter may be any polynucleotide that shows transcriptional activity in the host cell including mutant, truncated, and hybrid promoters, and may be obtained from genes encoding extracellular or intracellular polypeptides either homologous or heterologous to the host cell.
  • In a yeast host, useful promoters are obtained from the genes for Saccharomyces cerevisiae enolase (ENO-1), Saccharomyces cerevisiae galactokinase (GAL1), Saccharomyces cerevisiae alcohol dehydrogenase/glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (ADH1, ADH2/GAP), Saccharomyces cerevisiae triose phosphate isomerase (TPI), Saccharomyces cerevisiae metallothionein (CUP1), and Saccharomyces cerevisiae 3-phosphoglycerate kinase. Other useful promoters for yeast host cells are described by Romanos et al., 1992, Yeast 8:423-488.
  • The control sequence may also be a transcription terminator, which is recognized by a host cell to terminate transcription. The terminator sequence is operably linked to the 3′-terminus of the polynucleotide encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. Any terminator that is functional in the host cell may be used. Preferred terminators for bacterial host cells are obtained from the genes for Bacillus clausii alkaline protease (aprH), Bacillus licheniformis alpha-amylase (amyL), and Escherichia coli ribosomal RNA (rrnB). Preferred terminators for yeast host cells are obtained from the genes for Saccharomyces cerevisiae enolase, Saccharomyces cerevisiae cytochrome C (CYC1), and Saccharomyces cerevisiae glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. Other useful terminators for yeast host cells are described by Romanos et al., 1992, supra. The control sequence may also be an mRNA stabilizer region downstream of a promoter and upstream of the coding sequence of a gene which increases expression of the gene.
  • The control sequence may also include a leader, a nontranslated region of an mRNA that is important for translation by the host cell. The leader sequence is operably linked to the 5′-terminus of the polynucleotide encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. Any leader that is functional in the host cell may be used. Suitable leaders for yeast host cells are obtained from the genes for Saccharomyces cerevisiae enolase (ENO-1), Saccharomyces cerevisiae 3-phosphoglycerate kinase, Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-factor, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae alcohol dehydrogenase/glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (ADH2/GAP).
  • The control sequence may also include a polyadenylation sequence, a sequence operably linked to the 3′-terminus of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein-encoding sequence and, when transcribed, is recognized by the host cell as a signal to add polyadenosine residues to transcribed mRNA. Any polyadenylation sequence that is functional in the host cell may be used. Useful polyadenylation sequences for yeast host cells are described by Guo and Sherman, 1995, Mol. Cellular Biol. 15:5983-5990.
  • It may also be desirable to add regulatory sequences that regulate expression of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein relative to the growth of the host cell. Examples of regulatory systems are those that cause expression of the gene to be turned on or off in response to a chemical or physical stimulus, including the presence of a regulatory compound. Regulatory systems in prokaryotic systems include the lac, tac, and trp operator systems. In yeast, the ADH2 system or GAL1 system may be used. Other examples of regulatory sequences are those that allow for gene amplification. In eukaryotic systems, these regulatory sequences include the dihydrofolate reductase gene that is amplified in the presence of methotrexate, and the metallothionein genes that are amplified with heavy metals. In these cases, the polynucleotide encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal would be operably linked with the regulatory sequence.
  • Expression Vectors
  • The present invention also relates to recombinant expression vectors comprising a polynucleotide encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention, a promoter, and transcriptional and translational stop signals. The various nucleotide and control sequences may be joined together to produce a recombinant expression vector that may include one or more convenient restriction sites to allow for insertion or substitution of the polynucleotide encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein at such sites. Alternatively, the polynucleotide may be expressed by inserting the polynucleotide or a nucleic acid construct comprising the polynucleotide into an appropriate vector for expression. In creating the expression vector, the coding sequence is located in the vector so that the coding sequence is operably linked with the appropriate control sequences for expression.
  • The recombinant expression vector may be any vector (e.g., a plasmid or virus) that can be conveniently subjected to recombinant DNA procedures and can bring about expression of the polynucleotide. The choice of the vector will typically depend on the compatibility of the vector with the host cell into which the vector is to be introduced. The vector may be a linear or closed circular plasmid. The vector may be an autonomously replicating vector, i.e., a vector that exists as an extrachromosomal entity, the replication of which is independent of chromosomal replication, e.g., a plasmid, an extrachromosomal element, a minichromosome, or an artificial chromosome. The vector may contain any means for assuring self-replication. Alternatively, the vector may be one that, when introduced into the host cell, is integrated into the genome, for example, a plant genome, and replicated together with the chromosome(s) into which it has been integrated. Furthermore, a single vector or plasmid or two or more vectors or plasmids that together contain the total DNA to be introduced into the genome of the host cell, or a transposon, may be used.
  • The vector preferably contains one or more selectable markers that permit easy selection of transformed, transfected, transduced, or the like cells. A selectable marker is a gene the product of which provides for biocide or viral resistance, resistance to heavy metals, prototrophy to auxotrophs, and the like. Examples of bacterial selectable markers are Bacillus licheniformis or Bacillus subtilis dal genes, or markers that confer antibiotic resistance such as ampicillin, chloramphenicol, kanamycin, neomycin, spectinomycin or tetracycline resistance. Suitable markers for yeast host cells include, but are not limited to, ADE2, HIS3, LEU2, LYS2, MET3, TRP1, and URA3. Selectable markers for use in a filamentous fungal host cell include, but are not limited to, amdS (acetamidase), argB (ornithine carbamoyltransferase), bar (phosphinothricin acetyltransferase), hph (hygromycin phosphotransferase), niaD (nitrate reductase), pyrG (orotidine-5′-phosphate decarboxylase), sC (sulfate adenyltransferase), and trpC (anthranilate synthase), as well as equivalents thereof.
  • The vector preferably contains an element(s) that permits integration of the vector into the host cell's genome or autonomous replication of the vector in the cell independent of the genome. For integration into the host cell genome, the vector may rely on the polynucleotide's sequence encoding the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or any other element of the vector for integration into the genome by homologous or non-homologous recombination. Alternatively, the vector may contain additional polynucleotides for directing integration by homologous recombination into the genome of the host cell at a precise location(s) in the chromosome(s). To increase the likelihood of integration at a precise location, the integrational elements should contain a sufficient number of nucleic acids, such as 100 to 10,000 base pairs, 400 to 10,000 base pairs, and 800 to 10,000 base pairs, which have a high degree of sequence identity to the corresponding target sequence to enhance the probability of homologous recombination. The integrational elements may be any sequence that is homologous with the target sequence in the genome of the host cell. Furthermore, the integrational elements may be non-encoding or encoding polynucleotides. On the other hand, the vector may be integrated into the genome of the host cell by non-homologous recombination.
  • For autonomous replication, the vector may further comprise an origin of replication enabling the vector to replicate autonomously in the host cell in question. The origin of replication may be any plasmid replicator mediating autonomous replication that functions in a cell. The term “origin of replication” or “plasmid replicator” means a polynucleotide that enables a plasmid or vector to replicate in vivo. Examples of bacterial origins of replication are the origins of replication of plasmids pBR322, pUC19, pACYC177, and pACYC184 permitting replication in E. coli, and pUB110, pE194, pTA1060, and pAM.beta.1 permitting replication in Bacillus. Examples of origins of replication for use in a yeast host cell are the 2 micron origin of replication, ARS1, ARS4, the combination of ARS1 and CEN3, and the combination of ARS4 and CEN6. More than one copy of a polynucleotide of the present invention may be inserted into a host cell to increase production of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. An increase in the copy number of the polynucleotide can be obtained by integrating at least one additional copy of the sequence into the host cell genome or by including an amplifiable selectable marker gene with the polynucleotide where cells containing amplified copies of the selectable marker gene, and thereby additional copies of the polynucleotide, can be selected for by cultivating the cells in the presence of the appropriate selectable agent. The procedures used to ligate the elements described above to construct the recombinant expression vectors of the present invention are well known to one skilled in the art (see, e.g., Sambrook et al., 1989, supra).
  • (4B). ERSP Fused to a Binary or Tertiary Peptide Fused in Frame to a Construct (TP-L)n
  • In some embodiments, each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include an ERSP fused to a binary or tertiary peptide which is fused in frame to a construct comprising: (TP-L), wherein TP is a toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200. See FIG. 4 . In some of these embodiments, the TPs in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be the same or different.
  • All of these classes of TPs are described herein and all of these classes may be incorporated into the DNA constructs described herein wherein at least one TP is encoded in frame with at least one binary or tertiary peptide, preferably two or more TPs are flanked in frame by at least one or at least two cleavable binary or tertiary peptides for example: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. See FIGS. 4 and 5 .
  • In some embodiments, the present invention provides insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and DNA constructs comprising a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that may comprise one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides and one or more TPs. Each of the binary and/or tertiary peptides may be the same or different and each of the TPs may be the same or different. In some embodiments, the present invention provides insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and DNA constructs comprising a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that may comprise two or more binary and/or tertiary peptides and two or more TPs. Each of the binary and/or tertiary peptides may be the same or different and each of the TPs may be the same or different. In one illustrative embodiment, the present invention provides a DNA construct comprising at least one polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more TPs and two or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides. See FIG. 2 .
  • In another related aspect, the present invention provides an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (L-TP)n.
  • In related embodiments, DNA constructs described herein at least one TP is encoded in frame with at least one binary or tertiary peptide, preferably two or more TPs are flanked in frame by at least one or at least two cleavable binary or tertiary peptides cleavable binary linker peptides (L) comprising an X region and a Y region are described above, and exemplary Z regions (1-4 amino acid sequences, for example, 2 amino acid sequences) that may be fused in frame to the X and/or Y regions (either to the N-terminal sequence of an X or Y region, or the C-terminal sequence of an X or Y region) described above form the tertiary cleavable linking peptides. Illustrative Z or spacer amino acid sequences may include: AA, AF, AM, AN, AQ, AV, AW, AY, DA, DD, DE, DF, DG, DI, DL, DP, DS, DT, DV, DW, DY, EA, ED, EE, EF, EG, EI, EL, EP, ES, ET, EV, EW, EY, FA, FD, FE, FF, FI, FK, FL, FM, FN, FQ, FR, FS, FT, FV, FW, FY, GA, GD, GE, GF, GI, GL, GM, GN, GQ, GS, GV, GW, GY, HA, HD, HE, HF, HH, HI, HK, HL, FIN, HP, HQ, HR, HS, HT, HV, HY, IA, ID, IE, IG, IH, II, IK, IL, IM, IN, IP, IQ, IR, IS, IT, IV, IW, KA, KD, KE, KF, KI, KL, KN, KQ, KV, KY, LA, LD, LE, LG, LH, LI, LK, LL, LM, LN, LP, LQ, LR, LS, LT, LV, LW, MA, MF, MG, MI, MK, ML, MM, MN, MQ, MR, MS, MT, MV, MY, NA, ND, NE, NF, NI, NL, NM, NN, NQ, NS, NT, NV, NY, QA, QD, QE, QF, QI, QL, QM, QN, QQ, QS, QT, QV, QY, RA, RD, RE, RF, RI, RL, RN, RQ, RV, RY, SA, SF, SG, SK, SN, SP, SQ, SR, SS, ST, SV, SW, SY, TA, TF, TG, TK, TN, TP, TQ, TR, TS, TT, TV, TW, TY, VA, VF, VM, VN, VQ, VV, VW, VY, WA, WF, WI, WK, WL, WN, WP, WQ, WR, WS, WT, WV, WW, WY, YA, YD, YE, YF, YI, YK, YL, YM, YN, YQ, YR, YS, YT, YV, YW, or YY. In exemplary embodiments, individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In exemplary embodiments, individual tertiary peptides of the present invention can include a two amino acid sequence, fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid sequence is GS, WN, WQ, MA or MV.
  • In some embodiments, the spacer portion of the tertiary peptide (Z region) comprises the amino acid sequence GS, which may be fused in frame to the N-terminus or C-terminus of the binary peptide or both.
  • In various embodiments, exemplary binary peptides for use in the insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptides and proteins, DNA constructs and polynucleotides encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal polypeptide and protein and incorporated into a transgenic plants or part thereof, of the present invention, may include one or more cleavable tertiary peptides selected from the group of or consisting of: a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT. In embodiments related to the above, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and the binary or tertiary peptides may be the same or different. In related embodiments of the above, tertiary peptides (designated above as L), may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT. See FIG. 4 . In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10 (See for example exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins as shown in FIG. 4 , wherein n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10). In related embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In related embodiments of the above, tertiary peptides (designated above as L), may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT. In another embodiment, a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA). See FIGS. 5 and 6C.
  • The STA can be fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L), or L-(TP-L)n.
  • In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, and/or the DNA construct comprising one or more polynucleotides each or in combination encoding such insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins can include the construct: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein TP is toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides may be the same or different. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein has the C-terminal TP fused with or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of a DNA construct or polynucleotide encoding: (1) an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • DNA constructs encoding a cleavable linking peptide operatively fused to a TP can be constructed with a variety of host cell specific regulatory components. In some embodiments, the DNA constructs may be transformed into a variety of host cells for expression, synthesis of encoded proteins or for genetic manipulation. In some embodiments, the host cell can be a bacterial cell, a yeast cell, a plant cell, or an animal cell, for example, an Agrobacterium cell, a Bacillus cell, an Escherichia cell, a Salmonella cell, a Pseudomonas cell, and a Rhizobium cell. In various embodiments, the host cell is a plant cell.
  • In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions comprising cleavable linking peptides described herein are intended for the dissemination of TPs into insect and/or nematode pests that ingest or otherwise come into contact with the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions. The present invention provides a plant, or part thereof, (a “plant or part thereof”, is defined herein as including, without limitation, a plant and the plant's tissue (for example, a plant's roots, stem, leaves, flowers or parts thereof), a plant cell, or a plant seed of said plant) comprising: an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or polypeptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions; wherein, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease, and in some embodiments, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide is operably fused to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) and operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP.
  • In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions comprising cleavable linking peptides described herein are intended for the dissemination or consumption of TPs into or by insect and/or nematode pests that ingest or otherwise come into contact with the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions. The present invention provides a plant, or part thereof, (a “plant or part thereof”, is defined herein as including, without limitation, a plant and the plant tissue, a plant cell, or a plant seed of said plant) comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or polypeptide comprising one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions; wherein, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease, (for example a human gut protease) and an insect or nematode gut protease, and in some embodiments, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide is operably fused to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) and operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP. In some of these embodiments, exemplary tertiary peptides (designated as L), may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions comprising cleavable linking peptides described herein are intended for the dissemination or consumption of TPs into or by insect and/or nematode pests that ingest or otherwise come into contact with the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions. The present invention provides a plant, or part thereof, (a “plant or part thereof”, is defined herein as including, without limitation, a plant and the plant tissue, a plant cell, or a plant seed of said plant) comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or polypeptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions; wherein, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease, and in some embodiments, the binary and/or the tertiary peptide is operably fused to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) and operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP.
  • In a related embodiment, the plant or part thereof, comprises a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with a binary peptide and/or a repeat construct (L-TP)n or (TP-L)n. See FIG. 4 . In various embodiments, the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In some of these embodiments, exemplary tertiary peptides (designated as L), may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT. In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of a DNA construct or polynucleotide encoding: (1) an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In another embodiment, a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA). See FIG. 5 . The STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include: (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein TP is toxic protein as described herein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having a construct as shown above may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In some of these embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having a construct as shown above may contain a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. See FIGS. 2, 4 and 5 . In some of these embodiments, exemplary tertiary peptides (designated as L), may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • It should be appreciated by the reader that in practice a TP-Linker construct (the Linker being defined as including a cleavable binary or tertiary peptide) that can be written as (TP-L)n, or the variations shown in FIG. 2 could also be written out in long form. For example, when n is 5 then (TP-L), written out in long form would appear as: TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L. After a construct like this is made and produced in a system such as a plant, or part thereof, the L or Linkers will be split apart by insect and/or nematode proteases in the gut or hemolymph environment of the insect and/or nematode to allow large numbers single toxic peptides to be released and exert their toxic effects, killing or immobilizing or slowing the feeding of the insects and/or nematodes. When this happens, depending on various circumstances, the L or Linker can be cleaved between different amino acids in the linker or between the Toxic Peptide and the linker such that on either side of the TP or Toxic Peptide there can be from 0 to 16 amino acids still attached to the toxic peptide remaining from the L or Linker that had an initial length of from 1-16 amino acids to start with. Said another way, post protease cleavage, the TP could either have no amino acids from the Linker attached to it, or it could have one or two “stubs” aka “nubbins” (one or both stubs fused to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus) made of remnants of the Linker, that vary in size from one to 16 amino acids, but more often from 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 or 14 amino acids. The stubs can be on the N-terminal, the C-terminal, or both the N-terminal and the C-terminals. These stubs are not always the same size, it depends on how they are cleaved by the proteases in the insect and/or human gut environment and this can vary depending on the protease and the Linker used. Normally there will be stubs attached to both “sides” of the Toxic Peptides with both stubs originating from different parts of the Linking Peptide. Sometimes there are no stubs or only 1 stub attached to the TP after cleavage.
  • The stubs can range in size from 1-16 amino acids, (and there may be no stubs) depending on the length of the starting Linker, more often the stubs will be from 2-14 amino acids, from 3-12, from 4-8, or from 5-7 amino acids or but they could be any of the following lengths of amino acids: from: 1-3, 1-4, 1-5, 1-6, 1-7, 1-8, 1-9, 10, 1-11, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, 2-7, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10, and 2-11, or 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 3-7, 3-8, 3-9, 3-10, and 3-11, or 4-5, 4-6, 4-7, 4-8, 4-9, 4-10 and 4-11; or 5-6, 5-7, 5-8, 5-9, 5-10 and 5-11; or 6-7, 6-8, 6-9, 6-10 and 6-11; or 7-8, 7-9, 7-10, and 7-11; and 8-9, 8-10, or 8-11, and 9-10 or 9-11, or 10 or 11 amino acids in length.
  • Thus, when, before cleavage, the construct might appear as TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L, (our example above, and shown in equation form in FIG. 2 ) where, for example, if the Linker has 6 aa (or amino acids), then after protease cleavage, the TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L-TP-L construct is broken up into individual Toxic Peptides (TPs) with stubs, which might appear as follows: the first peptide could be TP-2aa (2aa from one side of the 6 aa Linker) and then 4aa from the last part of the Linker attached to the other end of the toxic peptide as in: 4aa-TP-2aa, and a third peptide 4aa-TP-2aa, and a fourth 4aa-TP-2aa and then the fifth and last cleaved TP would appear as 4aa-TP-6aa, because the last Linker may not be cleaved. Sometimes cleavage does not always take place because the last TP of the construct is not attached to another TP. Or it might be cleaved leaving a 4aa-TP-2aa. These bits of aa fragments attached to the toxic peptides following peptidase cleavage are what we call “stubs” and they do not typically affect or inhibit the activity of the cleaved toxic peptides produced from cleavage in the insects' gut.
  • Stubs may also appear when an ERSP is fused to the (TP-L)n or (L-TP)n as in FIG. 4 and in such a construct the stub could include pieces of the ERSP, and or in FIG. 5 where the L-TP is further fused to a STA or BAAS, or Ubiquitin, whatever is used in the construct. The stubs could be any combination of any length of peptide of 1 amino acid or greater up to 16 amino acids in length. They may be irregularly attached to the TP. Stubs may not have the same length or number of amino acids before and after the Toxic Peptide.
  • In various embodiments, a host cell is provided that has been transformed with a DNA construct described herein that is operable to express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention. In various embodiments, the host cell may be a eukaryotic cell, for example, a yeast cell, for example, a yeast cell from the genus Saccharomyces, Pichia, Hansenula, Kluyveromyces, Schizosaccharomyces, Schwanniomyces, Yarrowia, Aspergillus; plant cells; and mammalian cells.
  • In various embodiments, the intended host cell that is transformed (transiently, or stably) with the DNA constructs encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a cleavable linking peptide operatively fused to a TP are plant cells. In some embodiments, the plant cells that may be transformed with the DNA constructs described herein may include but not limited to: alfalfa, banana, barley, bean, broccoli, cabbage, canola, carrot, cassava, castor, cauliflower, celery, chickpea, Chinese cabbage, citrus, coconut, coffee, corn, clover, cotton, a cucurbit, cucumber, Douglas fir, eggplant, eucalyptus, flax, garlic, grape, hops, leek, lettuce, Loblolly pine, millets, melons, nut, oat, olive, onion, ornamental, palm, pasture grass, pea, peanut, pepper, pigeon pea, pine, potato, poplar, pumpkin, Radiata pine, radish, rapeseed, rice, rootstocks, rye, safflower, shrub, sorghum, Southern pine, soybean, spinach, squash, strawberry, sugar beet, sugarcane, sunflower, sweet corn, sweet gum, sweet potato, switchgrass, tea, tobacco, tomato, triticale, turf grass, watermelon, and a wheat plant cell.
  • The present invention provides insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, such that when the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is ingested by an insect and/or a nematode, the gut environment proteases of the insect and/or nematode cleaves the binary and/or tertiary peptide thereby liberating the fused TPs and is killed, immobilized, rendered unable to function normally or slowing the feeding or growth of the insects and/or nematodes contacted with the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. In certain embodiments, the selection of TPs to be incorporated into the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can be made to target a specific insect or nematode pest, or for expression in a specific plant or specific conditions experienced by the plant. In some embodiments, an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which is produced by a transgenic plant, plant tissue, or plant seed or a composition comprising one or more insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins having the same or different TPs formulated for direct application to a plant, has TPs comprised of a combination of ICK TPs and Bt TPs. The transgenic plant, plant tissue, or plant seed can express an insecticidal protein, or one or more polynucleotides encoding an insecticidal protein comprising one or more ICK TPs derived from any species of Australian Funnel-web spider, or the Australian Funnel-web spiders of genus Atrax or Hadronyche, and the Australian Blue Mountains Funnel-web, Hadronyche versuta. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a transgenic plant, or part thereof, (for example, a plant tissue, a plant cell, or a plant seed) wherein the transgenic plant or part thereof contains an insecticidal protein comprising a construct (from N-terminal to C-terminal) (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10.
