Regulation of Juvenile Hormone synthesis in the blowfly Lucilia cuprina

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 183-190

  Sutherland, Tara D ^a,b   East, Peter D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blowfly; Calcium ionophore; Corpus allatum; Cyclic AMP; Juvenile Hormone bisepoxide; Lucilia cuprina

Indexed keywords

CALLIPHORIDAE; DIPTERA; LUCILIA CUPRINA;

EID: 0030984834     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1997.tb01156.x     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Aucoin, R.R., Rankin, S.M., Stay, B. & Tobe, S.S. (1987) Calcium and cyclic AMP involvement in the regulation of Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis in Diploplera punctata. Insect Biochemistry, 17, 965-969.
2. Bellés, X., Maestro, J.L., Piulachs, M.D., Johnsen, A., Duve, H. & Thorpe, A. (1994) Allatostatic neuropeptides from the cockroach Blattella germiinica (L.) (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae): identification, immunolocalization and activity. Regulatory Peptides, 53, 237-247.
3. Bhaskaran, B., Sparagana, S.P., Barrera, P. & Dahm, K.H. (1986) Change in corpus allatum function during metamorphosis of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, regulation at the terminal step in Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 3, 321-338.
4. Couillaud, F. (1991) Evidence for regulation of juvenile hormone biosynthesis operating before mevalonate in locust corpora allata. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 77, 159-166.
5. Cusson, M., Yagi, K.J., Xue-Chen, G. & Tobe, S.S. (1992) Assessment of the role of cyclic nucleotides in allatostatin-induced inhibition of Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis in Diploptera punctata. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 89, 121-125.
6. Donly, B.C., Ding, Q., Tobe, S.S. & Bendena, W.G. (1993) Molecular cloning of the gene for the allatostatin family of peptides from the cockroach Diploptera punctata. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 90, 8807-8811.
7. Duve, H., Johnsen, A.M., Scott, A.C., Yu, C.G., Yagi, K.J., Tobe, S.S. & Thorpe, A. (1993) Callatostatins: neuropeptides from the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria with sequence homology to cockroach allatostatins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 90, 2456-2460.
8. Duve, H., Thorpe, A., Yagi, K.J., Yu, C.G. & Tobe, S.S. (1992) Factors affecting the biosynthesis and release of Juvenile Hormone bisepoxide in the adult blowfly Calliphora vomitoria. Journal of Insect Physiology, 38, 575-585.
9. East, P.D., Sutherland, T.D., Trowell, S.C., Herit, A.J. & Rickards, R.W. (1997) Juvenile Hormone synthesis by ring glands of the blowfly Lucilia cuprina. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 34, 239-253.
10. East, P., Tregenza, K., Duve, H. & Thorpe, A. (1996) Identification of the dipteran Leu-callatostatin peptide family: characterisation of the prohormone gene from Calliphora vomitoria and Lucilia cuprina. Regulatory Peptides, 67, 1-9.
11. Feyereisen, R. (1985) Regulation of Juvenile hormone titre: synthesis. Comprehensive Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology (ed. by G. A. Kerkut and L. I. Gilbert). Vol. 7, pp. 391-429. Pergamon Press. Oxford.
12. Feyereisen, R. & Farnsworth, D.E. (1987) Characterization and regulation of HMG-CoA reductase during a cycle of Juvenile Hormone synthesis. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 53, 227-238.
13. Gilbert, L.I., Bollenbacher, W.E. & Granger, N.A. (1980) Insect endocrinology: regulation of endocrine glands, hormone titer, and hormone metabolism. Annual Review of Physiology, 42, 493-510.
14. Khan, M.A. (1988) Brain-controlled synthesis of juvenile hormone in adult insects. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 46, 3-17.
15. Kikukawa, S. & Tobe, S.S. (1986) Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis in female larvae in Diploptera punctata and the effect of allatectomy on ecdysteroid titre. Journal of Insect Physiology, 32, 981-986.
16. Kikukawa, S. Tobe, S.S., Solowiej, S., Rankin, S.M. & Stay, B. (1987) Calcium as a regulator of Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis and release in the cockroach Diploptera punctata. Insect Biochemistry, 17, 179-187.
17. King, R.C., Aggarwal, S.K. & Bodenstein, D. (1966) The comparative submicroscopic morphology of the ring gland of Drosophila melanogaster during the second and third larval instars. Zeitschrift für Zellforschung, 73, 272-285.
18. Kramer, S.J., Toschi, A., Miller, C.A., Kataoka, H., Quistad, G.B., Li, J.P, Carney, R.L. & Schooley, D.A. (1991) Identification of an allatostatin from tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 88, 9458-9462.
