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25 September 2022 Generation of Resistance to Nosema bombycis (Dissociodihaplophasida: Nosematidae) by Degrading NbSWP12 Using the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway in Sf9-III Cells
Xi Sun, Bin Yu, Renze Zhang, Junhong Wei, Guoqing Pan, Chunfeng Li, Zeyang Zhou
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Abstract

Nosema bombycis Naegeli (Dissociodihaplophasida: Nosematidae), an obligate intracellular parasite of the silkworm Bombyx mori, causes a devastating disease called pébrine. Every year pébrine will cause huge losses to the sericulture industry worldwide. Until now, there are no effective methods to inhibit the N. bombycis infection in silkworms. In this study, we first applied both the novel protein degradationTrim-Away technology and NSlmb (F-box domain-containing in the N-terminal part of supernumerary limbs from Drosophila melanogaster) to lepidopteran Sf9-III cells to check for specific degradation of a target protein in combination with a single-chain Fv fragment (scFv). Our results showed that the Trim-Away and NSlmb systems are both amenable to Sf9-III cells.We then created transgenic cell lines that overexpressed the protein degradation system and N. bombycis chimeric scFv targeting spore wall protein NbSWP12 and evaluated the effects of the insect transgenic cell lines on the proliferation of N. bombycis. Both methods could be applied to cell lines and bothTrim-Away and NSlmb ubiquitin degradation systems effectively inhibited the proliferation of N. bombycis. Further, either of these degradation systems could be applied to individual silkworms through a transgenic platform, which would yield individual silkworms with high resistance to N. bombycis, thus greatly speeding up the process of acquiring resistant strains.

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Xi Sun, Bin Yu, Renze Zhang, Junhong Wei, Guoqing Pan, Chunfeng Li, and Zeyang Zhou "Generation of Resistance to Nosema bombycis (Dissociodihaplophasida: Nosematidae) by Degrading NbSWP12 Using the Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway in Sf9-III Cells," Journal of Economic Entomology 115(6), 2068-2074, (25 September 2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toac145
Received: 10 March 2022; Accepted: 23 August 2022; Published: 25 September 2022
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KEYWORDS
NSlmb
pébrine
resistance
Trim-Away
ubiquitination system
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