  • In related embodiments, the transgenic plant or part thereof may express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In related embodiments, the transgenic plant, or part thereof, (for example, a plant tissue, a plant cell, or a plant seed) contains one or more polynucleotides each or in combination, operable to express an insecticidal protein comprising a construct, comprising, selected from the group consisting of, or consisting of: (from N-terminal to C-terminal) (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (STA)-(L-TP)n, (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (STA)-(TP-L)n, (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of a transgenic plant or part thereof, comprising a DNA construct or polynucleotide encoding: (1) an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b or one or more TPs having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In related embodiments, the one or more polynucleotides are provided in an expression vector, operable to express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as described above and herein, and is under the control of a constitutive or inducible promoter, wherein the expression vector is transiently expressed in a host cell, for example, a plant cell, or wherein the polynucleotide operable to encode the insecticidal protein is stably integrated into the plant's, or part thereof nuclear DNA. In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of a DNA construct or polynucleotide encoding: (1) an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In some embodiments, methods for controlling an insect and/or nematode pest may include applying a formulation comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) TP and an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP to said insect and/or nematode. Upon release of at least 50% of the TPs from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, the ratio of Bt TP to ICK TP, on a dry weight basis thus released, can be selected from at least about the following ratios: 99:1, 95:5, 90:10, 85:15, 80:20, 75:25, 70:30, 65:35, 60:40, 55:45, 50:50, 45:55, 40:60, 35:65, 30:70, 25:75, 20:80, 15:85, 10:90, 5:95 and 1:99, or any combination of any two of these values. The ratio of Bt TP to ICK TP, on a dry weight basis thus released, can be selected from about the following ratios: 50:50, 45:55, 40:60, 35:65, 30:70, 25:75, 20:80, 15:85, 10:90, 5:95, 1:99, 0.5:99.5, 0.1:99.9 and 0.01:99.99 or any combination of any two of these values. The formulation may comprise the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and appropriate excipients, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be expressed by a culture of one or more bacterial strains, that when formulated and applied to the plant, the bacterial strains produce the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which is subsequently ingested by the insect and/or nematode pest. In various embodiments, the total concentration of Bt TP and ICK TP in the composition is selected from the following percent concentrations: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 or 99%, or any range between any two of these values, and the remaining percentage of the composition is comprised of excipients. Any of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and plants described herein can be used to control insects and/or nematodes, their growth and damage, especially their damage to plants. In some embodiments, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprising the combination of Bt TP and ICK TP can be applied by being sprayed on a plant, or the insect's locus, or the locus of a plant in need of protecting.
  • In some embodiments, illustrative methods for controlling a pest infection comprises preparing a formulation comprising: an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt TP; and an ICK TP, which can include any of the compositions described herein or capable of being made by one skilled in the art given this disclosure. Some of the described formulations include the use of a polar aprotic solvent, and or water, and or where the polar aprotic solvent is present in an amount of 1-99 wt %, the polar protic solvent is present in an amount of 1-99 wt %, and the water is present in an amount of 0-98 wt %. The formulations include formulations where the Bt TP is Dipel and where the ICK TP is a hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a peptide, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different).
  • The polar aprotic solvent formulations are especially effective when they contain MSO. The examples below are intended to illustrate and not limit the invention in any manner.
  • In some embodiments, an insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins which are produced by a transgenic plant, or part thereof or formulated for direct application to a plant, comprises a combination of a Bt TP and a TMOF TP, that when combined in a single insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, may inhibit the growth, impair the movement, or even kill an insect when the combination of TPs is appropriately delivered to the locus inhabited by the insect. The spray-dried powders are can be made using as the primary active agent an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as described herein comprising a combination of TPs as discussed above, and one or more various excipients and fermentation by-products.
  • We describe an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein composition comprising both a Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) protein; and a TMOF TP. In some embodiments, methods for controlling an insect and/or nematode pest may include applying a formulation comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) TP and a TMOF TP to said insect and/or nematode. Upon release of at least 50% of the TPs from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, the ratio of Bt TP to TMOF TP, on a dry weight basis thus released, can be selected from about any or all of the following ratios: 99:1, 95:5, 90:10, 85:15, 80:20, 75:25, 70:30, 65:35, 60:40, 55:45, 50:50, 45:55, 40:60, 35:65, 30:70, 25:75, 20:80, 15:85, 10:90, 5:95 and 1:99, or any combination of any two of these values. The formulation may comprise the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and appropriate excipients, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be expressed by a culture of one or more bacterial strains, that when formulated and applied to the plant, the bacterial strains produce the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which is subsequently ingested by the insect and/or nematode pest. In various embodiments, the total concentration of Bt TP and TMOF TP in the composition is selected from the following percent concentrations: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 or 99%, or any range between any two of these values, and the remaining percentage of the composition is comprised of excipients. Any of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and plants described herein can be used to control insects and/or nematodes, their growth and damage, especially their damage to plants. In some embodiments, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprising the combination of Bt TP and TMOF TP can be applied by being sprayed on a plant, or the insect's locus, or the locus of a plant in need of protecting.
  • In some embodiments, illustrative methods for controlling a pest infection comprises preparing a formulation comprising: an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt TP; and a TMOF TP, which can include any of the compositions described herein or capable of being made by one skilled in the art given this disclosure. Some of the described formulations include the use of a polar aprotic solvent, and or water, and or where the polar aprotic solvent is present in an amount of 1-99 wt %, the polar protic solvent is present in an amount of 1-99 wt %, and the water is present in an amount of 0-98 wt %. In certain embodiments, as provided herein, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein for any combination of TPs can include one or more binary and/or tertiary peptides. The insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include one or more TPs from the illustrative combination linked to a tertiary peptide, in which the spacer is positioned either to the N-terminal side of the binary peptide portion of the tertiary peptide or to the C-terminal side of the binary peptide portion of the tertiary peptide. In some embodiments, the spacer is a dipeptide, for example, GS, which may be operably linked to the TMOF TP units within the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. In some embodiments, the spacer dipeptide is linked at the N-terminal of the TMOF TP; and wherein the spacer is comprised of one nonpolar amino acid on the N-terminal of the dipeptide and one polar amino acid on the C-terminal of the dipeptide, including embodiments where the dipeptide is glycine-serine, including embodiments where the TMOF TP includes embodiments where the TMOF TP is at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater sequence identity to any of the TMOF sequences disclosed herein, including embodiments where the Bt Protein is any Bt TP, including embodiments where the Bt TP is a Cry or Cyt protein, including embodiments where the Bt TP is selected from the group consisting of a Cry1, Cry3, TIC851, CryET70, Cry22, TIC901, TIC201, TIC407, TIC417, a binary insecticidal protein CryET80, and CryET76, a binary insecticidal protein TIC100 and TIC101, a combination of an insecticidal protein ET29 or ET37 with an insecticidal protein TIC810 or TIC812 and a binary insecticidal protein PS149B1, including embodiments where the Bt TP is selected from a Cry protein, a Cry1A protein or a Cry1F protein, including embodiments where the Bt TP is a combination Cry1F-Cry1A protein, including embodiments where the Bt TP comprises an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 10, 12, 14, 26, 28, or 34 of U.S. Pat. No. 7,304,206, including embodiments where the Bt Endotoxin is Dipel, including embodiments where the Bt Protein is Thuricide.
  • In some embodiments, methods for controlling an insect and/or nematode pest may include applying a formulation comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a combination of a Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) TP and a TMOF TP to said insect and/or nematode. Upon release of at least 50% of the TPs from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, the ratio of Bt TP to TMOF TP, on a dry weight basis thus released, can be selected from at least about the following ratios: 99:1, 95:5, 90:10, 85:15, 80:20, 75:25, 70:30, 65:35, 60:40, 55:45, 50:50, 45:55, 40:60, 35:65, 30:70, 25:75, 20:80, 15:85, 10:90, 5:95 and 1:99, or any combination of any two of these values. The ratio of Bt TP to TMOF TP, on a dry weight basis thus released, can be selected from about the following ratios: 50:50, 45:55, 40:60, 35:65, 30:70, 25:75, 20:80, 15:85, 10:90, 5:95, 1:99, 0.5:99.5, 0.1:99.9 and 0.01:99.99 or any combination of any two of these values. The formulation may comprise the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and appropriate excipients, or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be expressed by a culture of one or more bacterial strains, that when formulated and applied to the plant, the bacterial strains produce the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which is subsequently ingested by the insect and/or nematode pest. In various embodiments, the total concentration of Bt TP and TMOF TP in the composition is selected from the following percent concentrations: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 or 99%, or any range between any two of these values, and the remaining percentage of the composition is comprised of excipients. Any of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and plants described herein can be used to control insects and/or nematodes, their growth and damage, especially their damage to plants. In some embodiments, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprising the combination of Bt TP and TMOF TP can be applied by being sprayed on a plant, or the insect's locus, or the locus of a plant in need of protecting.
  • In some embodiments, the method for controlling a pest infection includes providing a transformed plant expressing an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein expressing the combination of Bt TP and TMOF TPs described herein where the average concentration of each of Bt and TMOF TPs as a percentage weight of the total amount of expressed TP in an average leaf of a transformed plant is about: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 or 99%, or any range between any two of these values.
  • In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein expressing the combination of Bt TP and TMOF TPs described herein is expressed in corn, soybean, cotton, rice, sorghum, switchgrass, sugarcane, alfalfa, potatoes or tomatoes. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is expressed in a transgenic seed having an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as described above.
  • In some embodiments, a transformed plant expressing properly folded combination of Bt TP and TMOF TPs described herein in the transformed plant and to cause the accumulation of the expressed and properly folded combination of Bt TP and TMOF TPs described herein in said plant and to cause an increase in the plant's yield or resistance to insect and/or nematode damage and they control insect and/or nematode pests in crops and natural or man-made forests. We describe transgenic plants made by any of the products and processes described herein.
  • (5). Transgenic Plants
  • Methods of the invention involve introducing a nucleotide or DNA construct into a host cell, for example, a plant. By “introducing” is intended to present to the plant the DNA construct in such a manner that the construct gains access to the interior of a cell of the plant. The methods of the invention do not require that a particular method for introducing a DNA construct to a plant is used, only that the DNA construct gains access to the interior of at least one cell of the plant. Methods for introducing DNA constructs into plants are known in the art including, but not limited to, stable transformation methods, transient transformation methods, and virus-mediated methods. Methods for transforming polynucleotides including cloning and expression vectors containing insecticidal proteins are known in the art. For example, methods for cloning and transforming plants by introducing recombinant insecticidal proteins fused to signal peptides and molecular markers can be found in International PCT Application Serial No. PCT/US2013/030042 filed on Mar. 8, 2013, the contents of the disclosure are incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. In some embodiments,
  • By “plant” is intended whole plants, plant organs (e.g., leaves, stems, roots, etc.), seeds, plant cells, propagules, embryos and progeny of the same. Plant cells can be differentiated or undifferentiated (e.g. callus, suspension culture cells, protoplasts, leaf cells, root cells, phloem cells, pollen).
  • “Transgenic plants” or “transformed plants” or “stably transformed” plants or cells or tissues refers to plants that have incorporated or integrated exogenous nucleic acid sequences or DNA fragments into the plant cell. These nucleic acid sequences include those that are exogenous, or not present in the untransformed plant cell, as well as those that may be endogenous, or present in the untransformed plant cell. “Heterologous” generally refers to the nucleic acid sequences that are not endogenous to the cell or part of the native genome in which they are present, and have been added to the cell by infection, transfection, microinjection, electroporation, microprojection, or the like.
  • Transformation of plant cells can be accomplished by one of several techniques known in the art. The DNA construct of the invention may be modified to obtain or enhance expression in plant cells. Typically a construct that expresses such a protein would contain a promoter to drive transcription of the gene, as well as a 3′ untranslated region to allow transcription termination and polyadenylation. The organization of such constructs is well known in the art. In some instances, it may be useful to engineer the gene such that the resulting peptide is secreted, or otherwise targeted within the plant cell. For example, the gene can be engineered to contain a signal peptide to facilitate transfer of the peptide to the endoplasmic reticulum. It may also be preferable to engineer the plant expression cassette to contain an intron, such that mRNA processing of the intron is required for expression.
  • In various embodiments, DNA constructs comprising a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention may be transiently or stably transformed into unmodified plant cells or may be transformed into previously genetically altered plant cells. In one embodiment, DNA constructs comprising a polynucleotide that encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention may be stably transformed into unmodified plant cells, i.e. plant cells that have not previously been transformed or transfected with any heterologous DNA or RNA material. Methods for stable integration of foreign or heterologous expression vectors, are described below. In other embodiments, the genetically unaltered plant cells can be transformed with one DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide operable to encode one insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention. In this embodiment, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein contains only one type of TP, for example, an ICK motif TP. In other embodiments, the genetically unaltered plant cells can be transformed with two different DNA constructs, each construct comprising a polynucleotide operable to encode one insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of each construct comprises different TPs, for example, in one DNA construct, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises one or more copies of an ICK motif TP and the other DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide that encodes a different TP, for example a Bt TP. Expression of both types of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins can be manipulated by using the same promoter or different promoters and other control sequences to cause the differential expression of either insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, or both insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins together.
  • In some embodiments, a transgenic plant or part thereof, can produce or express one or more insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins containing one or more TPs. In one embodiment, the TP is an ICK TP, for example, a Hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a, for example, a TP having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5 or 6 (or a variant thereof) and/or the ICK TP expressed may contain 20-100 amino acids and 2-4 disulfide bonds and or the ICK TP is any insecticidal peptide with at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater sequence identity to any of the ICK TPs described herein and/or a Bt TP and specifically exemplified in any TP having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775, or a variant thereof.
  • In various embodiments, a transgenic plant may express and produce one or more ICK TPs, which may be the same or they may be different, (for example, an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP or a U-ACTX TP, for example, a Hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a TP)n or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different).
  • In another embodiment, a transgenic plant or part thereof, may express and produce one or more Bt TPs, which may be the same or different. It is to be understood, that although a transgenic plant, or part thereof may express and produce the same type of TPs or different TPs, a transgenic plant will not have a single DNA construct which is operable to encode and express an ICK TP and a Bt TP from the same DNA construct. These two types of TPs may be expressed and produced in a plant or part thereof, but these two types of TPs originate from separate DNA constructs as described herein. The transgenic plants disclosed herein can contain, express, and produce an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing a known Bt TP, including a Cry or Cyt protein TP, and/or a Bt TP selected from the group consisting of a Cry1, Cry3, TIC851, CryET70, Cry22, TIC901, TIC201, TIC407, TIC417, a CryET80, and CryET76, TIC100 TIC101, ET29, ET37, TIC810, TIC812, PS149B1, and combinations thereof. The Bt TP can be selected from a Cry protein, a Cry1A protein or a Cry1F protein, or a combination Cry1F-Cry1A protein, or it comprises an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO: 10, 12, 14, 26, 28, or 34 of U.S. Pat. No. 7,304,206. In some embodiments, a transgenic plant can produce an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a Bt TP, for example, Dipel and/or Thuricide.
  • In some embodiments, a transgenic plant expressing the TPs described herein where the average concentration of each of Bt and ICK TPs as a percentage weight of the total amount of expressed TP in an average leaf of a transformed plant is about: 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 or 99%, or any range between any two of these values.
  • In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein is expressed in corn, soybean, cotton, rice, sorghum, switchgrass, sugarcane, alfalfa, potatoes or tomatoes. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is expressed in a transgenic seed having an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein as described above.
  • In other embodiments, a DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide operable to encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of the present invention can be transiently or stably expressed in a plant cell that has been previously genetically modified, for example, a plant cell that has been previously transformed with another TP, for example, an ICK motif TP or a Bt TP as described herein. In this embodiment, the DNA construct of the present invention can be transformed such that the expression of either the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or the previously introduced TP can be controlled by the same promoters or each of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein and previously introduced TP can be controlled using different promoters or expression conditions to facilitate differential expression of both. It is to be understood, that transformation of two different Bt TPs cannot occur, whether the DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operable to encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having multiple TPs or transformation of multiple DNA constructs containing single TPs. In either case, only a single species of Bt TP can be transformed into the plant, whether expressed as a single TP or in insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins containing multiple copies of the same species of Bt TP.
  • In some embodiments, the present invention provides a transgenic plant comprising a combination of a Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) TP and an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP. This transgenic plant can be made from independent and separate stable genetic insertions of DNA constructs as provided herein that create a first flowering plant expressing a Bt TP and a second flowering plant expressing an ICK TP. The pollen of one of those plants will be crossed onto the female flower organs of the other plant to form a genetic hybridization that contains both an insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprising a Bt TP and a different insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that comprises an ICK TP genetic traits. The progeny of that sexual cross and further crossing that results in the inheritance of both traits will result in a transgenic plant comprising a combination of a Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) TP and an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP.
  • In some embodiments, transgenic plants or parts thereof, are operable to express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein encoded by a DNA construct encoding an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n or the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with a binary peptide and/or a repeat construct (L-TP)n or (TP-L)n. In various embodiments, the exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the construct: (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L). In another embodiment, a transgenic plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA). The STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In related embodiments of the above, transgenic plants or parts thereof may comprise one or more TPs useful in the manufacture of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. Transgenic plants or parts thereof may comprise an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a peptide, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In various embodiments, the plant or part thereof, for example a plant cell, has been previously transformed with a Bt TP and the plant or part thereof, for example a plant cell containing a Bt TP is subsequently transformed with a DNA construct operable to encode an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a peptide, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT. The resulting plant or part thereof, for example, a plant cell, has stable expression of a Bt TP and an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing one or more ICK motif TPs.
  • In various embodiments, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins can also be integrated into plant genome using stable plant transformation technology, and therefore insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins can be stably expressed in plants and protect the transformed plants from generation to generation. For the stable transformation of plants, an expression vector comprising the DNA construct can be circular or linear. A few critical components must be included in the vector DNA. The insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein ORF for stable plant transformation should be carefully designed for optimal expression in plants based on the study in the transient plant expression as described above. The expression of insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is usually controlled by a promoter that drives transcription in some of all cells of the transgenic plant. The promoter can be a strong plant viral promoter, for example, the constitutive 35S promoter from Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV); it also can be a strong plant promoter, for example, the hydroperoxide lyase promoter (pHPL) from Arabidopsis thaliana; the Glycine max polyubiquitin (Gmubi) promoter from soybean; the ubiquitin promoters from different plant species (rice, corn, potato, etc.), etc. A plant transcriptional terminator often occurs after the stop codon of the ORF to halt the RNA polymerase and transcription of the mRNA. To evaluate the insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein expression, a reporter gene can be included in the expression vector, for example, beta-glucuronidase gene (GUS) for GUS straining assay, green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene for green fluorescence detection under UV light, etc. For selection of transformed plants, a selection marker gene is usually included in the expression vector. The marker gene expression product can provide the transformed plant with resistance to specific antibiotics, for example, kanamycin, hygromycin, etc., or specific herbicide, for example, glyphosate etc. If agroinfection technology is adopted for plant transformation, T-DNA left border and right border sequences are also included in the expression vector to transport the T-DNA portion into the plant. The constructed expression vector can be transformed into plant cells or tissues using any number of established and well known transformation technologies. Agroinfection is a very popular way to transform a plant using an Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain or an Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain. Particle bombardment (also called Gene Gun, or Biolistics) technology is also very commonly used for plant transformation. Other less commonly used transformation methods include tissue electroporation, silicon carbide whiskers, direct injection of DNA, etc. After transformation, the transformed plant cells or tissues placed on plant regeneration media to regenerate successfully transformed plant cells or tissues into transgenic plants. The evaluation of the integration and expression of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein ORF in the transformed plant can be performed.
  • In some embodiments, a “plant expression cassette” can be inserted into a “plant transformation vector”. The illustrative plant transformation vector may be comprised of one or more DNA vectors needed for achieving plant transformation. For example, it is a common practice in the art to utilize plant transformation vectors that are comprised of more than one contiguous DNA segment. These vectors are often referred to in the art as “binary vectors”. Binary vectors as well as vectors with helper plasmids are most often used for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, where the size and complexity of DNA segments needed to achieve efficient transformation is quite large, and it is advantageous to separate functions onto separate DNA molecules. Binary vectors typically contain a plasmid vector that contains the cis-acting sequences required for T-DNA transfer (such as left border and right border), a selectable marker that is engineered to be capable of expression in a plant cell, and a “gene of interest” (a gene engineered to be capable of expression in a plant cell for which generation of transgenic plants is desired). Also present on this plasmid vector are sequences required for bacterial replication. The cis-acting sequences are arranged in a fashion to allow efficient transfer into plant cells and expression therein. For example, the selectable marker gene and the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein are located between the left and right borders. Often a second plasmid vector contains the trans-acting factors that mediate T-DNA transfer from Agrobacterium to plant cells. This plasmid often contains the virulence functions (Vir genes) that allow infection of plant cells by Agrobacterium, and transfer of DNA by cleavage at border sequences and vir-mediated DNA transfer, as is understood in the art (Hellens and Mullineaux (2000) Trends in Plant Science 5:446-451). Several types of Agrobacterium strains (e.g., LBA4404, GV3101, EHA101, EHA105, etc.) can be used for plant transformation. The second plasmid vector is not necessary for transforming the plants by other methods such as microprojection, microinjection, electroporation, polyethylene glycol, etc.
