The Significance of Insect Viruses in Biotechnology

Abstract

Insect viruses are biological control agents that cause their illness or dead by infecting the insects. Recently, these viruses have great interest at modern biotechnological applications. Insect viruses that have high host specificity, have been used against various agricultural and forest pest as an alternative to chemical pesticides. Studies done with these viruses have been used as model for high organizational organisms. Many genes that has industrial, agricultural, medical and economical importance have been produced at great amounts at expression systems developed from these viruses. Also, recently these viruses are being used as gene therapy vector. At this review paper, we will pay attention on subjects especially at insect viruses, and potential of the usage of baculoviruses at various biotechnological studies

Keywords

• Insect viruses
• biotechnology
• baculoviruses

Böcek Virüslerinin Biyoteknolojik Önemi

Öz

Böcek virüsleri, böcekleri enfekte ederek, onların hastalanmaları veya ölmelerine neden olan biyolojik etmenlerdir. Son yıllarda, bu virüsler modern biyoteknoloji uygulamalarında önemli ölçüde ilgi uyandırmaktadır. Yüksek konukçu seçiciliklerine sahip böcek virüsleri, çeşitli tarım ve orman zararlılarına karşı kimyasal pestisitlerin alternatifi olarak kullanılmaktadır. Bu virüslerle yapılan çalışmalar yüksek organizasyonlu canlılar için model olarak kullanılmaktadır. Endüstriyel, zirai, tıbbı ve ekonomik öneme sahip ilgi duyulan birçok gen, bu virüslerden geliştirilmiş ekspresyon vektörlerinde bol miktarda üretilmektedir. Ayrıca, son yıllarda bu virüsler gen terapi vektörü olarak da kullanılmaktadır. Bu derleme makalede, başta genel böcek virüsleri olmak üzere bakülovirüslerin çeşitli biyoteknolojik çalışmalarda kullanılma potansiyelleri üzerinde durulacaktır

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Böcek virüsleri
• biyoteknoloji
• bakülovirüsler

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