Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

De novo determination of mosquitocidal Cry11Aa and Cry11Ba structures from naturally-occurring nanocrystals

  • Guillaume Tetreau,
  • Michael R. Sawaya,
  • Elke De Zitter,
  • Elena A. Andreeva,
  • Anne-Sophie Banneville,
  • Natalie A. Schibrowsky,
  • Nicolas Coquelle,
  • Aaron S. Brewster,
  • Marie Luise Grünbein,
  • Gabriela Nass Kovacs,
  • Mark S. Hunter,
  • Marco Kloos,
  • Raymond G. Sierra,
  • Giorgio Schiro,
  • Pei Qiao,
  • Myriam Stricker,
  • Dennis Bideshi,
  • Iris D. Young,
  • Ninon Zala,
  • Sylvain Engilberge,
  • Alexander Gorel,
  • Luca Signor,
  • Jean-Marie Teulon,
  • Mario Hilpert,
  • Lutz Foucar,
  • Johan Bielecki,
  • Richard Bean,
  • Raphael de Wijn,
  • Tokushi Sato,
  • Henry Kirkwood,
  • Romain Letrun,
  • Alexander Batyuk,
  • Irina Snigireva,
  • Daphna Fenel,
  • Robin Schubert,
  • Ethan J. Canfield,
  • Mario M. Alba,
  • Frédéric Laporte,
  • Laurence Després,
  • Maria Bacia,
  • Amandine Roux,
  • Christian Chapelle,
  • François Riobé,
  • Olivier Maury,
  • Wai Li Ling,
  • Sébastien Boutet,
  • Adrian Mancuso,
  • Irina Gutsche,
  • Eric Girard,
  • Thomas R. M. Barends,
  • Jean-Luc Pellequer,
  • Hyun-Woo Park,
  • Arthur D. Laganowsky,
  • Jose Rodriguez,
  • Manfred Burghammer,
  • Robert L. Shoeman,
  • R. Bruce Doak,
  • Martin Weik,
  • Nicholas K. Sauter,
  • Brian Federici,
  • Duilio Cascio,
  • Ilme Schlichting,
  • Jacques-Philippe Colletier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31746-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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An environmentally safe means of mosquito control is the application of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, which produces a cocktail of four naturally crystalline proteins exclusively toxic to mosquito. Here the authors report the atomic-resolution structures of Bti Cry11Aa and related Btj Cry11Ba solved de novo through Serial Femtosecond Crystallography on naturally-occurring nanocrystals.