  • In general, plant transformation methods involve transferring heterologous DNA into target plant cells (e.g., immature or mature embryos, suspension cultures, undifferentiated callus, protoplasts, etc.), followed by applying a maximum threshold level of appropriate selection (depending on the selectable marker gene) to recover the transformed plant cells from a group of untransformed cell mass. Explants are typically transferred to a fresh supply of the same medium and cultured routinely. Subsequently, the transformed cells are differentiated into shoots after placing on regeneration medium supplemented with a maximum threshold level of selecting agent. The shoots are then transferred to a selective rooting medium for recovering rooted shoot or plantlet. The transgenic plantlet then grows into a mature plant and produces fertile seeds (e.g. Hiei et al. (1994) The Plant Journal 6:271-282; Ishida et al. (1996) Nature Biotechnology 14:745-750). Explants are typically transferred to a fresh supply of the same medium and cultured routinely. A general description of the techniques and methods for generating transgenic plants are found in Ayres and Park (1994) Critical Reviews in Plant Science 13:219-239 and Bommineni and Jauhar (1997) Maydica 42:107-120. Since the transformed material contains many cells; both transformed and non-transformed cells are present in any piece of subjected target callus or tissue or group of cells. The ability to kill non-transformed cells and allow transformed cells to proliferate results in transformed plant cultures. Often, the ability to remove non-transformed cells is a limitation to rapid recovery of transformed plant cells and successful generation of transgenic plants.
  • Transformation protocols as well as protocols for introducing nucleotide sequences into plants may vary depending on the type of plant or plant cell, i.e., monocot or dicot, targeted for transformation. Generation of transgenic plants may be performed by one of several methods, including, but not limited to, microinjection, electroporation, direct gene transfer, introduction of heterologous DNA by Agrobacterium into plant cells (Agrobacterium-mediated transformation), bombardment of plant cells with heterologous foreign DNA adhered to particles, ballistic particle acceleration, aerosol beam transformation (U.S. Published Application No. 20010026941; U.S. Pat. No. 4,945,050; International Publication No. WO 91/00915; U.S. Published Application No. 2002015066), Led 1 transformation, and various other non-particle direct-mediated methods to transfer DNA.
  • Methods for transformation of chloroplasts are known in the art. See, for example, Svab et al. (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87:8526-8530; Svab and Maliga (1993) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:913-917; Svab and Maliga (1993) EMBO J. 12:601-606. The method relies on particle gun delivery of DNA containing a selectable marker and targeting of the DNA to the plastid genome through homologous recombination. Additionally, plastid transformation can be accomplished by transactivation of a silent plastid-borne transgene by tissue-preferred expression of a nuclear-encoded and plastid-directed RNA polymerase. Such a system has been reported in McBride et al. (1994) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:7301-7305.
  • Following integration of heterologous foreign DNA into plant cells, one then applies a maximum threshold level of appropriate selection in the medium to kill the untransformed cells and separate and proliferate the putatively transformed cells that survive from this selection treatment by transferring regularly to a fresh medium. By continuous passage and challenge with appropriate selection, one identifies and proliferates the cells that are transformed with the plasmid vector. Molecular and biochemical methods can then be used to confirm the presence of the integrated heterologous gene of interest into the genome of the transgenic plant.
  • The cells that have been transformed may be grown into plants in accordance with conventional ways. See, for example, McCormick et al. (1986) Plant Cell Reports 5:81-84. These plants may then be grown, and either pollinated with the same transformed strain or different strains, and the resulting hybrid having constitutive expression of the desired phenotypic characteristic identified. Two or more generations may be grown to ensure that expression of the desired phenotypic characteristic is stably maintained and inherited and then seeds harvested to ensure expression of the desired phenotypic characteristic has been achieved. In this manner, the present invention provides transformed seed (also referred to as “transgenic seed”) having a nucleotide construct of the invention, for example, an expression cassette of the invention, stably incorporated into their genome.
  • (5A). Evaluation of Plant Transformations
  • Following introduction of heterologous foreign DNA into plant cells, the transformation or integration of heterologous gene in the plant genome is confirmed by various methods such as analysis of nucleic acids, proteins and metabolites associated with the integrated gene.
  • PCR analysis is a rapid method to screen transformed cells, tissue or shoots for the presence of incorporated gene at the earlier stage before transplanting into the soil (Sambrook and Russell (2001) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.). PCR is carried out using oligonucleotide primers specific to the gene of interest or Agrobacterium vector background, etc.
  • Plant transformation may be confirmed by Southern blot analysis of genomic DNA (Sambrook and Russell, 2001, supra). In general, total DNA is extracted from the transformant, digested with appropriate restriction enzymes, fractionated in an agarose gel and transferred to a nitrocellulose or nylon membrane. The membrane or “blot” is then probed with, for example, radiolabeled.sup.32P target DNA fragment to confirm the integration of introduced gene into the plant genome according to standard techniques (Sambrook and Russell, 2001, supra).
  • In Northern blot analysis, RNA is isolated from specific tissues of transformant, fractionated in a formaldehyde agarose gel, and blotted onto a nylon filter according to standard procedures that are routinely used in the art (Sambrook and Russell, 2001, supra). Expression of RNA encoded by the Bt-protein is then tested by hybridizing the filter to a radioactive probe derived from a Bt-protein, by methods known in the art (Sambrook and Russell, 2001, supra).
  • Western blot, biochemical assays and the like may be carried out on the transgenic plants to confirm the presence of the transformed TP by standard procedures (Sambrook and Russell, 2001, supra) using antibodies that bind to one or more epitopes present on the TP.
  • Accordingly, the present invention provides a transgenic plant or part thereof, which comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes: a peptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide as described herein. In some embodiments, the binary or tertiary peptide can include an amino acid sequence of at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids. The binary peptide has two regions and the tertiary has the same two regions and one additional region called a spacer. Each of the binary and/or tertiary peptides can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease, for example a human gastrointestinal protease and an insect or nematode gut protease. In various embodiments, the polynucleotide also encodes an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) which is fused at its C-terminus with the N-terminus of a binary and/or tertiary peptide. In these embodiments, the binary and/or tertiary peptides are also operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP. In still other embodiments, the transgenic plant may contain a cell or a plurality of cells transformed with a DNA construct comprising at least one polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having two or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides. The insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame at its C-terminus with the N-terminus of the binary or tertiary peptide, and the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame at its C-terminus with a construct comprising: (TP-L)n wherein TP is toxic peptide or protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, or from 1 to 100, or from 1 to 10. In these insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, the last TP of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, i.e. at its C-terminus, may be fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the structure: (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)-(L). In another embodiment, a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA). The STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can comprise, or selected from the group consisting of, or consisting of a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide.
  • In some embodiments, transgenic plants or parts thereof, that may be receptive to the expression of insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptide compositions comprising a cleavable linking peptide described herein, can include: alfalfa, banana, barley, bean, broccoli, cabbage, canola, carrot, cassava, castor, cauliflower, celery, chickpea, Chinese cabbage, citrus, coconut, coffee, corn, clover, cotton, a cucurbit, cucumber, Douglas fir, eggplant, eucalyptus, flax, garlic, grape, hops, leek, lettuce, Loblolly pine, millets, melons, nut, oat, olive, onion, ornamental, palm, pasture grass, pea, peanut, pepper, pigeonpea, pine, potato, poplar, pumpkin, Radiata pine, radish, rapeseed, rice, rootstocks, rye, safflower, shrub, sorghum, Southern pine, soybean, spinach, squash, strawberry, sugar beet, sugarcane, sunflower, sweet corn, sweet gum, sweet potato, switchgrass, tea, tobacco, tomato, triticale, turf grass, watermelon, and a wheat plant. In some embodiments the transgenic plant may be grown from cells that were initially transformed with the DNA constructs described herein. In other embodiments, the transgenic plant may express the encoded insecticidal and/or nematicidal peptide compositions in a specific tissue, or plant part, for example, a leaf, a stem a flower, a sepal, a fruit, a root, or a seed or combinations thereof.
  • In another aspect of the invention, one may generate transgenic plants expressing an insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that when cleaved in the presence of an appropriate protease has pesticidal activity. Methods described above by way of example may be utilized to generate transgenic plants, but the manner in which the transgenic plant cells are generated is not critical to this invention. Methods known or described in the art such as Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, biolistic transformation (See for example, Kikkert J R1, Vidal J R, Reisch B I., “Stable transformation of plant cells by particle bombardment/biolistics.”, Methods Mol Biol. 2005; 286:61-78, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety), and non-particle-mediated methods may be used. Plants expressing an insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be isolated by common methods described in the art, for example by transformation of callus, selection of transformed callus, and regeneration of fertile plants from such transgenic callus. In such process, one may use any gene as a selectable marker so long as its expression in plant cells confers ability to identify or select for transformed cells.
  • A number of markers have been developed for use with plant cells, such as resistance to chloramphenicol, the aminoglycoside G418, hygromycin, or the like. Other genes that encode a product involved in chloroplast metabolism may also be used as selectable markers. For example, genes that provide resistance to plant herbicides such as glyphosate, bromoxynil, or imidazolinone may find particular use. Such genes have been reported (Stalker et al. (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 263:6310-6314 (bromoxynil resistance nitrilase gene); and Sathasivan et al. (1990) Nucl. Acids Res. 18:2188 (AHAS imidazolinone resistance gene). Additionally, the genes disclosed herein are useful as markers to assess transformation of bacterial or plant cells. Methods for detecting the presence of a transgene in a plant, plant organ (e.g., leaves, stems, roots, etc.), seed, plant cell, propagule, embryo or progeny of the same are well known in the art. In one embodiment, the presence of the transgene is detected by testing for pesticidal activity.
  • Fertile plants expressing an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may be tested for pesticidal activity, and the plants showing optimal activity selected for further breeding. Methods are available in the art to assay for pest activity. Generally, the cleaved TP is mixed and used in feeding assays. See, for example Marrone et al. (1985) J. of Economic Entomology 78:290-293.
  • Accordingly, the present invention provides a transgenic plant, meaning a plant, or part thereof that has been transformed with a DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter that is operable in the plant cell thus transformed. In some embodiments, the transformed polynucleotide encodes: a peptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, wherein the peptide contains at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions. The binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions. The binary and tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal, for example a human, gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease. The binary or tertiary peptide is operably fused to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP) and operably fused to the N-terminus of a TP. In various embodiments, the plant cell is transformed with a DNA construct comprising at least one polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides. The insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of the binary or tertiary peptide, and the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n wherein TP is toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200 and wherein the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a transgenic plant wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein that is expressed in the transgenic plant, or part thereof, is derived from a DNA construct that encodes an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of the binary or tertiary peptide, and the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n wherein TP is toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200 and wherein the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the structure: (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L). In another embodiment, a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA). The STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus comprising: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of a DNA construct or polynucleotide encoding: (1) an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs for example, selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a peptide, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In related embodiments, the transgenic plant expresses and produces an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing one or more copies of a CRIP TP which may be derived from an Australian Funnel-web spider or sea anemone. In some embodiments, real or notional examples of transformed plants described and exemplified herein, are transformed with a CRIP TP from a spider selected from the Australian Funnel-web spiders of genus Atrax or Hadronyche or a sea anemone selected from Anemonia viridis. The transgenic plant can produce an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising one or more ICK TPs, for example, Hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a. The CRIP TP can be an ICK TP or Non-ICK TP that when expressed contains 20-100 amino acids and 2-4 disulfide bonds. The TPs useful in the transgenic peptides disclosed herein can have at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs: 5 or 6, SEQ ID NO: 33-1032 and SEQ ID NO: 1761-1775 and variants thereof. In various embodiments, one or more of the CRIP TPs become active when the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein's binary and/or tertiary peptides are cleaved by an appropriate protease found in the insect and/or nematode gut environment, thereby releasing the one or more TPs from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein to exert its insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity in the insect or nematode.
  • (6). Methods for Controlling a Pest Infection
  • In various embodiments of the present invention, methods are provided for controlling a pest infection or infestation (used interchangeably), wherein the pest may be an insect, a nematode or both. In some embodiments, the method for controlling such a pest infection includes providing in a diet of the pest, a plant, or part thereof, wherein the plant or part thereof, contains and expresses a polynucleotide which encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal TP as described herein. In other embodiments, a pesticidally effective amount of a composition comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is applied to a plant, prior to the exposure to the pest, or during the pest infection or infestation, such that, the application of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing composition reduces the number of pests affecting the plant, or the severity of the pest infection on the plant thus contacted with the composition, and optionally enables the plant to survive and/or grow compared to similar plants exposed to the same pests in the absence of the composition.
  • In some embodiments, the plant expresses a polynucleotide which is operable to express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein constitutively, or inducibly. The polynucleotide may be operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides. The insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the structure: (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L). In another embodiment, a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein described herein, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA). The STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can comprise, or is selected from the group consisting of, or consists of: a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. The TPs useful in the above constructs disclosed above and herein can have at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs: 5 or 6, SEQ ID NO: 33 and/or a TP selected from SEQ ID NOs: 33-1032 and variants thereof. In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of a DNA construct or polynucleotide encoding: (1) an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different), or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT. In related embodiments, the method for controlling a pest infection provides expression and synthesis of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein in a plant or part thereof, for example, a plant tissue, a plant cell, and/or a plant seed. The insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises one or more cleavable linker peptides fused in frame to one or more TPs. In some embodiments, the cleavable linker peptide is a binary peptide comprising an amino acid sequence of: X1-X2-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Y1-Y2-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4, wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • In some embodiments, an illustrative insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein for use in a method to control a pest comprises one or more illustrative binary peptides (XY or YX). In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a cleavable binary peptide having the following amino acid sequence: AFVRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1594), AKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1595), ALFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1596), ALFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1597), ALFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1598), ALFR (SEQ ID NO: 1599), ALFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1600), ALKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1601), ALKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1602), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), ALKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1604), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), FFADIK (SEQ ID NO: 1606), FFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1607), FFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1608), FFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1609), FFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1610), FGYRIK (SEQ ID NO: 1611), FLRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1612), FYARR (SEQ ID NO: 1613), GGLRKK (SEQ ID NO: 1614), IFVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1615), IFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1616), IFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1617), IFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1618), IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ILFNIK (SEQ ID NO: 1620), LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), FVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1622), LFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1623), LFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1624), LFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1625), LFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1626), LFVRVFL (SEQ ID NO: 1627), LGER (SEQ ID NO: 1628), LKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1629), LKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1630), LKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1631), LKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1632), LRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1633), LRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1634), LRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1635), LRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1636), RALF (SEQ ID NO: 1637), RIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1638), RLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1639), RLRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1640), RLRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1641), RLRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1642), RLRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1643), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), RRKLIF (SEQ ID NO: 1645), RRRFFA (SEQ ID NO: 1646), VFGRKG (SEQ ID NO: 1647), and YFVRK (SEQ ID NO: 1648).
  • In various embodiments, an illustrative insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising a cleavable tertiary peptide having the following amino acid sequence construct: Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, Z1-Z2-Z3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Z1, 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Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4-Z1-Z2-Z3-Z4, wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • In related embodiments, the method for controlling a pest infection provides expression and synthesis of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein in a plant or part thereof, for example, a plant tissue, a plant cell, and/or a plant seed. The insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises a binary peptide as described above and can include a two amino acid spacer sequence (a Z region) fused in frame to the N-terminus and/or the C-terminus of an illustrative binary peptide disclosed above, wherein the two amino acid spacer sequence Z1Z2 sequence can be one or more of GS, WN, WQ, MA, and MV.
  • In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein for use in methods described above can comprise a cleavable tertiary peptide having one or more of the following illustrative amino acid sequences (ZXY or XYZ): AFVRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1649), AKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1650), ALFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1651), ALFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1652), ALFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1653), ALFRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1654), ALFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1655), ALKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1656), ALKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1657), ALKFLVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1658), ALKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1659), ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660), FFADIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1661), FFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1662), FFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1663), FFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1664), FFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1665), FGYRIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1666), FLRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1667), FYARRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1668), GGLRKKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1669), IFVALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1670), IFVLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1671), IFVLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1672), IFVRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1673), IFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1674), ILFNIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1675), LFAAPFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1676), LFVALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1677), LFVLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1678), LFVLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1679), LFVRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1680), LFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1681), LFVRVFLGS (SEQ ID NO: 1682), LGERGS (SEQ ID NO: 1683), LKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1684), LKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1685), LKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1686), LKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1687), LRALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1688), LRFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1689), LRIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1690), LRLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1691), RALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1692), RIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1693), RLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1694), RLRALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1695), RLRFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1696), RLRIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1697), RLRLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1698), RRKAFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1699), RRKLIFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1700), RRRFFAGS (SEQ ID NO: 1701), VFGRKGGS (SEQ ID NO: 1702), YFVRKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1703), GSAFVRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1704), GSAKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1705), GSALFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1706), GSALFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1707), GSALFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1708), GSALFR (SEQ ID NO: 1709), GSALFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1710), GSALKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1711), GSALKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1712), GSALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1713), GSALKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1714), GSALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1715), GSFFADIK (SEQ ID NO: 1716), GSFFALK (SEQ ID NO: 1717), GSFFLK (SEQ ID NO: 1718), GSFFLR (SEQ ID NO: 1719), GSFFRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1720), GSFGYRIK (SEQ ID NO: 1721), GSFLRLF (SEQ ID NO: 1722), GSFYARR (SEQ ID NO: 1723), GSGGLRKK (SEQ ID NO: 1724), GSIFVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1725), GSIFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1726), GSIFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1727), GSIFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1728), GSIFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1729), GSILFNIK (SEQ ID NO: 1730), GSLFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1731), GSLFVALK (SEQ ID NO: 1732), GSLFVLK (SEQ ID NO: 1733), GSLFVLR (SEQ ID NO: 1734), GSLFVR (SEQ ID NO: 1735), GSLFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1736), GSLFVRVFL (SEQ ID NO: 1737), GSLGER (SEQ ID NO: 1738), GSLKALF (SEQ ID NO: 1739), GSLKFF (SEQ ID NO: 1740), GSLKIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1741), GSLKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1742), GSLRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1743), GSLRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1744), GSLRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1745), GSLRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1746), GSRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1747), GSRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1748), GSRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1749), GSRLRALF (SEQ ID NO: 1750), GSRLRFF (SEQ ID NO: 1751), GSRLRIFV (SEQ ID NO: 1752), GSRLRLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1753), GSRRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1754), GSRRKLIF (SEQ ID NO: 1755), GSRRRFFA (SEQ ID NO: 1756), GSVFGRKG (SEQ ID NO: 1757), and GSYFVRK (SEQ ID NO: 1758).
  • In various embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein for use in methods described above may be encoded by a polynucleotide that encodes a cleavable tertiary peptide having the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide as described above and herein, with the addition of a spacer to the N-terminus of the binary peptide, and/or to the C-terminus of the binary peptide, wherein the spacer is an amino acid or peptide comprising 1 to 4 amino acids, preferably two amino acids, for example GS, WN, WQ, MA, or MV. Other specific spacer examples and optimal amino acids for use as spacers are provided below. In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of a DNA construct or polynucleotide encoding: (1) an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different), or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein further comprising one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L), which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • Exemplary binary and tertiary peptides, for example, ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603) or IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), fused to one or more TPs as described herein may be used to produce an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein which when expressed and synthesized by a transgenic plant can fight a pest infection. In various embodiments, the method for controlling a pest infection of a plant includes planting a seed or a plant in a field, wherein the plant or seed is operable to express an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein in the plant or the application of a composition containing an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising one or more TP proteins selected from the group consisting of a Pore Forming Insecticidal Protein (PFIP) and a Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein (CRIP), for example, the TP may be an Inhibitor Cysteine Knot (ICK) motif protein, a non-ICK protein, a Bt protein or any combination of these, and growing the plant or seed in the field which in the presence of the pest, is able to continue to survive and/or grow in the field in the presence of the pest. In such embodiments, the pest infection is reduced, by the death of at least a portion of the pests, after consuming the plant expressing the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein or coated at least in part, with the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. In one embodiment, the TP useful in the method for controlling a pest infection can include an Inhibitor Cysteine Knot (ICK) motif protein derived from, or originates from, Hadronyche versuta, Atrax robustus, Atrax formidabilis, Atrax infensus, including TPs known as U-ACTX polypeptides, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a hybrid-ACTX-Hv1a peptide, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and mutants or variants thereof.
  • In some embodiments, the method of controlling a pest infection of a plant provides a pesticidally effective amount of one or more TPs synthesized by the plant or part thereof, in the form of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. In some embodiments, an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising one or more TPs that are cleavable upon exposure to the gut environment of an insect and/or nematode can be produced from a DNA construct transformed into a plant or part thereof. In some embodiments, an exemplary DNA construct encodes one or more insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, and the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising (TP-L)n or (L-TP)n, wherein each TP is toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200 and wherein the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. When n is greater than 1, each TP and each L may be the same or different.
