Insect targeting toxin produced by Streptomyces!! 🪰🦠now published in Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com
This body of work was so fun to contribute to! I got to venture back to my first love, Drosophila, and combine it with my current love of insect gustation/sensory neurobiology!
Lisa Baik 🦟
Out Now! Streptomyces produce a diphtheria toxin-like exotoxin that targets insects #MicroSky
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Nature Microbiology, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02315-5Bioinformatic, structural and functional analyses characterize Streptomyces antiquus insecticidal protein (SAIP) as a diphtheria toxin homologue that is lethal to insect cells and targets the Flower protein as a receptor
