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Jiang S, Marco HG, Scheich N, He S, Wang Z, Gäde G, McMahon DP. Comparative analysis of adipokinetic hormones and their receptors in Blattodea reveals novel patterns of gene evolution. INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2023; 32:615-633. [PMID: 37382487 DOI: 10.1111/imb.12861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
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Adipokinetic hormone (AKH) is a neuropeptide produced in the insect corpora cardiaca that plays an essential role in mobilising carbohydrates and lipids from the fat body to the haemolymph. AKH acts by binding to a rhodopsin-like G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), the adipokinetic hormone receptor (AKHR). In this study, we tackle AKH ligand and receptor gene evolution as well as the evolutionary origins of AKH gene paralogues from the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches). Phylogenetic analyses of AKH precursor sequences point to an ancient AKH gene duplication event in the common ancestor of Blaberoidea, yielding a new group of putative decapeptides. In total, 16 different AKH peptides from 90 species were obtained. Two octapeptides and seven putatively novel decapeptides are predicted for the first time. AKH receptor sequences from 18 species, spanning solitary cockroaches and subsocial wood roaches as well as lower and higher termites, were subsequently acquired using classical molecular methods and in silico approaches employing transcriptomic data. Aligned AKHR open reading frames revealed 7 highly conserved transmembrane regions, a typical arrangement for GPCRs. Phylogenetic analyses based on AKHR sequences support accepted relationships among termite, subsocial (Cryptocercus spp.) and solitary cockroach lineages to a large extent, while putative post-translational modification sites do not greatly differ between solitary and subsocial roaches and social termites. Our study provides important information not only for AKH and AKHR functional research but also for further analyses interested in their development as potential candidates for biorational pest control agents against invasive termites and cockroaches.
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Affiliation(s)
- Shixiong Jiang
- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department for Materials and Environment, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department for Materials and Environment, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany
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- College of Life Science, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department for Materials and Environment, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany
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Marco HG, König S, Gäde G. Predicted novel hypertrehalosaemic peptides of cockroaches are verified by mass spectrometry. Amino Acids 2023; 55:1641-1654. [PMID: 37882863 PMCID: PMC10689539 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-023-03337-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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Small neuropeptides from the corpora cardiaca are responsible in cockroaches for the mobilisation of trehalose from the fat body into the haemolymph. Such hypertrehalosaemic hormones (HrTHs) belong to the large family of insect adipokinetic hormones (AKHs); a few HrTHs were previously sequenced from cockroaches, and from genomic and/or transcriptomic information one may predict the genes encoding HrTHs from more species. Definite elucidation of the primary structure of the mature peptide with putative modifications needs analytical chemical methods. In the current study, we use high-resolution mass spectrometry coupled with liquid chromatography to identify unequivocally the HrTHs of 13 cockroach species. Either genomic/transcriptomic information was available for most of the species examined, or from related species. We confirm predicted novel sequences and find hydroxyproline modification for the majority of the peptides. The novel decapeptides are structurally close to Bladi-HrTH, which is found in all seven of the investigated blaberid subfamilies. Bladi-HrTH and all the novel peptides elicit a hypertrehalosaemic response in Periplaneta americana, a blattid cockroach.
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- Heather G Marco
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
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- IZKF Core Unit Proteomics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa.
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König S, Marco HG, Gäde G. The proline effect and the tryptophan immonium ion assist in de novo sequencing of adipokinetic hormones. Sci Rep 2023; 13:10894. [PMID: 37407598 PMCID: PMC10322821 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38056-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/02/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023] Open
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Adipokinetic hormones (AKHs) in Arthopoda are characterized by special sequence features including limited choices of amino acid residues in certain positions, such as Trp in position 8. Over 100 different AKHs have been described, but de novo sequencing of novel peptide hormones can be a challenge. In a project of analyzing corpora cardiaca extracts from two fly species, two different moths, a termite and a beetle for their AKHs, we noted specific patterns in the fragmentation spectra of octapeptides in electrospray Q-TOF experiments resulting from the presence of Pro in position 6. The preference for cleavage N-terminal to Pro residues created an abundant y3″-ion, which, in conjunction with the two b-ions resulting from the fragmentation before and after Pro, provided a marker pattern. As Pro6 occurs in about 61% of known AKHs, this information is highly relevant for sequence elucidation. Moreover, the default presence of Trp8 allowed the use of its immonium ion for AKH candidate identification. In addition, we assembled the known AKH sequences from the literature and sequences of AKH-type format found in the Uniprot database in a single online resource. These efforts assisted in the analysis workflow and led to the assignment of two novel AKHs and evidence for the presence of Melme-CC and Dorpa-AKH in the corpus cardiacum of the scarab beetle Sinodendron cylindricum.