  • In other embodiments, an exemplary method for controlling such a pest infection includes providing in a diet of the pest, a plant, or part thereof, wherein the plant or part thereof, contains and expresses a polynucleotide which encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising one or more TPs as described herein. In some embodiments, the plant expresses a polynucleotide constitutively, or inducibly. The polynucleotide may be operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides. The insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include the structure: (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, or (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L). In another embodiment, a plant, or part thereof comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to an operable promoter, for example, a homologous or heterologous promoter, wherein the polynucleotide encodes an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a stabilizing domain (STA). The STA is fused in frame with either the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, or the N-terminus of a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n. In various embodiments, an exemplary insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can include a construct from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different. The TPs useful in the transgenic plants or parts thereof disclosed herein, can have at least 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, or 99% or greater sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs: 5 or 6, SEQ ID NO: 33 and/or a peptide selected from SEQ ID NOs: 33-1032 and variants thereof. In some embodiments, the C-terminal TP is fused or unfused at its C-terminus with a binary or tertiary peptide. In related embodiments of the above, TPs useful in the manufacture of a DNA construct or polynucleotide encoding: (1) an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, which may include one or more ICK TPs, for example, a TP selected from an “ACTX” or “ACTX peptide” family of insecticidal ICK peptides that have been isolated from an Australian funnel-web spiders belonging to the Atracinae subfamily, for example, one or more TPs selected from an Omega-ACTX TP, a Kappa-ACTX TP and an U-ACTX TP, for example, U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, U-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1a, rU-ACTX-Hv1b, or a TP having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof, (wherein the TPs, if more than one, may be the same or different) and wherein the DNA construct or polynucleotide further encodes (2) one or more tertiary peptides (designated above as L) fused in frame to at least one binary or tertiary peptide, which may include the amino acid sequence of a binary peptide selected from IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605), ALKFLV (SEQ ID NO: 1603), RRKAFV (SEQ ID NO: 1644), or LFAAPF (SEQ ID NO: 1621), fused in frame either on the N-terminus, C-terminus or both termini of the binary peptide with a Z region or spacer sequence selected from the group of or consisting of GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
  • In some embodiments, methods for controlling an insect and/or a nematode pest infection or infestation, may include the creation of a transgenic plant comprising a combination of insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins, each insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein including a Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) TP or an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP which when predated upon by said insect and/or nematode, will exert insecticidal and/or nematicidal activity and control or reduce or eliminate the pest infection and/or infestation. This plant can be made from independent stable genetic insertions of DNA that create a flowering plant expressing a Bt TP and a second flowering plant expressing a ICK TP. The pollen of one of those plants will be crossed onto the female flower organs of the other plant to form a genetic hybridization that contains both the Bt TP and the ICK TP genetic traits. The progeny of that sexual cross and further crossing that results in the inheritance of both traits will result in a transgenic plant comprising a combination of a Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) TP and an ICK (Inhibitor Cystine Knot) TP to said insect and/or nematode.
  • In some embodiments, the DNA constructs described herein may encode insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins that contain specific TPs that are suited to treat a specific pest infestation in a specific plant or groups of plants, for example, a particular type of crop. In one embodiment, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins of the present invention may comprise a TP selected from one or more of: Cry 1A.105, Cry2Ab2, Cry1F, Cry3Bb1, Cry34Ab1 and Cry35Ab1. These TPs may be expressed singly or in combinations to treat a specific crop, for example, corn. In some embodiments, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins having the structure from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different, wherein TP is toxic protein selected from Cry 1A.105, Cry2Ab2, Cry1F, Cry3Bb1, Cry34Ab1 and Cry35Ab1, or combinations thereof, and L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 100, and more preferably an integer ranging from 1 to 10 can be used to treat the following corn pests: European corn borer (ECB) Southwestern corn borer (SWCB) Southern cornstalk borer (SCSB), Corn earworm (CEW), Fall armyworm (FAW), Stalk borer, Lesser corn stalk borer, Sugarcane borer (SCB), Western bean cutworm (WBC), Black cutworm, Western com rootworm (WCRW), Northern corn rootworm (NCRW), or Mexican corn rootworm. (MCRW).
  • In other embodiments, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins having the structure from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L), wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different, wherein TP is cotton Cry1AC, can be used to treat the following cotton PIP (Bollgard I and II—first one gene, then two genes) pests: cotton bollworm (CBW) Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), tobacco budworm (TBW) Heliothis virescens, and pink bollworm (PBW) Pectinophora gossypiella (Sanders). In a related embodiment, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins having the structure from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different, wherein TP is Cotton Cry1Ac and/or Cry2Ab, can be used to treat the following cotton pests: cotton bollworm (CBW) Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), tobacco budworm (TBW) Heliothis virescens, pink bollworm (PBW) Pectinophora gossypiella (Sanders), Fall armyworm (FAW), Beet armyworm (BAW), and Soybean looper (SBL).
  • In other embodiments, insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins having the structure from N-terminus to C-terminus: (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP, (ERSP)-(L)-TP-(L)-TP-(L), (L-TP)n-L, (L-TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L)-(TP-L)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n, (ERSP)-(STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), (ERSP)-(STA)-(TP-L)n, or (ERSP)-(STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n, or (STA)-(L-TP)n-(L), or (STA)-(TP-L)n, or (STA)-(L)-(TP-L)n, wherein (L) is a binary peptide or a tertiary peptide, and which each L may be the same or different, TP is a toxic peptide, which may be the same or different, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200, preferably 1 to 100, and most preferably, 1 to 10. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein may contain TPs that are the same or different, and binary and/or tertiary peptides that are the same or different, wherein TP is Soybean Cry1Ac, can be used to treat the following soyabean PIP pests: velvetbean caterpillar (Anticarcia gemmatalis), soybean looper (Pseudoplusia includens), soybean anxil borer (Epinotia aporema), and sunflower looper (Rachiplusia nu).
  • In some embodiments, the method provides transforming a plant cell or a plurality of plant cells with a DNA construct which encodes insecticidal and/or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing compositions. The transformed plant may be a recombinant plant, a part of the plant, or a product of the plant or the plant part. While transformation of a plant or plant part may be pursued, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions may be produced recombinantly in host cells including a bacterial host cell, a yeast host cell, a plant host cell or an animal host cell. In some embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP, one or more cleavable linking peptides and one or more TPs can be synthesized in a yeast production strain or in a bacterial production strain to produce milligram, gram or kilogram quantities of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein for application to a plurality of plants or a field of plants, i.e., crops to control or prevent a pest infection. In some embodiments, a pesticidally effective amount of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can be provided in one or more formulations topically applied on the plant or a part of the plant, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is formulated in bacterial cells, bacterial spores, fungal cells, fungal spores, or parasporal crystals that comprise the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. Alternatively, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal compositions containing the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins can be applied directly to the surface of the plants.
  • As used herein, pesticidally effective amounts of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins described herein includes any amount that may inhibit the growth, impair the movement, or even kill an insect and/or nematode when the TP cleaved from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is appropriately delivered to the locus inhabited by the insect and/or nematode. In various embodiments, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing compositions can be formulated as powders, emulsions, solutions, granules, micronized particles, and the like and other formulations and forms of compositions used in the art for applying insecticidal proteins such as Bt proteins that can be applied to the surface of the plants for which pest control is desired. Amounts of TPs thus distributed assuming at least 50% cleavage and release of the TPs from the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein can be quantified using C18 rpHPLC methods known by those skilled in the art.
  • In the embodiments described herein, the present insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins comprising one or more TPs and one or more cleavable linkers are effective against a variety of insects and nematodes. The methods provided herein can be used to control, or prevent, or reduce the severity of a pest infection, to kill insects and/or nematodes which consume plants or parts thereof in their diets, to optimize the growth potential of a plant, to increase the yield of a crop susceptible to a pest infection, and various other methods requiring the control and/or elimination of insects and/or nematodes which predate on plant tissue. Various types of insects and nematodes susceptible to the methods, compositions and procedures described herein are as follows.
  • Insect and nematodes: Insects may be selected from the orders Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Mallophaga, Homoptera, Hemiptera, Orthroptera, Thysanoptera, Dermaptera, Isoptera, Anoplura, Siphonaptera, Trichoptera, and the like. More particularly, insect pests include Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Diptera.
  • Insects of suitable agricultural, household and/or medical/veterinary importance for treatment with the insecticidal polypeptides include, but are not limited to, members of the following classes and orders.
  • The order Coleoptera includes the suborders Adephaga and Polyphaga. Suborder Adephaga includes the superfamilies Caraboidea and Gyrinoidea. Suborder Polyphaga includes the superfamilies Hydrophiloidea, Staphylinoidea, Cantharoidea, Cleroidea, Elateroidea, Dascilloidea, Dryopoidea, Byrrhoidea, Cucujoidea, Meloidea, Mordelloidea, Tenebrionoidea, Bostrichoidea, Scarabaeoidea, Cerambycoidea, Chrysomeloidea, and Curculionoidea. Superfamily Caraboidea includes the families Cicindelidae, Carabidae, and Dytiscidae. Superfamily Gyrinoidea includes the family Gyrinidae. Superfamily Hydrophiloidea includes the family Hydrophilidae. Superfamily Staphylinoidea includes the families Silphidae and Staphylinidae. Superfamily Cantharoidea includes the families Cantharidae and Lampyridae. Superfamily Cleroidea includes the families Cleridae and Dermestidae. Superfamily Elateroidea includes the families Elateridae and Buprestidae. Superfamily Cucujoidea includes the family Coccinellidae. Superfamily Meloidea includes the family Meloidae. Superfamily Tenebrionoidea includes the family Tenebrionidae. Superfamily Scarabaeoidea includes the families Passalidae and Scarabaeidae. Superfamily Cerambycoidea includes the family Cerambycidae. Superfamily Chrysomeloidea includes the family Chrysomelidae. Superfamily Curculionoidea includes the families Curculionidae and Scolytidae.
  • Examples of Coleoptera include, but are not limited to: the American bean weevil Acanthoscelides obtectus, the leaf beetle Agelastica alni, click beetles (Agriotes lineatus, Agriotes obscurus, Agriotes bicolor), the grain beetle Ahasverus advena, the summer schafer Amphimallon solstitialis, the furniture beetle Anobium punctatum, Anthonomus spp. (weevils), the Pygmy mangold beetle Atomaria linearis, carpet beetles (Anthrenus spp., Attagenus spp.), the cowpea weevil Callosobruchus maculates, the fried fruit beetle Carpophilus hemipterus, the cabbage seedpod weevil Ceutorhynchus assimilis, the rape winter stem weevil Ceutorhynchus picitarsis, the wireworms Conoderus vespertinus and Conoderus falli, the banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus, the New Zealand grass grub Costelytra zealandica, the June beetle Cotinis nitida, the sunflower stem weevil Cylindrocopturus adspersus, the larder beetle Dermestes lardarius, the corn rootworms Diabrotica virgifera, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, and Diabrotica barberi, the Mexican bean beetle Epilachna varivestis, the old house borer Hylotropes bajulus, the lucerne weevil Hypera postica, the shiny spider beetle Gibbium psylloides, the cigarette beetle Lasioderma serricorne, the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata, Lyctus beetles' (Lyctus spp.), the pollen beetle Meligethes aeneus, the common cockshafer Melolontha melolontha, the American spider beetle Mezium americanum, the golden spider beetle Niptus hololeucus, the grain beetles Oryzaephilus surinamensis and Oryzaephilus mercator, the black vine weevil Otiorhynchus sulcatus, the mustard beetle Phaedon cochleariae, the crucifer flea beetle Phyllotreta cruciferae, the striped flea beetle Phyllotreta striolata, the cabbage steam flea beetle Psylliodes chrysocephala, Ptinus spp. (spider beetles), the lesser grain borer Rhizopertha dominica, the pea and been weevil Sitona lineatus, the rice and granary beetles Sitophilus oryzae and Sitophilus granaries, the red sunflower seed weevil Smicronyx fulvus, the drugstore beetle Stegobiurn paniceum, the yellow mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor, the flour beetles Tribolium castaneum and Tribolium confusum, warehouse and cabinet beetles (Trogoderma spp.), and the sunflower beetle Zygogramma exclamation's.
  • Examples of Dermaptera (earwigs) include, but are not limited to: the European earwig Forficula auricularia, and the striped earwig Labidura riparia.
  • Examples of Dictvontera include, but are not limited to: the oriental cockroach Blatta orientalis, the German cockroach Blatella germanica, the Madeira cockroach Leucophaea maderae, the American cockroach Periplaneta americana, and the smokybrown cockroach Periplaneta fuliginosa.
  • Examples of Diplonoda include, but are not limited to: the spotted snake millipede Blaniulus guttulatus, the flat-back millipede Brachydesmus superus, and the greenhouse millipede Oxidus gracilis.
  • The order Diptera includes the Suborders Nematocera, Brachycera, and Cyclorrhapha. Suborder Nematocera includes the families Tipulidae, Psychodidae, Culicidae, Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, Simuliidae, Bibionidae, and Cecidomyiidae. Suborder Brachycera includes the families Stratiomyidae, Tabanidae, Therevidae, Asilidae, Mydidae, Bombyliidae, and Dolichopodidae. Suborder Cyclorrhapha includes the Divisions Aschiza and Aschiza. Division Aschiza includes the families Phoridae, Syrphidae, and Conopidae. Division Aschiza includes the Sections Acalyptratae and Calyptratae. Section Acalyptratae includes the families Otitidae, Tephritidae, Agromyzidae, and Drosophilidae. Section Calyptratae includes the families Hippoboscidae, Oestridae, Tachinidae, Anthomyiidae, Muscidae, Calliphoridae, and Sarcophagidae.
  • Examples of Diptera include, but are not limited to: the house fly (Musca domestica), the African tumbu fly (Cordylobia anthropophaga), biting midges (Culicoides spp.), bee louse (Braula spp.), the beet fly Pegomyia betae, black flies (Cnephia spp., Eusimulium spp., Simulium spp.), bot flies (Cuterebra spp., Gastrophilus spp., Oestrus spp.), craneflies (Tipula spp.), eye gnats (Hippelates spp.), filth-breeding flies (Calliphora spp., Fannia spp., Hermetia spp., Lucilia spp., Musca spp., Muscina spp., Phaenicia spp., Phormia spp.), flesh flies (Sarcophaga spp., Wohlfahrtia spp.); the flit fly Oscinella frit, fruitflies (Dacus spp., Drosophila spp.), head and canon flies (Hydrotea spp.), the hessian fly Mayetiola destructor, horn and buffalo flies (Haematobia spp.), horse and deer flies (Chrysops spp., Haematopota spp., Tabanus spp.), louse flies (Lipoptena spp., Lynchia spp., and Pseudolynchia spp.), medflies (Ceratitus spp.), mosquitoes (Aedes spp., Anopheles spp., Culex spp., Psorophora spp.), sandflies (Phlebotomus spp., Lutzomyia spp.), screw-worm flies (Chtysomya bezziana and Cochliomyia hominivorax), sheep keds (Melophagus spp.); stable flies (Stomoxys spp.), tsetse flies (Glossina spp.), and warble flies (Hypoderma spp.).
  • Examples of Isontera (termites) include, but are not limited to: species from the familes Hodotennitidae, Kalotermitidae, Mastotermitidae, Rhinotennitidae, Serritermitidae, Termitidae, Termopsidae.
  • Examples of Heteroptera include, but are not limited to: the bed bug Cimex lectularius, the cotton stainer Dysdercus intermedius, the Sunn pest Eurygaster integriceps, the tarnished plant bug Lygus lineolaris, the green stink bug Nezara antennata, the southern green stink bug Nezara viridula, and the triatomid bugs Panstrogylus megistus, Rhodnius ecuadoriensis, Rhodnius pallescans, Rhodnius prolixus, Rhodnius robustus, Triatoma dimidiata, Triatoma infestans, and Triatoma sordida.
  • Examples of Homoptera include, but are not limited to: the California red scale Aonidiella aurantii, the black bean aphid Aphis fabae, the cotton or melon aphid Aphis gossypii, the green apple aphid Aphis pomi, the citrus spiny whitefly Aleurocanthus spiniferus, the oleander scale Aspidiotus hederae, the sweet potato whitefly Bemesia tabaci, the cabbage aphid Brevicoryne brassicae, the pear psylla Cacopsylla pyricola, the currant aphid Cryptomyzus ribis, the grape phylloxera Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, the citrus psylla Diaphorina citri, the potato leafhopper Empoasca fabae, the bean leafhopper Empoasca solana, the vine leafhopper Empoasca vitis, the woolly aphid Eriosoma lanigerum, the European fruit scale Eulecanium corni, the mealy plum aphid Hyalopterus arundinis, the small brown planthopper Laodelphax striatellus, the potato aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae, the green peach aphid Myzus persicae, the green rice leafhopper Nephotettix cinticeps, the brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, gall-forming aphids (Pemphigus spp.), the hop aphid Phorodon humuli, the bird-cherry aphid Rhopalosiphum padi, the black scale Saissetia oleae, the greenbug Schizaphis graminum, the grain aphid Sitobion avenae, and the greenhouse whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum.
  • Examples of Isopoda include, but are not limited to: the common pillbug Armadillidium vulgare and the common woodlouse Oniscus asellus.
  • The order Lepidoptera includes the families Papilionidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Danaidae, Satyridae, Hesperiidae, Sphingidae, Saturniidae, Geometridae, Arctiidae, Noctuidae, Lymantriidae, Sesiidae, and Tineidae.
  • Examples of Lepidoptera include, but are not limited to: Adoxophyes orana (summer fruit tortrix moth), Agrotis ipsolon (black cutworm), Archips podana (fruit tree tortrix moth), Bucculatrix pyrivorella (pear leafminer), Bucculatrix thurberiella (cotton leaf perforator), Bupalus piniarius (pine looper), Carpocapsa pomonella (codling moth), Chilo suppressalis (striped rice borer), Choristoneura fumiferana (eastern spruce budworm), Cochylis hospes (banded sunflower moth), Diatraea grandiosella (southwestern corn borer), Earls insulana (Egyptian bollworm), Euphestia kuehniella (Mediterranean flour moth), Eupoecilia ambiguella (European grape berry moth), Euproctis chrysorrhoea (brown-tail moth), Euproctis subflava (oriental tussock moth), Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth), Helicoverpa armigera (cotton bollworm), Helicoverpa zea (cotton bollworm), Heliothis virescens (tobacco budworm), Hofmannophila pseudopretella (brown house moth), Homeosoma electellum (sunflower moth), Homona magnanima (oriental tea tree tortrix moth), Lithocolletis blancardella (spotted tentiform leafminer), Lymantria dispar (gypsy moth), Malacosoma neustria (tent caterpillar), Mamestra brassicae (cabbage armyworm), Mamestra configurata (Bertha armyworm), the hornworms Manduca sexta and Manuduca quinquemaculata, Operophtera brumata (winter moth), Ostrinia nubilalis (European corn borer), Panolis flammea (pine beauty moth), Pectinophora gossypiella (pink bollworm), Phyllocnistis citrella (citrus leafminer), Pieris brassicae (cabbage white butterfly), Plutella xylostella (diamondback moth), Rachiplusia ni (soybean looper), Spilosoma virginica (yellow bear moth), Spodoptera exigua (beet armyworm), Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm), Spodoptera littoralis (cotton leafworin), Spodoptera litura (common cutworm), Spodoptera praefica (yellowstriped armyworm), Sylepta derogata (cotton leaf roller), Tineola bisselliella (webbing clothes moth), Tineola pellionella (case-making clothes moth), Tortrix viridana (European oak leafroller), Trichoplusia ni (cabbage looper), and Yponomeuta padella (small ermine moth).
  • Examples of Orthoptera include, but are not limited to: the common cricket Acheta domesticus, tree locusts (Anacridium spp.), the migratory locust Locusta migratoria, the twostriped grasshopper Melanoplus bivittatus, the differential grasshopper Melanoplus dfferentialis, the redlegged grasshopper Melanoplus femurrubrum, the migratory grasshopper Melanoplus sanguinipes, the northern mole cricket Neocurtilla hexadectyla, the red locust Nomadacris septemfasciata, the shortwinged mole cricket Scapteriscus abbreviatus, the southern mole cricket Scapteriscus borellii, the tawny mole cricket Scapteriscus vicinus, and the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria.
  • Examples of Phthiraptera include, but are not limited to: the cattle biting louse Bovicola bovis, biting lice (Damalinia spp.), the cat louse Felicola subrostrata, the shortnosed cattle louse Haematopinus eloysternus, the tail-switch louse Haematopinus quadriperiussus, the hog louse Haematopinus suis, the face louse Linognathus ovillus, the foot louse Linognathus pedalis, the dog sucking louse Linognathus setosus, the long-nosed cattle louse Linognathus vituli, the chicken body louse Menacanthus stramineus, the poultry shaft louse Menopon gallinae, the human body louse Pediculus humanus, the pubic louse Phthirus pubis, the little blue cattle louse Solenopotes capillatus, and the dog biting louse Trichodectes canis.
  • Examples of Psocoptera include, but are not limited to: the booklice Liposcelis bostrychophila, Liposcelis decolor, Liposcelis entomophila, and Trogium pulsatorium.
  • Examples of Siphonaptera include, but are not limited to: the bird flea Ceratophyllus gallinae, the dog flea Ctenocephalides canis, the cat flea Ctenocephalides fells, the human flea Pulex irritans, and the oriental rat flea Xenopsylla cheopis.
  • Examples of Symphyla include, but are not limited to: the garden symphylan Scutigerella immaculate.
  • Examples of Thysanura include, but are not limited to: the gray silverfish Ctenolepisma longicaudata, the four-lined silverfish Ctenolepisma quadriseriata, the common silverfish Lepisma saccharina, and the firebrat Thennobia domestica.
  • Examples of Thysanoptera include, but are not limited to: the tobacco thrips Frankliniella fusca, the flower thrips Frankliniella intonsa, the western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis, the cotton bud thrips Frankliniella schultzei, the banded greenhouse thrips Hercinothrips femoralis, the soybean thrips Neohydatothrips variabilis, Kelly's citrus thrips Pezothrips kellyanus, the avocado thrips Scirtothrips perseae, the melon thrips Thrips palmi, and the onion thrips Thrips tabaci.
  • Examples of Nematodes include, but are not limited to: parasitic nematodes such as root-knot, cyst, and lesion nematodes, including Heterodera spp., Meloidogyne spp., and Globodera spp.; particularly members of the cyst nematodes, including, but not limited to: Heterodera glycines (soybean cyst nematode); Heterodera schachtii (beet cyst nematode); Heterodera avenae (cereal cyst nematode); and Globodera rostochiensis and Globodera pailida (potato cyst nematodes). Lesion nematodes include, but are not limited to: Pratylenchus spp.
