Allatostatin gene expression in brain and midgut, and activity of synthetic allatostatins on feeding-related processes in the cockroach Blattella germanica

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 171-177

  Aguilar, Ruth ^a   Maestro, José L ^a   Vilaplana, Lluïsa ^a   Pascual, Núria ^a   Piulachs, Maria Dolors ^a   Bellés, Xavier ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allatostatin; Blattella germanica; Food intake control; Gene expression; German cockroach; Juvenile hormone

Indexed keywords

ALLATOSTATIN; AMYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; PREPROALLOSTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; FEEDING; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA;

EID: 0141527282     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(03)00165-4     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Pratt G.E., Farnsworth D.E., Siegel N.R., Fok K.F., Feyereisen R. Identification of an allatostatin from adult Diploptera punctata. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 163:1989;1243-1247.
2. Woodhead A.P., Stay B., Seidel S.L., Khan M.A., Tobe S.S. Primary structure of four allatostatins: neuropeptide inhibitors of juvenile hormone synthesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 86:1989;5977-6001.
3. Duve H., Wren P., Thorpe A. Innervation of the foregut of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae and inhibition of spontaneous contractile activity by callatostatin neuropeptides. Physiol. Entomol. 20:1995;33-44.
4. Lange A.B., Bendena W.G., Tobe S.S. The effect of the thirteen Dip-Allatostatins on myogenic and induced contractions of the cockroach (Diploptera punctata) hindgut. J. Insect Physiol. 41:1995;581-588.
5. Vilaplana L., Maestro J.L., Piulachs M.D., Bellés X. Modulation of cardiac rhythm by allatostatins in the cockroach Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera Blattellidae). J. Insect Physiol. 45:1999;1057-1064.
6. Martín D., Piulachs M.D., Bellés X. Inhibition of vitellogenin production by allatostatin in the German cockroach. Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 121:1996;191-196.
7. Fusé M., Zhang J.R., Partridge E., Nachman R.J., Orchard I., Bendena W.G.et al. Effects of an allatostatin and a myosuppressin on midgut carbohydrate enzyme activity in the cockroach Diploptera punctata. Peptides. 20:1999;1285-1293.
8. Bendena W.G., Garside C.S., Yu C.G., Tobe S.S. Allatostatins: diversity in structure and function of an insect neuropeptide family. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 814:1997;53-66.
9. Duve H., Johnsen A.H., Maestro J.L., Scott A.G., East P.D., Thorpe A. Identification of the dipteran Leu-callatostatin peptide family: the pattern of precursor processing revealed by isolation studies in Calliphora vomitoria. Regul. Pept. 67:1996;11-19.
10. Duve H., Johnsen A.H., Maestro J.L., Scott A.G., Jaros P.P., Thorpe A. Isolation and identification of multiple neuropeptides of the allatostatin superfamily in the shore crab Carcinus maenas. Eur. J. Biochem. 250:1997;727-734.
11. Dircksen H., Skiebe P., Abel B., Agricola H., Buchner K., Muren J.E.et al. Structure distribution and biological activity of novel members of the allatostatin family in the crayfish Orconectes limosus. Peptides. 20:1999;695-712.
12. Lorenz M.W., Kellner R., Hoffmann K.H., Gäde G. Identification of multiple peptides homologous to cockroach and cricket allatostatins in the stick insect Carausius morosus. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 30:2000;711-718.
13. Duve H., Johnsen A.H., Scott A.G., Thorpe A. Allatostatins of the tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon (Crustacea: Penaeidea). Peptides. 23:2002;1039-1051.
14. Bellés X., Graham L.A., Bendena W.G., Ding Q., Edwards J.P., Weaver R.J.et al. The molecular evolution of the allatostatin precursor in cockroaches. Peptides. 20:1999;11-22.
15. Davey M., Duve H., Thorpe A., East P. Characterisation of the helicostatin peptide precursor gene from Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 29:1999;1119-1127.
16. Lenz C., Williamson M., Grimmelikhuijzen C.J.P. Molecular cloning and genomic organization of an allatostatin preprohormone from Drosophila melanogaster. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 273:2000;1126-1131.