19. Lefevere, K.S., Lacey, M.J., Smith, P.H., & Roberts, B. (1993) Identification and quantification of Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis by larval and adult Australian sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 23, 713-720.
20. Meiler, V.H., Aucoin, R.R., Tobe, S.S. & Feyereisen, R. (1985) Evidence for an inhibitory role of cyclic AMP in the control of Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis by cockroach corpora allata. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 43, 155-163.
21. Meurant, K. & Sernia, C. (1993) The ultrastructure of the prothoracic gland corpus allatum corpus cardiacum ring complex of the Australian sheep blowfly larva Lucilia cuprina (Weid) (Insecta, Diptera). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 23, 47-55.
22. Nijhout, H.F. (1994) Insect Hormones. Princeton University Press.
23. Paulson, C.R. & Stay, B. (1987) Inhibition of the corpora allata by larval brain extracts in the cockroach Diploptera punctata. Journal of Insect Physiology, 33, 613-622.
24. Peng, C.T. (1977) Sample preparation in liquid scintillation counting. Radiochemical Centre Review, 17, pp. 30-38. Amersham International Ltd, Buckinghamshire, U.K.
25. Piulachs, M.D. & Couillaud, F. (1992) Differential stimulation of Juvenile Hormone III biosynthesis induced by mevalonate and mevalonolactone in Blatella germanica (L.). Journal of Insect Physiology, 38, 555-560.
26. Postlethwait, J.H. (1974) Juvenile Hormone and the adult development of Drosophila melanogaster. Biological Bulletin, 147, 199-135.
27. Pratt, G.E., Farnsworth, D.E., Siegel, N.R., Fok, K.F. & Feyereisen, R. (1989) Identification of an allatostatin from adult Diploptera punctata. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 163, 1243-1247.
28. Reed, P.W. (1982) In: Polyether Antibiotics: Carboxylic Ionophores (ed. by J. W. Westley). Dekker, New York.
29. Richard, D.S., Applebaum, S.W. & Gilbert, L.I. (1989a) Developmental regulation of Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis by the ring gland of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 159B, 383-387.
30. Richard, D.S., Applebaum, S.W. & Gilbert, L.I. (1990) Allatostatic regulation of Juvenile Hormone production in vivo by the ring gland of Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 68, 153-161.
31. Richard, D.S., Applebaum, S.W., Sliter, T.J., Baker, F.C., Schooley, D.A., Reuter, C.C., Hendrich, V.C. & Gilbert, L.I. (1989b) Juvenile Hormone bisepoxide biosynthesis in vitro by the ring gland of Drosophila melanogaster: a putative juvenile hormone in the higher Diptera. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 86, 1421-1425.
32. Richards, G. (1981) Insect hormones in development. Biological Reviews, 56, 501-549.
33. Riddiford, L.M. (1994) Cellular and molecular actions of Juvenile Hormone. I. General considerations and premetamorphic actions. Advances in Insect Physiology, 24, 213-274.
34. Riddiford, L.M. & Ashburner, M. (1991) Effects of Juvenile Hormone mimics on larval development and metamorphosis of Drosophila melanogaster. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 82, 172-183.
35. Sparagana, S.P., Bhaskaran, G., Dahm, K.H. & Riddle, V. (1984) Juvenile Hormone production, juvenile hormone esterase, and juvenile hormone acid methyltransferase in corpora allata of Manduca sexta. Journal of Experimental Zoology, 230, 309-313.
36. Tobe, S.S. & Pratt, G.E. (1974) The influence of substrate concentrations on the rate of insect Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis of corpora allata of the desert locust in vitro. Biochemical Journal, 144, 107-113.
37. Weaver, R.J., Freeman, Z.A., Pickering, M.G. & Edwards, J.P. (1994) Identification of two allatostatins from the CNS of the cockroach Periplaneta americana: novel members of a family of neuropeptide inhibitors of insect Juvenile Hormone biosynthesis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 107C, 119-127.
38. Weller, G.L. & Foster, G.G. (1993) Genetic maps of the sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina: linkage-group correlations with other dipteran genera. Genome, 36, 495-506.
39. Woodhead, A.P., Stay, B., Seidel, S.L., Khan, M.A. & Tobe, S.S. (1989) Primary structure of four allatostatins: neuropeptide inhibitors of Juvenile Hormone synthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 86, 5997-6001.
40. Yagi, K.J., Konz, K.G., Stay, B. & Tobe, S.S. (1991) Production and utilization of farnesoic acid in the Juvenile Hormone biosynthetic pathway by corpora allata of larval Diploptera punctata. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 81, 284-294.