Characterization of a chitin synthase cDNA and its increased mRNA level associated with decreased chitin synthesis in Anopheles quadrimaculatus exposed to diflubenzuron

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 712-725

  Zhang, Jianzhen ^a,b   Zhu, Kun Yan ^b  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles quadrimaculatus; Chitin; Chitin assay; Chitin synthase; Chitin synthesis inhibitor; Cuticle; Diflubenzuron; Insecticide; Malaria mosquito

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIFLUBENZURON; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIFLUBENZURON; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANOPHELES QUADRIMACULATUS;

EID: 33747808264     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Abo-Elghar G.E., Fujiyoshi P., and Matsumura F. Significance of the sulfonylurea receptor (SUR) as the target of diflubenzuron in chitin synthesis inhibition in Drosophila melanogaster and Blattella germanica. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 34 (2004) 743-752
2. Altschul S.F., Gish W., Miller W., Myers E.W., and Lipman D.J. Basic local alignment search tool. J. Mol. Biol. 215 (1990) 403-410
3. Arakane Y., Hogenkamp D.G., Zhu Y.C., Kramer K.J., Specht C.A., Beeman R.W., Kanost M.R., and Muthukrishnan S. Characterization of two chitin synthase genes of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, and alternate exon usage in one of the genes during development. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 34 (2004) 291-304
4. Arakane Y., Muthukrishnan S., Kramer K.J., Specht C.A., Tomoyasu Y., Lorenzen M.D., Kanost M.K., and Beeman R.W. The Tribolium chitin synthase genes TcCHS1 and TcCHS2 are specialized for synthesis of epidermal cuticle and midgut peritrophic matrix. Insect Mol. Biol. 14 (2005) 453-463
5. Becker M.J., de Marie S., Fens M.H.A.M., Verbrugh H.A., and Bakker-Woudenberg I.A.J.M. Effect of amphotericin B treatment on kinetics of cytokines and parameters of fungal load in neutropenic rats with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 52 (2003) 428-434
6. Bendtsen J.D., Nielsen H., Heijne G., and Brunak S. Improved prediction of signal peptides: SignalP 3.0. J. Mol. Biol. 340 (2004) 783-795
7. Benedict M.Q. Care and maintenance of anopheline mosquito colonies. In: Crampton J.M., Beard C.B., and Louis C. (Eds). The Molecular Biology of Insect Disease Vectors (1997), Chapman & Hall, London 3-13
8. Bolognesi R., Arakane Y., Muthukrishnan S., Kramer K.J., Terra W.R., and Ferreira C. Sequences of cDNAs and expression of genes encoding chitin synthase and chitinase in the midgut of Spodoptera frugiperda. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 35 (2005) 1249-1259
9. Cohen E. Chitin synthesis and inhibition: a revisit. Pest Manage. Sci. 57 (2001) 946-950
10. Cos T., Ford R.A., Trilla J.A., Duran A., Cabib E., and Roncero C. Molecular analysis of Chs3p participation in chitin synthase III activity. Eur. J. Biochem. 256 (1998) 419-426
11. Cunningham P.A. A review of toxicity testing and degradation studies used to predict the effects of diflubenzuron (Dimilin) on estuarine crustaceans. Environ. Pollut. 40A (1986) 63-86
12. Dean S.R., Meola R.W., Meola S.M., Sittertz-Bhatkar H., and Schenker R. Mode of action of lufenuron in adult Ctenocephalides felis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae). J. Med. Entomol. 36 (1999) 486-492
13. DeLoach J.R., Meola S.M., Mayer R.T., and Thompson J.M. Inhibition of DNA synthesis by diflubenzuron in pupae of the stable fly Stomoxys calcitrans (L.). Pestic. Biochem. Physiol. 15 (1981) 172-180
14. Farlow, J.E., 1976. Dimilin [1-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-(2,6-difluorobenzoyl)-urea] on the aquatic fauna of a Louisiana coastal marsh. Ph.D. thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA.
15. Gagou M.E., Kapsetaki M., Turberg A., and Kafetzopoulos D. Stage-specific expression of the chitin synthase DmeChSA and DmeChSB genes during the onset of Drosophila metamorphosis. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 32 (2002) 141-146
16. Gish W., and States D.J. Identification of protein coding regions by database similarity search. Nat. Genet. 3 (1993) 266-272
17. Hogenkamp D.G., Arakane Y., Zimoch L., Merzendorfer H., Kramer K.J., Beeman R.W., Kanost M.R., Specht C.A., and Muthukrishnan S. Chitin synthase genes in Manduca sexta: Characterization of a gut-specific transcript and differential tissue expression of alternately spliced mRNAs during development. Insect. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 35 (2005) 529-540
18. Ibrahim G.H., Smartt C.T., Kiley L.M., and Christensen B.M. Cloning and characterization of a chitin synthase cDNA from the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 30 (2000) 1213-1222
19. Ishaaya I., and Ascher K.R.S. Effects of diflubenzuron on growth and carbohydrate hydrolases of Tribolium castaneum. Phytoparasitica 5 (1977) 149-158
20. Ishaaya I., and Casida J.E. Dietary TH 6040 alters cuticle composition and enzyme activity of house fly larval cuticle. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol. 4 (1974) 484-490
