Patent Application: US-97162492-A

Abstract:
cloning and sequencing certain baculovirus genes encoding polypeptides termed enhancins . the polypeptides are isolated from the occlusion body of certain baculoviruses such as trichoplusia ni granulosis virus and pseudaletia unipuncta granulosis virus , hawaiian strain . the polypeptides have the ability of enhancing the infectivity of baculoviruses and are useful ingredients of pest control compositions .

Description:
the tngv vef and pugv - h sf were isolated according to the methods of gallo et al . ( 21 ) with the following modifications . sephacryl ® and now replaced by sepharyl ® s - 300hr and the initial concentration of viral occlusion bodies was reduced from 1 . 7 × 10 12 to 1 . 0 × 10 12 per ml . purified enhancing factor containing approximately 3 mg of protein was added to an equal volume of 2 × sample buffer ( 2 ×= 0 . 125m tris hcl [ tris ( hydroxymethyl ) aminomethane ]. ph 6 . 8 , 4 % sds , 20 % glycerol , 10 % 2 - mercaptoethanol ), heated in a boiling water bath for 3 min ., and separated by sds polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis ( page ) according to the methods of laemmli ( 29 ). electrophoresis was carried out at 30m amps for 4 . 5 hr in a 7 % separating gel ( 10 cm × 12 cm × 1 . 5 mm ), and stained with coomassie blue r - 250 following standard protocols . the vef present in granulin fraction of tngv obs was purified in the following manner : 1 . 7 × 10 12 tngv obs were dissolved in 1 ml 0 . 05m na 2 co 3 for 15 min . at room temperature , and layered on a 20 % sucrose cushion in h 2 o and centrifuged for 45 min . at 126 , 000 g at 4 ° c . the granulin fraction remained on top of the sucrose cushion and was collected . after an incubation of 5 hrs at 28 ° c ., the granulin fraction was applied onto a sephacryl - s - 200 column ( 2 . 6 × 34 cm ) and eluted with 50 mm tris - hcl ph 7 . 0 , 0 . 1m nacl at 1 . 5 ml / min , and the absorption of the eluate measured at 280 nm . the first peak containing vef protein was poled and used for experiment . a cloning and expression vector , lambda gtll , was used for construction of genomic library of tngv and for isolation of the vef gene ( 3 ). antibodies were raised against sephacryl - column purified vef from granulin fraction after alkali solubilization of obs ( 1 ) and were used for immunoblotting to screen for positive clones . through several steps of screening approximately 6000 plaques , a clone was selected containing the longest viral - vef dna insert . southern blot hybridization analysis of tngv dna hind iii digests , probed with the vef clone insert , revealed that the vef gene existed on the hind iii - m fragment . western blot analysis of the fusion protein expressed in lysogenic e . coli ( y1089 strain ) transfected with vef clone had a molecular weight of 153 kd ( fig2 ). this suggested a fusion protein gene consisting of 39 kd of the vef carboxy terminal end and the 114 kd beta - gal gene ( fig1 c , 2 ). since the vef has a size of 104 kd , the position of the vef gene on a fine map of the hind iii - m fragment was predicted and a 3 . 5 kbp dna portion was sequenced ( item b of fig1 ). sequence analysis showed an open reading frame of 2 , 703 bp dna corresponding to the size of the vef polypeptide at the predicted location of the vef gene ( fig3 ). the deduced size of the polypeptide was 104 , 300 daltons and consisted of 901 amino acid residues . there are no sites for lipophilic modification . to determine the presence of the vef gene among several isolates of baculovirus a 1 . 5 kbp portion of the vef gene was probed onto a southern blot of different virus dna fragments digested with hind iii restriction enzyme under high stringency condition ( 12 ). the result showed that two granulosis virus dnas , isolated from pugv - h and hagv , contained a sequence homologous to the tngv vef gene probe ( fig5 a ). dna isolated from eegv did not contain sequences homologous to the vef gene probe . the restriction enzyme digestion pattern of dna from tngv , gvh , and hagv were very similar , whereas eegv exhibited a very distinct dna profile . the probe did not hybridize with dnas from two nuclear polyhedrosis viruses ( fig5 a ). temporal gene expression of the vef gene was examined by northern blot analysis of total rna from tngv - infected t . ni larvae at 3 and 6 days p . i . a probe with a size of 1 . 