Reprogramming the virulence: Insect defense molecules navigating the epigenetic landscape of Metarhizium robertsii

Metarhizium species are the leading bio-control agents well characterized regarding pathogenicity to agricultural, forest, public health, stored grains and urban insect pests. They infect the target host through the tight conidial adherence with the insect cuticle. Conidial binding to the insect cut...

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Published inVirulence Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 447 - 449
Main Author Hussain, Abid
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Taylor & Francis 01.01.2018
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Animals
Coevolution
Entomopathogenic fungi
Epigenetics
Host-pathogen interaction
Insecta
Metarhizium
Pathogenesis
Spores, Fungal
Virulence
Epigenetics
Entomopathogenic fungi
Coevolution
Pathogenesis
Virulence
Host-pathogen interaction
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Summary:Metarhizium species are the leading bio-control agents well characterized regarding pathogenicity to agricultural, forest, public health, stored grains and urban insect pests. They infect the target host through the tight conidial adherence with the insect cuticle. Conidial binding to the insect cuticle drive the systematic integrated disease development events in target host to impart pathogenesis. However, there is growing evidence that virulence of the pathogen is directly related with proteolytic enzymes including metalloproteinases, chymotrypsin-like proteinases and subtilisin-like proteinases. Successful host pathogenesis is the selection of right set of virulence-related proteinases, which evolved as a result of host-pathogen coevolution.
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ISSN:2150-5594
2150-5608
DOI:10.1080/21505594.2017.1421828