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- Simone König
- IZKF Core Unit Proteomics, University of Münster, 48149, Münster, Germany.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, ZA-7701 Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, ZA-7701 Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
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Ragionieri L, Predel R. The neuropeptidome of Carabus (Coleoptera, Adephaga: Carabidae). INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 118:103309. [PMID: 31870847 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2019.103309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Revised: 12/13/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Neuropeptides are signaling molecules involved in the regulation of virtually all physiological functions of Metazoa. In insects, more than 50 neuropeptide genes can be present in a single species, and thus neuropeptidergic systems are attractive targets for the development of environmentally friendly pesticides. Such approaches require not only knowledge of the neuropeptidomes of pests, but also detailed knowledge of the corresponding systems in beneficial insects. In Coleoptera, there is no profound knowledge of the neuropeptides in the adephagan lineage, which contains many of the ecologically important predators of caterpillars. We analyzed by transcriptomics, mass spectrometry and immunohistochemistry the neuropeptidomes of the two Carabus species C. violaceus and C. problematicus. This information, which contains detailed data on the differential processing of CAPA peptides, allows for the recognition of features typical only of the polyphagan lineage with its many pests. The neuropeptidomics data, which also confirmed the processing of a number of protein hormones, represent the highest number of neuropeptides that have been identified so far from Coleoptera. The sequences of the mature neuropeptides of the two Carabus species, whose ancestors separated about 13 Mya, are highly similar and no sequence substitutions were found in single-copy neuropeptides.
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- Lapo Ragionieri
- Universität zu Köln, Department für Biologie, Institut für Zoologie, Zülpicher Str. 47b, 50674, Köln, Germany.
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- Universität zu Köln, Department für Biologie, Institut für Zoologie, Zülpicher Str. 47b, 50674, Köln, Germany.
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König S, Marco H, Gäde G. The hypertrehalosemic neuropeptides of cicadas are structural isomers—evidence by ion mobility mass spectrometry. Anal Bioanal Chem 2017; 409:6415-6420. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-017-0583-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Revised: 08/02/2017] [Accepted: 08/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Gäde G, Marco HG. The adipokinetic hormone of Mantodea in comparison to other Dictyoptera. ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 94:e21376. [PMID: 28225562 DOI: 10.1002/arch.21376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Six species of the order Mantodea (praying mantises) are investigated for the presence and sequence of putative adipokinetic hormones (AKHs). The selected species span a wide evolutionary range of various families and subfamilies of the clade Mantodea. The corpora cardiaca of the different species are dissected, methanolic extracts prepared, peptides separated by liquid chromatography, and AKHs detected and sequenced by ion trap mass spectrometry. All six species investigated contain an octapeptide with the primary structure pGlu-Val-Asn-Phe-Thr-Pro-Asn-Trp amide, which is code-named Emppe-AKH and had been found earlier in three other species of Mantodea. Conspecific bioassays with the species Creoboter sp. (family Hymenopodidae) reveal an adipokinetic but not a hypertrehalosemic function of Emppe-AKH. Comparison with other members of the Dictyoptera (cockroaches, termites) show that Emppe-AKH is only found in certain termites, which have been recently placed into the Blattaria (cockroaches) as sister group to the family Cryptocercidae. Termites and cockroaches both show biodiversity in the sequence of AKHs, and some cockroach species even contain two AKHs. In contrast, all praying mantises-irrespective of their phylogenetic position-synthesize uniformly only one and the same octapeptide Emppe-AKH.