5 kb kpni - v fragment , a part of the vef gene , showed no hybridization with rnas at 3 days p . i . but showed strong hybridization with two rna species with sizes of 2 . 7 kb and 3 . 3 kb at 6 days p . i . ( fig4 ). the tngv - vef present in the granulin fraction of alkaline dissolved obs was resolved as a 104 kd protein on a sds - polyacrylamide gel . to determine the presence of high molecular weight polypeptides in granulin or polyhedrin fractions from six baculoviruses , these virus samples were analyzed by sds - page ( fig5 b ). in the granulin fractions from tngv , gvh and hagv , polypeptides with a size of 104 kd , 106 kd , and a complex of 110 kd and 94 kd were detected , respectively . the single high molecular weight polypeptide ( 106 kd ) from gvh appears to migrate on sds - page similar to the 104 kd protein from tngv ( fig5 b and y . tanada , personal communication ). the assignment of a vef function to either the 94 or 110 kda polypeptides from hagv is not clear at this time . no polypeptides with a size of approximately 100 kda were present in eegv , tnsnpv , and acmnpv . three of the gvs examined , tngv , gvh , and hagv all infect the noctuid species t . ni , whereas eegv grows only in the sphyngid species , e . ello . kpni and sali subclones of the ecori - i fragment of pugv - h , which contains the entire sf gene , were cloned into the kpni and sali sites of puc 19 ( 40 ). this was followed by nested deletions from both ends of the subcloned dna using the exo / mung deletion kit ( stratagene ). the nucleotide sequence was determined using the dideoxy chain termination method of sanger et al . ( 32 ) as modified for use with the sequenase sequencing kit ( u . s . biochemicals ). sequencing data were compiled and analyzed using the pcgene ( intelligenetics ) software package . neonate bioassays employing 3 - 5 hr old larvae were conducted according to the methods of hughes et al . ( 28 ) except that the neonates were not preselected for vigor and the droplets were applied by means of a syringe equipped with a blunt needle ( 26 ). the inoculum contained 1 × 10 5 ob / ml of acmnpv with 1 . 0 or 0 . 5 mg / ml of either tngv vef or pugv - h sf and all larvae were assumed to have imbibed 10 nl of inoculum ( 27 ). after ingestion of the inoculum , larvae were transferred with a fine paintbrush into individual 35 ml cups containing high wheat germ diet . controls consisted of neonates that imbibed either virus without any enhancing factor or water with food coloring . the test was conducted 2 times with 30 larvae / treatment in each test group . pm were dissected from last instar t . ni . and p . unipuncta larvae , rinsed in deionized water to remove diet residue , and stored at - 80 ° c . thawed pms were resuspended in 50 ml of digestion buffer ( 0 . 1m na 2 co 3 , ph 10 . 5 ) containing either 5 μg or 10 μg of sf or vef . after incubation at 28 ° c . for 1 hr , the pms were washed in water , placed in 1 × sds - page sample buffer and boiled for 5 min . controls consisted of pms treated in the same manner but without any enhancing factor . the protein composition of the treated and control pms were analyzed by discontinuous sds - page ( 79 ) on a mini - protean ii ( biorad ) at 200 volts for 35 min with a 10 % separating gel . gels were stained using the biorad silver staining kit according to he manufacturer &# 39 ; s instructions . viral occlusion bodies were first dissolved in dilute alkali solution ( 0 . 1m na 2 co 3 , 0 . 01m edta , 0 . 17m nacl , ph 10 . 9 ) for 15 minutes at room temperature . an equal volume of 2 × sds - page sample buffer was added and the mixture heated in a boiling water bath for 7 minutes . samples were separated by sds - page as described above . the proteins were then electrophoretically transferred to nitrocellulose paper following the methods of towbin et al ( 38 ). western blots were analyzed using an anti - vef / trpe polyclonal antibody at a dilution of 1 : 5000 ( 23 ). bands were visualized using an alkaline phosphatase conjugated secondary antibody ( 19 ). for cloning and sequence analysis of vef , two positive clones were identified from the approximately 6000 plaques screened with a α - vef polyclonal antiserum . both clones had identical inserts of 2 . 