Induction of a putative serine protease transcript in immune challenged Drosophila

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 265-272

  Coustau, Christine ^a,b   Rocheleau, Thomas ^a   Carton, Yves ^b   Nappi, Anthony J ^c   Ffrench Constant, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial injection; Drosophila; Immune response; Leptopilina; Parasitoid infection; Serine proteases

Indexed keywords

SERINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINASE INHIBITION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; LEPTOPILINA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030200181     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0145-305X(96)00016-X     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. 1. Boman, H. G. Antibacterial peptides: key components needed in immunity. Cell 65:205-207; 1991.
2. 2. Kimbrell, D. A. Insect antibacterial proteins: not just for insects and against bacteria. BioEssays 1312:657-663; 1991.
3. 3. Hultmark, D. Immune reactions in Drosophila and other insects: a model for innate immunity. Trends Genet. 95:178-184; 1993.
4. 4. Nappi, A. J.; Vass, E. Melanogenesis and the generation of cytotoxic molecules during insect cellular immune reactions. Pigment Cell Res. 6:117-126; 1993.
5. 5. Neurath, H. Evolution of proteolytic enzymes. Science 224:350-357; 1984.
6. 6. Dohke, K. Studies on prophenoloxidase-activating enzyme from cuticle of the silkworm Bombyx mori. I. Activation reaction by the enzyme. Archs Biochem. Biophys. 157:203-209; 1973.
7. 7. Sugumaran, M.; Saul, S. J.; Ramesh, N. Endogenous protease inhibitors prevent undesired activation of prophenoloxidase in insect hemolymph. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 132:1124-1129; 1985.
8. 8. Yoshida, H.; Ashida, M. Microbial activation of two serine enzymes and prophenoloxidase in the plasma fraction of hemolymph of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect. Biochem. 163:539-545; 1986.
9. 9. Ashida, M.; Kinoshita, K.; Brey, P. T. Studies on prophenoloxidase activation in the mosquito Aedes aegypti L. Eur. J. Biochem. 188:507-515; 1990.
10. 10. Seybold, W. D.; Meltzer, P. S.; Mitchell, H. K. Phenol oxidase activation in Drosophila: a cascade of reactions. Biochem. Genet. 13:85-108; 1975.
11. 11. Rizki, T. M.; Rizki, R. M.; Bellotti, R. A. Genetics of a Drosophila phenoloxidase. Mol. Gen. Genet. 201:7-13; 1985.
12. 12. Yonemura, M.; Kasatani, K.; Asada, N.; Ohnishi, E. Involvement of a serine protease in the activation of prophenoloxidase in Drosophila melanogaster. Zool. Sci. (Tokyo) 8:865-867; 1991.
13. 13. Neurath, H. The versatility of proteolytic enzymes. J. Cell. Biochem. 32:35-49; 1986.
14. 14. Baron, R. W.; Colwell, D. D. Mammalian immune responses to myasis. Parasitol. Today 7:353-355; 1991.
15. 15. Elvin, C. M.; Whan, V.; Riddles, P. W. A family of serine protease genes expressed in adult buffalo fly (Haematobia irritans exigua). Mol. Gen. Genet. 240:132-139; 1993.
16. 16. Casu, R. E.; Jarmey, J. M.; Elvin, C. M.; Eisemann, C. H. Isolation of a trypsin-like serine protease gene family from the sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina. Insect Mol. Biol. 33:159-170; 1994.
17. 17. Casu, R. E.; Pearson, R. D.; Jarmey, J. M.; Cadogan, L. C.; Riding, G. A.; Tellam, R. L. Excretory/secretory chymotrypsin from Lucilia cuprina: purification, enzymatic specificity and amino acid sequence deduced from mRNA. Insect Mol. Biol. 34:201-211; 1994.
18. 18. Carton, Y.; Frey, F.; Nappi, A. Genetic determinism of the cellular immune reaction in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity 69:393-399; 1992.
19. 19. Carton, Y.; Nappi, A. The Drosophila immune reaction and the parasitoid capacity to evade it: genetic and coevolutionary aspects. Acta Ecol. 121:89-104; 1991.
20. 20. Coustau, C.; Carton, Y.; Nappi, A. J.; Shotkoski, F. A. S.; ffrench-Constant, R. H. Differential induction of antibacterial transcripts in Drosophila susceptible and refractory to parasitism by Leptopilina boulardi. Insect Mol. Biol. 3:167-172; 1996.
21. 21. Elvin, C. M.; Vuocolo, T.; Smith, W. J. M.; Eisemann, C. H.; Riddles, P. W. An estimate of the number of serine protease genes expressed in sheep blowfly larvae (Lucilia cuprina). Insect Mol. Biol. 32:105-115; 1994.
22. 22. Brown, J. R.; Hartley, B. S. Location of disulphide bridges by diagonal paper electrophoresis. The disulphide bridges of bovine chymotrypsinogen. A. Biochem. J. 101:214-228; 1966.
23. 23. Chasan, R.; Anderson, K. V. The role of Easter, an apparent serine protease, in organizing the dorsal-ventral pattern of the Drosophila embryo. Cell 56:391-400; 1989.
24. 24. Yun, Y.; Davis, R. L. Levels of RNA from a family of putative serine protease genes are reduced in Drosophila melanogaster dunce mutants and are regulated by cyclic AMP. Mol. Cell. Biol. 92:692-700; 1989.
25. 25. Nappi, A.; Carton, Y.; Frey, F. Parasite-induced enhancement of hemolymph tyrosinase activity in a selected immune reactive strain of Drosophila melanogaster. Arch. Ins. Biochem. Biophys. 18:159-168; 1991.
26. 26. Baumann, H.; Gauldie, J. The acute phase response. Immunol. Today 152:74-80; 1994.
27. 27. Vyse, T. J.; Bates, G. P.; Walport, M. J.; Morley, B. J. The organization of the human complement factor I gene (IF): a member of the serine protease gene family. Genomics 24:90-98; 1994.
28. 28. Thia, K. Y. T.; Jenkins, N. A.; Gilbert, D. J.; Copeland, N. G.; Smyth, M. J. The natural killer cell serine protease gene Lmet 1 maps to mouse chromosome 10. Immunogenetics 41:47-49; 1995.
29. 29. Kraut, J. Serine proteases: structure and mechanism of catalysis. Ann. Rev. Biochem. 46:331-358; 1977.
30. 30. Sakanari, J. A.; Staunton, C. E.; Eakin, A. E.; Craik, C. S.; McKerrow, J. H. Serine proteases from nematode and protozoan parasites: isolation of sequence homologs using generic molecular probes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86:4863-4867; 1989.