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Article Dans Une Revue Current Opinion in Microbiology Année : 2012

How the insect pathogen bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis and Xenorhabdus/Photorhabdus occupy their hosts

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Insects are the largest group of animals on earth. Like mammals, virus, fungi, bacteria and parasites infect them. Several tissue barriers and defense mechanisms are common for vertebrates and invertebrates. Therefore some insects, notably the fly Drosophila and the caterpillar Galleria mellonella, have been used as models to study host-pathogen interactions for several insect and mammal pathogens. They are excellent tools to identify pathogen determinants and host tissue cell responses. We focus here on the comparison of effectors used by two different groups of bacterial insect pathogens to accomplish the infection process in their lepidopteran larval host: Bacillus thuringiensis and the nematode-associated bacteria, Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus. The comparison reveals similarities in function and expression profiles for some genes, which suggest that such factors are conserved during evolution in order to attack the tissue encountered during the infection process.
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hal-01004177 , version 1 (29-05-2020)

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Christina C. Nielsen-Leroux, Sophie S. Gaudriault, Nalini N. Rama Rao, Didier D. Lereclus, Alain Givaudan. How the insect pathogen bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis and Xenorhabdus/Photorhabdus occupy their hosts. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2012, 15 (3), pp.220 - 231. ⟨10.1016/j.mib.2012.04.006⟩. ⟨hal-01004177⟩
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