8 kb mapped to the hind iii - m fragment of the tngv genome ( 92 . 2 to 95 . 8 map units ; fig1 a ). other tngv fragments hybridizing to the clones included the 6 . 7 kb ecori - k and the bamhi - fg doublet . detailed maps of both tngv hind iii - m and the insert dna were generated using several restriction enzymes ( fig1 b , c ). western blot analysis using both an anti - vef polyclonal antisera and an anti - β - galactosidase monoclonal antibody ( promega , madison , wis .) demonstrated that the fusion protein generated by lambda - f had a molecular weight of 153 kd which presumably consisted of 39 kd of vef carboxy - terminal and 114 kd of β - galactosidase protein ( fig2 ). the vef gene was tentatively positioned on the hind iii - m fragment using this information . sequence analysis of approximately 3 . 5 kbp of hind iii - m dna revealed an open reading frame of 2703 bp ( 901 amino acids ) encoding a protein with a predicted molecular weight of 104 . 3 kda ( fig3 ). the predicted protein contains 12 candidate sites for n - linked glycosylation ( asn / x / ser or thr ) and no sites predicted for lipophilic modification ( lys / x / x / cys / x / x / asn ). a consensus baculovirus late promoter ( ataag ) occurred at - 4 nt and a probable polyadenylation signal ( aataa ) was found 2 nt downstream of the vef orf . the upstream region of the vef gene contained three perfect repeats of the sequence ttacaaga between - 192 and - 149 nt of the translation start site . curiously , these repeats were similar to the baculovirus consensus sequence for hyperexpression described by rohrman ( 5 ). however , in all three sequences , mismatches occurred at the invariable &# 34 ; t &# 34 ; of the &# 34 ; ataag &# 34 ; core late promoter motif . changes at this position have been shown to eliminate transcriptional initiation ( 5 ). a comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of the vef with both the nbrf and swiss - prot protein data bases did not reveal any similarity to known proteins . the occurrence of the late core promoter sequence at - 4 bp indicated that vef should be expressed late in infections . this was demonstrated by isolating rna from infected larvae at several times ( 3 days and 6 days ) pi . using a restriction fragment from within the vef open reading frame ( orf ) as a probe , strong hybridization was shown to 2 rna species ( 2 . 7 and 3 . 3 kb ) at 6 days pi but none at 3 days pi ( fig4 ). the transcript size of 2 . 7 kb agreed with the predicted transcription start and stop signals adjacent to the open reading frame . for sf sequence analysis , approximately 3300 bp within the ecori - i fragment of pugv - h was sequenced , in both directions , revealing a 2703 bp open reading frame ( orf ; fig6 ) with a calculated molecular weight of the protein of 104 kd . a consensus baculovirus late promoter motif ( ataag ; ooi et al .) ( 30 ) was located at - 8 to - 4 nts relative to the orf . a comparison of both the nucleotide and amino acid sequence with that of the vef gene from tngv revealed a 99 . 1 % ( fig6 ) and 98 . 2 % ( fig7 ) homology respectively . the only significant difference in homology between pugv - h sf and tngv vef genes occurs between nucleotide + 1962 and + 1985 . two reciprocal frameshifts in the pugv - h sequence have caused a 7 amino acid gap which shares no homology to the tngv vef protein sequence . homology of the pugv - h gene with the tngv vef gene was greater than 95 % for 300 bp upstream of the gene . after this point , the homology decreases to 17 . 7 %. from data analyzed thus far , the pugv - h and tngv sequence homology is greater than 99 % for 155 nts downstream of the genes . a consensus baculovirus late promoter motif is located 35 nt upstream of the stop codon of the vef and sf gene sequences , and 78 nt upstream of a potential orf . this possible second orf is located 43 nt downstream of the sf and vef orfs . the enhancing protein from pugv - h was purified from capsules in the same manner as the tngv vef . approximately 330 mg of purified protein was isolated from 1 . 