Aedes aegypti ferritin heavy chain homologue: Feeding of iron or blood influences message levels, lengths and subunit abundance

Journal of Insect Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Dunkov, Boris C ^a   Georgieva, Teodora ^a   Yoshiga, Toyoshi ^a   Hall, Martin ^a   Law, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Expression; Induction; Polyadenylation

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2542448595     PISSN: 15362442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1673/031.002.0701     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Ai L-S, Chau L-Y. 1999. Post-transcriptional regulation of H-ferritin mRNA. Identification of a pyrimidine-rich sequence in the 3′-untranslated region associated with message stability in human monocytic THP-1 cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry 274:30209-30214.
2. Balla G, Jacob HS, Balla J, Rosenberg M, Nath K, Apple F, Eaton JW, Vercellotti GM. 1992. Ferritin: a cytoprotective antioxidant strategem of endothelium. Journal of Biological Chemistry 267:18148-18153.
3. Balla J, Nath KA, Balla G, Juckett MB, Jacob HS, Vercellotti GM. 1995. Endothelial cell heme oxygenase and ferritin induction in rat lung by hemoglobin in vivo. American Journal of Physiology 268:L321-327.
4. Borman L, Balad S, Richard M-J, Tyrrell, RM, Polla BS. 1999. Differential regulation and expression of stress proteins and ferritin in human monocytes. Journal of Cellular Physiology 178:1-8.
5. Bottke W. 1982. Isolation and properties of vitelogenic ferritin from snails. Journal of Cell Science 58:225-240.
6. Brown DD, Caston JD. 1962. Biochemistry of amphibian development. III. Identification of ferritin in the eggs and early embryos of Rana pipiens. Developmental Biology 5:445-451.
7. Coates CJ, Jasinskiene N, Miyashiro L, James AA. 1998; mariner transposition and transformation of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 95:3748-3751.
8. Coccia EM, Stellacci E, Perrotti E, Marziali G, Battistini A. 1994. Differential regulation of ferritin expression in Friend leukemia cells by iron compounds. Journal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents 8:81-87.
9. Coccia EM, Stellacci E,Orsatti R, Testa U, Battistini A. 1995. Regulation of ferritin H-chain expression in differentiating Friend leukemia cells. Blood 86:1570-1579.
10. Dhar MS, Joshi JG, 1993. Differential processing of the ferritin heavy chain mRNA in human liver and adult human brain. Journal of Neurochemistry 61:2140-2146.
11. Du J, Foissac X, Carss A, Gatehouse AMR, Gatehouse JA. 2000. Ferritin acts as the most abundant binding protein for snowdrop lectin in the midgut of rice brown planthoppers (Nilaparvata lugens). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 30:297-305.
12. Dunkov BC, Zhang D, Choumarov K, Winzerling JJ, Law JH. 1995. Isolation and characterization of mosquito ferritin and cloning of a cDNA that encodes one subunit. Archives of Insect Biochemistsry and Physiology 29:293-307.
13. Eisenstein RS, Garcia-Mayol D, Pettingell W, Munro HN. 1991. Regulation of ferritin and heme oxygenase synthesis in rat fibroblasts by different forms of iron. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 88:688-692.
14. Georgieva T, Dunkov BC, Harizanova N, Ralchev K, Law JH. 1999. Iron availability dramatically alters the distribution of ferritin subunit messages in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 96:2716-2721.
15. Georgieva T, Dunkov BC, Dimov S, Ralchev K, Law JH. 2002. Drosophila melanogaster ferritin: cDNA encoding a light chain homologue, temporal and tissue specific expression of both subunit types. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 32:295-302.
16. Gould RM, Freund CM, Palmer F, Feinstein DL. 2000. Messenger RNAs located in myelin sheath assembly sites. Journal of Neurochemistry 75:1834-1844.
17. Infante AA, Infante D, Rimland J. 1993. Ferritin gene expression is developmentally regulated and induced by heat shock in sea urchin embryos. Developmental Genetics 14:58-68.
18. Jasinskiene N, Coates CJ, Benedict MQ, Cornel AJ, Rafferty CS, James AA, Collins FH. 1998. Stable transformation of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, with the Hermes element from the housefly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 95:3743-3747.
