New pH dependent lectin from bioluminescent bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens

• Authors: ROZUMOVÁ Petra; WIMMEROVÁ Michaela
• Year of publication: 2011
• Type: Conference abstract
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Description: Photorhabdus luminescens is a gram-negative symbiotic bacterium that lives in the gut of entomopathogenic nematodes. The protein PLU from P. luminescens has a strong sequence homology with the recently characterized lectin BC2L-C-nt from the human opportunistic pathogen Burkholderia cenocepacia. BC2L-C-nt is an attractive protein, since it has unique beta sandwich trimeric structure and is the first lectin with TNF-fold. The contribution is focused on characterization of lectin PLU from P. luminescens.

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