0 × 10 12 obs . based on sds - page analysis , purified sf had a calculated molecular weight of 106 kd ( fig8 ). while this was in good agreement with the predicted molecular weight of 104 kd from other protein sequence analysis there is a repeatable difference in the migration pattern when compared to the tngv vef protein ( fig8 ). the homology between the vef and sf proteins suggested that the ability to enhance baculovirus infections should also be similar . this was tested by a neonate larval bioassay ( table 1 ) and an in vitro pm assay ( fig9 ). enhancement of acmnpv infections of t . ni larvae occurred with the vef and sf proteins . the 2 . 4 fold enhancement of table 1______________________________________effect of pugv - h and tngv enhancing factors onacmnpv infections of tricloplusia ni neonate larvae * enhancing factor percentsource ng / larva mortality______________________________________pugv - h 10 95pugv - h 5 95tngv 10 95 0 40______________________________________ * all larvae were infected with 1 ob . this represents the average of two bioassays with 30 larvae per treatment . nonvirus control had no mortality . infections by sf was identical to that seen in the vef assays . in the in vitro pm assay , sf and vef digested the same proteins in both the t . ni and p . unipuncta pms . for the t . ni pm , 3 proteins of molecular weight 236 . 6 kd , 111 . 5 kd , and 98 . 2 kd present in the control lanes are absent in the sf and vef treatment lanes ( fig9 a ). protein bands found only in the treatment lanes include a predominant group of bands occurring between 71 . 6k and 58 . 8k and 2 lower molecular weight proteins of 31 . 2k and 23 . 3k ( fig9 a ). in p . unipuncta , 7 proteins are absent in the treatment lanes as compared to the control ( fig9 b , lane 1 ). the molecular weight of the digested bands are 210 . 5 kd , 184 . 3 kd , 171 . 1 kd , 125 . 7 kd , 111 . 5 kd , 36 . 4 kd , and 32 . 0 kd . while there are 4 new protein bands of molecular weight 182 . 4 kd , 121 . 3 kd , 32 . 4 kd , and 24 . 6 kd common to both sf and vef treatments , 4 unique proteins are also evident : 85 . 5k in vef and 91 . 8k , 82 . 7k , and 80 . 0k in the sf treatment ( fig9 b , lanes 2 and 3 ). in order to ascertain the prevalence of the vef gene within the baculoviruses , 17 different baculoviruses ( 12 gvs and 5 npvs ) have been screened for vef homologs using a polyclonal antisera specific for the tngv vef protein ( fig1 and 11 ). cross - reactive proteins were found in 7 gvs : cydia pomonella gv ( cggv ), estigmene acrea gv ( eagv ), hagv , prgv , pugv , and stgv . this represents gvs which were isolated from 4 different families of lepidoptera : arctiidae , noctuidae , pieridae , and tortricidae . eegv , pugv oregon strain , plodia interpunctella gv , pieris brassicae gv , and spodoptera frugiperda gv did not have any cross - reactive proteins . none of the npvs ( acmnpv , anticarsia gemmatalis mnpv , choristoneura fumiferana npv , helicoverpa zea snpv , and tnsnpv ) reacted with the antisera . the identified vef cross - reactive proteins could be subdivided based on the molecular weight of the proteins . prgv , pugv - h , stgv , and tngv had the most common protein size of approximately 104 kd . hagv had a slightly higher molecular weight ( 110 kd ) while cpgv and eagv had a significantly lower molecular weight of approximately 80 kd . the cloning and sequencing of the sf gene from pugv - h represents the second baculovirus enhancing factor to be sequenced to date . the high degree of homology between the pugv - h and tngv genes is unusual and indicates that there may be a strong selective pressure on the gene . another possible explanation is that pugv - h may be a variant of tngv : however , this seems unlikely since the degree of homology decreases to 17 . 