| abstract |
A recombinant baculovirus, which produces a recombinant polyhedra made up of a baculovirus polyhedrin (PH), a Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein (CP) and jellyfish Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (GFP), is constructed by introducing a transfer vector carrying a fusion gene encoding a fusion protein in which the PH, the CP and the GFP are directly linked from N-terminal to C-terminal, in sequence, and a wild-type baculovirus into an insect cell, simultaneously, and culturing the cell. This baculovirus transfer vector pColorBtrus is constructed by synthesizing the GFP-coding DNA fragment from plasmid pGFP, the PH gene from wild-type Autographa californica Nucleopolyhedrovirus, and aCry1Ac gene from plasmid pPN6.6 carrying a Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac gene by polymerase chain reactions, and inserting first the GFP-coding DNA fragment and the PH gene in baculovirus expression vector pAcUW31 in such a way that the 5'-end of the GFP-coding DNA fragment is linked to the 3'-end of the PH gene and then, the Cry1Ac gene between the PH gene and the GFP-coding DNA fragment. The recombinant virus can kill insect pests with high pathogenicity within a short time, and is equipped with a monitoring device for infected insects, so that it can be prevented from being overused. |