21. Keane B., Lim H.W., and Rogstad S.H. Re-probing DNA blots: wet is better than dry storage of uncharged nylon membranes after removing probes. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 18 (2000) 17-21
22. Korashy H.M., and El-Kadi A.O. Regulatory mechanisms modulating the expression of cytochrome P450 1a1 gene by heavy metals. Toxicol. Sci. 88 (2005) 39-51
23. Kramer K.J., and Muthukrishnan S. Chitin metabolism in insects. In: Gilbert L.I., Iatrou K., and Gill S. (Eds). Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science. Vol. 4, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chapter 3 (2005), Elsevier Press, Oxford, UK 111-144
24. Krogh A., Larsson B., von Heijne G., and Sonnhammer E.L.L. Predicting transmembrane protein topology with a hidden Markov model: application to complete genomes. J. Mol. Biol. 305 (2001) 567-580
25. Ledirac N., Delesculuse C., Lesca P., Piechocki M.P., Hines R.N., de So G., Pralavorio M., and Rahmani R. Diflubenzuron, a benzoyl-urea insecticide, is a potent inhibitor of TCDD-induced CYP1A1 expression in HepG2 cells. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 164 (2000) 273-279
26. Lehmann P.F., and White L.O. Chitin assay used to demonstrate renal location and cortisone-enhanced growth of Aspergillus fumigatus mycelium in mice. Infect. Immun. 12 (1975) 987-992
27. Leighton T., Marks E., and Leighton F. Pesticides: insecticides and fungicides as chitin synthesis inhibitors. Science 213 (1981) 905-907
28. Merzendorfer H. Insect chitin synthases: a review. J. Comp. Physiol. B. 176 (2006) 1-15
29. Merzendorfer H., and Zimoch L. Chitin metabolism in insects: structure, function and regulation of chitin synthases and chitinases. J. Exp. Biol. 206 (2003) 4393-4412
30. Mulder R., and Gijswijk M.T. The laboratory evaluation of two promising new insecticides which interfere with cuticle formation. Pestic. Sci. 4 (1973) 737-745
31. Muzzarelli R. Chitin synthesis inhibitors: effects on insects and on nontarget organisms. CRC Cri. Rev. Environ. Contr. 16 (1986) 141-146
32. Nagahashi S., Sudoh M., Ono N., Sawada R., Yamaguchi E., Uchida Y., Mio T., Takagi M., Arisawa M., and Yamada-Okabe H. Characterization of chitin synthase 2 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: implication of two highly conserved domains as possible catalytic sites. J. Biol. Chem. 270 (1995) 13961-13967
33. Nielsen H., Engelbrecht J., Brunak S., and Heijne G. Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites. Protein Eng. 10 (1997) 1-6
34. Poly Software International. ProStat version 3, Poly Software International (2002), Pearl River, New York
35. Post L.C., de Jong B.J., and Vincent W.R. 1-(2,6-disubstituted benzoyl)-3-phenylurea insecticides: inhibitors of chitin synthesis. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol. 4 (1974) 473-483
36. Post L.C., and Vincent W.R. A new insecticide inhibits chitin synthesis. Naturwissenschaften 60 (1973) 431-432
37. Ririe K.M., Rasmussen R., and Wittwer C.T. Product differentiation by analysis of DNA melting curves during the polymerase chain reaction. Anal. Biochem. 245 (1997) 154-160
38. Sambrook J., and Russell D.W. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (2001), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
39. Smith R.F., Wiese B.A., Wojzynski M.K., Davison D.B., and Worley K.C. BCM search launcher: an integrated interface to molecular biology data base search and analysis services available on the World Wide Web. Genome Res. 6 (1996) 454-462
40. Soltani N., Besson M.T., and Delachambre J. Effect of diflubenzuron on the pupal-adult development of Tenebrio molitor L. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): growth and development, cuticle secretion, epidermal cell density and DNA synthesis. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol. 21 (1984) 256-264
41. Tellam R.L., Vuocolo T., Johnson S.E., Jarmey J., and Pearson R.D. Insect chitin synthase: cDNA sequence, gene organization and expression. Eur. J. Biochem. 267 (2000) 6025-6042
42. Thompson J.D., Higgins D.G., and Gibson T.J. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, positions-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res. 22 (1994) 4673-4680
43. Van Eck W.H. Mode of action of two benzoylphenyl ureas as inhibitors of chitin synthesis in insects. Insect Biochem. 9 (1979) 295-300
44. Worley K.C., Culpepper P., Wiese B.A., and Smith R.F. BEAUTY-X: enhanced BLAST searches for DNA queries. Bioinformatics 14 (1998) 890-891
45. Zhu Y.-C., Specht C.A., Dittmer N.T., Muthukrishnan S., Kanost M.R., and Kramer K.J. Sequence of a cDNA and expression of the gene encoding a putative epidermal chitin synthase of Manduca sexta. Insect. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 32 (2002) 1497-1506
46. Zimoch L., Hogenkamp D.G., Kramer K.J., Muthukrishnan S., and Merzendorfer H. Regulation of chitin synthesis in the larval midgut of Manduca sexta. Insect. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 35 (2005) 515-527