6 % 300 bps upstream of the gene . in addition , there are significant differences in the restriction enzyme patterns of the two viral genomes ( 23 ). the identification of a second open reading frame may explain the high degree of homology (& gt ; 99 %) observed downstream of the two genes . the effect of this downstream gene on the expression of vef or sf is unknown . on sds - page , the sf and vef proteins show a consistent difference in mobility . since these proteins have near identical molecular weights , it is possible that the two proteins may be processed or modified differently in the two hosts . the results from both the neonate and in vitro pm assays demonstrate that the two proteins are very similar in activity . the observed differences in the digestion patterns of the pm proteins from both t . ni and p . unipuncta are probably due to quantitative differences in the amounts of the two enzymes . evidence for this comes from the t . ni digests and the periodicity of the protein bands between 71 . 6 kd and 58 . 8 kd . the same bands are present in both the sf and vef digests ; however , the intensity of the bands differ . in the vef digest ( fig9 a , lane 2 ) the higher molecular weight bands predominate while in the sf digest ( fig9 a ), lane 3 ) the opposite is true . the data suggests a possible endoproteolytic type of cleavage in which the digestion in the sf reaction has proceeded further than in the vef reaction . five baculoviruses were originally tested for the presence of vef - homologous proteins by both dna hybridization and sds - page analysis of dissolved occlusion bodies ( fig4 a and b ). hind iii genomic digest of the 5 baculovirus dnas under low stringency conditions , using a restriction fragment with the vef orf as a probe , showed homology between tngv and 2 other granulosis viruses ( pugv - h and hagv ). no apparent homology was seen to either eegv , tnsnpv , or acmnpv ( fig5 a ). to date , a total of 8 gvs have been reported to have enhancing proteins . seven of the proteins cross - react with a polyclonal antiserum specific for the vef from tngv . the other enhancing factor , which is found in xestia c - nigrum ( 23 ), has not been tested with the antiserum . enhancing proteins have now been identified in baculoviruses isolated from four families of lepidoptera : arctiidae , noctuidae , pieridae , and tortricidae . previously , enhancing factors had only been identified in gvs infecting noctuidae . this data lends credibility to the hypothesis that these enhancing proteins are common in gvs and are important baculovirus proteins which assist in the initial stages ( pm penetration and virion adsorption ) of larval infections . applicants &# 39 ; inability to identify cross - reacting proteins in the npvs suggests that while these viruses may have proteins which are functionally related to the gv enhancing factors ( 1 ), they are unrelated in primary amino acid sequence . the identified baculovirus enhancing proteins can be tentatively separated into 3 distinct groups based on molecular weight : 104 kd , 110 kd , and 80 kd . all of the research has concentrated on 2 enhancing factors from the same group , pugv - h and tngv ( 104 kd ). the absence of a protein in pugv - o which does not cross - react to the vef antiserum , confirms earlier reports indicating that pugv - o does not contain an enhancing factor ( 6 ) and that differences exist in the capsular components of pugv - h and pugv - o ( 34 , 41 ). it is important to note that the baculoviruses are just one of many insect pathogenic organisms that have evolved mechanisms , both behavioral and structural , to circumvent the pm ( 25 ) and babesia microti , an intraerythrocytic piroplasm of the tick ixodes dammini , has developed a complex &# 34 ; arrowhead &# 34 ; structure which secretes a series of digestive enzymes to enable passage through the pm ( 31 ). the vef and sf genes of the present invention can be used in engineering new viral pesticides with enhanced efficacy . for example , it can be used alone as biopesticide or in combination with known biological insecticides such as bt or with synthetic chemical insecticides . the gene product of this invention can also be used to produce vef or sf in any microbial production system , e . g . e . coli , bacillus or streptococcus . it can be introduced into a variety of hosts such as plants for protection against insects or microbes as biologically active agents . the genes of this invention can be engineered to be expressed in transgenic plants and as insects feed on these plants , they would ingest a constant dose of the factor . while the exact effect of this on the insect is undetermined , it can be