Population Dynamics of Intestinal <i>Enterococcus</i> Modulate Galleria mellonella Metamorphosis-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Population Dynamics of Intestinal Enterococcus Modulate Galleria mellonella Metamorphosis

Published:2023-08-17 Issue:4 Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Kong Hyun Gi¹²,Son Jin-Soo¹,Chung Joon-Hui¹,Lee Soohyun¹,Kim Jun-Seob³^ORCID,Ryu Choong-Min¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Infection Disease Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, South Korea

2. Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea

3. Department of Nano-Bioengineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea

Abstract

First, we demonstrated that the presence of Enterococcus spp. is a driving force for insect metamorphosis. RNA sequencing and peptide production subsequently revealed that antimicrobial peptides targeted against microorganisms in the gut of Galleria mellonella (wax moth) did not kill Enterobacteria species, but did kill Enterococcus species, when the moth was at a certain stage of growth, and this promoted moth pupation.

Funder

Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology

Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea

National Research Foundation of Korea

Rural Development Administration

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.02780-22

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