commercially for the control of economical important insect pests. These are pore-forming
toxins that interact with different receptors in the insect gut, forming pores in the apical
membrane causing cell burst and insect death. Elucidation of the structure of the membrane-
inserted toxin is important to fully understand its mechanism of action. One hypothesis
proposed that the hairpin of α-helices 4–5 of domain I inserts into the phospholipid bilayer …