• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.359-363
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• 1995

The antigenic variation of B. thuringiensis subsp. satto have been investigated for 120 hours during sporulation and crystallization by using SDS-PAGE and Western blot. Most antigens of a vegetative cell were found to disappear as it was in sporulation and crystallization, but protein antigens of 46, 29, 27, and 21 kDa continued to be expressed. The new protein bands of 293, 138, 119, 75, and 68 kDa appeared on days 2 through 5 in modified GYS medium. They were thought to be involved in sporulation and crystallization. The protein of 138 kDa was found to be a major protein of both crystal and spore. The expression patterns were immunologically analyzed by Western blot. The polyclonal antisera against the intact crystal showed strong immunoreactivity to proteins with molecular masses of 293, 138, 68, and 46 kDa. The polyclonal antisera against the spore recognized proteins of 293, 138, 68, and 46 kDa. Both crystals and spores appeared to express the common protein antigens.

• 한국미생물생명공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국미생물생명공학회 1986년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.522.2-522
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• 1986

In order to optimally induce sporulation and toxin formation in Bacillus thuringiensis, exhaustion of specific nutrients as well as resuspension experiments were tried. Sporulation and toxin formation was most abunduntly occurred when the growth was limited by carbon source. It was also occurred in a resuspension medium containing only distilled water. Various environmental and physiological factors affecting the efficiencies of spore and toxin formation were examined in chemically defined media. As a result of these studies, a batch fermentation resulted in higher spore and toxin yield than ever reported

• 한국잠사곤충학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.32-36
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• 1991

해충의 미생물적 방제를 위하여 Bacillus thuringiensis 살충제 개발에 관한 기초자료를 얻고자 3종의 B. thuringiensis var. kurstaki, dendrolimus, aizawai를 이용하여 배지내에서 생장특성을 조사하고 이들의 내독소단백질의 분리를 위해 Renograffin 불연속중층법을 이용한 새로운 분리법을 시도하였다. 1. 각공시균주의 생장곡선을 조사한 결과는 3균주 모두 접종후 3시간 이내에 exponential phase에 이르렀고, 7-8시간 정도에서 stationary phase에 이르렀다. 2. 배지내 pH변화는 exdponential phase때 원래 배지에서 1.4정도 저하하였다가 sporulation의 개시에 따라 회복되기 시작하여 후기에 거의 평형상태를 나타내서 균주간에 차이가 없는 것으로 확인되었다. 3. Renograffin 불연속중층법을 이용한 새로운 B. thuringiensis 내독소단백질 분리법은 50$m\ell$ 원심분리관에 10$m\ell$의 시료를 중층, fixed angel rotor를 이용하여 27,000g에서 1시간 원심했을 경우 99.0% 순도와 5.8%의 회수율을 나타내어 지금까지 보고된 방법들보다 더욱 효율적인 것으로 확인되었다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.177-182
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• 1996

액체배양 실험으로 14가지 탄수화물을 사용하여 B. thuringiensis의 생장, 포자형성 및 살충성 결정단백질 생성에 대한 탄소원의 영향을 조사하였다. 최대 세포밀도는 B. thuringiensis 균주에 따라 접종 $16.7{\sim}22$시간 후에 모든 탄소원배지에서 $10^7{\sim}10^8\;cells/ml$ 수준으로 나타났고, 접종 $16.7{\sim}24.7$시간 후에 포자가 나타나기 시작하여 포자형성율이 80%에 이르는 시간은 균주에 따라 $28{\sim}51.3$ 시간이 소요되었다. 배양에 따른 배지의 pH변화는 없었고, 단백질 총량은 sucrose를 사용한 배지에서 가장 높았고, 전분을 첨가했을때 가장 낮았다. Glucose, lactose, maltose 또는 sucorse를 탄소원으로 사용한 배지에서 살충성 결정단백질 생성량이 많았고, 단백질 총량과 살충성 결정단백질량은 비례관계에 있었다. B.t. kurstaki와 B.t. israelensis에서 생성되는 서로 다른 종류의 살충성 결정 단백질의 양은 사용한 모든 탄소원의 경우 그 개별적 증감의 경향이 같았다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.647-652
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• 1990

Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD1의 내 독소생산과 내독소단백질 유전자의 클로닝에 관한 연구를 하였다. 상기 균주는 아포생성기간 중에 이중피라미드형의 내독소를 생산하였고, 크리는 약 $2.9\times 1.0 \mu m$이었다. 상기 균주는 약 10개의 플라수미드 DNA를 가지고 있었으며, 플라스미드의 분자량의 범위는 2.1에서 80kilobases였다. 플라스미드 73kb, BamHI 절단 29Kb DNA 단편과 PstI 절단 7.9Kb DNA는 Probe DNA와 혼성화되었다. PstI 7.9Kb DNA를 추출하여 운반체인 pBR322 운반체의 PstI 절단부위에 삽입하여 클로닝한 후에 E.coli HB101 균주에 형질전환하였으며, 이 클로운을 pKL-20-1로 명명했고 이 형질전환체는 Bombyxmori 유충을 치사시키는 독소물질을 생산하였다.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.566-570
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• 1997

During sporulation, Bacillus thuringiensis strains produce crystals consist of toxin proteins highly specific against insect pests. Their host specificities are desirable from a standpoint of environmental safety, but also limit market potential. Thus, development of improved Bacillus thuringiensis strains having broad host spectrum will contribute to increase its use. For the construction of Bacillus thuringiensis strain having broad host spectrum, we cloned cry1C gene encoding a toxin protein highly toxic against Spodoptera exigua from a B. thuringiensis isolate and constructed two recombinant plasmids, pUBClC and plC60. The plasmid PUBC1C has a replication origin of the natural plasmid pBC16 from B. cereus which is closely related species to B. thuringiensis, and the pBC16 was known to be replicated by rolling-circle mechanism. The plasmid pIC60 has a replication origin of a resident 60 MDa plasmid from B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD263, and it is believed that the pIC60 is replicated in a theta mode. The two plasmids were introduced into B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki cryB strain, and the transformed strains produced well-shaped bipyramidal crystals. We confirmed the expression of the cry1C gene by SDS-PAGE, and Western blotting. By investigating the segregational stability, it was found that the plasmid pIC60 is more stable than the pUBC1C.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1057-1062
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• 2004

The entomopathogenic bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis is the most widely used biopesticide. Insecticidal proteins, coded by genes located in plasmids, form typical parasporal, crystalline inclusions during sporulation. We isolated a Bacillus thuringiensis strain having insecticidal activity against larvae of the house fly (M. domestica) from the soils at a pig farm in Korea, and named it Bacillus thuringiensis SM. The culture filtrate from Bacillus thuringiensis SM showed strong lethality (83.3%) against M. domestica larvae. The parasporal crystal is enclosed within the spores' outermost envelope, as determined by transmission electron microscopy, and exhibited a bipyramidal form. The crystal proteins of strain SM consisted of five proteins with molecular weights of approximately ~130, ~80, ~68, ~42, and ~27 kDa on a 10% SDS-PAGE (major band, a size characteristic of Cry protein). Examination of antibiotic resistance revealed that the strain SM showed multiple resistant. The strain SM had at least three different plasmids with sizes of 6.6, 9.3, and 54 kb. Polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) revealed the presence of cry1, cry4A2, and cry11A1 genes in the strain SM. The cry1 gene profile of the strain SM appeared in the three respective products of 487 bp [cry1A(c)], 414 bp [cry1D], and 238 bp [cry1A(b)]. However, the strain SM has not shown the cry4A2 md cry11A1 genes. In in vivo toxicity assays, the strain SM showed high toxicity on fly larvae (M. domestic) [with $LC_{50}$ of 4.2 mg/ml, $LC_{90}$ of 8.2 mg/ml].

