Abstract
The mode of action of the toxic fragment (P-59) derived from bipyramidal-shaped δ-endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD-1 on the silkworm Bombyx mori was investigated. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay showed that there was no translocation of P-59 from the gut lumen to the hemocoel. When membrane vesicles prepared from silkworm midgut were incubated with P-59, normally smooth surface of vesicles became rough, and patch formation was observed on the surface. Vesicles treated with P-59 tended to agglutinate. The vesicle-denaturing activity of a 130,000-dalton subunit protein of bipyramidal toxin was enhanced by treatment with a gut juice protease of the silkworm. P-59 did not cause any uncoupling effect on mitochondria of the silkworm midgut. These results suggest that the attacking site of this toxin is not the mitochondrion but the cell membrane of the susceptible cell.
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