Mycobacterium tuberculosis b. Tubercle bacillus. Chap 1 Which of the following is not a characteristic of bacteria? The animal shows disease symptoms when A. DNA in bacteria. Chap 1 Which of the following statements is the best definition ofbiogenesis? Air is necessary for living organisms. Living cells can only arise from preexisting cells.
Microorganisms can be generated from nonliving matter. A vital force is necessary for life. Nonliving matter gives rise to living organisms. Chap 1 Which of the following is a beneficial activity of microorganisms?
Some microorganisms are used as food for humans. Some microorganisms use carbon dioxide. Some microorganisms provide nitrogen for plant growth. Some microorganisms are used in sewage treatment processes. Chap 1 It has been said that bacteria are essential for the existence oflife on Earth. Which of the following is the essential functionperformed by bacteria? Chap 1 Which of the following is an example of bioremediation?
Which of the following statements is true? Only disease-causing organisms require air. All life requires air. Pasteur kept air out of his biogenesis experiments. Some microbes do not require air.
Lavoisier was mistaken. Chap 1 Which of the following statements about E. A disease-causing strain of E. Atoms with the same atomic number and chemical behavior areclassified as chemical elements.
Chap 2 Diagram the electronic configuration of a carbon atom. Chap 2 What type of bond holds the following atoms together? Chap 2 Classify the following types of chemical reactions. Chap 2 Bacteria use the enzyme urease to obtain nitrogen in a form they can use from urea in the following reaction: What purpose does the enzyme serve in this reaction?
What type of reaction is this? Chap 2 Classify the following as subunits of either a carbohydrate, lipid,protein, or nucleic acid. Chap 2 The artificial sweetener aspartame, or NutraSweet, is made by joining aspartic acid to methylated phenylalanine, as shown below. What types of molecules are aspartic acid and phenylalanine? What direction is the hydrolysis reaction left to right or right to left?
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Register for free. FutureLearn offers courses in many different subjects such as. This article is from the free online. Our purpose is to transform access to education. Register to receive updates. Generally, B. However, five isolates of B. According to one the old view Bacillus sphaericus is a heterogeneous species of bacteria that contains strains belonging to at least five different DNA homology groups that are sufficiently phenotypically similar without a need to establish each as a new distinct species of which homology group IIA differ from the other genospecies in that it contains strains that are pathogenic for mosquitoe larvae.
Among these, one cluster represented B. A third cluster containing all of the pathogenic strains was closely related to or was possibly part of the B. The remaining four groups were distinct and represented unnamed taxa that are more closely related to B.
The pathogenic strains are members of a distinct group and not of the species B. The apparent variability of mosquitoe pathogenicity among B. The growth of Bacillus sphaericus is in four stages depending on the presence of food and water in their environment. If the bacterium is of a sporulating type like the genus Bacillus , then at the late stationary stages sporulation starts and we usually do not speak of death phases for the bacteria in the genus Bacillus.
Endospore formation is a trait found in several microorganisms, which can provide positive benefits to agriculture and varying affects in humans as well.
Species of Bacillus , Clostridium , Sporosarcina , and Heliobacteria produce typical endospores. Endospores are formed when a vegetative cell discontinues protein synthesis for proteins needed for normal cell function and instead activates genes specific for sporulation. Endospores are the product of aging cells in environments low in nutients.
All of the cell's materials remain inside the protoplast, or core of the endospore, but metabolism is dormant. The endospore is refractile, dehydrated, and surrounded by numerous thick layers of peptidoglycan.
The coat, a keratin-like protein, contains diplicolinic acid DPA and a high calcium content. These help make the endospore highly heat resistant, boiling, radiation, pressure, dessication and chemical treatment. Endospores also contain large amounts of small acid-soluble spore proteins SASPs. The function of SASPs is to bind to DNA as a form of protection and to serve as a carbon energy source for when the endospore germinates to form a new vegetative cell [ 52 ].
During their growth cycle, strains of Bacillus grow as undifferentiated rod-shaped vegetative cells. Usually when the carbon source or some other required nutrient becomes limited, the cell enters a sporulation sequence during which a resistant resting-stage endospore is formed. The process of cellular differentiation leading to spore formation can be divided into three successive phases.
Sporulation in B. The first stages 0 to II is the stage of differentiation, and during this there is a single cell type, which eventually contains two completed chromosomes. The phase is completed with the division of this cell into two cells that differ markedly in size, but otherwise appear to be rather similar.
In the second phase stages II to III the differentiation becomes fixed; the two cells have their own genomes, which presumably functions differently, and by stage III the two cell types differ dramatically. The developing spore at stage III exhibits none of the properties that characterize the mature spore, and the development of these properties takes place in the next phase stages III to VII.
