Multipeptide precursor structure of acaloleptin A isoforms, antibacterial peptides from the Udo longicorn beetle, Acalolepta luxuriosa

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1120-1127

  Imamura, Morikazu ^a   Wada, Sugino ^a   Ueda, Kenjiro ^a   Saito, Ayaka ^a   Koizumi, Nobuo ^a   Iwahana, Hidenori ^a   Sato, Ryoichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acalolepta luxuriosa; Acaloleptin A; Antimicrobial peptide; Insect; Multipeptide precursor

Indexed keywords

ACALOLEPTIN A1; ACALOLEPTIN A2; ACALOLEPTIN A3; ACALOLEPTIN A4; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS IMMUNITY; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNOGENETICS; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INSECT GENETICS; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ACALOLEPTA LUXURIOSA; ARALIA CORDATA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 67650266232     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Lemaitre B., Kromer-Metzger E., Michaut L., Nicolas E., Meister M., Georgel P., et al. A recessive mutation, immune deficiency (imd), defines two distinct control pathways in the Drosophila host defense. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92 (1995) 9465-9469
2. Engström Y. Induction and regulation of antimicrobial peptides in Drosophila. Dev Comp Immunol 23 (1999) 345-358
3. Hedengren M., Asling B., Dushay M.S., Ando I., Ekengren S., Wihlborg M., et al. Relish, a central factor in the control of humoral but not cellular immunity in Drosophila. Mol Cell 4 (1999) 827-837
4. Bulet P., Hetru C., Dimarcq J.L., and Hoffmann D. Antimicrobial peptides in insects; structure and function. Dev Comp Immunol 23 (1999) 329-344
5. Meister M., Lemaitre B., and Hoffmann J.A. Antimicrobial peptide defense in Drosophila. Bioessays 19 (1997) 1019-1026
6. Dimarcq J.L., Bulet P., Hetru C., and Hoffmann J. Cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides in invertebrates. Biopolymers 47 (1998) 465-477
7. Hoffmann J.A., Reichhart J.M., and Hetru C. Innate immunity in higher insects. Curr Opin Immunol 8 (1996) 8-13
8. Imamura M., Wada S., Koizumi N., Kadotani T., Yaoi K., Sato R., et al. Inducible antibacterial peptides from larvae of the beetle, Acalolepta luxuriosa. Arch Insect Biochem Physiol 40 (1999) 88-98
9. Saito A., Ueda K., Imamura M., Atsumi S., Tabunoki H., Miura N., et al. Purification and cDNA cloning of a cecropin from the longicorn beetle, Acalolepta luxuriosa. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 142 (2005) 317-323
10. Saito A., Ueda K., Imamura M., Miura N., Atsumi S., Tabunoki H., et al. Purification and cDNA cloning of a novel antibacterial peptide with a cysteine-stabilized alphabeta motif from the longicorn beetle, Acalolepta luxuriosa. Dev Comp Immunol 28 (2004) 1-7
11. Ueda K., Imamura M., Saito A., and Sato R. Purification and cDNA cloning of a novel insect defensin from larvae of the longicorn beetle, Acalolepta luxuriosa. Appl Entomol Zool 40 (2005) 335-345
12. Ueda K., Saito A., Imamura M., Miura N., Atsumi S., Tabunoki H., et al. Purification and cDNA cloning of luxuriosin, a novel antibacterial peptide with Kunitz domain from the longicorn beetle, Acalolepta luxuriosa. Biochim Biophys Acta 1722 (2005) 36-42
13. Bulet P., Cociancich S., Dimarcq J.L., Lambert J., Reichhart J.M., Hoffmann D., et al. Insect immunity. Isolation from a coleopteran insect of a novel inducible antibacterial peptide and of new members of the insect defensin family. J Biol Chem 266 (1991) 24520-24525
14. Lee S.Y., Moon H.J., Kurata S., Kurama T., Natori S., and Lee B.L. Purification and molecular cloning of cDNA for an inducible antibacterial protein of larvae of a coleopteran insect, Holotrichia diomphalia. J Biochem 115 (1994) 82-86
15. Yang J., Yamamoto M., Ishibashi J., Taniai K., and Yamakawa M. Isolation, cDNA cloning and gene expression of an antibacterial protein from larvae of the coconut rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes rhinoceros. Eur J Biochem 255 (1998) 734-738
