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The origin of the oxytocin (OT)/vasopressin (VP) signaling system is thought to date back more than 600million years. OT/VP-like peptides have been identified in numerous invertebrate phyla including molluscs, annelids, nematodes and insects. However, to date we only have a limited understanding of the biological role(s) of this GPCR-mediated signaling system in insects. This chapter presents the current knowledge of OT/VP-like neuropeptide signaling in insects by providing a brief overview of insect OT/VP-like neuropeptides, their genetic and structural commonalities, and their experimentally tested and proposed functions. Despite their widespread occurrence across insect orders these peptides (and their endogenous receptors) appear to be absent in common insect model species, such as flies and bees. We therefore explain the known functionalities of this signaling system in three different insect model systems: beetles, locusts, and ants. Additionally, we review the phylogenetic distribution of the OT/VP signaling system in arthropods as obtained from extensive genome/transcriptome mining. Finally, we discuss the unique challenges in the development of selective OT/VP ligands for human receptors and share our perspective on the possible application of insect- and other non-mammalian-derived OT/VP-like peptide ligands in pharmacology.
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Veenstra JA. Coleoptera genome and transcriptome sequences reveal numerous differences in neuropeptide signaling between species. PeerJ 2019; 7:e7144. [PMID: 31245184 PMCID: PMC6585902 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 05/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background Insect neuropeptides are interesting for the potential their receptors hold as plausible targets for a novel generation of pesticides. Neuropeptide genes have been identified in a number of different species belonging to a variety of insects. Results suggest significant neuropeptide variation between different orders, but much less is known of neuropeptidome variability within an insect order. I therefore compared the neuropeptidomes of a number of Coleoptera. Methodology Publicly available genome sequences, transcriptomes and the original sequence data in the form of short sequence read archives were analyzed for the presence or absence of genes coding neuropeptides as well as some neuropeptide receptors in seventeen beetle species. Results Significant differences exist between the Coleoptera analyzed here, while many neuropeptides that were previously characterized from Tribolium castaneum appear very similar in all species, some are not and others are lacking in one or more species. On the other hand, leucokinin, which was presumed to be universally absent from Coleoptera, is still present in non-Polyphaga beetles. Conclusion The variability in neuropeptidome composition between species from the same insect order may be as large as the one that exists between species from different orders.
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- Jan A Veenstra
- INCIA UMR 5287 CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Pessac, France
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- Paul H Taghert
- Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Nässel DR. Neuropeptides in the nervous system of Drosophila and other insects: multiple roles as neuromodulators and neurohormones. Prog Neurobiol 2002; 68:1-84. [PMID: 12427481 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0082(02)00057-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 336] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Neuropeptides in insects act as neuromodulators in the central and peripheral nervous system and as regulatory hormones released into the circulation. The functional roles of insect neuropeptides encompass regulation of homeostasis, organization of behaviors, initiation and coordination of developmental processes and modulation of neuronal and muscular activity. With the completion of the sequencing of the Drosophila genome we have obtained a fairly good estimate of the total number of genes encoding neuropeptide precursors and thus the total number of neuropeptides in an insect. At present there are 23 identified genes that encode predicted neuropeptides and an additional seven encoding insulin-like peptides in Drosophila. Since the number of G-protein-coupled neuropeptide receptors in Drosophila is estimated to be around 40, the total number of neuropeptide genes in this insect will probably not exceed three dozen. The neuropeptides can be grouped into families, and it is suggested here that related peptides encoded on a Drosophila gene constitute a family and that peptides from related genes (orthologs) in other species belong to the same family. Some peptides are encoded as multiple related isoforms on a precursor and it is possible that many of these isoforms are functionally redundant. The distribution and possible functions of members of the 23 neuropeptide families and the insulin-like peptides are discussed. It is clear that each of the distinct neuropeptides are present in specific small sets of neurons and/or neurosecretory cells and in some cases in cells of the intestine or certain peripheral sites. The distribution patterns vary extensively between types of neuropeptides. Another feature emerging for many insect neuropeptides is that they appear to be multifunctional. One and the same peptide may act both in the CNS and as a circulating hormone and play different functional roles at different central and peripheral targets. A neuropeptide can, for instance, act as a coreleased signal that modulates the action of a classical transmitter and the peptide action depends on the cotransmitter and the specific circuit where it is released. Some peptides, however, may work as molecular switches and trigger specific global responses at a given time. Drosophila, in spite of its small size, is now emerging as a very favorable organism for the studies of neuropeptide function due to the arsenal of molecular genetics methods available.
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- Dick R Nässel
- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Spittaels K, Vankeerberghen A, Schoofs L, Torrekens S, Grauwels L, Van Leuven F, De Loof A. Identification, characterization, and immunological localization of a novel myotropic neuropeptide in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Peptides 1995; 16:365-74. [PMID: 7651886 DOI: 10.1016/0196-9781(94)00205-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A novel myotropic heptapeptide was isolated from an extract of 54,000 heads of adult Leptinotarsa decemlineata by means of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), using the Locusta migratoria oviduct motility bioassay as monitoring system. The full primary structure was established as H-Ala-Tyr-Asn-Gly-Pro-Leu-Ala-NH2. This peptide, designated as Led-MNP-I, has a unique structure and does not belong to any known vertebrate or invertebrate peptide family. Two adjacent Led-MNP-I-immunoreactive perikarya were found in each optic lobe and in each half of all thoracic ganglia. Its absence from the pars intercerebralis and neurohemal organs suggests that Led-MNP-I is not a neurohormone but a neurotransmitter or neuromodulator. Treatment of isolated oviducts with varying concentrations of Led-MNP-I did not elicit significant changes in the level of cAMP concentration, suggesting that cAMP does not act as a second messenger for Led-MNP-I. Instead, Led-MNP-I induces an elevation of IP3. Treatment with Led-MNP-I did not stimulate cAMP production in the Colorado beetle brain, but this could be due to the very small number of receptive cells present. Both tissues contained a forskolin-sensitive adenylate cyclase enzyme.