Production of entomopathogenic toxin is a biochemical changes that accompany the morphological changes during sporulation. When fresh medium or a pulse of a carbon source is made available, the spore will germinate and produce a vegetative rod-shaped cell [ 53 , 54 ]. Because B. In most cases, these secreted proteins are enzymes involved in the hydrolysis of natural polymers such as proteases, lipases, carbohydrases, DNases and RNases. Such degradative enzymes are usually synthesised as part of an adaptive response indeed to changes in the environment.
So that the cell to optimally can benefit from available resources. The bulk of toxicity in Bs comes from the second toxin which is produced at the time of sporulation and it accumulates in the sporangium as a parasporal body, parasporal crystal packed with bacterial spores, in much the same way as that found in B.
The crystal of B. The binary toxin consists of two distinct proteins of Both proteins are cleaved by endogenous proteases to form active toxins of 43 and 39 kDa protein subunits that are believed to associate as a hetero-dimer named the binary toxin Bin, in a ratio, which form the active hetero-dimer complex [ 42 ].
These protein toxins have been sequenced and were found to be unrelated to each other or to the B. The bin genes of several highly toxic strains have also been completely sequenced, and their amino-acid sequences have been found to be highly conserved [ 54 ]. Sporangia of Bacillus sphaericus a and Bacillus thuringiensis serovar. The parasporal inclusions crystals , which contain the entomopathogenic toxins, are visible close to the spore. A closer view of B.
The largest crystals are 0. Note that the crystals grow preferentially along the streaking path, which is almost vertical [ 55 ]. Studies on the mode of action of Bin toxin suggested that BinB is responsible for the initial binding to the surface of midgut epithelial cells and that BinA confers toxicity. P51 is the primary component of binding to the Culex midgut epithelium, while P42 binds efficiently only in the presence of P51 but is responsible for the larvicidal action Upon ingestion by larvae, these proteins are processed to 43 and 39 kDa, respectively.
In confirmation that both subunits are required for full toxicity in vitro binding studies were performed to show that the N-terminal region of BinB interacts with the larval gut receptor, whereas the C-terminal region interacts with the N-terminal region of BinA, leaving the C-terminal end of BinA to facilitate internalization of the toxin complex. Binding of the binary toxin to midgut epithelium causes swelling of mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticula and enlargement of vacuoles, followed by lyses of epithelial cells, midgut perforation, and the death of larvae.
How the Bin toxin causes the death of larvae is not clearly established. There is evidence that a single class of receptor is expressed on the surface of microvilli in the gastric caeca and posterior midgut of susceptible C. A recent report has shown that this binding is specific, and mediated by a receptor with a unique binding site, present at the surface of epithelial cells from Culex and Anopheles.
It was found that BinB alone is involved in receptor binding in C. Gambiae [ 55 ]. The mode of action of Bacillus sphaericus crystal toxin has only been studied in mosquito larvae. A number of studies have established that the action of the crystal toxin on susceptible larvae involves th efollowing series of steps: i ingestion of the crystal- spore- cell complex; ii solubilization on th e midgut by the alkaline pH; iii processing of the and kDa proteins to 43 and kDa proteins respectively, iv binding of toxin proteins to cells of the gastric cecum and posterior midgut; and v exertion of a toxic effect by means of a unknown mechanism [ 56 ].
After ingestion of the spore-crystal complex by mosquito larvae, the protein crystal matrix quickly dissolves in the lumen of the anterior stomach through the combined action of midgut proteinases and the high pH Bacillus sphaericus crystals release the toxin in all species such as A. Physiological effects in midgut start as soon as 15 min.
Large vacuoles or lysosomes appear in Culex pipiens midgut cells, whereas large areas of low electron density appear in Anopheles stephensi midgut cells. A generally occuring sypmtom is mitocondrial swelling, described for C. Aegyptin when intoxicated with a very high dose of spore crystals. The midgut cells are the cells most severely damaged by the toxin, also reported late damage in neural tissue and in skeletal muscel.
Ultrastructural effects have been reported in cultured cells, of which swelling of mitochodrial cristae and endoplasmic reticula, follewed by enlargement of vacuoles and condensation of mitochondrial matrix [ 55 , 56 ]. Differences in susceptibility between mosquito species seem to differences at the cellular level. The binding of the crystal proteins, P42 and P51 depend on each other. In addition, the internalization of toxin only seems to occur when both components are present.
The hyphothesis that a single receptor is involved in the toxin binding was confirmed by in vitro binding assays using radio-labeled activated crystal toxin and midgut brush-border membrane fractions isolated from susceptible mosquito larva It is assumed that the P42 component is the toxic moiety and the P51 is the binding component, the B.