16. Sagisaka A., Miyanoshita A., Ishibashi J., and Yamakawa M. Purification, characterization and gene expression of a glycine and proline-rich antibacterial protein family from larvae of a beetle, Allomyrina dichotoma. Insect Mol Biol 10 (2001) 293-302
17. Akutsu K. Ph.D thesis, University of Tokyo, Tokyo; 1985.
18. Sambrook J., Fritsch E.F., and Maniatis T. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual. 2nd ed. (1989), Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
19. Schagger H., and von Jagow G. Tricine-sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the separation of proteins in the range from 1 to 100 kDa. Anal Biochem 166 (1987) 368-379
20. Bradford M.M. A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal Biochem 72 (1976) 248-254
21. Shaw G., and Kamen R. A conserved AU sequence from the 3′ untranslated region of GM-CSF mRNA mediates selective mRNA degradation. Cell 46 (1986) 659-667
22. Caput D., Beutler B., Hartog K., Thayer R., Brown-Shimer S., and Cerami A. Identification of a common nucleotide sequence in the 3′-untranslated region of mRNA molecules specifying inflammatory mediators. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 83 (1986) 1670-1674
23. Ando K., and Natori S. Molecular cloning, sequencing, and characterization of cDNA for sarcotoxin IIA, an inducible antibacterial protein of Sarcophaga peregrina (flesh fly). Biochemistry 8 (1988) 1715-1721
24. Wicker C., Reichhart J.M., Hoffmann D., Hultmark D., Samakovlis C., and Hoffmann J.A. Insect immunity. Characterization of a Drosophila cDNA encoding a novel member of the diptericin family of immune peptides. J Biol Chem 265 (1990) 22493-22498
25. Casteels-Josson K., Capaci T., Casteels P., and Tempst P. Apidaecin multipeptide precursor structure: a putative mechanism for amplification of the insect antibacterial response. EMBO J 12 (1993) 1569-1578
26. Miura K., Ueno S., Kamiya K., Kobayashi J., Matsuoka H., Ando K., et al. Cloning of mRNA sequences for two antibacterial peptides in a Hemipteran insects, Riptortus clavatus. Zoolog Sci 13 (1996) 111-117
27. Zasloff M. Magainins, a class of antimicrobial peptides from Xenopus skin: isolation, characterization of two active forms, and partial cDNA sequence of a precursor. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 84 (1987) 5449-5453
28. Terry A.S., Poulter L., Williams D.H., Nutkins J.C., Giovannini M.G., Moore C.H., et al. The cDNA sequence coding for prepro-PGS (prepro-magainins) and aspects of the processing of this prepro-polypeptide. J Biol Chem 263 (1988) 5745-5751
29. Tailor R.H., Acland D.P., Attenborough S., Cammue B.P., Evans I.J., Osborn R.W., et al. A novel family of small cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides from seed of Impatiens balsamina is derived from a single precursor protein. J Biol Chem 272 (1997) 24480-24487
30. Herbst R., Marciano-Cabral F., and Leippe M. Antimicrobial and pore-forming peptides of free-living and potentially highly pathogenic Naegleria fowleri are released from the same precursor molecule. J Biol Chem 279 (2004) 25955-25958
31. Hosaka M., Nagahama M., Kim W.S., Watanabe T., Hatsuzawa K., Ikemizu J., et al. Arg-X-Lys/Arg-Arg motif as a signal for precursor cleavage catalyzed by furin within the constitutive secretory pathway. J Biol Chem 266 (1991) 12127-21230
32. Moon H.J., Lee S.Y., Kurata S., Natori S., and Lee B.L. Purification and molecular cloning of cDNA for an inducible antibacterial protein from larvae of the coleopteran, Tenebrio molitor. J Biochem 116 (1994) 53-58
33. Ishibashi J., Saido-Sakanaka H., Yang J., Sagisaka A., and Yamakawa M. Purification, cDNA cloning and modification of a defensin from the coconut rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes rhinoceros. Eur J Biochem 266 (1999) 616-623
34. Rutschmann S., Jung A.C., Hetru C., Reichhart J.M., Hoffmann J.A., and Ferrandon D. The Rel protein DIF mediates the antifungal but not the antibacterial host defense in Drosophila. Immunity 12 (2000) 569-580
35. Douglass J., Civelli O., and Herbert E. Polyprotein gene expression: generation of diversity of neuroendocrine peptides. Annu Rev Biochem 53 (1984) 665-715