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US 20180362598A1 ( 19) United States ( 12) Patent Application Publication (10 ) Pub . No. : US 2018 /0362598 A1 CARLSON et al. ( 43 ) Pub . Date: Dec . 20 , 2018 ( 54 ) CLEAVABLE PEPTIDES AND INSECTICIDAL CO7K 5 / 103 ( 2006 .01 ) AND NEMATICIDAL PROTEINS CO7K 14 /435 (2006 .01 ) COMPRISING SAME CO7K 14 /325 ( 2006 .01 ) (71 ) Applicant: VESTARON CORPORATION , A01N 63 /02 ( 2006 .01 ) KALAMAZOO , MI (US ) C12N 15 /82 (2006 .01 ) (72 ) Inventors : ALVAR R . CARLSON , (52 ) U . S . CI. KALAMAZOO , MI (US ) ; CPC . .. .. CO7K 14 /415 (2013 .01 ) ; CO7K 7 / 06 ALEXANDRA M . HAASE , MARTIN , (2013 .01 ) ; CO7K 5 / 101 ( 2013. 01 ) ; CO7K MI (US ) ; ROBERT M . KENNEDY , 14 / 43518 (2013 .01 ) ; CO7K 14 / 325 (2013 . 01 ) ; DEXTER , MI (US ) CO7K 2319 / 04 ( 2013 .01 ) ; C12N 15 /8285 ( 2013 . 01 ) ; C12N 15 /8286 ( 2013 .01 ) ; COZK ( 73 ) Assignee : VESTARON CORPORATION , 2319 /50 (2013 .01 ) ; CO7K 2319 /55 (2013 .01 ) ; KALAMAZOO , MI (US ) A01N 63 / 02 (2013 .01 ) ( 21 ) Appl. No. : 15 /727 , 277 ( 22 ) Filed : Oct . 6 , 2017 (57 ) ABSTRACT Related U . S . Application Data A peptide comprised of either a binary or a tertiary peptide, (60 ) Provisional application No. 62 /411 , 117 , filed on Oct. the peptide contains at least 4 amino acids and up to a 21 , 2016 . maximum of 16 amino acids, comprised of 2 or 3 different regions, wherein the binary peptides have 2 different regions Publication Classification and the tertiary peptides have 3 different regions; wherein , (51 ) Int . Cl. the peptide can be cleaved by both an animal gut protease CO7K 14 /415 ( 2006 .01 ) and an insect or nematode gut protease . CO7K 7 / 06 ( 2006 .01 ) Specification includes a Sequence Listing . Protease - Quenches State Cleavage Assay Protease cleavage Cleaviige activity occurs blocked Excitable Fluorescence No Change A Variable Amino Acid grid pattern ) Glycine linker (horizontal line pattern : ???? 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Commercial for mulations of Bt proteins are widely used to control insects CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED at the larval stage . Inhibitory cysteine knot motif ( ICK ) APPLICATIONS proteins are also a class of insecticidal peptides which are derived from arthropod origins , such as the venoms of [0001 ] This application claims the benefit of, and priority scorpions or spiders . to , U . S . Provisional Application Ser. No . 62 /411 , 117 , filed [ 0008 ] Other classes and types of potential peptides have on Oct. 21 , 2016 , the disclosure of which is incorporated by been identified , such as Trypsin modulating oostatic factor reference herein in its entirety . ( TMOF ) peptides. TMOF peptides have to be delivered to their physiological site of action for insecticidal activity to SEQUENCE LISTING ensue . TMOF peptides have been identified as potential 10002 ] This application incorporates by reference in its larvicides, with great potential , see D . Borovsky , Journal of entirety the Sequence Listing entitled “ FAM _ O _ US _ Experimental Biology 206 , 3869 - 3875 , but like nearly all 225312 _ 419533 _ SEQ _ LIST_ 2017 _ 10 _ 06 _ ST25. txt” ( 5 .37 other insecticidal peptides , TMOF has not been commer MB ) , which was created on Oct. 6 , 2017 , and filed elec cialized or widely used by farmers and there are reasons for tronically herewith .” this . [ 0009 ] The ability to successfully produce insecticidal FIELD OF THE INVENTION peptides on a commercial scale , with reproducible peptide formation and folding , at a reasonable and economical price , [0003 ] New insecticidal and nematicidal proteins , cleav can be a significant obstacle to commercialization . The wide able peptides, DNA constructs encoding same, transgenic variety , unique properties and special nature of insecticidal proteins , their expression in plants, methods of producing peptides , combined with the huge variety of possible pro the transgenic proteins, new processes , production tech duction techniques, can present an overwhelming number of niques , new peptides, new formulations, and combinations approaches to peptide application and production , but few , if of new and known insecticidal and nematicidal proteins any, are commercially successful. contained within transgenic proteins that produce greater [0010 ] There are several reasons why so few of the mul pest resistance than would be expected of related insecticidal titude insecticidal peptides that have been identified have and nematicidal proteins for the control of insects and ever made it to market . First, most insecticidal peptides are nematodes are described and claimed . either too delicate or not toxic enough to be used commer cially. Second , insecticidal peptides are difficult and costly BACKGROUND to produce commercially . Third , many insecticidal peptides [0004 ] The global security of food produced by modern quickly degrade and have a short half -life . Fourth , very few agriculture and horticulture is challenged by insect pests . insecticidal peptides fold properly when then are expressed Farmers rely on insecticides to suppress insect damage, yet by a plant, thus they lose their toxicity in genetically commercial options for safe and functional insecticides modified organisms (GMOs ) such as genetically modified available to farmers are diminishing through the removal of plants . Fifth , most of the identified insecticidal peptides are dangerous chemicals from the marketplace and the evolution blocked from systemic distribution in the insect and / or lose of insect strains that are resistant to all major classes of their toxic nature when consumed by insects . Bt proteins are chemical and biological insecticides . New insecticides are an exception to this last problem and because they disrupt necessary for farmers to maintain crop protection . insect feeding they have been widely used . [ 0005 ] Insecticidal and nematicidal peptides, polypeptides [0011 ] The present invention provides several solutions to and proteins are peptide and protein polymers that are toxic these major problems which have prevented commercial to their targets , usually insects or nematodes . The insecti ization and wide spread use of insecticidal peptides. The cidal peptides or toxins commonly derive from arthropod present invention provides transgenic proteins that enable origins such as from scorpions or spiders . The toxins can be the synthesis and release of insecticidal and nematicidal delivered directly to the insect ' s gut or internal organs by toxic peptides in relatively large numbers at the site of injection or by inducing the insect to consume the toxin from activity , i . e . , the gut or other organs of the insect or nema its food , for example an insect feeding upon a transgenic tode. The synthesis in the host is facilitated by directed plant. These toxins have been known to have the ability to expression in regions of the host cell that enables proper inhibit the growth , impair the movement, or even kill an folding of the transgenic protein and enhances synthesis in insect when the toxin is delivered to the insect by spreading the host cell . the toxin to the locus inhabited by the insect or to the insect' s environment