The nature of the receptor is still unknown [ 56 ]. The gene encoding one such toxin, Mtx1 formerly known as Mtx, Mosquitocidal toxin, Mosquitocidal toxin , was first isolated from the low. Toxicity B. It was later shown that there are other Mtx toxins which are then started to be called Mtx1, Mtx2 and Mtx3 the genes for these toxins have been partially characterized and shown to have an extremely high level of similarity [ 46 ].
Unlike the binary toxins Mtx1 is produced as a kDa protein that is processed by trypsin-like proteinases in the mosquitoe gut to yield a product with ADP-ribosyl transferase activity, 27 kDa and a putative receptor binding domain, 70 kDa [ 56 ]. The mode of action of crystal toxins from an entomopathogenic bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis serovar. In initial experiments, activity of the protoxin was demonstrated against larvae of the mosquitoe, Culex quinquefasciatus , and protoxins of Escherichia coli cells were shown to be active against Aedes aegypti but not the predatory mosquitoe Toxorhynchites splendens.
In contrast to the Bin toxin, Mtx1 was also found to be highly potent against larvae of Ae. Aegypti , on the other hand, Bin toxin shows low or zero toxicity against this insect. This high-level toxicity to Ae.
It was proposed that the enhanced toxicity against Ae. So far, thus Mtx toxin s of B. Though B. However, populations of Culex mosquitoes resistant to the binary toxin of B.
Field resistance, as a consequence of vector control programs based on B. In spite of massive field usage of B. This event has been explained by the presence of a set of toxic proteins of a different nature that interact synergistically, increasing larvicidal activity of B.
The development of a larvicide for use in public health programmes demands selectivity. It should be active against the target species without affecting humans and other non-target populations. The development of a biological larvicide is a process similar to that of the chemical insecticides in that it aims to identify the ideal concentration and form of administration in the field.
Formulation is the process used to convert a technical slurry or powder containing the active ingredient produced by the bacterium into a useful and use larvicide compatible with existing application systems.
It should also ensure biological stability of the active ingredient and must have an adequate shelf life. It should be easily produced and administered, conveniently stored, and economic [ 51 , 52 ]. This finding is a clear indication that bacteria are in great association with mosquito species.
The risk of emergence of resistance should be considered when designing application strategies. Bacillus sphaericus , has been shown to recycle in the field conditions and exert larvicidal activity for a long period. Field resistance has been only reported for Bs, while for Bti, it seems more difficult for mosquitoes to develop resistance even under intensive laboratory selection, which may be due to the multiple toxin complex of this bacterium.
One mechanism of resistance is the reduced binding of the toxin to the midgut receptor sites. The mechanism of resistance to B. Bioassays indicated that the resistance level was increased as the treatment increased, and the best way to produce bacterial strains that simultaneaously express different toxins binding to different receptors.
Despite the reports of the resistance, the future of B. Indeed, resistance in the field seems to decline very quickly when treatments are suspended. The best way to prevent resistance has been seemed to produce bacterial strains that simultaneaously express different toxins binding to different receptors.
On the other hand, there still exist some resistance or there are some other factors effecting the toxin in the application medium. Development of mosquitoe larval resistance against the toxin of commercial microbial larvicide B. It was recently shown that pattern of resistance evolution in mosquitoes depended on continuous selection pressure, and the stronger the selection pressure, the more quickly resistance developed.
However repeated exposure of an insect population to B. The number of toxin genes, together with the qualitative and quantitative differences among them and the properties of the resulting toxin, affect the quality of the developed strains [ 58 ].
Depending on the formulation and environmental conditions, B. The persistence of toxicity against Culex quinquefasciatus larvae, during a considerable period of time, the ability to recyle under certain environmental conditions have been studied. The effects of aquatic bacterial proteases have been determined only in one study yet. In that study, about bacterial isolates have been obtained from different aquatic mosquito habitats in Turkiye, and then the B.
In this study, it was found that, there are also the effects of the environmental microorganisms specifically bacteria due to their extracellular proteases released in the area naturally, so that the B. The decrease or variability in the efficiency of the B. The increasing of biological control due to both ecological beneficiancies including the human health as part of world ecology, has been renewed.
The demand for bio-pesticides is rising steadily in all parts of the world. When used in Integrated Pest Management systems, biopesticides' efficacy can be equal to or better than conventional products, especially for crops like fruits, vegetables, nuts and flowers.
By combining performance and safety, biopesticides perform efficaciously while providing the flexibility of minimum application restrictions, superior residue and resistance management potential, and human and environmental safety benefits.
In the study in which the sensitivity of the Bs crystal binary toxin to extracellular proteaese of the aquatic microorganisms were detected, it was shown that there are also the effects of the environmental microorganisms due to their extracellular proteases released in the toxin application area naturally.
