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CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages 2372-2380Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2007.00966.x
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Photorhabdus luminescens toxin complex (Tc) has been characterized as a potent three-component insecticidal protein complex. Homologues of genes encoding P. luminescens Tc components have been identified in several other enterobacteria and in Gram-positive bacteria, showing these genes are widespread in bacteria. In particular, tc gene homologues have been identified in Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia pestis and may have a role in Y. pestis evolution. Y. enterocolitica tc genes have been shown to be active against Manduca sexta larvae. Here, we demonstrate that expression optimization is essential to obtain bioactive P. luminescens Tc proteins and demonstrate that TcaAB and TcdB + TccC are stand-alone toxins against a M. sexta insect model. Moreover, we report that Y. pseudotuberculosis IP32953 Tc proteins are also toxic to M. sexta larvae but do not cross-potentiate as P. luminescens Tc components.
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