  • In one embodiment, the insecticidal and nematicidal compositions comprising the polypeptides, polynucleotides, cells, vectors, etc. described herein, can be employed to treat ectoparasites. Ectoparasites include, but are not limited to: fleas, ticks, mange, mites, mosquitoes, nuisance and biting flies, lice, and combinations comprising one or more of the foregoing ectoparasites. The term “fleas” includes the usual or accidental species of parasitic flea of the order Siphonaptera, and in particular the species Ctenocephalides, in particular C. fells and C. cams, rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) and human fleas (Pulex irritans).
  • Insect pests of the invention for the major crops include, but are not limited to: Maize: Ostrinia nubilalis, European corn borer; Agrotis ipsilon, black cutworm; Helicoverpa zea, corn earworm; Spodoptera frugiperda, fall armyworm; Diatraea grandiosella, southwestern corn borer; Elasmopalpus lignosellus, lesser cornstalk borer; Diatraea saccharalis, surgarcane borer; Diabrotica virgifera, western corn rootworm; Diabrotica longicornis barberi, northern corn rootworm; Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi, southern corn rootworm; Melanotus spp., wireworms; Cyclocephala borealis, northern masked chafer (white grub); Cyclocephala immaculata, southern masked chafer (white grub); Popillia japonica, Japanese beetle; Chaetocnema pulicaria, corn flea beetle; Sphenophorus maidis, maize billbug; Rhopalosiphum maidis, corn leaf aphid; Anuraphis maidiradicis, corn root aphid; Blissus leucopterus leucopterus, chinch bug; Melanoplus femurrubrum, redlegged grasshopper; Melanoplus sanguinipes, migratory grasshopper; Hylemya platura, seedcorn maggot; Agromyza parvicornis, corn blot leafminer; Anaphothrips obscrurus, grass thrips; Solenopsis milesta, thief ant; Tetranychus urticae, twospotted spider mite; Sorghum: Chilo partellus, sorghum borer; Spodoptera frugiperda, fall armyworm; Helicoverpa zea, corn earworm; Elasmopalpus lignosellus, lesser cornstalk borer; Feltia subterranea, granulate cutworm; Phyllophaga crinita, white grub; Eleodes, Conoderus, and Aeolus spp., wireworms; Oulema melanopus, cereal leaf beetle; Chaetocnema pulicaria, corn flea beetle; Sphenophorus maidis, maize billbug; Rhopalosiphum maidis, corn leaf aphid; Sipha flava, yellow sugarcane aphid; Blissus leucopterus leucopterus, chinch bug; Contarinia sorghicola, sorghum midge; Tetranychus cinnabarinus, carmine spider mite; Tetranychus urticae, twospotted spider mite; Wheat: Pseudaletia unipunctata, army worm; Spodoptera frugiperda, fall armyworm; Elasmopalpus lignosellus, lesser cornstalk borer; Agrotis orthogonia, western cutworm; Elasmopalpus lignosellus, lesser cornstalk borer; Oulema melanopus, cereal leaf beetle; Hypera punctata, clover leaf weevil; Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi, southern corn rootworm; Russian wheat aphid; Schizaphis graminum, greenbug; Macrosiphum avenae, English grain aphid; Melanoplus femurrubrum, redlegged grasshopper; Melanoplus differentialis, differential grasshopper; Melanoplus sanguimpes, migratory grasshopper; Mayetiola destructor, Hessian fly; Sitodiplosis mosellana, wheat midge; Meromyza americana, wheat stem maggot; Hylemya coarctata, wheat bulb fly; Frankliniella fusca, tobacco thrips; Cephus cinctus, wheat stem sawfly; Aceria tulipae, wheat curl mite; Sunflower: Suleima helianthana, sunflower bud moth; Homoeosoma electellum, sunflower moth; Zygogramma exclamationis, sunflower beetle; Bothyrus gibbosus, carrot beetle; Neolasioptera murtfeldtiana, sunflower seed midge; Cotton: Heliothis virescens, cotton budworm; Helicoverpa zea, cotton bollworm; Spodoptera exigua, beet armyworm; Pectinophora gossypiella, pink bollworm; Anthonomus grandis, boll weevil; Aphis gossypii, cotton aphid; Pseudatomoscelis seriatus, cotton fleahopper; Trialeurodes abutilonea, bandedwinged whitefly; Lygus lineolaris, tarnished plant bug; Melanoplus femurrubrum, redlegged grasshopper; Melanoplus differentialis, differential grasshopper; Thrips tabaci, onion thrips; Franklinkiella fusca, tobacco thrips; Tetranychus cinnabarinus, carmine spider mite; Tetranychus urticae, twospotted spider mite; Rice: Diatraea saccharalis, sugarcane borer; Spodoptera frugiperda, fall armyworm; Helicoverpa zea, corn earworm; Colaspis brunnea, grape colaspis; Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus, rice water weevil; Sitophilus oryzae, rice weevil; Nephotettix nigropictus, rice leafhopper; Blissus leucopterus leucopterus, chinch bug; Acrosternum hilare, green stink bug; Soybean: Pseudoplusia includens, soybean looper; Anticarsia gemmatalis, velvetbean caterpillar; Plathypena scabra, green cloverworm; Ostrinia nubilalis, European corn borer; Agrotis ipsilon, black cutworm; Spodoptera exigua, beet armyworm; Heliothis virescens, cotton budworm; Helicoverpa zea, cotton bollworm; Epilachna varivestis, Mexican bean beetle; Myzus persicae, green peach aphid; Empoasca fabae, potato leafhopper; Acrosternum hilare, green stink bug; Melanoplus femurrubrum, redlegged grasshopper; Melanoplus differentialis, differential grasshopper; Hylemya platura, seedcorn maggot; Sericothrips variabilis, soybean thrips; Thrips tabaci, onion thrips; Tetranychus turkestani, strawberry spider mite; Tetranychus urticae, twospotted spider mite; Barley: Ostrinia nubilalis, European corn borer; Agrotis ipsilon, black cutworm; Schizaphis graminum, greenbug; Blissus leucopterus leucopterus, chinch bug; Acrosternum hilare, green stink bug; Euschistus servus, brown stink bug; Delia platura, seedcorn maggot; Mayetiola destructor, Hessian fly; Petrobia latens, brown wheat mite; Oil Seed Rape: Brevicoryne brassicae, cabbage aphid; Phyllotreta cruciferae, Flea beetle; Mamestra configurata, Bertha armyworm; Plutella xylostella, Diamond-back moth; Delia ssp., Root maggots.
  • In some embodiments, the insecticidal compositions can be employed to treat combinations comprising one or more of the foregoing insects.
  • The insects that are susceptible to the peptides of this invention include but are not limited to the following: Blattaria, Coleoptera, Collembola, Diptera, Echinostomida, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Isoptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Rhabditida, Siphonoptera, Thysanoptera. Genus-Species are indicated as follows: Actebia-fennica, Agrotis-ipsilon, A.-segetum, Anticarsia-gemmatalis, Argyrotaenia-citrana, Artogeia-rapae, Bombyx-mori, Busseola-fusca, Cacyreus-marshall, Chilo-suppressalis, Christoneura-fumiferana, C.-occidentalis, C. pinus pinus, C.-rosacena, Cnaphalocrocis-medinalis, Conopomorpha-cramerella, Ctenopsuestis-obliquana, Cydia-pomonella, Danaus-plexippus, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi, Diatraea-saccharallis, D.-grandiosella, Earias-vittella, Elasmolpalpus-lignoselius, Eldana-saccharina, Ephestia-kuehniella, Epinotia-aporema, Epiphyas-postvittana, Galleria-mellonella, Helicoverpa-zea, H-punctigera, H-armigera, Heliothis-virescens, Hyphantria-cunea, Lambdina-fiscellaria, Leguminivora-glycinivorella, Lobesia-botrana, Lymantria-dispar, Malacosoma-disstria, Mamestra-brassicae, M. configurata, Manduca-sexta, Marasmia-patnalis, Maruca-vitrata, Orgyia-leucostigma, Ostrinia-nubilalis, O.-furnacalis, Pandemis-pyrusana, Pectinophora-gossypiella, Perileucoptera-coffeella, Phthorimaea-opercullela, Pianotortrix-octo, Piatynota-stultana, Pieris-brassicae, Plodia-interpunctala, Plutella-xylostella, Pseudoplusia-includens, Rachiplusia-nu, Sciropophaga-incertulas, Sesamia-calamistis, Spilosoma-virginica, Spodoptera-exigua, S.-frugiperda, S.-littoralis, S.-exempta, S.-litura, Tecia-solanivora, Thaumetopoea-pityocampa, Trichoplusia-ni, Wiseana-cervinata, Wiseana-copularis, Wiseana-jocosa, Blattaria-Blattella, Collembola-Xenylla, C.-Folsomia, Echinostomida-Fasciola, Hemiptera-Oncopeltrus, He.-Bemisia, He.-Macrosiphum, He.-Rhopalosiphum, He.-Myzus, Hymenoptera-Diprion, Hy.-Apis, Hy.-Macrocentrus, Hy.-Meteorus, Hy.-Nasonia, Hy.-Solenopsis, Isopoda-Porcellio, Isoptera-Reticulitermes, Orthoptera-Achta, Prostigmata-Tetranychus, Rhabitida-Acrobeloides, R.-Caenorhabditis, R.-Distolabrellus, R.-Panagrellus, R.-Pristionchus, R.-Pratylenchus, R. Ancylostoma, R.-Nippostrongylus, R.-Panagrellus, R.-Haemonchus, R.-Meloidogyne, and Siphonaptera-Ctenocephalides. As used herein, insect pests and nematode pests are those species of insects and nematodes that are susceptible to the insecticidal and/or nematicidal transgenic protein compositions and polypeptides that encode them.
  • Select list of highly susceptible insects and nematodes. The list below contains both insects and nematodes. Nematodes are also susceptible to the compositions and treatments identified in the application and claims. The insects and nematodes below are considered especially suitable and susceptible to the compositions and treatments identified in the specification and claims.
  • Stalk borer—Busseola fusca, Southern Cornstalk Borer—Diatraea crambidoides, True armyworm—Pseudaletia unipuncta, Western bean cutworm—Striacosta albicosta, Black cutworm—Agrotis Ipsilon, Corn earworm—Helicoverpa zea, European corn borer—Ostrinia nubilalis, Fall armyworm—Spodoptera frugiperda, Western corn rootworm—Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, Southern Corn Rootworm—Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi, Northern Corn Rootworm—Diabrotica barberi, Western tarnished plant bug—Lygus hesperus, Tarnished plant bug—Lygus lineolaris, Soybean cyst nematode—Heterodera glycines, Root-Knot Nematode—Meloidogyne hapla, Lesion nematode—Pratylenchus penetrans, Pink bollworm—Pectinophora gossypiella, Cotton bollworm—Helicoverpa armigera, Corn earworm—Helicoverpa zea, Sugarcane stalk borer—Diatraea saccharalis, Asian corn borer—Ostrinia furnacalis, Native budworm—Helicoverpa punctigera, Tobacco budworm—Heliothis virescens, Beet armyworm—Spodoptera exigua, Soybean Looper—Chrysodeixis includens, Velvetbean caterpillar—Anticarcia gemmatalis, Soybean looper—Pseudoplusia includes, Soybean anxil borer—Epinotia aporema, and Sunflower looper—Rachiplusia nu.
  • EXAMPLES Example 1. Identification and Isolation of Binary and Tertiary Cleavable Linking Peptides
  • 1.) the FRET Research and Discovery of Cleavable Linking Peptides
  • To find a Linker with insect and/or nematode protease and human gastrointestinal cleavable properties, the inventors used a peptide library coupled to FRET molecules (a dye and a quencher) for the identification of peptides that cleave in either insect gut environment or in simulated human gastrointestinal environment as reporter assays. As shown in FIG. 1 , a FRET kit contains pools of FRET molecules with a stretch of 3 variable amino acid sequences (grid pattern circle) bracketed by a series of glycine amino acids (horizontal line pattern) attached to either a dye (solid black circle with a protruding square) or a quencher (solid black circle with a square-shaped indent). FIG. 1 illustrates that each FRET molecule gives no signal if the variable region is not cleaved but can be excited if it is cleaved. The speed at which the cleavage occurs (i.e. the specificity of the sequence for the proteases) can be ranked by the rate at which the fluorescent signal occurs over time, i.e., its slope.
  • The FRET kit used (Cat. No. PSREPLI005, Mimotopes, Victoria, Australia) contains 512 pools of up to 8 different FRET molecules per pool. The FRET reaction is very high-throughput, with the enzymes added to the plate of pooled material with a multichannel loading pipet and then the plate is read once a minute for detectable fluorescence. The output of fluorescence detection is recorded for each reaction.
  • FRET samples were prepared immediately prior to assay as recommended by the manufacturer (add 5 μL 50% acetonitrile in water to each well and agitate plate on shaker for 5 minutes. Then add 45 μL of assay buffer and agitate again for 5 minutes). At this point, the FRET pools were ready of the addition of 50 μL of the working enzyme stock to start the reactions. Using a multichannel, repeat pipetter, 50 μL of the working enzyme stock (for each of the enzyme types tested) was added to each well and then the plate was immediately placed into a plate reader (SpectraMax plate reader with SoftMax Pro 6.0 software, Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale Calif.) and emissions were read using the setting of Excitation 320 nm, Emission 420 nm, with a cut-off of 420 nm. Readings occurred every 1 minute for 15 minutes. Once the plates were completed, they were sealed with an aluminum sealer and stored at −80° C.
  • To test the FRET pool cleavage by pepsin or simulated human gastric fluid (SGF), the assay buffer was 35 mM NaCl, pH 1.2. The commercially sourced enzyme (Sigma P6887) enzyme was prepared by dissolving 1 mg/ml pepsin in the assay buffer. Pepsin stock was then diluted 1:200 by adding 250 μL of stock enzyme to 50 mL of assay buffer. This working solution was then used for all plate screenings.
  • To test the FRET pool cleavage by gut or intestinal enzymes of a coleopteran pest, gut enzymes (CELOP) were isolated from Southern Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica undecimpunctata). Southern Corn Rootworm were commercially obtained from Crop Characteristics (Farmington, Minn.) as 3rd instar larvae. Insects were anesthetized by placing them on a cold pack for several minutes before the dissection began. To isolate the gut, the posterior end was pinned to a dissection plate and another pin was used to nick the soft tissue behind the head. The pin was inserted behind the head capsule and then pulled away from pinned insect, pulling the digestive tract out of the body with the head. The gut could then be collected. About 20 guts were added to a pre-weighed tube with 100 μL solution of 100 mM PBS pH 5.7 and weighed after to determine the mass of guts added. Gut contents were extracted by vortexing the solution for 1-2 minutes. Tubes were then spun at 15,000 rpm for 1 minute. The liquid layer was then transferred to a 0.2 μm micro-spin filter and spun at 15,000 rcf for 1 minute. The filter was washed with 400 μL of 100 mM PBS buffer pH 5.7 and the permeate from both spins were combined. The sterile filtered gut contents were then diluted to 10 mg/mL in buffer and stored at −20 C. To make a working stock, the gut contents where then diluted 10× by mixing 7004 stock to 7 mL with assay buffer for each plate. Using a multichannel, repeat pipetter, 50 μL of 1× gut extract was added to each well and read immediately as described above.
  • To test the FRET pool cleavage by gut enzymes of a lepidopteran pest (LEP), gut enzymes were isolated from Corn Earworm (Helicoverpa zea). Corn Earworm insects were obtained commercially from Benzon Research (Carlisle, Pa.) as eggs. Hatched larvae were raised on artificial diet until ⅘th instar (20 mm long) before guts were isolated. Before gut extract, larvae were anesthetized using CO2. The larva was then pinned on the dissection plate at both the head and the tail. Using dissection scissors, the cuticle was nicked. The dissection scissors were then inserted into the nick and the cuticle was lengthwise along the insect. The cuticle was then carefully pulled back and pinned open to reveal the digestive track. Using DI water, the insect was thoroughly rinsed to remove hemolymph. The gut was then excised with tweezers and placed in a solution of 500 μL of 200 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.1 150 mM NaCl (assay buffer). The tube was pre-weighed and post-weighed to calculate the total amount of gut added. CEW gut was diluted to a stock concentration of 7 mg/ml (10×) in 200 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.1 150 mM NaCl. This was diluted fresh each plate by 20× with the assay buffer. Using a multichannel, repeat pipetter, 50 μL of 1× gut extract was added to each well and read immediately as described above.
  • 1.1) Protease Cleavage Analysis of FRET Peptide Pools
  • The FRET kits (Cat. No. PSREPLI005, Mimotopes, Victoria, Australia) were tested against LEP, COLEOP and SGF gut simulated protease environments and data was recovered. There were two types of data (slope of cleavage over time (which is presented as either a raw slope, or as an indexed value where the steepest slope is 100% and each slope is represented as a percentage of the highest slope) and cleaved components) were generated. The first type of data was the slope of fluorescence detection over 10 minutes. The slope of the reaction allowed the ranking of the two or three amino acid sequences for their speed to cleave in the various protease environments. Table 4 shows the top 50 sequences that cleaved for each of the digestive conditions (SGF represents human gastrointestinal environment; COLEOP is the gut environment of Coleoptera insects; and LEP is the gut environment of Lepidopteran insects). Shown in Table 5 are sample sequences that did not cleave in the digestive conditions, and represent an example of sequences outside of the Markush that are not cleavable in the X and Y conditions.
  • TABLE 4
    Representative cleavable sequences from pooled FRET screening for
    each of the digestive conditions; SGF, COLEOP, and LEP
    Y X
    SGF COLEOP LEP
    % of Max % of Max % of Max
    Sequence Slope Sequence Slope Sequence Slope
    IFF 100 IKN 100 PKK 100
    IFY 100 IKQ 100 PKR 100
    IYF 100 IRN 100 PRK 100
    LFF 100 IRQ 100 PRR 100
    LFY 100 LKN 100 VRY 93
    LYF 100 LKQ 100 AKF 93
    LYY 100 LRN 100 AKY 93
    FFA 84 LRQ 100 ARF 93
    FFV 84 KIK 83 ARY 93
    FYA 84 KIR 83 VKF 93
    FYV 84 KLK 83 VKY 93
    YFA 84 KLR 83 VRF 93
    YFV 84 RIK 83 RRT 93
    FFI 78 RIR 83 KKS 93
    FFL 78 RLK 83 KKT 93
    FYI 78 RLR 83 KRS 93
    FYL 78 NIK 74 KRT 93
    YFI 78 NIR 74 RKS 93
    YFL 78 NLK 74 RKT 93
    YYL 78 NLR 74 RRS 93
    AIF 78 QIK 74 RRY 92
    ALF 78 QIR 74 KKF 92
    ALY 78 QLK 74 KKY 92
    VIF 78 QLR 74 KRF 92
    VLF 78 AIK 70 KRY 92
    VLY 78 AIR 70 RKF 92
    DFF 66 ALK 70 RKY 92
    DFY 66 ALR 70 RRF 92
    DYF 66 VIK 70 RTR 90
    EFF 66 VIR 70 KSK 90
    EFY 66 VLK 70 KSR 90
    EYF 66 VLR 70 KTK 90
    IFA 65 IKS 68 KTR 90
    IFV 65 IKT 68 RSK 90
    LFA 65 IRS 68 RSR 90
    LFV 65 IRT 68 RTK 90
    LYA 65 LKS 68 VRT 90
    LYV 65 LKT 68 AKS 90
    AFF 63 LRS 68 AKT 90
    AFY 63 LRT 68 ARS 90
    AYF 63 INK 56 ART 90
    VFF 63 INR 56 VKS 90
    VFY 63 IQK 56 VKT 90
    VYF 63 IQR 56 VRS 90
    IIF 63 LNK 56 LTR 89
    ILF 63 LNR 56 ISK 89
    ILY 63 LQK 56 ISR 89
    LIF 63 LQR 56 ITK 89
    LIY 63 IKA 56 ITR 89
    LLF 63 IKV 56 LSK 89
  • TABLE 5
    Example of 5 failed cleavable sequences from pooled FRET screening
    for each of the digestive conditions; SGF, COLEOP, and LEP
    Y X
    SGF COLEOP LEP
    % of Max % of Max % of Max
    Sequence Slope Sequence Slope Sequence Slope
    IFF
    0 IKN 0 PKK 0
    IFY 0 IKQ 0 PKR 0
    IYF 0 IRN 0 PRK 0
    LFF −1 IRQ 0 PRR 0
    LFY −1 LKN −2 VRY 0
  • The amino acids represented in the top 5% of wells from each digestive condition were used to create the Markush group that constitutes a binary peptide that comprises of an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of: X1-X2-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Y1-Y2-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3, and Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4, wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
  • One embodiment of the sequences discovered from SGF (simulated human gut environment) screening, in the XY or YX format, the human gut protease cleavable substrate may include one or more of the following peptides: AFF, AFG, AFI, AFL, AFV, AFY, AGF, AGL, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALG, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFG, DFI, DFL, DFY, DGF, DGL, DIF, DLF, DLG, DLY, DYF, DYL, EFF, EFG, EFI, EFL, EFY, EGF, EGL, EIF, ELF, ELG, ELY, EYF, EYL, FF, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFG, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FGA, FGD, FGE, FGF, FGI, FGK, FGL, FGR, FGS, FGT, FGV, FGY, FLV, FLR, FYA, FYD, FYE, FYF, FYG, FYI, FYK, FYL, FYR, FYS, FYT, FYV, FYY, GFA, GFD, GFE, GFF, GFI, GFK, GFL, GFR, GFS, GFT, GFV, GFY, GGL, GIF, GIL, GLF, GLI, GLL, GLY, GYF, GYL, IF, IFA, IFF, IFG, IFI, IFL, IFV, IFY, IGF, IGL, IIF, IIL, ILF, ILG, ILI, ILL, ILY, IYF, IYL, LFA, LFF, LFG, LFI, LFL, LFV, LFY, LG, LGA, LGE, LGF, LGI, LGL, LGV, LGY, LIF, LIG, LII, LIL, LIY, LLF, LLG, LLI, LLL, LLY, LYA, LYF, LYG, LYI, LYL, LYV, LYY, NFF, NFG, NFI, NFL, NFY, NGF, NGL, NIL, NLG, NLI, NLL, NYF, NYL, QFF, QFG, QFI, QFL, QFY, QGF, QGL, QIL, QLG, QLI, QLL, QYF, QYL, SFF, SFG, SFI, SFL, SFY, SGF, SGL, SIF, SIL, SLF, SLG, SLI, SLL, SLY, SYF, SYL, TFF, TFG, TFI, TFL, TFY, TGF, TGL, TIF, TIL, TLF, TLG, TLI, TLL, TLY, TYF, TYL, VFF, VFG, VFI, VFL, VFY, VGF, VGL, VIF, VIL, VLF, VLG, VLI, VLL, VLY, VYF, VYL, YFA, YFD, YFE, YFF, YFG, YFI, YFK, YFL, YFR, YFS, YFT, YFV, YFY, YGF, YGL, YYF, YYL.
