Drosophila yolk protein produced in E. coli is accumulated by mosquito ovaries

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 487-496

  Bownes, M ^a   Hurd, H ^b   Busgen T ^a   Servay, D ^a   Alvis, S ^a   Popovic, B ^a   Bruce, S ^a   Burns, I ^b   Rothwell, K ^a   Walkinshaw, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endocytosis; Evolution; Reproduction; Vitellogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; OVARY; VITELLOGENINS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; VECTORS;

EID: 18544378830     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2002.00357.x     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Ahmed, A.M., Maingon, R.D., Taylor, P.J. and Hurd, H. (1999) The effects of infection with Plasmodium yoelii nigeriensis on the reproductive fitness of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Invertebrate Reprod Dev 36:217-222.
2. Ahmed, A.M., Manigon, R., Romans, P. and Hurd, H. (2001) Effects of malaria infection on vitellogenesis in Anopheles gambiae. Insect Mol Biol 10: 347-356.
3. Anderson, T.A., Levitt, D.G. and Banaszak, L.J. (1998) The structural basis of lipid interactions in lipovitellin, a soluble lipoprotein. Structure 6: 895-909.
4. Babin, P.J., Bogerd, J., Kooiman, F.P., Van Marrewijk, M.J.A. and Van der Horst, D.J. (1999) ApolipophorinII/I, apolipoprotein B, vitellogenin and microsomal triglyceride transfer protein genes are derived from a common ancestor. J Mol Evol 49: 150-160.
5. Baker, M.E. (1988) Is vitellogenin an ancestor of apolipoprotein B-100 of human LDL and human lipoprotein lipase? Biochem J 255: 1057-1060.
6. Bose, S.G. and Raikhel, A.S. (1988) Mosquito vitellogenin subunits originate from a common precursor. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 155: 436-442.
7. Bownes, M. (1982) The role of 20-hydroxy-ecdysone in yolk-polypeptide synthesis by male and female fat bodies of Drosophila melanogaster. J Insect Physiol 28: 317-328.
8. Bownes, M. (1992) Why is there sequence similarity between insect yolk proteins and vertebrate lipases? J Lipid Res 33: 777-790.
9. Bownes, M. and Blair, M. (1986) The effects of a sugar diet and hormones on the expression of the Drosophila yolk protein genes. J Insect Physiol 32: 493-501.
10. Bownes, M. and Pathirana, S. (in press) The yolk proteins of higher Diptera. In Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates: Vol. XII, Recent Progress in Vitellogenesis. (Adiyodi, K.G. and Adiyodi, R.G., series eds; Raikhel, A.S. and Sappington, T.W., volume eds). John Wiley, Chichester, UK.
11. Bownes, M., Shirras, A., Blair, M., Collins, J. and Coulson, A. (1988) Evidence that insect embryogenesis is regulated by ecdysteroids released from yolk proteins. PNAS 85: 1554-1557.
12. Butterworth, F.M., Burde, V.S., Mauchline, D. and Bownes, M. (1999) A yolk protein mutant leads to defects in the secretion machinery of Drosophila melanogaster. Tissue Cell 31: 212-222.
13. Byrne, B.M., Gruber, M. and AB, G. (1989) The evolution of egg yolk proteins. Prog Biophys Mol Biol 53: 33-69.
14. Catteruccia, F., Nolan, T., Loukeris, T.G., Blass, C., Savakos, C., Kafatos, F.C. and Crisanti, A. (2000) Stable germline transformation of the malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi. Nature 405: 959-962.
15. Chen, J.-S., Cho, W.-L. and Raikhel, A.S. (1994) Analysis of mosquito vitellogenin cDNA similarity with vertebrate phosvitins and arthropod serum proteins. J Mol Biol 237: 641-647.
16. Chen, J.-S., Sappington, T.W. and Raikhel, A.S. (1997) Extensive sequence conservation among insect, nematode and vertebrate vitellogenins reveals ancient ancestry. J Mol Evol 44: 440-451.
17. Comas, D., Piulachs, M.D. and Belles, X. (2000) Vitellogenin of Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae): nucleotide sequence of the cDNA and analysis of the protein primary structure. Arch Insect Biochem Physiol 45: 1-11.
18. Dumont, J.N. (1978) Oogenesis in Xenopus laevis. VI. Route of injected tracer transport in follicle and developing oocyte. J Exp Zool 204: 193-200.
