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Insect-toxic secreted proteins and virulence of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana.

Fungal virulence has been mostly associated with cuticle-degrading enzymes that can be regulated depending on nutrient conditions. However, few studies have related fungal virulence to insect-toxic secreted proteins. Here, we describe how the presence of secreted toxic proteins may be linked to conidial virulence, which can be affected by nutrient factors. In this study we evaluated: (1) the virulence of the conidia of four Beauveria bassiana strains (EABb 01/103-Su, EABb 01/12-Su, EABb 01/88-Su and EABb 01/110-Su) grown on three different media (malt extract agar (MA), Rice (Rice), Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA) and harvested from the cadavers of fungal-infected Galleria mellonella larvae (CAD) and (2) the toxicity of the crude soluble protein extracts (CSPEs) obtained from Adamek's liquid medium inoculated with these conidia. Conidial suspensions were obtained from the four media, assessed on G. mellonella larvae and used to produce CSPEs that were injected into healthy G. mellonella larvae. The larvae were also injected with conidia obtained from MA and CAD cultures to expose them to in vivo-secreted proteins. For all isolates, the CAD conidia were by far the most virulent, followed by conidia grown on SDA, Rice and MA. The injected CSPEs showed the same toxicity trends as the conidial suspensions. In addition, the outcomes of injection of the in vivo-secreted proteins showed that the toxic proteins secreted in vitro by the EABb 01/110-Su strain are not produced in vivo. However, the other strains produced toxic proteins both in vivo and in vitro, suggesting that these toxic proteins may be virulence factors involved in invertebrate pathogenesis.

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