  • Another embodiment of the sequences discovered from SGF screening, Y SGF cleavable peptides may include one or more of: AFF, AFI, AFL, AFY, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFI, DFL, DFY, DIF, DLF, DLY, DYF, DYL, YFL, EFF, EFI, EFL, 0, EFY, EIF, ELF, ELY, EYF, EYL, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FYA, FYD, FYE, FYF, FYI, FYK, FYL, FYR, FYS, FYT, FYV, FYY, IFA, IFF, IFI, IFL, IFV, IFY, IIF, IIL, ILF, ILI, ILL, ILY, IYF, IYL, LFA, LFF, LFI, LFL, LFV, LFY, LIF, LII, LIL, LIY, LLF, LLI, LLL, LLY, LYA, LYF, LYI, LYL, LYV, LYY, NFF, NFI, NFL, NFY, NIL, NLI, NLL, NYF, NYL, QFF, QFI, QFL, QFY, QIL, QLI, QLL, QYF, QYL, SFF, SFI, SFL, SFY, SIF, SIL, SLF, SLI, SLL, SLY, SYF, SYL, TFF, TFI, TFL, TFY, TIF, TIL, TLF, TLI, TLL, TLY, TYF, TYL, VFF, VFI, VFL, VFY, VIF, VIL, VLF, VLI, VLL, VLY, VYF, VYL, YFA, YFD, YFE, YFF, YFI, YFK, YFL, YFR, YFS, YFT, YFV, YFY, YYF, YYL.
  • In some embodiments, exemplary sequences discovered from insect cleavability, the X region may include one or more insect and/or nematode gut protease cleavable peptide sequences: AAG, AAK, AAR, AFG, AFK, AFR, AGF, AGI, AGK, AGL, AGN, AGQ, AGR, AGS, AGT, AGY, AIG, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AKG, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALG, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APF, APG, APK, APR, ARF, ARG, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASG, ASK, ASR, ATG, ATK, ATR, AVG, AVK, AVR, AYG, AYK, AYR, DGK, DGR, DIG, DIK, DIR, DLG, DLK, DLR, EGK, EGR, EIG, EIK, EIR, ELG, ELK, ELR, ER, FVR, GAF, GAI, GAK, GAL, GAR, GAY, GFK, GFR, GIK, GIN, GIQ, GIR, GKA, GKD, GKE, GKF, GM, GKK, GKL, GKN, GKQ, GKR, GKS, GKT, GKV, GKY, GLK, GLN, GLQ, GLR, GNA, GNK, GNR, GNV, GPK, GPR, GQA, GQK, GQR, GQV, GRA, GRD, GRE, GRF, GRI, GRK, GRL, GRN, GRQ, GRR, GRS, GRT, GRV, GRY, GSI, GSK, GSL, GSR, GTI, GTK, GTL, GTR, GVF, GVI, GVK, GVL, GVR, GVY, GYK, GYR, IGA, IGF, IGI, IGK, IGL, IGN, IGQ, IGR, IGS, IGT, IGV, IGY, IIG, IIK, IIR, IKA, IKF, IKG, IM, IKK, IKL, IKN, IKQ, IKR, IKS, IKT, IKV, IKY, ILG, ILK, ILR, INA, ING, INK, INR, INV, IPG, IPK, IPR, IQA, IQG, IQK, IQR, IQV, IRA, IRF, IRG, IRI, IRK, IRL, IRN, IRQ, IRR, IRS, IRT, IRV, IRY, ISG, ISK, ISR, ITG, ITK, ITR, KAF, KAG, KAI, KAK, KAL, KAR, KAY, KFF, KFG, KFK, KFR, KGA, KGD, KGE, KGF, KGI, KGK, KGL, KGN, KGQ, KGR, KGS, KGT, KGV, KGY, MG, MK, KIN, MQ, MR, KKA, KKD, KKE, KKF, KKG, KKN, KKQ, KKS, KKT, KKV, KKY, KLG, KLK, KLN, KLQ, KLR, KNG, KNK, KNR, KPG, KPK, KPR, KQG, KQK, KQR, KRA, KRD, KRE, KRF, KRG, KRN, KRQ, KRS, KRT, KRV, KRY, KSG, KSI, KSK, KSL, KSR, KTG, KTI, KTK, KTL, KTR, KVF, KVG, KVI, KVK, KVL, KVR, KVY, KYG, KYK, KYR, LFR, LGA, LGF, LGI, LGK, LGL, LGN, LGQ, LGR, LGS, LGT, LGV, LGY, LIG, LIK, LIR, LK, LKA, LKF, LKG, LKI, LKK, LKL, LKN, LKQ, LKR, LKS, LKT, LKV, LKY, LLG, LLK, LLR, LNA, LNG, LNK, LNR, LNV, LPG, LPK, LPR, LQA, LQG, LQK, LQR, LQV, LRA, LRF, LRG, LRI, LRK, LRL, LRN, LRQ, LRR, LRS, LRT, LRV, LRY, LSG, LSK, LSR, LTG, LTK, LTR, NGK, NGR, NIG, NIK, NIR, NLG, NLK, NLR, PGK, PGR, PIG, PIK, PIR, PKG, PKK, PKR, PLG, PLK, PLR, PRG, PRK, PRR, QGK, QGR, QIG, QIK, QIR, QLG, QLK, QLR, RAF, RAG, RAI, RAK, RAL, RAR, RAY, RFF, RFG, RFK, RFR, RGA, RGD, RGE, RGF, RGI, RGK, RGL, RGN, RGQ, RGR, RGS, RGT, RGV, RGY, RIG, RIK, RIN, RIQ, RIR, RKA, RKD, RKE, RKF, RKG, RKK, RKN, RKQ, RKS, RKT, RKV, RKY, RLF, RLFL, RLG, RLK, RLN, RLQ, RLR, RNG, RNK, RNR, RPG, RPK, RPR, RQG, RQK, RQR, RRA, RRD, RRE, RRF, RRG, RRK, RRN, RRQ, RRR, RRS, RRT, RRV, RRY, RSG, RSI, RSK, RSL, RSR, RTG, RTI, RTK, RTL, RTR, RVF, RVG, RVI, RVK, RVL, RVR, RVY, RYG, RYK, RYR, VAG, VAK, VAR, VFG, VFK, VFR, VGF, VGI, VGK, VGL, VGN, VGQ, VGR, VGS, VGT, VGY, VIG, VIK, VIN, VIQ, VIR, VKF, VKG, VKI, VKK, VKL, VKN, VKQ, VKR, VKS, VKT, VKY, VLG, VLK, VLN, VLQ, VLR, VPG, VPK, VPR, VR, VRF, VRG, VRI, VRK, VRL, VRN, VRQ, VRR, VRS, VRT, VRY, VSG, VSK, VSR, VTG, VTK, VTR, VVG, VVK, VVR, VYG, VYK, VYR.
  • In another embodiment of the sequences discovered from insect cleavability, the X region may include one or more insect and/or nematode gut protease cleavable peptide sequences: AAK, AAR, AFK, AFR, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APK, APR, ARF, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASK, ASR, ATK, ATR, AVK, AVR, AYK, AYR, DIK, DIR, DLK, DLR, EIK, EIR, ELK, ELR, IIK, IIR, IKA, IKF, IKI, IKK, IKL, IKN, IKQ, IKR, IKS, IKT, IKV, IKY, ILK, ILR, INA, INK, INR, INV, IPK, IPR, IQA, IQK, IQR, IQV, IRA, IRF, IRI, IRK, IRL, IRN, IRQ, IRR, IRS, IRT, IRV, IRY, ISK, ISR, ITK, ITR, KAF, KAI, KAK, KAL, KAR, KAY, KFK, KFR, MK, KIN, MQ, MR, KKA, KKD, KKE, KKF, KKN, KKQ, KKS, KKT, KKV, KKY, KLK, KLN, KLQ, KLR, KNK, KNR, KPK, KPR, KQK, KQR, KRA, KRD, KRE, KRF, KRN, KRQ, KRS, KRT, KRV, KRY, KSI, KSK, KSL, KSR, KTI, KTK, KTL, KTR, KVF, KVI, KVK, KVL, KVR, KVY, KYK, KYR, LIK, LIR, LKA, LKF, LKI, LKK, LKL, LKN, LKQ, LKR, LKS, LKT, LKV, LKY, LLK, LLR, LNA, LNK, LNR, LNV, LPK, LPR, LQA, LQK, LQR, LQV, LRA, LRF, LRI, LRK, LRL, LRN, LRQ, LRR, LRS, LRT, LRV, LRY, LSK, LSR, LTK, LTR, NIK, NIR, NLK, NLR, PIK, PIR, PKK, PKR, PLK, PLR, PRK, PRR, QIK, QIR, QLK, QLR, RAF, RAI, RAK, RAL, RAR, RAY, RFK, RFR, RIK, RIN, RIQ, RIR, RKA, RKD, RKE, RKF, RKN, RKQ, RKS, RKT, RKV, RKY, RLK, RLN, RLQ, RLR, RNK, RNR, RPK, RPR, RQK, RQR, RRA, RRD, RRE, RRF, RRN, RRQ, RRS, RRT, RRV, RRY, RSI, RSK, RSL, RSR, RTI, RTK, RTL, RTR, RVF, RVI, RVK, RVL, RVR, RVY, RYK, RYR, VAK, VAR, VFK, VFR, VIK, VIN, VIQ, VIR, VKF, VKI, VKK, VKL, VKN, VKQ, VKR, VKS, VKT, VKY, VLK, VLN, VLQ, VLR, VPK, VPR, VRF, VRI, VRK, VRL, VRN, VRQ, VRR, VRS, VRT, VRY, VSK, VSR, VTK, VTR, VVK, VVR, VYK, VYR.
  • The lack of numerous common sequences that meet the both high ranked X and Y cleavability conditions led to the merging of the sequences discovered in the X and Y categories to build binary and tertiary peptides. This research was called Round 2 and involved combinations from the Round 1 data, above. One way this was tested involved several combinations of insect cleavable and SGF cleavable sequences (X and Y regions respec designed and ordered to be synthesized as FRET molecules. Another way this was tested involved the combinations of insect cleavable and SGF cleavable sequences designed and ordered to be synthesized as DNA encoding the ERSP-STA-(TP-L)n protein for transient plant expression. Both FRET and transient expressed proteins were used to exemplify the insect cleavable and SGF cleavable nature of the binary and tertiary peptides.
  • Round 2 data from FRET molecules that represented a subset of binary combinations based on the observed top hits in Round 1 provided a hierarchical ranking of the various binary combinations. Round 2 FRET molecules were synthesized, resuspended, and tested in cleavage enzyme assays as described above in Round 1. Many combinations of binary cleavable linking peptides were tested against LEP, COLEOP and SGF conditions.
  • Transiently expressed protein from DNA encoding variation of these the ERSP-STA-(TP-L)n protein where L is binary and tertiary peptide based on Round 2 data, and was also treated with the same cleavage enzymes (LEP, COLEOP and SGF).
  • Data that embodies Round 2 FRET experiment is listed below in section 1.1. Data that embodies Round 2 plant expression system in listed in section 1.2. The amino acid sequences listed in SEQ ID NOs: 1594-1758 were synthesized as either/or FRET and transient plant expression.
  • AFVRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1649), AKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1650), ALFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1651), ALFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1652), ALFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1653), ALFRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1654), ALFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1655), ALKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1656), ALKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1657), ALKFLVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1658), ALKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1659), ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660), FFADIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1661), FFALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1662), FFLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1663), FFLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1664), FFRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1665), FGYRIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1666), FLRLFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1667), FYARRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1668), GGLRKKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1669), IFVALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1670), IFVLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1671), IFVLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1672), IFVRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1673), IFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1674), ILFNIKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1675), LFAAPFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1676), LFVALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1677), LFVLKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1678), LFVLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1679), LFVRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1680), LFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1681), LFVRVFLGS (SEQ ID NO: 1682), LGERGS (SEQ ID NO: 1683), LKALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1684), LKFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1685), LKIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1686), LKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1687), LRALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1688), LRFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1689), LRIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1690), LRLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1691), RALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1692), RIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1693), RLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1694), RLRALFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1695), RLRFFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1696), RLRIFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1697), RLRLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1698), RRKAFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1699), RRKLIFGS (SEQ ID NO: 1700), RRRFFAGS (SEQ ID NO: 1701), VFGRKGGS (SEQ ID NO: 1702), YFVRKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1703).
  • Data from the Round 2 FRET that exemplifies the combination of both X and Y cleavability in a binary or tertiary peptide are presented in Table 6.
  • TABLE 6
    Representative sequences for X—Y combinations
    showing cleavability in both
    X and Y cleavage conditions
    % of Max
    Slope
    Sequence X Y
    IFVALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1670)  69 88
    ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660) 100 88
    LFVALKGS (SEQ ID NO: 1677)  92 76
    LRLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1691)  74 75
    LFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1681)  94 74
    LKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1687)  98 67
  • Example 3. Plant Protein Expression Testing of the Candidate Binary/Tertiary Cleavable Linking Peptides
  • The cloning and expression of a proteins containing multiple copies of TP intervened by binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptides was performed using a tobacco transient expression system technology referred to as FECT (Liu Z & Kearney C M, BMC Biotechnology, 2010, 10:88, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety). The FECT vector contains a T-DNA region for agroinfection, which contains a CaMV 35S promoter that drives the expression of the foxtail mosaic virus RNA without the genes encoding the viral coating protein and the triple gene block. In the place of the coating protein and triple block are a pair of subcloning sites (PacI and AvrII) that allow an ORF to be subcloned N′ to C′ following the PacI site for high levels of transient viral expression. This “disarmed” virus genome prevents plant to plant transmission. In addition to the FECT vector subcloned to express the various proteins with TP intervened by binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptides, a second FECT vector is co-expressed that encodes P19, a RNA silencing suppressor protein from tomato bushy stunt virus, to prevent the post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) of the introduced T-DNA. Agrobacterium containing the transient plant expression system are injected into the leaves of tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) as described below.
  • With reference to FIGS. 2-5 , various designs of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins and DNA construct encoding insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins are illustrated. In some examples, a TP repeat with intervening binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptides is shown. An illustrative ERSP motif which can be used in accordance with the exemplary embodiments provided here is the Barley Alpha-Amylase Signal peptide (BAAS), which is comprised of 24 Amino acids as shown below (N′ to C′, one letter code):
  • (SEQ ID NO: 4)
    MANKHLSLSLFLVLLGLSASLASG.
  • The Zea mays ubiquitin monomer used in some of the proteins was comprised of 75 Amino acids as shown below (N′ to C′, one letter code): QIFVKTLTGKTITLEVESSDTIDNVKAKIQDKEGIPPDQQRLIFAGKQLEDGRTLADYN IQKESTLHLVLRLRGG (Accession Number XP 020404049.1, SEQ ID NO: 1759).
  • An exemplary TP useful in the example described here can include: U-ACTX-Hv1a, which has the following amino acid sequence (N′ to C′, one letter code): QYCVPVDQPCSLNTQPCCDDATCTQERNENGHTVYYCRA (SEQ ID NO: 6) or U+2-ACTX-Hv1a, which has the following amino acid sequence (N′ to C′, one letter code):
  • (SEQ ID NO: 5)
    GSQYCVPVDQPCSLNTQPCCDDATCTQERNENGHTVYYCRA.
  • In separate examples, three different intervening binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptides (denoted by the short hand form L1-L4) were used (N′ to C′, one letter code):
  • (SEQ ID NO: 1)
    IGER (L1)
    (SEQ ID NO: 1660)
    ALKLFVGS (L2)
    (SEQ ID NO: 1674)
    IFVRLRGS (L3)
    (SEQ ID NO: 1658)
    ALKFLVGS (L4).
  • In addition, a histidine tag, which has the following amino acid sequence (N′ to C′, one letter code): HHHHHHHHHH (SEQ ID NO: 1760) is used as part of the constructed insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein. The following insecticidal and/or nematicidal proteins: BAAS:UBI:U+2-ACTX-Hv1a: (L: U-ACTX-Hv1a)3:His10 and BAAS: (U-ACTX-Hv1a: L)3:U-ACTX-Hv1a:H10 ORF DNAs (where BAAS is the ERSP; and L is a binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptide) as schematically shown in FIGS. 6A and 6B, were cloned into the Pac I and Avr II restriction sites of the FECT expression vector to create the transient vectors which were then transformed into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain, GV3101 cells using a freeze-thaw method as follows: the stored competent GV3101 cells were thawed on ice and then mixed with 1-5 μg pure transient vectors DNA. The cell-DNA mixture was then kept on ice for 5 minutes, then transferred to −80° C. for 5 minutes, and then incubated in a 37° C. water bath for 5 minutes. The freeze-thaw treated cells were then diluted into 1 mL LB medium and shaken on a rocking table for 2-4 hours at room temperature. Cell-LB mixture was then spun down at 5,000 rcf for 2 minutes to pellet cells and then 800 μL of LB supernatant is removed. The cells are then resuspended in the remaining liquid and the entire volume, approximately 200 μL, of the transformed cell-LB mixture was then spread onto LB agar plates with the appropriate antibiotics (10 μg/mL rifampicin, 25 μg/mL gentamycin, and 50 μg/mL kanamycin) and incubated at 28° C. for two days. Resulting transformed colonies were then picked and culture in 6 mL aliquots of LB medium with the appropriate antibiotics for transformed DNA analysis and making glycerol stocks of the transformed GV3101 cells.
  • The transformed GV3101 cells were streaked onto an LB plate with the appropriate antibiotics (as described above) from their glycerol stock and incubated at 28° C. for two days. A colony of transformed GV3101 cells was used to inoculate 5 mL of LB-MESA medium (LB media supplemented with 10 mM MES, 20 μM acetosyringone) and the same antibiotics described above, and grown overnight at 28° C. The cells of the overnight culture were collected by centrifugation at 5000 rpm for 10 minutes and resuspended in the induction medium (10 mM MES, 10 mM MgCl2, 100 μM acetosyringone) at a final OD600 of 1.0. The cells were then incubated in the induction medium for 2 hours to overnight at room temperature and were then ready for transient transformation of tobacco leaves. Because FECT uses a mixture of P19 expression and the gene of interest expression, cultures of cells for the pFECT-P19 transformed GV3101 cells and the gene of interest cultures were mixed together in equal amounts for infiltration of tobacco leaves before injection into the plant leaves. The treated cells were infiltrated into the underside of attached leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana plants by injection, using a 3 mL syringe without a needle attached. Protein expression in tobacco leaves was evaluated at 6-8 days post-infiltration.
  • Full length gene-of-interest proteins were purified from the tobacco by using a syringe vacuum extraction technique. The leaf tissue was rolled up and placed inside the barrel of a 60 mL syringe with the needle port capped along with 10 mL of buffer (35 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, 1 Roche cOmplete Tab protease inhibitor tab, pH 1.2 using HCl). The plunger was then inserted into the barrel, inverted so the needle port was up, the cap was removed and excess air was removed by forcing the plunger in. Once the majority of the air had been removed, the syringe was capped and the plunger was pulled back as far as possible, creating a vacuum, and held for 30 seconds. The vacuum was then slowly released by allowing the plunger to go back to the point in which there is no vacuum. This was then repeated three more times. After the third time, the liquid was then expelled out of the syringe by applying light pressure to the leaves, the liquid was saved, and the process was repeated again before the leaves were discarded. The extracted liquid was then sterile filtered using a Pall 0.2 μm Nylon syringe filter and then concentrated in a GE Healthcare Viva Spin 500, 10K mwco rinsing samples with an additional 20 mL of the buffer and spinning the samples down until they were concentrated about 30×.
  • The samples were then analyzed using standard Western Blotting techniques. Samples were prepared for a protein gel by mixing 10 μL of protein sample with 9 μL Invitrogen 2×SDS loading buffer and 2 μL Novex 10× Reducing agent and heating the sample at 85° C. for 5 minutes. The samples were then loaded and ran on a Novex Precast, 16% Tricine gel in 1× Invitrogen Tricine running buffer with 0.1% sodium thioglycolate in the top tank. The gel was run at 150V for 75 minutes. The gel was then transferred to a Novel PVDF membrane using a 7-minute transfer program on the iBLOT system. Once the transfer was complete, the blot membrane was then moved to a container and washed with Buffer A (1×TBS made from Quality Biological's 10×TBS (0.25M tris base, 1.37M NaCl, 0.03M KCL, pH 7.4)), for five minutes by rocking gently at room temperature. This was then followed with a blocking step using Buffer B (Buffer A with 1% BSA) for 1 hour. The blot was then rinsed three times with 5 minute washes of Buffer C (Buffer B with 0.05% Tween 20). This was followed with a 1:10000 dilution of Maine Biotech Anti-His antibody in Buffer C for 1 hour. The blot was then rinsed three times with Buffer C for 5 minutes each. This was followed with a 1:3000 dilution of BioRad goat anti-mouse AP conjugated antibody (secondary antibody) in Buffer C for 1 hour. The blot was then rinsed with two times with Buffer C for 5 minutes each and once with Buffer A for 5 minutes. The blot is then developed with BioRad AP developer and stopped by rinsing with water. The bands for the concentrated samples were then verified and diluted to make the bands similar in intensities/concentrations. The concentration of the samples was then also validated via iELISA to be between 10-20 ng/ul.