19. Fatica, A., Cronshaw, A.D., Dlakić, M. and Tollervey, D. (2002) Ssf1p prevents premature processing of an early pre-60S ribosomal particle. Mol Cell 9: 341-351.
20. Flickinger, R.A. and Rounds, D.E. (1956) The maternal synthesis of egg yolk proteins as demonstrated by isotopic and serological means. Biochem Biophys Acta 22: 38-72.
21. Hagedorn, H.H., Maddison, D.R. and Tu, Z. (1998) The evolution of vitellogenins, cyclorraphan yolk protein and related molecules. Adv Insect Physiol 27: 335-384.
22. Hiremath, S. and Lehtoma, K. (1997) Complete nucleotide sequence of the vitellogenin mRNA from the gypsy moth: novel arrangement of the subunit encoding regions. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 27: 27-35.
23. Ito, J., Ghosh, A., Moreira, L.A., Wimmer, E.A. and Jacobs-Lorena, M. (2002) Transgenic anopheline mosquitoes impaired in transmission of a malaria parasite. Nature 417: 452-455.
24. Jahan, N. and Hurd, H. (1998) Effect of Plasmodium yoeli nigeriensis (Haemosporidia: Plasmodiidae) on Anopheles stephensi (Diptera: Culcidae) vitellogenesis. J Med Entomol 35: 956-961.
25. Kokoza, V., Ahmed, A., Wimmer, E.A. and Raikhel, A.S. (2001) Efficient transformation of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti using the piggyBac transposable element vector pBAC[3×P3-EGFP afm]. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 31:1137-1143.
26. Kokoza, V., Ahmed, A., Cho, W.L., Jasinskiene, N., James, A.A. and Raikhel, A. (2000) Engineering blood meal-activated systemic immunity in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97: 10295-10297.
27. Mann, C.J., Anderson, T.A., Read, J., Chester, S.A., Harrison, G.B., Köchl, S., Ritchie, P.J., Bradbury, P., Hussain, F.S., Amey, J., Vanloo, B., Rosseneu, M., Infante, R., Hancock, J.M., Levitt, D.G., Banaszak, L.J., Scott, J. and Shoulders, C.C. (1999) The structure of vitellogenin provides a molecular model for the assembly and secretion of atherogenic lipoproteins. J Mol Biol 285: 391-408.
28. Martín, D., Piulachs, M.-D., Comas, D. and Belles, X. (1998) Isolation and sequence of a partial vitellogenin cDNA from the cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae), and characterization of the vitellogenin gene expression. Arch Insect Biochem Physiol 38: 137-146.
29. Morales, M.H., Osuna, R. and Sanchez, E. (1991) Vitellogenesis in Anolis pulchellus: induction of VTG-like protein in liver explants from male and immature lizards. J Exp Zool 260: 50-58.
30. Postlethwait, J.H., Bownes, M. and Jowett, T. (1980) Sexual phenotype and vitellogenin synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Dev Biol 79: 379-387.
31. Presnail, J.K. and Hoy, M.A. (1992) Stable genetic transformation of a beneficial arthropod, Metaseiulus occidentalis (Acari: Phytoseiidae), by a microinjection technique. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89: 7732-7736.
32. Rabelo, E.M., Baker, B.S. and Tata, J.R. (1994) Interplay between thyroid hormone and estrogen in modulating expression of their receptor and vitellogenin genes during Xenopus metamorphosis. Mech Dev 45: 59-57.
33. Raikhel, A.S. and Dhadialla, T.S. (1992) Accumulation of yolk proteins in insect oocytes. Annu Rev Entolol 37: 217-251.
34. Renshaw, M. and Hurd, H. (1994) The effects of Onchocerca lienalis infection on vitellogenesis in the British blackfly, Simulium ornatum. Parasitology 109: 337-343.
35. Romans, P., Tu, Z., Ke, Z. and Hagedorn, H.H. (1995) Analysis of a vitellogenin gene of the mosquito, Aedes aegypti and comparisons to vitellogenins from other organisms. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 25: 939-958.
36. Sappington, R.W., Kokoza, V.A., Cho, W.-L. and Raikhel, A.S. (1996) Molecular characterization of the mosquito vitellogenin receptor reveals unexpected high homology to the Drosophila yolk protein receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93: 8934-8939.
37. Sappington, T.W., Oishi, K. and Raikhel, A.S. (in press) Structural characteristics of insect vitellogenin. In Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates. Vol. XII: Recent Progress in Vitellogenesis (Adiyodi, K.G. and Adiyodi, R.G., series eds; Raikhel, A.S. and Sappington, T.W., volume eds), Chapter 1.3. John Wiley, Chichester, UK.