So that, the Bs toxin effectiveness in the controlling the mosquitoes, especially Culex spp. The resistance against the microbial entamopathogens by the target organisms, has been usually thought to be genetic capability of the insects, specifically mosquito species. In this study it is found that, the decrease or variability in the efficency of the Bs toxin may be not only due to the genetic capability of the insect organism to develope resistance against the microbial protein, but also may as well be due to the environmental microbiological character [ 61 ].
It is very likely that in future their role will be more significant in agriculture and forestry. Biopesticides clearly have a potential role to play in development of future integrated pest management strategies Hopefully, more rational approach will be gradually adopted towards biopesticides in the near future and short-term profits from chemical pesticides will not determine the fate of biopesticides [ 62 ].
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Many other introductions, such as polychaetes, amphipods are cryptic and have been considered species with natural cosmopolitan distributions [ 4 ] Agriculture and forests form an important resource to sustain global economical, environmental and social system. Advantages of microbial insecticides Individual products differ in important ways, but the following list of beneficial characteristics applies to microbial insecticides in general. Disadvantages of microbial insecticides Naturally there are also the limitations which are listed below, but do not prevent the successful use of microbial insecticides.
Deactivated rapidly in sunlight; apply in the evening or on overcast days and direct some spray to lower surfaces or leaves. Does not cycle extensively in the environment. Bacillus thuringiensis var. Active only if ingested. Culex and Anopheles mosquitoes are not controlled at normal application rates..
Like other Bt s, it must be ingested. It is subject to breakdown in ultraviolet light and does not cycle extensively in the environment. Is NOT susceptible to milky spore disease. Active only if ingested, for use against Culex, Psorophora, and Culiseta species; also effective against Aedes vexans. High moisture requirements, lack of storage longevity, and competition with other soil microorganisms are problems that remain to be solved. A main drawback is its inability to survive high summertime temperatures.
Not recommended for use on a small scale, such as backyard gardens, because the disease is slow acting and grasshoppers are very mobile. Also effective against caterpillars. Forest Service. Future re-registration is possible. Subject to rapid breakdown in ultraviolet light. Because of moisture requirements, it is effective primarily against insects in moist soils or inside plant tissues. Prolonged storage or extreme temperatures before use may kill or debilitate the nematodes.
Heterorhabditis heliothidis currently available on a wholesale basis for large scale operations larvae of a wide variety of soil-dwelling and boring insects Not commonly available by retail in the U. Available by wholesale or special order for research or large-scale commercial uses. Best applied where irrigation is available. Irrigate after application.
Table 1. Microbial Insecticides: A summary of products and their uses. ENY IN Entomopathogenic fung Entomopathogenic fungi are important natural regulators of insect populations and have potential as mycoinsecticide agents against diverse insect pests in agriculture.
Viral pesticides There are more than different viruses which infect species of insects and mites. Protozoa Protozoan pathogens naturally infect a wide range of insect hosts.
Microscopic nematods To be accurate, nematodes are not microbial agents. The only insect-parasitic nematodes possessing an optimal balance of biological control attributes are entomopathogenic or insecticidal nematodes in the genera Steinernema and Heterorhabditis Nematodes used for insect control infect only insects or related arthropods; they are called entomogenous nematodes [ 19 ] The entomogenous nematodes Steinernema feltiae sometimes identified as Neoaplectana carpocapsae , S.
As the offspring mature to the J3 stage, they are able to leave the dead insect and seek a new host [ 20 ] Nosema locustae has been used to reduce grasshopper populations in rangeland areas, and adequate control has been achieved when treatments were applied to large areas while hoppers were still young.
Bacterial biopesticides Bacterial biopesticides are the most common and cheaper form of microbial pesticides. Bacillus thuringiensis , BT Bacillus thuringiensis Bt is an aerobic, gram positive, spore forming soil bacterium that shows unusual ability to produce endogenous different kinds of crystals protein inclusions during its sporulation. The method of use, mode of action, and host range of this biocontrol agent may differ within other Bacillus insecticidal species [ 10 ] The Bacillus species, Bacillus thuringiensis, has developed many molecular mechanisms to produce pesticidal toxins; most of toxins are coded for by several cry genes.
Table 2. Table 3. Systematics of the Bacillus sphaericus Neide According to one the old view Bacillus sphaericus is a heterogeneous species of bacteria that contains strains belonging to at least five different DNA homology groups that are sufficiently phenotypically similar without a need to establish each as a new distinct species of which homology group IIA differ from the other genospecies in that it contains strains that are pathogenic for mosquitoe larvae.
Mode of living of Bacillus spp.
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