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- Gerd Gäde
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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Pauls D, Chen J, Reiher W, Vanselow JT, Schlosser A, Kahnt J, Wegener C. Peptidomics and processing of regulatory peptides in the fruit fly Drosophila. EUPA OPEN PROTEOMICS 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.euprot.2014.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Zoephel J, Reiher W, Rexer KH, Kahnt J, Wegener C. Peptidomics of the agriculturally damaging larval stage of the cabbage root fly Delia radicum (Diptera: Anthomyiidae). PLoS One 2012; 7:e41543. [PMID: 22848525 PMCID: PMC3405134 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2012] [Accepted: 06/22/2012] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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The larvae of the cabbage root fly induce serious damage to cultivated crops of the family Brassicaceae. We here report the biochemical characterisation of neuropeptides from the central nervous system and neurohemal organs, as well as regulatory peptides from enteroendocrine midgut cells of the cabbage maggot. By LC-MALDI-TOF/TOF and chemical labelling with 4-sulfophenyl isothiocyanate, 38 peptides could be identified, representing major insect peptide families: allatostatin A, allatostatin C, FMRFamide-like peptides, kinin, CAPA peptides, pyrokinins, sNPF, myosuppressin, corazonin, SIFamide, sulfakinins, tachykinins, NPLP1-peptides, adipokinetic hormone and CCHamide 1. We also report a new peptide (Yamide) which appears to be homolog to an amidated eclosion hormone-associated peptide in several Drosophila species. Immunocytochemical characterisation of the distribution of several classes of peptide-immunoreactive neurons and enteroendocrine cells shows a very similar but not identical peptide distribution to Drosophila. Since peptides regulate many vital physiological and behavioural processes such as moulting or feeding, our data may initiate the pharmacological testing and development of new specific peptide-based protection methods against the cabbage root fly and its larva.
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- Judith Zoephel
- Department of Biology, Animal Physiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Animal Physiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Neurobiology and Genetics, Theodor Boveri Institute, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Mycology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Animal Physiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Neurobiology and Genetics, Theodor Boveri Institute, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Caers J, Peeters L, Janssen T, De Haes W, Gäde G, Schoofs L. Structure-activity studies of Drosophila adipokinetic hormone (AKH) by a cellular expression system of dipteran AKH receptors. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2012; 177:332-7. [PMID: 22569168 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.04.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2012] [Revised: 04/18/2012] [Accepted: 04/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Structure-activity studies for the adipokinetic hormone receptor of insects were for the first time performed in a cellular expression system. A series of single amino acid replacement analogues for the endogenous adipokinetic hormone of Drosophila melanogaster (pGlu-Leu-Thr-Phe-Ser-Pro-Asp-Trp-NH(2)) were screened for activity with a bioluminescence cellular assay, expressing the G-protein coupled receptor. For this series of peptide analogues, one amino acid of the N-terminal tetrapeptide was successively replaced by alanine, while those of the C-terminal tetrapeptide were successively substituted by glycine; other modifications included the blocked N- and C-termini that were replaced by an acetylated alanine and a hydroxyl group, respectively. The analogue series was tested on the AKH receptors of two dipteran species, D. melanogaster and Anopheles gambiae. The blocked termini of the AKH peptide probably play a minor role in receptor interaction and activation, but are considered functionally important elements to protect the peptide against exopeptidases. In contrast, the amino acids at positions 2, 3, 4 and 5 from the N-terminus all seem to be crucial for receptor activation. This can be explained by the potential presence of a β-strand in this part of the peptide that interacts with the receptor. The inferred β-strand is probably followed by a β-turn in which the amino acids at positions 5-8 are involved. In this β-turn, the residues at positions 6 and 8 seem to be essential, as their substitutions induce only a very low degree of receptor activation. Replacement of Asp(7), by contrast, does not influence receptor activation at all. This implies that its side chain is folded inside the β-turn so that no interaction with the receptor occurs.
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- Jelle Caers
- Research Group of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, KU Leuven, Naamsestraat 59, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
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Audsley N, Matthews HJ, Down RE, Weaver RJ. Neuropeptides associated with the central nervous system of the cabbage root fly, Delia radicum (L). Peptides 2011; 32:434-40. [PMID: 20869420 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2010.08.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2010] [Revised: 08/16/2010] [Accepted: 08/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The peptidome of the central nervous system of adult cabbage root fly, Delia radicum (L) was investigated using matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). Over twenty neuropeptides were identified from three different tissue sources, the combined brain/suboesophageal ganglion (SOG), the retrocerebral complex, and the thoracic-abdominal ganglion (TAG). A number of peptides were identified in all three tissues, including allatostatins, short neuropeptide F-like peptides, corazonin, a pyrokinin, and a myosuppressin. Adipokinetic hormone was restricted to the retrocerebral complex. Other peptides, including FMRFamides and sulfakinins were detected only in the brain/SOG and TAG. Some peptides, notably myoinhibitory peptides and tachykinins, which have been identified in other fly species, were not detected in any tissue sample. This study has structurally characterized for the first time, the neuropeptides from adult D. radicum.
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- Neil Audsley
- The Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, York, YO41 1LZ, UK.