hypothesized that prolonged disruption of the peritrophic membrane ( pm ) may allow opportunistic microbes to infect and kill the insects . it was recently found that the viral factor increases the efficiency of bt delta endotoxin by removing a major mechanical barrier -- the pm . the genes of the present invention have been found to play a significant role as a determinant of virulence at the initial stage of infection in insect hosts . knowledge gained in cloning and sequencing the viral gene should prove useful in helping to unravel the mechanism ( s ) of enhanced virus infection by enhancement factors present within the occlusion body matrix . notwithstanding that reference has been made to particular preferred embodiments , it will be understood that the present invention is not to be construed as limited as such , but rather to the lawful scope of the appended claims . in other words , the subject invention includes not only the specific nucleotide sequences depicted herein , but also all equivalent nucleotide sequences coding for molecules with substantially the same biological activity of enhancing the infectivity of baculoviruses . the term &# 34 ; equivalent &# 34 ; is being used in ordinary patent usage here as denoting a nucleotide sequence which performs substantially as the nucleotide sequence identified herein to produce molecules with substantially the same biological activity in essentially the same kind of hosts . within this definition are subfragments which have biological activity of enhancing the infectivity of baculoviruses . inasmuch as the protein , i . e ., the gene product , of the present invention has been defined by means of deductive amino acid sequencing , c . f . fig3 it is to be understood that for this particular protein , embraced herein , natural allelic variations exist and occur from individual to individual . these variations may be demonstrated by ( an ) amino acid difference ( s ) in the overall sequence or by deletions , substitutions , insertions , inversions or additions of ( an ) amino acid ( s ) in said sequence . all such allelic variations are included within the scope of the present invention . 1 . derksen , a . g . s . and granados , r . r . virology 167 : 242 - 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sequences : 2 ( 2 ) information for seq id no : 1 :( i ) sequence characteristics :( a ) length : 3556 basepairs ( b ) type : nucleic acid ( c ) strandedness : doublestranded ( d ) topology : circular ( ii ) molecule type : genomic dna ( iii ) hypothetical : no ( iv ) anti - sense : no ( v ) fragment type : n / a ( vi ) original source :( a ) organism : trichoplusia ni granulosis virus ( vii ) immediate source :( a ) library : lambda gt11 ( b ) clone : hindiii - m ( viii ) position in genome :( a ) chromosome / segment : n / a ( b ) map position : 92 . 2 - 94 . 2 ( c ) units : genome percent ( ix ) feature : ( a ) name / key : mature protein ( b ) location : 435 bp to 3140 bp ( c ) identification method : experimentally ( d ) other information : degrades special peritrophicmembrane proteins . binds to midgut brush border ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : baculovirus very latepromoter ( b ) location : 427 to 432 bp ( c ) identification method : experimentally ( d ) other information : n / a ( ix ) feature :( a ) name / key : possible glycosylation sites ( b ) location : site 1 65 to 67 amino acidssite 2 265 to 267 amino acidssite 3 306 to 308 amino acidssite 4 339 to 341 amino acidssite 5 349 to 351 amino acidssite 6 540 to 542 amino acids site 7 594 to 596 amino acidssite 8 595 to 597 amino acidssite 9 621 to 623 amino acidssite 10 642 to 644 amino acidssite 11 683 to 685 amino acidssite 12 698 to 700 amino acids ( c ) identification method : experimentally ( d ) other information : not known ( xi ) sequence description : sequence id no : 1 : cagcgcgaaaacggttggtgccaattactggtatattgctatgatcgagtcacgtcataa60gggtcgattcgcgacggtctcccacgtggccttccattgaggtttacgtgtttgtgtatg120cgtgcgagtgtttttataacccaaaaactcagccacac cgtgtccaccgtacatatactt180gtccttttccaattccacaatccaaatttccgcagaaactcctccaatgttgcacgattt240ttttacaagagtcattttgcacgtttacaagaaatttattacaagattagctgcttgtga300taaaggtctgca 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