  • Indirect ELISA (iELISA) assay was performed as follows to quantitatively evaluate the ICK motif TP from the tobacco leaves transiently transformed with the FECT expression systems. 1 μL of the leaf extracted protein was diluted into 99 μL CB2 solution (Immunochemistry Technologies) in the well of an Immulon 2HD 96-well plate, with serial dilutions performed as necessary. Leaf proteins were from the extract samples were then allowed to coat the well walls for 3 hours in the dark at room temperature, and then the CB2 solution was removed, and each well was washed twice with 200 μL PBS (Gibco). 150 μL blocking solution (Block BSA in PBS with 5% non-fat dry milk) was then added into each well and incubated for 1 hour, in the dark, at room temperature. After the removal of the blocking solution and a PBS wash off the wells, 100 μL of rabbit anti-U-ACTX-Hv1a antibody (primary antibody) (1:250 dilution in blocking solution) was added to each well and incubated for 1 hour in the dark at room temperature. The primary antibody was then removed and each well was washed with PBS 4 times. Then 100 μL of HRP-conjugated goat anti-rabbit antibody (secondary antibody, used at 1:1000 dilution in the blocking solution) was added into each well and incubated for 1 hour in the dark at room temperature. After removal of the secondary antibody and wash of the wells with PBS, 100 μL substrate solution (a 1:1 mixture of ABTS peroxidase substrate solution A and solution B, KPL) was added to each well, and the chromogenic reaction was allowed to go until sufficient color development was apparent. Then 100 μL of peroxidase stop solution was added to each well to stop the reaction. The light absorbance of each reaction mixture in the plate was read at 405 nm using a SpectroMax-M2 plate reader, with SoftMax Pro used as control software. Serially diluted known concentrations of pure U-ACTX-Hv1a samples were treated in the same manner as described above in the iELISA assay to generate a mass-absorbance standard curve for quantities analysis.
  • To determine pepsin cleavability of the Linkers, the peptides are digested with simulated gastric fluid (SGF, 35 mM NaCl, pH 1.2 with 1 mg/ml pepsin from porcine gastric mucosa). Purified protein samples were mixed with 1:3, SGF:protein (v:v) and were incubated shaking at 37° C. A sample is taken at 0, 2 and 10 minutes immediately prepared for a protein gel (see above). The samples were then run on a Western Blot using the technique described above. See FIG. 6 .
  • To determine insect cleavability of the binary/tertiary peptides, the proteins were digested with gut extract isolated from Southern Corn Rootworm (Diabrotica undecimpunctata). Isolation of the gut contents is explained in Example A.1. Prior to peptide digestion, the proteins were buffer exchanged into 100 mM Phosphate buffer, 150 mM NaCl, pH 5.83 using a GE Healthcare Viva Spin 20 returning the final volume to the same as the starting volume. Digests were carried out using SCR gut extract at a 1:3 dilution of SCR gut extract stock:protein (v:v) shaking at 500 rpm, 25° C. Samples were taken at 0, 30 and 210 minutes. Samples were then prepared for SDS-PAGE and western blot as described above.
  • The binary/tertiary peptides were also tested for cleavability against CEW gut extract (described in Example A.1). The peptides were buffer exchanged, just like they were for the SCR assay above, into 200 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.1 150 mM NaCl. The assay conditions are repeated as listed above for SCR gut extract digest.
  • These protocols resulted in the creation and validation of candidate tertiary cleavable linking peptides intervening copies of a TP expressed in plant. Additional spacers to enhance cleavability were desired and they are detailed in section 1.3.
  • Example 4. FRET Research and Spacers that Make Multiple Candidate Tertiary Cleavable Linking Peptides
  • From the experiments performed and described above two exemplary effective binary peptides, ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605) and IFVRLR (SEQ ID NO: 1619), gave rapid SGF cleavage and rapid LEP and COLEOP cleavage of the peptides in human (SGF) and insect (LEP) and (COLEOP) simulated gut environments.
  • In order for the binary cleavable linking peptide to cleave, a proteolytic enzyme has to be able to recognize and land on the recognized sequence. If the space is tight or too small, it may cause slower or lower digesting efficiency. By making the binary peptide a tertiary peptide using the most favorable amino acids for the conditions, the speed in which the peptides cleave should increase. The use of “spacers” allows for such increased peptidase cleavage and increased insecticidal activity.
  • Spacers
  • To screen for potential spacers, FRET peptides were ordered as the binary peptide ALKLFVZ1Z2 and varied amino acids in positions Z1 and Z2. Some of the amino acids were screened as individuals and some were screened as pools. The peptides were re-suspended using 50% acetonitrile in water at a concentration of 2 μM of each peptide. For the one containing more than one FRET peptide, they were re-suspended so that each peptide was as 2 μM (assuming an equal portion of each one). These were then re-suspended and screened as described above for Round 1. The data does confirm that some amino acids in the Z position are more favorable than others. Table 7 shows representative amino acids for Z1 and Z2 based on the FRET peptide speed to cleave data. The greater the value of the slope in in Table 7 the greater the activity of the amino acid when part of a spacer. The column in Table 7 labeled “Slope” indicates the speed of cleavage of the Linker.
  • TABLE 7
    Representative spacer sequences for increasing
    speed to cleave for both X and Y conditions with
    binary peptide ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605)
    Spacer sequence Y Slope X Slope
    AM 23461 13328
    LH 36648 6278
    MN 27088 3981
    ES 24393 7394
    WQ 26735 6880
    DT 24393 7394
    Sequences that decreased speed to
    cleave
    PG 1925 −79
    IF −5662 −3064
  • An example of the gene construction for the transient Tobacco expression system can be seen in FIGS. 6A and 6B. For example shown in FIG. 6A, the Linker sequences ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660) and IFVRLRGS (SEQ ID NO: 1674) are represented in portions of FIG. 6A as (L). In gels, FIG. 7 , these show as 2 top bands for intact 4× (w & w/o Ubiquitin). Example Linker sequence IGER is represented by portions of FIG. 6B. In gels it shows as 1 top band for intact 4×.
  • Example 5. Cloning and Expression of an Insecticidal Transgenic Protein Containing Binary and Tertiary Cleavable Linking Peptides
  • This example details an example of methods to recover a transgenic corn plant with the stable expression of an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing binary and tertiary cleavable linking peptides and a TP. There are three components to making in this example: (1) vector design, (2) plant transformation and regeneration, and (3) validation of expression of the intact protein.
  • The first component is the (standard binary) vector design required for corn transformation, which involves the creation of a vector which has two regions: a backbone (FIG. 8 : white arrows) and a t-DNA region (FIG. 8 : black arrows). The backbone has two components: an origin of replication (Ori or ori) and a selectable marker. The backbone described in this example has two Oris so it can be replicated in both E. coli for subcloning purposes (for example the ColE1 a high copy Ori) and Agrobacterium for propagation of the plasmid (for example the OriV a low copy ori and its trfA initiation protein). The backbone described in this example has a bacterial neomycin phosphotransferase II (nptII) gene for resistance to kanamycin. This gene allows the selection for E. coli or Agrobacterium transformed with the plasmid. The t-DNA region contains three components: borders, an expression cassette for selection of transgenic plant cells on tissue culture media, and an expression cassette for the stable expression of the transgenic promoter. T-DNA borders are repeat sequences (25 bp) that flank the T-DNA in direct orientation and delineate the region that the virulence genes will replicate and package for genetic transformation. In this example the backbone and the T-DNA sequences are published by Coutu et al., in, Transgenic Res (2007) 16:771-781, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. In this example, the expression cassettes for both the selectable marker and the gene of interest (an insecticidal or nematicidal insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein containing binary and tertiary cleavable linking peptides and a TP) are similar in design and differ only in the region encoding the open reading frame (ORF) for their respective proteins.
  • A good example of this expression cassette is the corn Ubi-1 promoter and expression cassette defined by Christensen and Quail in Transgenic Res. 1996 May; 5(3):213-8, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. The promoter region from a constitutively expressing gene cassette from a plant can be subcloned and the gene removed and replaced by a multicloning site (MCS) to drop in the other genes of interest. In the case of the Ubi-1 example the 906 bp promoter region (UBI-1 prom) promotes the transcription of an 81 bp 5′ untranslated region (5′UTR) and a Ubi-1 1025 bp intron (UBI-1 intron) which is followed by a MCS. The cassette is terminated by the insertion of a terminator sequence, in this example the terminator sequence is about 250 bp of nopaline synthase (NOS) 3′ untranslated sequence and polyadenylation signals. For the selectable marker cassette, the insertion of a gene which confers plant resistance to an herbicidal chemical can be used such that cells expressing that cassette will be resistant to the inclusion of the herbicidal chemical in the tissue culture media. In this example, the selectable marker gene can be a gene that encodes phosphinothricin acetyltransferase activity (see U.S. Pat. No. 5,648,477, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety). The expression of an insecticidal transgenic protein containing binary and tertiary cleavable linking peptide and a TP is exemplified herein, specifically in Example A, where such a gene is transiently expressed in tobacco. The linear composition of the entire labeled exemplary corn transformation vector example can be seen in FIG. 8 .
  • The second component to this example is corn plant transformation by standard binary vectors and subsequence transgenic plant regeneration which is well known in the art, and is defined and documented by Frame et al., Plant Physiology, May 2002, Vol. 129, pp. 13-22 and Vega et al., Plant Cell Rep (2008) 27:297-305, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties. Following these protocols will result in the recovery of a transgenic plant with the t-DNA described above.
  • The third component to this section is the validation of expression of the intact protein. Transgenic plant tissue can be prepared to isolate the total soluble protein and this can be quantified on an iELISA using a primary antibody specifically binds the TP recombinantly generated (as defined in Example A as provided herein). The intact nature of the protein can be validated using a similar total soluble protein isolation followed by a protein gel and western blotting procedures (also as defined and exemplified in Example A herein).
  • Example 6. Subcloning and Expression of a Bt Cry Insecticidal Protein to Contain Binary and Tertiary Cleavable Linking Peptides
  • In some representative examples, protocols for the expression and synthesis of modified TPs are provided herein. In one example, further detailed below, modified Bt proteins are described that when exposed to the contents of insect and nematode and human gut environments, the Bt protein is more efficiently cleaved by the constituent insect or nematode proteases. The presence of the binary or tertiary cleavable peptide results in a more complete dissociation of the stabilizing or inactive region of the Bt protein resulting in the enhanced production of insecticidal and nematicidal TPs.
  • This example details how to subclone an exemplary Bt cry TP to contain binary and tertiary cleavable linking peptide (L). There are two steps to this example: The conversion of a Bt cry TP gene sequence to contain the binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptide (L) between a non-insecticidal domain (Btinactive) and an insecticidal domain (Btactive) gene, and the creation of a plant expressing that gene.
  • The simplest method to insert a binary or tertiary cleavable peptide (L) into a cry gene is to order the synthesis of the DNA encoding the entire gene with the inserted sequence.
  • The Bt cry TP gene can be any number of genes; a good example of a Bt TP gene is the Cry3a gene. A variant of Cry3a gene can be found in Genbank as accession no. AX712174: Sequence 8 from Patent WO03018810, (accessible at blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PROGRAM=blastn&PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearch&LINK_LOC=blasthome) which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. This sequence is derived from a publication Walters et al., Appl. Environ. Microbiol. January 2008 vol. 74 no. 2 367-374, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. In this publication, the authors replace a “VSS” wild-type three amino acid sequence with a “AAPF” four amino acid sequence in the domain I loop between alpha-helix 3 and alpha-helix 4, to increase the cleavage of the non-active 12 kDa domain I from the insecticidal or active 55 kDa remainder. The authors hypothesize this AAPF is recognized by the Chymotrypsin/Cathepsin G enzyme in gut of Diabrotica and leads to more rapid conversation of the full length 67 kDa protein to a cleavage and the 55 kDa form which is the insecticidal mature protein and exhibits specific binding to western corn rootworm brush border membrane compared to the 67 kDa form. This AAPF amino acid sequence was analyzed via FRET and yeast-produced dimers of the TP “U+2-ACTX-Hv1a” separated by AAPF amino acids in our hands and neither FRET nor protein showed any cleavability by human gastrointestinal proteases (data not shown). Thus, the peptide amino acid sequence AAPF used in the Walters et al. reference cited above is not a binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptide as described herein.
  • For the example of converting the Cry3a gene into one with an intervening binary or tertiary cleavable linking peptide, the cloning of the DNA sequence described in Walters et al. is performed such that the base pairs encoding the AAPF amino acids are removed and in their place (in frame) are the codons encoding the amino acids for a binary cleavable linking peptide ALKLFV (SEQ ID NO: 1605) or the tertiary cleavable linking peptide ALKLFVGS (SEQ ID NO: 1660). This would insert the cleavable binary or tertiary peptide between the propeptide (Btinactive) and the Bt active toxin (Btactive) as illustrated in FIG. 3B where the cleavable binary or tertiary peptide is placed in frame between the inactive portion of the Bt TP (Btinactive) and the active portion of the Bt TP (Btactive).
  • For the expression of a Bt Cry TP to contain a binary and/or a tertiary cleavable linking peptide, the DNA described above would be subcloned into the multi-cloning site within the insecticidal gene expression cassette, and transformed in corn as previously described by Example B.
  • Example 7. Exemplary Binary Peptides
  • In some embodiments, the binary peptide of the present invention is the binary peptide that has an amino acid sequence that can be assembled by combining a sequence from the SGF screening Y set and the insect cleavability X set, in X-Y or Y-X orientation from the X sequences and Y sequences.
  • One embodiment of the sequences discovered from SGF screening, Y, are: AFF, AFG, AFI, AFL, AFV, AFY, AGF, AGL, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALG, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFG, DFI, DFL, DFY, DGF, DGL, DIF, DLF, DLG, DLY, DYF, DYL, EFF, EFG, EFI, EFL, EFY, EGF, EGL, EIF, ELF, ELG, ELY, EYF, EYL, FF, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFG, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FGA, FGD, FGE, FGF, FGI, FGK, FGL, FGR, FGS, FGT, FGV, FGY, FLV, FLR, FYA, FYD, FYE, FYF, FYG, FYI, FYK, FYL, FYR, FYS, FYT, FYV, FYY, GFA, GFD, GFE, GFF, GFI, GFK, GFL, GFR, GFS, GFT, GFV, GFY, GGL, GIF, GIL, GLF, GLI, GLL, GLY, GYF, GYL, IF, IFA, IFF, IFG, IFI, IFL, IFV, IFY, IGF, IGL, IIF, IIL, ILF, ILG, ILI, ILL, ILY, IYF, IYL, LFA, LFF, LFG, LFI, LFL, LFV, LFY, LG, LGA, LGE, LGF, LGI, LGL, LGV, LGY, LIF, LIG, LII, LIL, LIY, LLF, LLG, LLI, LLL, LLY, LYA, LYF, LYG, LYI, LYL, LYV, LYY, NFF, NFG, NFI, NFL, NFY, NGF, NGL, NIL, NLG, NLI, NLL, NYF, NYL, QFF, QFG, QFI, QFL, QFY, QGF, QGL, QIL, QLG, QLI, QLL, QYF, QYL, SFF, SFG, SFI, SFL, SFY, SGF, SGL, SIF, SIL, SLF, SLG, SLI, SLL, SLY, SYF, SYL, TFF, TFG, TFI, TFL, TFY, TGF, TGL, TIF, TIL, TLF, TLG, TLI, TLL, TLY, TYF, TYL, VFF, VFG, VFI, VFL, VFY, VGF, VGL, VIF, VIL, VLF, VLG, VLI, VLL, VLY, VYF, VYL, YFA, YFD, YFE, YFF, YFG, YFI, YFK, YFL, YFR, YFS, YFT, YFV, YFY, YGF, YGL, YYF, YYL.
  • Another embodiment of the sequences discovered from SGF screening, Y, are: AFF, AFI, AFL, AFY, AIF, AIL, ALF, ALI, ALL, ALY, AYF, AYL, DFF, DFI, DFL, DFY, DIF, DLF, DLY, DYF, DYL, YFL, EFF, EFI, EFL, 0, EFY, EIF, ELF, ELY, EYF, EYL, FFA, FFD, FFE, FFF, FFI, FFK, FFL, FFR, FFS, FFT, FFV, FFY, FYA, FYD, FYE, FYF, FYI, FYK, FYL, FYR, FYS, FYT, FYV, FYY, IFA, IFF, IFI, IFL, IFV, IFY, IIF, IIL, ILF, ILI, ILL, ILY, IYF, IYL, LFA, LFF, LFI, LFL, LFV, LFY, LIF, LII, LIL, LIY, LLF, LLI, LLL, LLY, LYA, LYF, LYI, LYL, LYV, LYY, NFF, NFI, NFL, NFY, NIL, NLI, NLL, NYF, NYL, QFF, QFI, QFL, QFY, QIL, QLI, QLL, QYF, QYL, SFF, SFI, SFL, SFY, SIF, SIL, SLF, SLI, SLL, SLY, SYF, SYL, TFF, TFI, TFL, TFY, TIF, TIL, TLF, TLI, TLL, TLY, TYF, TYL, VFF, VFI, VFL, VFY, VIF, VIL, VLF, VLI, VLL, VLY, VYF, VYL, YFA, YFD, YFE, YFF, YFI, YFK, YFL, YFR, YFS, YFT, YFV, YFY, YYF, YYL.
  • One embodiment of the sequences discovered from insect cleavability, X, are: AAG, AAK, AAR, AFG, AFK, AFR, AGF, AGI, AGK, AGL, AGN, AGQ, AGR, AGS, AGT, AGY, AIG, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AKG, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALG, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APF, APG, APK, APR, ARF, ARG, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASG, ASK, ASR, ATG, ATK, ATR, AVG, AVK, AVR, AYG, AYK, AYR, DGK, DGR, DIG, DIK, DIR, DLG, DLK, DLR, EGK, EGR, EIG, EIK, EIR, ELG, ELK, ELR, ER, FVR, GAF, GAI, GAK, GAL, GAR, GAY, GFK, GFR, GIK, GIN, GIQ, GIR, GKA, GKD, GKE, GKF, GM, GKK, GKL, GKN, GKQ, GKR, GKS, GKT, GKV, GKY, GLK, GLN, GLQ, GLR, GNA, GNK, GNR, GNV, GPK, GPR, GQA, GQK, GQR, GQV, GRA, GRD, GRE, GRF, GRI, GRK, GRL, GRN, GRQ, GRR, GRS, GRT, GRV, GRY, GSI, GSK, GSL, GSR, GTI, GTK, GTL, GTR, GVF, GVI, GVK, GVL, GVR, GVY, GYK, GYR, IGA, IGF, IGI, IGK, IGL, IGN, IGQ, IGR, IGS, IGT, IGV, IGY, IIG, IIK, IIR, IKA, IKF, IKG, IKI, IKK, IKL, IKN, IKQ, IKR, IKS, IKT, IKV, IKY, ILG, ILK, ILR, INA, ING, INK, INR, INV, IPG, IPK, IPR, IQA, IQG, IQK, IQR, IQV, IRA, IRF, IRG, IRI, IRK, IRL, IRN, IRQ, IRR, IRS, IRT, IRV, IRY, ISG, ISK, ISR, ITG, ITK, ITR, KAF, KAG, KAI, KAK, KAL, KAR, KAY, KFF, KFG, KFK, KFR, KGA, KGD, KGE, KGF, KGI, KGK, KGL, KGN, KGQ, KGR, KGS, KGT, KGV, KGY, MG, MK, KIN, MQ, MR, KKA, KKD, KKE, KKF, KKG, KKN, KKQ, KKS, KKT, KKV, KKY, KLG, KLK, KLN, KLQ, KLR, KNG, KNK, KNR, KPG, KPK, KPR, KQG, KQK, KQR, KRA, KRD, KRE, KRF, KRG, KRN, KRQ, KRS, KRT, KRV, KRY, KSG, KSI, KSK, KSL, KSR, KTG, KTI, KTK, KTL, KTR, KVF, KVG, KVI, KVK, KVL, KVR, KVY, KYG, KYK, KYR, LFR, LGA, LGF, LGI, LGK, LGL, LGN, LGQ, LGR, LGS, LGT, LGV, LGY, LIG, LIK, LIR, LK, LKA, LKF, LKG, LKI, LKK, LKL, LKN, LKQ, LKR, LKS, LKT, LKV, LKY, LLG, LLK, LLR, LNA, LNG, LNK, LNR, LNV, LPG, LPK, LPR, LQA, LQG, LQK, LQR, LQV, LRA, LRF, LRG, LRI, LRK, LRL, LRN, LRQ, LRR, LRS, LRT, LRV, LRY, LSG, LSK, LSR, LTG, LTK, LTR, NGK, NGR, NIG, NIK, NIR, NLG, NLK, NLR, PGK, PGR, PIG, PIK, PIR, PKG, PKK, PKR, PLG, PLK, PLR, PRG, PRK, PRR, QGK, QGR, QIG, QIK, QIR, QLG, QLK, QLR, RAF, RAG, RAI, RAK, RAL, RAR, RAY, RFF, RFG, RFK, RFR, RGA, RGD, RGE, RGF, RGI, RGK, RGL, RGN, RGQ, RGR, RGS, RGT, RGV, RGY, RIG, RIK, RIN, RIQ, RIR, RKA, RKD, RKE, RKF, RKG, RKK, RKN, RKQ, RKS, RKT, RKV, RKY, RLF, RLFL, RLG, RLK, RLN, RLQ, RLR, RNG, RNK, RNR, RPG, RPK, RPR, RQG, RQK, RQR, RRA, RRD, RRE, RRF, RRG, RRK, RRN, RRQ, RRR, RRS, RRT, RRV, RRY, RSG, RSI, RSK, RSL, RSR, RTG, RTI, RTK, RTL, RTR, RVF, RVG, RVI, RVK, RVL, RVR, RVY, RYG, RYK, RYR, VAG, VAK, VAR, VFG, VFK, VFR, VGF, VGI, VGK, VGL, VGN, VGQ, VGR, VGS, VGT, VGY, VIG, VIK, VIN, VIQ, VIR, VKF, VKG, VM, VKK, VKL, VKN, VKQ, VKR, VKS, VKT, VKY, VLG, VLK, VLN, VLQ, VLR, VPG, VPK, VPR, VR, VRF, VRG, VRI, VRK, VRL, VRN, VRQ, VRR, VRS, VRT, VRY, VSG, VSK, VSR, VTG, VTK, VTR, VVG, VVK, VVR, VYG, VYK, VYR.