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Gäde G. Peptides of the Adipokinetic Hormone/Red Pigment-Concentrating Hormone Family. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2009; 1163:125-36. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03625.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Gäde G, Simek P, Marco HG. The first identified neuropeptide in the insect order Megaloptera: a novel member of the adipokinetic hormone family in the alderfly Sialis lutaria. Peptides 2009; 30:477-82. [PMID: 18755230 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2008.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2008] [Revised: 07/30/2008] [Accepted: 07/30/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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This is the first report on the structural identity of a neuropeptide of the insect order Megaloptera. A peptide was isolated and sequenced from the retrocerebral corpora cardiaca glands of the alderfly, Sialis lutaria. The sequence of the peptide was deduced from the multiple MS(N) electrospray mass data as that of an octapeptide: pGlu-Ile/Leu-Thr-Phe-Thr-Pro-Ser-Trp amide. The ambiguity about the amino acid at position 2, Leu or Ile, was solved by comparing retention time on reversed-phase HPLC and establishing co-elution with the synthetic Leu(2)-form which also had exactly the same MS(2) mass spectra as the natural peptide. The sequence represents a novel peptide of the adipokinetic hormone family which has already more than 40 members. Interestingly, the primary structure is identical to that predicted from genome information for the adipokinetic hormone of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Since alderflies are not known for their active flight metabolism but produce a rather high number of eggs, it is anticipated that the alderfly is a good study object to establish a possible role of the novel peptide to regulate fat mobilization from the fat body and transport into the egg, thereby playing a role in the control of reproductive processes.
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- Gerd Gäde
- Zoology Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, ZA-7701 Rondebosch, South Africa.
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Fónagy A, Marco HG, König S, Gäde G. Biological activity and identification of neuropeptides in the neurosecretory complexes of the cabbage pest insect, Mamestra brassicae (Noctuidae; Lepidoptera). ACTA BIOLOGICA HUNGARICA 2008; 59:385-402. [PMID: 19133496 DOI: 10.1556/abiol.59.2008.4.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The need for more environmentally sound strategies of plant protection has become a driving force in physiological entomology to combat insect pests more efficiently. Since neuropeptides regulate key biological processes, these "special agents" or their synthetic analogues, mimetics, agonists or antagonists may be useful tools. We examined brain-suboesophageal ganglia and corpora cardiaca-corpora allata complexes of the cabbage moth, Mamestra brassicae, in order to obtain clues about possible peptide candidates which may be appropriate for the biological control of this pest. With the aid of bioassays, reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry, five neuropeptides were unequivocally identified and the presence of a further three were inferred solely by comparing mass spectra with known peptides. Only one neuropeptide with adipokinetic capability was identified in M. brassicae. Data from the established homologous bioassay indicated that the cabbage moths rely on a lipid-based metabolism which is aided by an adipokinetic hormone (viz. Manse-AKH) that had previously been isolated in many different lepidopterans. Other groups of neuropeptides identified in this study are: FLRFamides, corazonin, allatostatin and pheromonotropic peptide.
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- Adrien Fónagy
- Department of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Analysis, Plant Protection Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Herman Ott6 u. 15, H-1022 Budapest, Hungary.
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Gäde G, Marco HG, Simek P, Audsley N, Clark KD, Weaver RJ. Predicted versus expressed adipokinetic hormones, and other small peptides from the corpus cardiacum-corpus allatum: a case study with beetles and moths. Peptides 2008; 29:1124-39. [PMID: 18448200 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2008.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2007] [Revised: 02/29/2008] [Accepted: 03/05/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This mass spectrometric study confines itself to peptide masses in the range of 500-1500Da. Adipokinetic hormones (AKHs) that are predicted from the genome of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, and the silk moth, Bombyx mori, are shown to exist as expressed peptides in the corpora cardiaca (CC) of the respective species as evidenced by various mass spectrometric methods. Additionally, some related species were included in this study, such as the tenebrionid beetles Tribolium brevicornis and Tenebrio molitor, as well as the moths Spodoptera frugiperda, Spodoptera littoralis, Mamestra brassicae and Lacanobia oleracea, to investigate whether AKH peptides are structurally conserved in the same genus or family. Interestingly, the AKH peptide of T. brevicornis is identical to that of T. molitor but not to the ones of its close relative T. castaneum. Moreover, other peptides in T. brevicornis, such as various FXPRL amides (=pyrokinins), also match the complement in T. molitor but differ from those in T. castaneum. All the CC of beetles lacked the signal for the mass of the peptide corazonin. All moths have the nonapeptide Manse-AKH expressed in their CC. In addition, whereas the silk moth has the decapeptide Bommo-AKH as a second peptide, all other moths (all noctuids) express the decapeptide Helze-HrTH. In M. brassicae and L. oleracea a novel amidated Gly-extended Manse-AKH is found as a possible third AKH. The noctuid moth species also all express the same FLRF amide-I, corazonin, and a group-specific isoform of a gamma-PGN-(=gamma-SGNP) peptide. In L. oleracea, however, the latter peptide has a novel sequence which is reported for the first time, and the peptide is code-named Lacol-PK.