19. Kandror KV, Tsuprin VL, Stepanov AS. 1992. The main adenosine triphosphate-binding component of amphibian oocytes is ferritin. Molecular Reproduction and Development 31:48-54.
20. Kim BS, Yun CY, Yeo SM, Lee HJ, Kim HR. 2001. Cloning and expression of a ferritin subunit for Galleria Mellonella. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 47:8-17.
21. Kim BS, Lee CH, Yun CY, Yeo SM, Park WM, Kim HR. 2001. Characterization and immunological analysis of ferritin from the hemolymph of Galleria Mellonella. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A129:501-509.
22. Kogan PH. 1990. Substitute blood meal for investigating and maintaining Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 27:709-712.
23. Kurama T, Kurata S, Natori S. 1995. Molecular characterization of an insect transferrin and its selective incorporation into eggs during oogenesis. European Journal of Biochemistry 228:229-235.
24. Laemmli UK. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the bacteriophage T4. Nature 227:680-685.
25. Lind MI, Ekengren S, Meleförs Ö, Söderhäll K. 1998. Drosophila ferritin mRNA: Alternative RNA splicing regulates the presence of the iron-responsive element. FEBS Letters 436:476-482.
26. McGahan MC, Harned J, Grimes AM, Fleisher LN. 1994. Regulation of ferritin levels in cultured lens epithelial cells. Experimental Eye Research 59:551-555.
27. Nichol H, Locke M. 1990. The localization of ferritin in insects. Tissue and Cell 2:767-777.
28. Nichol H, Locke M. 1999. Secreted ferritin subunits are of two kinds in insects. Molecular cloning of cDNAs encoding two major subunits of secreted ferritin from Calpodes ethlius. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 29:999-1013.
29. Nichol H, Law JH, Winzerling JJ. 2002. Iron metabolism in insects. Annual Review of Entomology 47:535-559.
30. Noriega F, Wells M. 1993. A comparison of three methods for isolating RNA from mosquitoes. Insect Molecular Biology 2:21-24.
31. O'Connel P, Rosbash M. 1984. Sequence, structure and codon preference of the Drosophila rp49 gene. Nucleic Acids Research 12:5495-5513.
32. Percy ME, Wong S, bauer S, Liaghati-Nasseri N, Perry MD, Chauthaiwale VM, Dhar M, Joshi G. 1998. Iron metabolism and human ferritin heavy chain cDNA from adult brain with an elongated untranslated region: new findings and insights. Analyst 123:41-50.
33. Perone JB, Spielman A. 1988. Time and site of assembly of the peritrophic membrane of the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Cell and Tissue Research 252:473-478.
34. Pham DQ-D, Zhang D, Hufnagel DH, Winzerling JJ. 1996. Manduca sexta hemolymph ferritin: cDNA sequence and mRNA expression. Gene 172:255-259.
35. Pham DQ-D, Winzerling JJ, Dodson MS, Law JH. 1999. Transcriptional control is relevant in the modulation of mosquito ferritin synthesis by iron. European Journal of Biochemistry 266:236-240.
36. Pham DQ-D, Brown SE, Knudson DL, Winzerling JJ, Dodson MS, Shaffer JJ. 2000. Structure and location of a ferritin gene of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. European Journal of Biochemistry 267:3885-3890.
37. Ross J. 1995. mRNA stability in mammalian cells. Microbiological Reviews 59:423-450.
38. Shapiro JP, Hagedorn HH. 1982. Juvenile hormone and the development of ovarian responsiveness to a brain hormone in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. General and Comparative Endocrinology 46:176-183.
39. Vile GF, Tyrrell RM. 1993. Oxidative stress resulting from ultraviolet A irradiation of human skin fibroblasts leads to a heme oxygenase-dependent increase in ferritin. Journal of Biological Chemistry 268:14678-14681.
40. Winzerling JJ, Law JH. 1997. Comparative nutrition of iron and copper. Annual Review of Nutrition 17:501-526.
41. Zhang D, Albert DW, Kohlhepp, P, Pham DQ-D, Winzerling JJ. 2001. Repression of Manduca sexta ferritin synthesis by IRP1/IRE interaction. Insect Molecular Biology 10:531-539.