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The individual lyophilized fractions were dissolved in deionized water, and an appropriate concentration of each fraction was injected into fourth instar Heliothis virescens (tobacco budworm) and last instar larvae of Sarcophaga falculata (blowfly).
Moreover this toxin can be utilized as a specific probe of tobacco budworm ion channels.
[ 21 ] . However, Heliothis virescens (tobacco budworm) APN is only 45% identical and 53% similar to B. mori APN, yet it binds Cry1Aa toxin with high affinity [ 23 ] . Moreover, sequence alignments with APN from Lactobacillus , Streptococcus , Saccharomyces , Arabidopsis , rat, pig, yeast, and human yielded more similarity than H. virescens APN to the putative Cry1Aa-binding region of B. mori APN.
The most important characteristic of this novel toxin is its specificity towards Heliothis virescens, the tobacco budworm, a worldwide pest of numerous valuable crops such as cotton.
The plasmids pGAL4-EcR encodes a fusion protein between the yeast GAL4 DNA binding domain and the ligand binding domain of the ecdysone receptor from the spruce budworm, Choristoneura occidentalis.