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Photorhabdus Dam methyltransferase overexpression impairs virulence of the nemato-bacterial complex in insects

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Photorhabdus luminescens is an entomopathogenic bacterium found in symbiosis with the nematode Heterorhabditis. Dam DNA methylation is involved in the pathogenicity of many bacteria, including P. luminescens, whereas studies about the role of bacterial DNA methylation during symbiosis are scarce. The aim of this study was to determine the role of Dam DNA methylation in P. luminescens symbiosis with H. bacteriophora. We constructed a strain overexpressing dam by inserting an additional copy of the dam gene under the control of a constitutive promoter in the chromosome of P. luminescens and then achieved association between this recombinant strain and nematodes. The dam overexpressing strain was able to feed the nematode in vitro and in vivo similarly as a control strain, and to re-associate with Infective Juvenile (IJ) stages in the insect. No difference in the amount of emerging IJs from the cadaver was observed between the two strains. Compared to the nematode in symbiosis with the control strain, a significant increase in LT50 was observed during insect infestation with the nematode associated with the dam overexpressing strain. These results suggest that the P. luminescens Dam plays a role in the pathogenicity of the nemato-bacterial complex.
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hal-02788293 , version 1 (05-06-2020)

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Amaury Payelleville, Dana Blackburn, Anne Lanois, Sylvie Pages, Marine C. Cambon, et al.. Photorhabdus Dam methyltransferase overexpression impairs virulence of the nemato-bacterial complex in insects. 2019. ⟨hal-02788293⟩
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