38. Sappington, T.W. and Raikhel, A.S. (1998) Molecular characteristics of insect vitellogenins and vitellogenin receptors. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 28: 277-300.
39. Van het Schip, F.D., Samallo, J., Broos, J., Ophuis, J., Mojet, M., Bruber, M. and AB, G. (1987) Nucleotide sequence of a chicken vitellogenin gene and derived amino acid sequence of the encoded yolk precursor protein. J Mol Biol 196: 245-260.
40. Schonbaum, C.P., Lee S. and Mahowald, A.P. (1995) The Drosophila yolkless gene encodes a vitellogenin receptor belonging to the low density lipoprotein receptor superfamily. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92: 1485-1489.
41. Schonbaum, C.P., Perrino J.J. and Mahowald, A.P. (2000) Regulation of the vitellogenin receptor during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis. Mol Biol Cell 11: 511-521.
42. Segrest, J.P., Jones, M.K. and Dashti, N. (1999) N-terminal domain of apolipoprotein B has structural homology to lipovitellin and microsomal triglyceride transfer protein: a 'lipid pocket' model for self-assembly of apoB-containing lipoprotein particles. J Lipid Res 40: 1401-1416.
43. Shapiro, D.J., Baker, H.J. and Stitt, D.T. (1976) In vitro translation and estradiol-17β induction of Xenopus laevis vitellogenin messenger RNA. J Biol Chem 251: 3105-3111.
44. Soller, M., Bownes, M. and Kubli, E. (1997) Mating and sex-peptide stimulate the accumulation of yolk in oocytes of D. melanogaster. Eur J Biochem 243: 732-738.
45. Spieth, J., Denison, K., Zucker, E. and Blumenthal, T. (1985) The nucleotide sequence of a nematode vitellogenin gene. Nucl Acids Res 13: 7129-7138.
46. Spieth, J., Nettleton, M., Zucker-Aprison, E., Lea, K. and Blumenthal, T. (1991) Vitellogenin motifs conserved in nematodes and vertebrates. J Mol Evol 32: 429-438.
47. Stifani, S., Nimpf, J. and Schneider, W.J. (1990) Vitellogenesis in Xenopus laevis and chicken: cognate ligands and oocyte receptors. The binding site for vitellogenein is located on lipovitellin I. J Biol Chem 265: 882-888.
48. Studier, F.W. and Moffatt, B.A. (1986) Use of bacteriophage-T7 IRNA-polymerase to direct selective high-level expression of cloned genes. J Mol Biol 189: 113-130.
49. Studier, F.W., Rosenberg, A.H., Dunn, J.J. and Dubendorff, J.W. (1990) Use of T7 RNA polymerase to direct expression of cloned genes. Meth Enzymol 185: 60-89.
50. Tata, J.R., James, T.C., Watson, C.S., Williams, J.L. and Wolffe, A.P. (1983) Hormonal regulation and expression of vitellogenenin multigene family. In Molecular Biology of Egg Maturation (Ciba Foundation Symposium 98) (Porter, R. and Whelan J., eds), pp. 96-110. Pitman, London.
51. Trewitt, P.M., Heilmann, L.J., Degrugillier, S.S. and Kumaran, A.K. (1992) The boll weevil vitellogenin gene: nucleotide sequence, structure, and evolutionary relationship to nematode and vertebrate vitellogenin genes. J Mol Evol 34: 478-492.
52. Wallace, R.A. and Jared, D.W. (1969) Studies on amphibian yolk. VIII. The estrogen-induced hepatic synthesis of a serum lipophosphoprotein and its selective uptake by the ovary and transformation into yolk platelet proteins in Xenopus laevis. Dev Biol 19: 498-526.
53. Wallace, R.A., Opresko, L., Wiley, H.S. and Selman, K. (1983) The oocyte as an endocytic cell. In Molecular Biology of Egg Maturation (Ciba Foundation Symp 98) (Porter, R. and Whelan J., eds), pp. 228-248. Pitman, London.
54. Way, M., Pope, B., Gooch, J., Hawkins, M. and Weeds, A.G. (1990) Identification of a region in segment-1 of gelsolin critical for actin binding. EMBO J 9: 4103-4109.
55. Willnow, T.E. (1999) The low-density lipoprotein receptor gene family: multiple roles in lipid metabolism. J Mol Med 77: 306-315.