Proteolytic activity of gut bacteria isolated from the velvet bean caterpillar Anticarsia gemmatalis

dc.creatorPilon, F. M.
dc.creatorVisôtto, L. E.
dc.creatorGuedes, R. N. C.
dc.creatorOliveira, M. G. A.
dc.date2018-04-19T13:57:58Z
dc.date2018-04-19T13:57:58Z
dc.date2013-02-08
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-27T21:38:08Z
dc.date.available2023-09-27T21:38:08Z
dc.identifier1432136X
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00360-013-0744-5
dc.identifierhttp://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/18842
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8963840
dc.descriptionThe development of proteinase inhibitors as potential insect control agents has been constrained by insect adaptation to these compounds. The velvet bean caterpillar (Anticarsia gemmatalis) is a key soybean pest species that is well-adapted to proteinase inhibitors, particularly serine-proteinase inhibitors, which are abundant in the caterpillar host. The expression of diverse proteolytic enzymes by gut symbionts may allow the velvet bean caterpillar to circumvent proteinase inhibitors produced by the host plant. In this study, we characterized the proteolytic activity of the four nonpathogenic species of gut bacteria isolated from the velvet bean caterpillar—Bacillus cereus, Enterococcus gallinarum, Enterococcus mundtii and Staphylococcus xylosus. Two proteinase substrates, N-a-benzoyl- L -Arg-p-nitroanilide ( L -BApNA) and N-a-p-tosyl- L -Arg methyl ester ( L -TAME) and five proteinase inhibitors [aprotinin, E-64, ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), pepstatin and N-a-tosyl- L -lysine chloromethyl ketone (TLCK)] as well as CaCl 2 , pH and temperature profiles were used to characterize the expressed proteolytic activity of these bacterial strains in vitro. Kinetic parameters for proteolytic activity were also estimated. The results of these experiments indicated that serine- and cysteine-proteinase activities were expressed by all four gut bacteria symbionts of the velvet bean caterpillar. The cysteine- and serine-proteinase activities of these gut symbionts were distinct and different from that of gut proteinases of the caterpillar itself. This finding provides support for the potential involvement of gut symbionts in the mitigation of the negative effects of serine-proteinase inhibitors in the velvet bean caterpillar.
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherJournal of Comparative Physiology B
dc.relationv. 183, n. 6, p. 735–747, Agosto 2013
dc.rightsSpringer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
dc.subjectGut microbiota
dc.subjectBacteria symbionts
dc.subjectBacteria–insect non-pathogenic interaction
dc.subjectProteinase
dc.titleProteolytic activity of gut bacteria isolated from the velvet bean caterpillar Anticarsia gemmatalis
dc.typeArtigo


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