黄地老虎颗粒体病毒enhancin-like基因的表达与增效功能研究

Expression and Synergistic Function of Enhancin-like Gene of Agrotis Segetum Granulovirus

增效蛋白(ENHANCIN)是一种主要在昆虫杆状病毒中存在的杀虫增效因子,黄地老虎颗粒体病毒(Agrotis segetum granulovirus,AgseGV)基因组中有一个ORF的编码产物为杆状病毒ENHANCIN同源物,命名为en-hancin-like。生物信息学分析结果表明,AgseGV的enhancin-like基因编码产物含有ENHANCIN的保守域,无信号肽序列,不存在a-螺旋跨膜区,在其C-末端拥有类似哺乳动物的脯氨酸富集区。为了确定AgseGV的EN-HANCIN-like蛋白是否具有增效功能,构建了AgseGV的enhancin-like全基因和5′端片段(1 017bp)的原核表达载体。利用层析技术纯化截短片段的原核表达产物,以其为抗原制备了抗体。利用自制抗体和His-tag抗体,Western blot检测了enhancin-like全基因的表达产物。结果表明,在融合蛋白预期大小处显示出阳性条带,证明目的基因得到了良好的表达。以棉铃虫为供试虫进行生物测定,证明在棉铃虫核多角体病毒(HaNPV)浓度为1.17×102 PIBS/mL时,AgseGV enhancin-like的全基因原核表达产物能使其感染3龄初幼虫的死亡率提高16.25%,增效作用显著。但是,5'端截短片段的原核表达产物对HaNPV没有增效作用。

ENHANCIN is an enhancing protein chiefly found in insect baculoviruses. One ENHANCIN homologue was identified, by blast method, in Agrotis Segeturn granulovirus （AgseGV） genome, named enhancin-like. Sequence analysis indicated that this gene includes the conserved domains, conserved in oth- er ENHANCIN, and it has no signal peptide or a-transmembrane helix. A proline-rich domain, which is similar to those of mammals, is present at its C-terminal. To analyze the synergistic function of AgseGV enhancin-like gene, prokaryotic expression vectors of its whole gene and the 5＇-truncated fragment （1, 017bp） were constructed. Expression product of truncated fragment was purified by chromatography, and then it was used to prepare antibody. The expression product of whole gene was identified by Western blot with specific antibody and anti-His-Tag antibody. Bioassay proved that the expression product of whole gene can increase the mortality with 16.25% to 3th instar larvae of Helicoverpa armigera （HaNPV： 1.17×10^2 PIBS/mL）, while the truncated fragment has no obvious synergistic function.