  • Another embodiment of the sequences discovered from insect cleavability, X, are: AAK, AAR, AFK, AFR, AIK, AIN, AIQ, AIR, AKF, AM, AKK, AKL, AKN, AKQ, AKR, AKS, AKT, AKY, ALK, ALN, ALQ, ALR, APK, APR, ARF, ARI, ARK, ARL, ARN, ARQ, ARR, ARS, ART, ARY, ASK, ASR, ATK, ATR, AVK, AVR, AYK, AYR, DIK, DIR, DLK, DLR, EIK, EIR, ELK, ELR, IIK, IIR, IKA, IKF, IM, IKK, IKL, IKN, IKQ, IKR, IKS, IKT, IKV, IKY, ILK, ILR, INA, INK, INR, INV, IPK, IPR, IQA, IQK, IQR, IQV, IRA, IRF, IRI, IRK, IRL, IRN, IRQ, IRR, IRS, IRT, IRV, IRY, ISK, ISR, ITK, ITR, KAF, KAI, KAK, KAL, KAR, KAY, KFK, KFR, KIK, KIN, KIQ, KIR, KKA, KKD, KKE, KKF, KKN, KKQ, KKS, KKT, KKV, KKY, KLK, KLN, KLQ, KLR, KNK, KNR, KPK, KPR, KQK, KQR, KRA, KRD, KRE, KRF, KRN, KRQ, KRS, KRT, KRV, KRY, KSI, KSK, KSL, KSR, KTI, KTK, KTL, KTR, KVF, KVI, KVK, KVL, KVR, KVY, KYK, KYR, LIK, LIR, LKA, LKF, LKI, LKK, LKL, LKN, LKQ, LKR, LKS, LKT, LKV, LKY, LLK, LLR, LNA, LNK, LNR, LNV, LPK, LPR, LQA, LQK, LQR, LQV, LRA, LRF, LRI, LRK, LRL, LRN, LRQ, LRR, LRS, LRT, LRV, LRY, LSK, LSR, LTK, LTR, NIK, NIR, NLK, NLR, PIK, PIR, PKK, PKR, PLK, PLR, PRK, PRR, QIK, QIR, QLK, QLR, RAF, RAI, RAK, RAL, RAR, RAY, RFK, RFR, RIK, RIN, RIQ, RIR, RKA, RKD, RKE, RKF, RKN, RKQ, RKS, RKT, RKV, RKY, RLK, RLN, RLQ, RLR, RNK, RNR, RPK, RPR, RQK, RQR, RRA, RRD, RRE, RRF, RRN, RRQ, RRS, RRT, RRV, RRY, RSI, RSK, RSL, RSR, RTI, RTK, RTL, RTR, RVF, RVI, RVK, RVL, RVR, RVY, RYK, RYR, VAK, VAR, VFK, VFR, VIK, VIN, VIQ, VIR, VKF, VKI, VKK, VKL, VKN, VKQ, VKR, VKS, VKT, VKY, VLK, VLN, VLQ, VLR, VPK, VPR, VRF, VRI, VRK, VRL, VRN, VRQ, VRR, VRS, VRT, VRY, VSK, VSR, VTK, VTR, VVK, VVR, VYK, VYR.
  • Example 8. The Insecticidal Efficacy of a Transgenic Plant Expressing the Insecticidal and/or Nematicidal Proteins of the Present Invention
  • Transgenic corn plants were made using the vector described in FIG. 8 . The ORF comprising the components STA, L, and TP was defined by FIG. 6B and prepared as a polynucleotide operable for transformation into corn plant cells. A field trial was performed by planting seeds at 6 inch spacing, with 125 seeds per row with 6 reps. The UTC corn line was the parent line used as an explant for corn transformation and the transgenic corn line was the resulting transgenic plant expressing the transgene of FIG. 6B. Each plant was infested with 600 western corn rootworm eggs and then scored once the crop reached maturity. Scoring was performed on a 0-3 scale where the three whorls of roots underground were scored for damage using (Oleson, J. D., Y. Park, T. M. Nowatzki, and J. J. Tollefson. 2005. J. Econ Entomol. 98(1):1-8). A 0 score represents no damage. A 3 score represents that all 3 root whorls were destroyed. The Field trial data of non-transgenic and transgenic corn plants where transgenic plants displayed reduced damage by western corn rootworm shown in FIG. 9 is the average score of 30 plants, 5 from each of the 6 reps picked at random. The transgenic plant comprising the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein shown in FIG. 6B turned in a score of 1.55 damage compared to the 1.90 damage in the untransformed corn line that was used as an explant to generate the transgenic corn line. The use of the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein shown in FIG. 6B when transformed into corn demonstrates the efficacy of the transgene in controlling a pest of corn, western corn rootworm.

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What is claimed is:
1. A peptide comprised of either a binary or a tertiary peptide, that contains at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptides have 2 different regions and the tertiary peptides have 3 different regions; wherein, the binary and tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease.
2. The peptide of claim 1, wherein the binary peptide contains at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 8 amino acids; and the peptide comprises 2 different regions, wherein one of the regions can be cleaved by an animal gut protease and the other region can be cleaved by an insect or nematode gut protease.
3. The peptide of claim 1, wherein the tertiary peptide contains at least 5 amino acids up to a maximum of 16 amino acids; and the tertiary peptide comprises a binary peptide and a spacer of 1 to 4 amino acids.
4. The peptide of claim 3, wherein the spacer comprises the amino acid sequence GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
5. The binary peptide of any one of claims 1-4, wherein the binary peptide comprises an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of: X1-X2-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Y1-Y2-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4, wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
6. The peptide of any one of claims 1-5, wherein the binary peptide has an amino acid sequence: AFVRLF, AKLFV, ALFALK, ALFLK, ALFLR, ALFR, ALFRLR, ALKALF, ALKFF, ALKFLV, ALKIFV, ALKLFV, FFADIK, FFALK, FFLK, FFLR, FFRLR, FGYRIK, FLRLF, FYARR, GGLRKK, IFVALK, IFVLK, IFVLR, IFVR, IFVRLR, ILFNIK, LFAAPF, FVALK, LFVLK, LFVLR, LFVR, LFVRLR, LFVRVFL, LGER, LKALF, LKFF, LKIFV, LKLFV, LRALF, LRFF, LRIFV, LRLFV, RALF, RIFV, RLFV, RLRALF, RLRFF, RLRIFV, RLRLFV, RRKAFV, RRKLIF, RRRFFA, VFGRKG, and YFVRK.
7. The peptide of claim 6, wherein the binary peptide has an amino acid sequence: IFVALK, IFVRLR, ALKLFV, ALKFLV, RRKAFV, LFAAPF, LFVALK, LRLFV, LFVRLR, or LKLFV.
8. The peptide of claim 1, wherein the tertiary peptide comprises an amino acid sequence of IFVALKGS, IFVRLRGS, ALKLFVGS, ALKFLVGS, RRKAFVGS, LFAAPFGS, LFVALKGS, LRLFVGS, LFVRLRGS, or LKLFVGS.
9. The peptide of any one of claims 1-7, wherein the binary peptide has an amino acid sequence IFVRLR, ALKLFV, ALKFLV, RRKAFV, or LFAAPF.
10. The peptide of claim 1-9, wherein the tertiary peptide comprises an amino acid sequence of: IFVRLRGS, ALKLFVGS, ALKFLVGS, RRKAFVGS, LFAAPFGS, GSIFVRLR, GSALKLFV, GSALKFLV, GSGSRRKAFV, or GSLFAAPF.
11. The peptide of any one of claims 1-10, wherein the binary or tertiary peptide is linked to a toxic protein (TP).
12. The peptide of claim 11, further comprising a second binary or tertiary peptide linked in frame to the C-terminus of the TP.
13. The peptide of any one of claims 1-12, wherein the binary or tertiary peptide is linked to the C-terminus of an Endoplasmic Reticulum Signal Peptide (ERSP).
14. An insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein having one or more cleavable linking peptides, the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprising an ERSP fused in frame with the N-terminus of a binary or tertiary peptide, the binary or tertiary peptide is fused in frame with a construct comprising: (L-TP)n, (L-TP)n-L, (TP-L)n, or L-(TP-L)n, wherein TP is a toxic protein, L is a binary or tertiary peptide and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 200.
15. The peptide or insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of any one of claims 1-14, wherein the insect protease is a protease derived from a Lepidoptera or a Coleoptera insect species.
16. The peptide or insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of any one of claims 1-15, wherein the animal gut protease is a human gastrointestinal protease.
17. The peptide or insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of any one of claims 1-16, wherein the TP is a protein selected from the group consisting of a Pore Forming Insecticidal Protein (PFIP) and a Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein (CRIP).
18. The peptide or insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of any one of claims 1-17, wherein the TP is a peptide or protein having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
19. The peptide or insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of any one of claims 1-18, wherein the TP is a peptide or protein having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof.
20. The peptide or insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of claim 19, wherein the TP is a peptide having an amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6, 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, or variants thereof.
21. A polynucleotide encoding a peptide or insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein of any one of claims 1-20.
22. A vector comprising a polynucleotide of claim 21.
23. A bacterial host cell, a yeast host cell, a plant host cell or an animal host cell comprising a vector of claim 22.
24. A DNA construct comprising a polynucleotide linked to an operable promoter, wherein said polynucleotide encodes: a cleavable peptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, said cleavable peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions; wherein the cleavable peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease, and the polynucleotide further encodes a toxic peptide fused in frame with said cleavable peptide.
25. The DNA construct of claim 24, wherein the tertiary peptide contains at least 5 amino acids up to a maximum of 16 amino acids; and the tertiary peptide comprises a binary peptide and a spacer of 1 to 4 amino acids.
26. The DNA construct of claim 25, wherein the spacer comprises the amino acid sequence GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
27. The DNA construct of any one of claims 24-26, wherein the binary peptide comprises an amino acid sequence of: X1-X2-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Y1-Y2-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4, wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
28. The DNA construct of claim 27, wherein the binary peptide comprises the amino acid sequence: AFVRLF, AKLFV, ALFALK, ALFLK, ALFLR, ALFR, ALFRLR, ALKALF, ALKFF, ALKFLV, ALKIFV, ALKLFV, FFADIK, FFALK, FFLK, FFLR, FFRLR, FGYRIK, FLRLF, FYARR, GGLRKK, IFVALK, IFVLK, IFVLR, IFVR, IFVRLR, ILFNIK, LFAAPF, FVALK, LFVLK, LFVLR, LFVR, LFVRLR, LFVRVFL, LGER, LKALF, LKFF, LKIFV, LKLFV, LRALF, LRFF, LRIFV, LRLFV, RALF, RIFV, RLFV, RLRALF, RLRFF, RLRIFV, RLRLFV, RRKAFV, RRKLIF, RRRFFA, VFGRKG, and YFVRK.
29. The DNA construct of claim 28, wherein the binary peptide comprises an amino acid sequence: IFVRLR, ALKLFV, ALKFLV, RRKAFV, or LFAAPF.
30. The DNA construct of claim 24, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a tertiary peptide comprising the amino acid sequence: AFVRLFGS, AKLFVGS, ALFALKGS, ALFLKGS, ALFLRGS, ALFRGS, ALFRLRGS, ALKALFGS, ALKFFGS, ALKFLVGS, ALKIFVGS, ALKLFVGS, FFADIKGS, FFALKGS, FFLKGS, FFLRGS, FFRLRGS, FGYRIKGS, FLRLFGS, FYARRGS, GGLRKKGS, IFVALKGS, IFVLKGS, IFVLRGS, IFVRGS, IFVRLRGS, ILFNIKGS, LFAAPFGS, LFVALKGS, LFVLKGS, LFVLRGS, LFVRGS, LFVRLRGS, LFVRVFLGS, LGERGS, LKALFGS, LKFFGS, LKIFVGS, LKLFVGS, LRALFGS, LRFFGS, LRIFVGS, LRLFVGS, RALFGS, RIFVGS, RLFVGS, RLRALFGS, RLRFFGS, RLRIFVGS, RLRLFVGS, RRKAFVGS, RRKLIFGS, RRRFFAGS, VFGRKGGS, YFVRKGS, GSAFVRLF, GSAKLFV, GSALFALK, GSALFLK, GSALFLR, GSALFR, GSALFRLR, GSALKALF, GSALKFF, GSALKFLV, GSALKIFV, GSALKLFV, GSFFADIK, GSFFALK, GSFFLK, GSFFLR, GSFFRLR, GSFGYRIK, GSFLRLF, GSFYARR, GSGGLRKK, GSIFVALK, GSIFVLK, GSIFVLR, GSIFVR, GSIFVRLR, GSILFNIK, GSLFAAPF, GSLFVALK, GSLFVLK, GSLFVLR, GSLFVR, GSLFVRLR, GSLFVRVFL, GSLGER, GSLKALF, GSLKFF, GSLKIFV, GSLKLFV, GSLRALF, GSLRFF, GSLRIFV, GSLRLFV, GSRALF, GSRIFV, GSRLFV, GSRLRALF, GSRLRFF, GSRLRIFV, GSRLRLFV, GSRRKAFV, GSRRKLIF, GSRRRFFA, GSVFGRKG, and GSYFVRK.
31. The DNA construct of claim 24, wherein said insect protease is a protease derived from a Lepidoptera or a Coleoptera insect species.
32. The DNA construct of claim 24, wherein said animal gut protease is a human gastrointestinal protease.
33. The DNA construct of any one of claims 24-32, wherein the TP is a peptide or protein selected from the group consisting of a Pore Forming Insecticidal Protein (PFIP) and a Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein (CRIP).
34. The DNA construct of claim 33, wherein the TP is a peptide or protein having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5-1593 and 1761-1775.
35. The DNA construct of claim 34, wherein the TP is a peptide or protein having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, and variants thereof.
36. The DNA construct of claim 35, wherein the TP is a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6, 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, or variants thereof.
37. A host cell comprising a DNA construct of any one of claims 24-36.
38. The host cell of claim 37, comprising a DNA construct of claim 35.
39. The host cell of claim 37, wherein said host cell is a bacterial cell, a yeast cell, a plant cell, or an animal cell.
40. The host cell of claim 39, wherein said bacterial cell is selected from the group consisting of an Agrobacterium, a Bacillus, an Escherichia, a Salmonella, a Pseudomonas, and a Rhizobium cell.
41. The host cell of claim 39, wherein said plant cell is selected from the group consisting of: alfalfa, banana, barley, bean, broccoli, cabbage, canola, carrot, cassava, castor, cauliflower, celery, chickpea, Chinese cabbage, citrus, coconut, coffee, corn, clover, cotton, a cucurbit, cucumber, Douglas fir, eggplant, eucalyptus, flax, garlic, grape, hops, leek, lettuce, Loblolly pine, millets, melons, nut, oat, olive, onion, ornamental, palm, pasture grass, pea, peanut, pepper, pigeonpea, pine, potato, poplar, pumpkin, Radiata pine, radish, rapeseed, rice, rootstocks, rye, safflower, shrub, sorghum, Southern pine, soybean, spinach, squash, strawberry, sugar beet, sugarcane, sunflower, sweet corn, sweet gum, sweet potato, switchgrass, tea, tobacco, tomato, triticale, turf grass, watermelon, and a wheat plant cell.
42. A plant, or part thereof comprising a polynucleotide linked to an operable promoter, wherein said polynucleotide encodes: a cleavable peptide comprising either a binary or a tertiary peptide, said cleavable peptide containing at least 4 amino acids and up to a maximum of 16 amino acids, and is comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptide has 2 different regions and the tertiary peptide has 3 different regions; wherein the cleavable peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease, and wherein the polynucleotide further encodes a toxic peptide fused in frame with said cleavable peptide.
43. The plant, or part thereof, of claim 42, wherein said plant is elected from the group consisting of a alfalfa, banana, barley, bean, broccoli, cabbage, canola, carrot, cassava, castor, cauliflower, celery, chickpea, Chinese cabbage, citrus, coconut, coffee, corn, clover, cotton, a cucurbit, cucumber, Douglas fir, eggplant, eucalyptus, flax, garlic, grape, hops, leek, lettuce, Loblolly pine, millets, melons, nut, oat, olive, onion, ornamental, palm, pasture grass, pea, peanut, pepper, pigeonpea, pine, potato, poplar, pumpkin, Radiata pine, radish, rapeseed, rice, rootstocks, rye, safflower, shrub, sorghum, Southern pine, soybean, spinach, squash, strawberry, sugar beet, sugarcane, sunflower, sweet corn, sweet gum, sweet potato, switchgrass, tea, tobacco, tomato, triticale, turf grass, watermelon, and a wheat plant, and wherein said part is selected from the group consisting of a leaf, a stem a flower, a sepal, a fruit, a root, or a seed.
44. A method of controlling a pest infection of a plant, said method comprising providing in a diet of the pest, a plant, or part thereof, the plant or part thereof expressing an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, or coated at least on a portion of the plant or part thereof, a composition comprising an insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein, wherein the insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein comprises one or more cleavable binary or tertiary peptides, and one or more TPs, wherein the binary and tertiary peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease and an insect or nematode gut protease.
45. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 44, wherein said cleavable binary peptide comprises an amino acid sequence: X1-X2-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3, X1-X2-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, X1-X2-X3-X4-Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4, Y1-Y2-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-X1-X2-X3-X4, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3, Y1-Y2-Y3-Y4-X1-X2-X3-X4, wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein each Xn and each Yn is an amino acid, and wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, and V; X2 is selected from the group consisting of A, F, G, I, K, L, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, V, and Y; X4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V. In some embodiments, Y1 is selected from the group consisting of: (all single letter amino acid format) A, D, E, F, G, I, L, N, Q, S, T, V, and Y; Y2 is selected from the group consisting of F, G, I, L, and Y; and Y3 is selected from the group consisting of A, D, E, F, G, I, K, L, R, S, T, V, and Y; and Y4 is selected from the group consisting of: R, H, K, D, E, S, T, N, Q, G, A, I, L, M, F, W, Y, and V.
46. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 44, wherein the binary peptide comprises an amino acid sequence of: AFVRLF, AKLFV, ALFALK, ALFLK, ALFLR, ALFR, ALFRLR, ALKALF, ALKFF, ALKFLV, ALKIFV, ALKLFV, FFADIK, FFALK, FFLK, FFLR, FFRLR, FGYRIK, FLRLF, FYARR, GGLRKK, IFVALK, IFVLK, IFVLR, IFVR, IFVRLR, ILFNIK, LFAAPF, FVALK, LFVLK, LFVLR, LFVR, LFVRLR, LFVRVFL, LGER, LKALF, LKFF, LKIFV, LKLFV, LRALF, LRFF, LRIFV, LRLFV, RALF, RIFV, RLFV, RLRALF, RLRFF, RLRIFV, RLRLFV, RRKAFV, RRKLIF, RRRFFA, VFGRKG, and YFVRK.
47. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 46, wherein the binary peptide comprises an amino sequence IFVRLR, ALKLFV, ALKFLV, RRKAFV, or LFAAPF.
48. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 44, wherein the cleavable tertiary peptide at least 5 amino acids up to a maximum of 16 amino acids; and the tertiary peptide comprises a binary peptide and a spacer of 1 to 4 amino acids.
49. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 48, wherein the tertiary peptide comprises a binary peptide fused at its C-terminus to a di-peptide comprising the amino acid sequence GS, WN, WQ, MA, MV, AM, LH, MN, ES, WQ, or DT.
50. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 44, wherein the insect protease is a protease derived from a Lepidoptera or a Coleoptera insect species.
51. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 44, wherein the animal gut protease is a human gastrointestinal protease.
52. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of any one of claims 44-51, wherein the TP is a protein selected from the group consisting of a Pore Forming Insecticidal Protein (PFIP) and a Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Protein (CRIP).
53. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 44, wherein said pest is an insect or a nematode.
54. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 53, wherein said pest is an insect, from the insect order selected from the group consisting of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.
55. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of 44, wherein said TP is a peptide or protein selected from the group consisting of: a Pore Forming Insecticidal Protein (PFIP) and a Cysteine Rich Insecticidal Peptide (CRIP).
56. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of 55, wherein the TP is an Inhibitor Cysteine Knot (ICK) motif protein or a non-ICK protein.
57. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 56, wherein the TP is a peptide or protein having at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 100% sequence identity or sequence homology to a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6 and 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, or variants thereof.
58. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 57, wherein the TP is a peptide or protein having an amino acid sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 5, 6, 1761, 1762, 1767, 1771-1773, or variants thereof.
59. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 44, wherein a pesticidally effective amount of said TP is provided by the plant, which is a recombinant plant, a part of the plant, or a product of the plant or the plant part.
60. The method of controlling a pest infection of a plant of claim 44, wherein a pesticidally effective amount of said insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein is provided in one or more formulations topically applied on the plant or a part of the plant, said one or more formulations comprising bacterial cells, bacterial spores, fungal cells, fungal spores, or parasporal crystals that comprise said insecticidal and/or nematicidal protein.
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