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.152-161
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• 2015

CodY is a highly conserved protein in low G+C gram-positive bacteria that regulates genes involved in sporulation and stationary-phase adaptation. Bacillus thuringiensis is a grampositive bacterium that forms spores and parasporal crystals during the stationary phase. To our knowledge, the regulatory mechanism of CodY in B. thuringiensis is unknown. To study the function of CodY protein in B. thuringiensis, BMB171codY^- was constructed in a BMB171 strain. A shuttle vector containing the ORF of cry1Ac10 was transformed into BMB171 and BMB171codY^-, named BMB171cry1Ac and BMB171codY^-cry1Ac, respectively. Some morphological and physiological changes of codY mutant BMB171codY^-cry1Ac were observed. A comparative proteomic analysis was conducted for both BMB171codY^-cry1Ac and BMB171cry1Ac through two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and MALDI-TOF-MS/MS analysis. The results showed that the proteins regulated by CodY are involved in microbial metabolism, including branched-chain amino acid metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, fatty acid metabolism, and energy metabolism. Furthermore, we found CodY to be involved in sporulation, biosynthesis of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate, growth, genetic competence, and translation. According to the analysis of differentially expressed proteins, and physiological characterization of the codY mutant, we performed bacterial one-hybrid and electrophoretic mobility shift assay experiments and confirmed the direct regulation of genes by CodY, specifically those involved in metabolism of branched-chain amino acids, ribosomal recycling factor FRR, and the late competence protein ComER. Our data establish the foundation for in-depth study of the regulation of CodY in B. thuringiensis, and also offer a potential biocatalyst for functions of CodY in other bacteria.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.547-559
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• 2007

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) was first described by Berliner [10] when he isolated a Bacillus species from the Mediterranean flour moth, Anagasta kuehniella, and named it after the province Thuringia in Germany where the infected moth was found. Although this was the first description under the name B. thuringiensis, it was not the first isolation. In 1901, a Japanese biologist, Ishiwata Shigetane, discovered a previously undescribed bacterium as the causative agent of a disease afflicting silkworms. Bt was originally considered a risk for silkworm rearing but it has become the heart of microbial insect control. The earliest commercial production began in France in 1938, under the name Sporeine [72]. A resurgence of interest in Bt has been attributed to Edward Steinhaus [105], who obtained a culture in 1942 and attracted attention to the potential of Bt through his subsequent studies. In 1956, T. Angus [3] demonstrated that the crystalline protein inclusions formed in the course of sporulation were responsible for the insecticidal action of Bt. By the early 1980's, Gonzalez et al. [48] revealed that the genes coding for crystal proteins were localized on transmissible plasmids, using a plasmid curing technique, and Schnepf and Whiteley [103] first cloned and characterized the genes coding for crystal proteins that had toxicity to larvae of the tobacco hornworm, from plasmid DNA of Bt subsp. kurstaki HD-1. This first cloning was followed quickly by the cloning of many other cry genes and eventually led to the development of Bt transgenic plants. In the 1980s, several scientists successively demonstrated that plants can be genetically engineered, and finally, Bt cotton reached the market in 1996 [104].

• 생명과학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.369-373
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• 2002

Bacillus thrungensis를 이용한 미생물 살충제를 생산할 목적으로 두부폐수를 이용하여 내생포자 생산능을 검토하였다. 실험에 사용한 두부폐수원액의 성상은 pH 9.8, COD 276mg/$\ell$, 전질소량 71.1mg/$\ell$, 전인량 5.52mg/$\ell$ 이며 Bacillus thrungensis균을 대량배양하기 위한 기질로서의 이용 가능성을 확인한 결과, 두부폐수원액에서 가장 높은 포자형성능이 관찰 되었으며, 두부폐수원액의 첨가량이 작을수록 포자형성은 감소하는 경향을 나타내었다. 최대 포자형 성능은 1% $K_2$HPO4i 첨가때 가장 높은 포자형 성능을 나타내었다. 두부 공업폐수를 이용한 Bacillus thrungensis의 최적배지 조건에서 시간별 포자형 성능을 확인한 결과, 동일 시간당 1.5배 높은 포자형 성능이 확인되었다. 두부폐수는 Bacillus thrungensis를 생산하기 위한 적당한 배양기질로서 이용될 수 있을 것으로 생각되어 진다.