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TOXICON
卷 218, 期 -, 页码 40-46出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2022.09.003
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Txp40; Insecticidal protein; Xenorhabdus and photorhabdus; Galleria; toxicity
This study reports the purification, toxicity, and biophysical characterization of the Txp40b toxin from X. nematophila. The recombinant Txp40b exhibits strong toxicity to Galleria mellonella larvae and is found to be an alpha-helix rich protein with a relatively low melting temperature of 45 degrees C. In-silico modeling suggests a two-domain structure for the Txp40b toxin.
Txp40 is a ubiquitous toxin from Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus bacteria, exhibits insecticidal activity against a wide range of insect pests belonging to Lepidoptera and Diptera orders. Initially, Txp40 affects midgut of the target insect and further damages some other tissues like fat bodies but the detailed mode of action is not known. Txp40 shares no significant sequence match to any proteins with known structure or function, suggesting that it is a novel type of insecticidal toxin. Here, we report purification, toxicity and biophysical characterization of the Txp40b toxin from X. nematophila (ATCC, 19061). The recombinant Txp40b was found toxic to Galleria mellonella larvae with LD50 of 30.42 ng larva-1. Circular dichroism spectroscopy revealed that purified Txp40b is an alpha-helix rich protein with a relatively lower melting temperature of 45 degrees C. In-silico model generated suggests two domain structure of Txp40b toxin. Detailed structural analysis of Txp40b will provide new insights about the mode of action and possibly it would illustrate a new domain and/or motif in the area of insecticidal proteins.
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