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Deletion of the novel gene mother cell lysis X results in Cry1Ac encapsulation in the Bacillus thuringiensis HD73.

ABSTRACT: The novel protein MclX (mother cell lysis X) in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki strain HD73 (B. thuringiensis HD73) was characterized in this work. MclX has no known domain and its gene deletion in HD73 resulted in Cry1Ac encapsulation in the mother cell and did not influence Cry1Ac protein production or insecticidal activity. In vitro cell wall hydrolysis experiments showed that MclX cannot hydrolyze the cell wall. In mclX deletion mutants, the expression of cwlC (which encodes a key cell wall hydrolase) was significantly decreased, as shown by the β-galactosidase activity assay. MclX cannot directly bind to the cwlC promoter, based on the electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA). The cwlC was reported to be regulated by σ^K and GerE. However, the transcriptional activities of sigK and gerE showed no difference between HD73 and the mclX deletion mutant. It is indicated that MclX influenced cwlC expression independently of σ^K or GerE, through a new pathway to regulate cwlC expression. mclX deletion could be a new approach for insecticidal protein encapsulation in Bacillus thuringiensis.

SUBMITTER: Wang J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9397120 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Deletion of the novel gene mother cell lysis X results in Cry1Ac encapsulation in the Bacillus thuringiensis HD73.

Wang Jiaojiao J Yu Qingyue Q Peng Qi Q Slamti Leyla L Zhang Ruibin R Hou Shuo S Lereclus Didier D Song Fuping F

Frontiers in microbiology 20220809

The novel protein MclX (mother cell lysis X) in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki strain HD73 (B. thuringiensis HD73) was characterized in this work. MclX has no known domain and its gene deletion in HD73 resulted in Cry1Ac encapsulation in the mother cell and did not influence Cry1Ac protein production or insecticidal activity. In vitro cell wall hydrolysis experiments showed that MclX cannot hydrolyze the cell wall. In mclX deletion mutants, the expressi ...[more]

PMID: 36016772

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Project description:In this study, a sporulation-specific gene (tentatively named cwlC) involved in mother cell lysis in Bacillus thuringiensis was characterized. The encoded CwlC protein consists of an N-terminal N-acetylmuramoyl-l-alanine amidase (MurNAc-LAA) domain and a C-terminal amidase02 domain. The recombinant histidine-tagged CwlC proteins purified from Escherichia coli were able to directly bind to and digest the B. thuringiensis cell wall. The CwlC point mutations at the two conserved glutamic acid residues (Glu-24 and Glu-140) shown to be critical for the catalytic activity in homologous amidases resulted in a complete loss of cell wall lytic activity, suggesting that CwlC is an N-acetylmuramoyl-l-alanine amidase. Results of transcriptional analyses indicated that cwlC is transcribed as a monocistronic unit and that its expression is dependent on sporulation sigma factor K (σK). Deletion of cwlC completely blocked mother cell lysis during sporulation without impacting the sporulation frequency, Cry1Ac protein production, and insecticidal activity. Taken together, our data suggest that CwlC is an essential cell wall hydrolase for B. thuringiensis mother cell lysis during sporulation. Engineered B. thuringiensis strains targeting cwlC, which allows the crystal inclusion to remain encapsulated in the mother cell at the end of sporulation, may have the potential to become more effective biological control agents in agricultural applications since the crystal inclusion remains encapsulated in the mother cell at the end of sporulation.IMPORTANCE Mother cell lysis has been well studied in Bacillus subtilis, which involves three distinct yet functionally complementary cell wall hydrolases. In this study, a novel cell wall hydrolase, CwlC, was investigated and found to be essential for mother cell lysis in Bacillus thuringiensis CwlC of B. thuringiensis only shows 9 and 21% sequence identity with known B. subtilis mother cell hydrolases CwlB and CwlC, respectively, suggesting that mechanisms of mother cell lysis may differ between B. subtilis and B. thuringiensis The cwlC gene deletion completely blocked the release of spores and crystals from the mother cell without affecting insecticidal activity. This may provide a new effective strategy for crystal encapsulation against UV light inactivation.

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Deletion of the novel gene mother cell lysis X results in Cry1Ac encapsulation in the Bacillus thuringiensis HD73.

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Deletion of the novel gene mother cell lysis X results in Cry1Ac encapsulation in the <i>Bacillus thuringiensis</i> HD73.

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