The bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens is already used as bioinsecticide to protect crops against a wide range of insect pests. Researchers have recently demonstrated that P. luminescens can also ...

July 6, 2022 — The bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens is already used as bioinsecticide to protect crops against a wide range of insect pests. Researchers have recently demonstrated that P ...

The bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens is one such beneficial organism. In the case of insect larvae infestation, the bacterium produces a variety of different toxins which quickly kill the larvae.

The bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens, the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis, as well as germs from the salmonella family, use so-called Tc toxins which consist of several components (TcA ...

Important toxins of Photorhabdus luminescens are counted among the ABC toxins, which consist of the three protein components TcA, TcB and TcC. The toxin complex first docks at receptor molecules on ...

With his friend Jon Curtis, Martin researched Photorhabdus luminescens, a type of bacteria that lives in the guts of parasitic nematodes. When nematodes vomit up the glowing bacteria, P.

But the worm carries a deadly weapon in its gut, just waiting to be regurgitated: the bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens. The toxins this bacterium produces are so potent that 10 cells can kill an ...

We directly cloned all ten megasynthetase gene clusters (each 10–52 kb in length) from Photorhabdus luminescens into expression vectors and expressed two of them in a heterologous host to ...