17. Meyering-Vos M., Wu X., Huang J., Jindra M., Hoffmann K.H., Sehnal F. The allatostatin gene of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus (Ensifera Gryllidae). Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 184:2001;103-114.
18. Bellés X., Maestro J.L., Piulachs M.D., Johnsen A.H., Duve H., Thorpe A. Allatostatic neuropeptides from the cockroach Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera Blattellidae). Identification immunolocalization and activity. Regul. Pept. 53:1994;237-247.
19. Vilaplana L., Maestro J.L., Piulachs M.D., Bellés X. Determination of allatostatin content in relation to the gonadotrophic cycle in the female of Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera Blattellidae). Physiol. Entomol. 24:1999;213-219.
20. Maestro J.L., Bellés X., Piulachs M.D., Thorpe A., Duve H. Localization of allatostatin-immunoreactive material in the central nervous system stomatogastric nervous system and gut of the cockroach Blattella germanica. Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 37:1998;269-282.
21. Bellés X., Casas J., Messeguer A., Piulachs M.D. In vitro biosynthesis of JH III by the corpora allata of adult females of Blattella germanica (L.). Insect Biochem. 17:1987;1007-1010.
22. Zhu J., Miura K., Chen L., Raikhel A.S. AHR38 a homolog of NGFI-B inhibits formation of the functional ecdysteroid receptor in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. EMBO J. 19:2000;253-262.
23. Maestro J.L., Aguilar R., Pascual N., Valero M.L., Piulachs M.D., Andreu D.et al. Screening of antifeedant activity in brain extracts led to the identification of sulfakinin as a satiety promoter in the German cockroach. Are arthropod sulfakinins homologous to vertebrate gastrins-cholecystokinins? Eur. J. Biochem. 268:2001;5824-5830.
24. Ding Q., Donly B.C., Tobe S.S., Bendena W.G. Comparison of the allatostatin neuropeptide precursors in the distantly related cockroaches Periplaneta americana and Diploptera punctata. Eur. J. Biochem. 234:1995;737-746.
25. Vanden Broeck J., Veelaert D., Bendena W.G., Tobe S.S., De Loof A. Molecular cloning of the precursor cDNA for schistostatins locust allatostatin-like peptides with myoinhibiting properties. Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 122:1996;191-198.
26. Secher T., Lenz C., Cazzamali G., Sorensen G., Williamson M., Hansen G.N.et al. Molecular cloning of a functional allatostatin gut/brain receptor and an allatostatin preprohormone from the silkworm Bombyx mori. J. Biol. Chem. 276:2001;47052-47060.
27. Donly B.C., Ding Q., Tobe S.S., Bendena W.G. Molecular cloning of the gene for the allatostatin family of neuropeptides from the cockroach Diploptera punctata. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 90:1993;8807-8811.
28. Reichwald K., Unnithan G.C., Davis N.T., Agricola H., Feyereisen R. Expression of the allatostatin gene in endocrine cells of the cockroach midgut. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 91:1994;11894-11898.
29. Yu C.G., Stay B., Ding Q., Bendena W.G., Tobe S.S. Immunochemical identification and expression of allatostatins in the gut of Diploptera punctata. J. Insect Physiol. 41:1995;1035-1043.
30. Garside C.S., Koladich P.M., Bendena W.G., Tobe S.S. Expression of allatostatin in the oviducts of the cockroach Diploptera punctata. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 32:2002;1089-1099.
31. Maestro J.L., Danés M.D., Piulachs M.D., Cassier P., Bellés X. Juvenile hormone inhibition in corpora allata from ovariectomized Blattella germanica. Physiol. Entomol. 19:1994;342-348.
32. Osorio S., Piulachs M.D., Bellés X. Feeding and activation of corpora allata in the cockroach Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera Blattellidae). J. Insect Physiol. 44:1998;31-38.
33. Jorge-Rivera J.C., Marder E. Allatostatin decreases stomatogastric neuromuscular transmission in the crab Cancer borealis. J. Exp. Biol. 200:2000;2937-2946.
34. Duve H., Johnsen A.H., Maestro J.L., Scott A.G., Crook N., Winstanley D.et al. Identification, tissue localisation and physiological effect in vitro of a neuroendocrine peptide identical to a dipteran Leu-callatostatin in the codling moth Cydia pomonella (Tortricidae: Lepidoptera). Cell Tissue Res. 289:1997;73-83.
35. Bowser P.R., Tobe S.S. Partial characterization of a putative allatostatin receptor in the midgut of the cockroach Diploptera punctata. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 119:2000;1-10.