title: Cloning and sequencing of three new putative toxin genes from Clostridium bifermentans CH18.
abstract: Three new open reading frames were found downstream from cbm71, a toxin gene from Clostridium bifermentans malaysia (Cbm) strain CH18. The first one (91bp downstream) called cbm72, is 1857bp long and encodes a 71727-Da protein (Cbm72) with a sequence similar to that of Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxins. This protein shows no significant toxicity to mosquito larvae. The two others, cbm17.1 (462bp) and cbm17.2 (459bp), are copies of the same gene encoding Cbm P18 and P16 polypeptides and located 426bp and 1022bp downstream from cbm72, respectively. They encode 17189-Da and 17451-Da proteins with sequences 44.6% similar to that of Aspergillus fumigatus hemolysin; however, they were not hemolytic in the conditions tested.
authors.affiliation: Unité des Bactéries Entomopathogènes, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75724, Paris, Cedex 15, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Barloy
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Lecadet
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Delécluse
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001413:Bacillus thuringiensis / Q000235:genetics; D000083722:Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003013:Clostridium / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D004731:Endotoxins / Q000235:genetics; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; D006461:Hemolysis; D007306:Insecticides / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009032:Mosquito Control; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014170:Transformation, Genetic
chemical_list: D000083722:Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; C112995:Cbm17.1 protein, Clostridium bifermentans; C112996:Cbm17.2 protein, Clostridium bifermentans; C112994:Cbm72 protein, Clostridium bifermentans; D004731:Endotoxins; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; D007306:Insecticides; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; C030956:insecticidal crystal protein, Bacillus Thuringiensis