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- Gerd Gäde
- Zoology Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, ZA-7701 Rondebosch, South Africa.
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- Stephanie S DeKeyser
- School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705-2222, USA
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Mouls L, Subra G, Aubagnac JL, Martinez J, Enjalbal C. Tandem mass spectrometry of amidated peptides. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2006; 41:1470-83. [PMID: 17072914 DOI: 10.1002/jms.1118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The behavior of C-terminal amidated and carboxylated peptides upon low-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) was investigated. Two sets of 76 sequences of variable amino acid compositions and lengths were synthesized as model compounds. In most cases, C-terminal amidated peptides were found to produce, upon CID, an abundant loss of ammonia from the protonated molecules. To validate such MS/MS signatures, the studied peptides contained amino acids that can potentially release ammonia from their side chains, such as asparagine, glutamine, tryptophan, lysine and arginine. Arginine, and to a lesser extent lysine, was shown to induce a competitive fragmentation leading to the loss of ammonia from their side chains, thus interfering with the targeted backbone neutral release. However, when arginine or lysine was located at the C-terminal position mimicking a tryptic digest, losses of ammonia from the arginine side chain and from the peptide backbone were completely suppressed. Such results were discussed in the frame of peptidomic or proteomic studies in an attempt to reveal the presence of C-terminal amidated peptides or proteins.
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- Laetitia Mouls
- CNRS-UMR 5810, Laboratoire des Aminoacides, Peptides et Protéines, Universités Montpellier I and II, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
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Lehmann WD, Wei J, Hung CW, Gabius HJ, Kirsch D, Spengler B, Kübler D. Effective solvation of alkaline earth ions by proline-rich proteolytic peptides of galectin-3 upon electrospray ionisation. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2006; 20:2404-10. [PMID: 16841364 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.2598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
Abstract
In an analysis of a combined chymotrypsin/AspN digest of galectin-3 by positive ion nano-electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (nanoESI-MS) several peptides were observed which showed metal adduct ions as their most abundant ion signals. The most prominent adduct ions were observed at m/z values corresponding to [M+40]2+, [M+41]3+, and [M+42]4+ ions. Detailed investigation of the [M+40]2+ ion of the peptide GAPAGPLIVPY showed that it was not, as originally expected, a [M+H+39K]2+ adduct ion but had the composition [M+40Ca]2+. This was verified by several approaches: (i) nanoESI-MS/MS of the [M+Ca]2+ adduct ions resulted in the virtually exclusive formation of doubly charged fragment ions; (ii) mass determination by quadrupole time-of-flight (QTOF)-MS provided a preliminary identification; and (iii) accurate mass measurement using nanoESI Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR)-MS at a mass resolving power of 500 000 allowed the specific detection and identification of the isobaric ion pairs [M+40Ca]2+/[M+H+39K]2+ and [M+24Mg]2+/[M+H+23Na]2+. All peptides in the chymotryptic galectin-3 digest without a basic residue (K or R) showed addition of calcium as the most prominent ionisation principle. A further common feature of these nonbasic peptides was the presence of several proline residues, which is assumed to be a factor promoting the intense addition of calcium. It was observed that the common trace levels of sodium and calcium in analytical grade solvents (about 1-10 microM) are sufficient to generate the [M+H+23Na]2+ and [M+40Ca]2+ ions as the most prominent species of the peptide GAPAGPLIVPY. We conclude that the sequence motifs P-XX-P and P-XXX-P favour the solvation of alkaline earth ions in ESI-MS. In view of the successful detection of physiological Ca/protein interactions by ESI-MS, this finding may point to a solvation of Ca2+ by galectin in solution. The findings open new routes of research in the study of metal/protein and metal/peptide interactions
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Affiliation(s)
- Wolf D Lehmann
- Central Spectroscopy, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
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