Use of oligonucleotide probes to study the relatedness of delta-endotoxin genes among Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies and strains.
AUTOR(ES)
Prefontaine, G
RESUMO
Fifteen Bacillus thuringiensis strains representing 13 serotypes were screened with five oligodeoxyribonucleotide probes specific for certain regions of two published sequences and one unpublished sequence of B. thuringiensis delta-endotoxin genes. Of the 15 cultures, 14 hybridized with at least one probe; the B. thuringiensis subsp. thompsoni strain alone did not hybridize. Two B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki strains of commercial interest, HD-1 and NRD-12, were found to be so closely related as to be indistinguishable with this technique; the same situation was found with strains from B. thuringiensis subspp. dendrolimus and sotto. Five strains were identified as probably containing only one endotoxin gene. A probe specific for the gene from the B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD-73 strain hybridized to only 3 of the 15 cultures tested. The hybridization data suggest that the DNA sequences coding for the C-terminal region of the endotoxin protein are as well conserved as those coding for the N-terminal toxic portion.
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