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- K Spittaels
- Zoologisch Instituut, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Tyrer NM, Davis NT, Arbas EA, Thompson KS, Bacon JP. Morphology of the vasopressin-like immunoreactive (VPLI) neurons in many species of grasshopper. J Comp Neurol 1993; 329:385-401. [PMID: 8459050 DOI: 10.1002/cne.903290309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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It has previously been shown that the pair of vasopressin-like immunoreactive (VPLI) neurons of the locust, Locusta migratoria, have cell bodies on the ventral midline of the suboesophageal ganglion and extensive arborisations in all ganglia of the central nervous system. In the present study, we have stained vasopressin-like immunoreactive neurons in 16 additional species of grasshopper, and consistently find this pair of extensive neurons: we assume these to be interspecies homologues. However, the anatomy of these neurons falls into two morphological types: the first, typified by Schistocerca gregaria, has most of its processes distributed in dorsal and lateral neuropil of all ganglia; the second, typified by Locusta migratoria, is equally extensive in its arborisation, but the distribution of branches is shifted peripherally into the optic lobes and the proximal portions of peripheral nerves. It has been suggested that the peripheral fibres in Locusta migratoria are neurohaemal organs for the release of a vasopressin-like diuretic peptide. Our sample of 17 Acridoid species has deliberately selected animals from very different habitats, but our extensive survey of VPLI anatomy shows that peripheral fibres are only present in species from the subfamily Oedipodinae (of which Locusta migratoria is a member) and that no peripheral fibres are present in any of the species from the 4 other subfamilies of the Acridoidea that we have examined. The presence of peripheral fibres is therefore determined by phylogeny and not by habitat. The absence of peripheral VPLI fibres in most grasshopper species examined in this study probably means that the release of putative diuretic hormone from VPLI to control water homeostasis cannot be a conserved function of this ubiquitous neuron. In contrast, the extensive central arborisations and rare antigenicity, which are highly conserved features of the VPLI neuron in all those grasshoppers we have examined, suggests that any conserved role is more likely to be central. A central role for the VPLI neuron has yet to be determined.
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- N M Tyrer
- Department of Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom
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Schooneveld H, Smid H, Ammerlaan W, van Helden J. Colocalized FMRFamide-related neuropeptides in the nervous system of the colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (say) (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae) demonstrated immunohistochemically with mono- and polyclonal antibodies. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-7322(92)90023-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Davis NT, Hildebrand JG. Vasopressin-immunoreactive neurons and neurohemal systems in cockroaches and mantids. J Comp Neurol 1992; 320:381-93. [PMID: 1613132 DOI: 10.1002/cne.903200309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Vasopressin-like neuropeptides of insects are of special interest because of their possible function as hormones and neuromodulators. Therefore, this study was undertaken by using whole-mount immunofluorescent staining by two antisera that recognize different types of vasopressin-like immunoreactive groups of neurons in the cockroaches Periplaneta americana, Leucophaea maderae, Nauphoeta cinerea, Diploptera punctata, and Blaberus discoidalis and in the mantids Litaneuria minor and Tenodera aridifolia sinensis. Using an antiserum to Arg/vasopressin, only two cells, the paired ventral paramedian (PVP) neurons, were immunostained in the central nervous system (CNS) of the cockroaches. These cells are located in the subesophageal ganglion, project throughout the CNS, and appear to be neurosecretory. Their varicose collaterals extend into the dorsal (motor) neuropil of the segmental ganglia, and this neuropil may be the principal site of the release of their neurosecretion. The PVP neurons were also stained by an antiserum to Lys/vasopressin; in addition, this antiserum stained several other groups of neurons, most of which appeared to be neurosecretory. Two pairs of Lys/vasopressin-immunoreactive cells are similar to the PVP neurons in that they are located in the subesophageal ganglion, extend through the ventral nerve cord, have collaterals in the dorsal neuropil of the segmental ganglia, and appear to be neurosecretory within the CNS. In addition, midventral and anteroventral clusters of Lys/vasopressin-immunoreactive neurosecretory neurons in the subesophageal ganglion project neurohemal release sites on the corpora allata. Other types of Lys/vasopressin-immunoreactive neurons include median and lateral neurosecretory cells of the protocerebrum and neurosecretory cells in the tritocerebrum, all of which project to the corpora cardiaca. In the abdominal ganglia there are posterolateral clusters of Lys/vasopressin neurosecretory neurons, and these cells extend to neurohemal release sites on the transverse and lateral cardiac nerves. In mantids the anti-Arg/vasopressin and anti-Lys/vasopressin antisera stained most of the same groups of neurons that these antisera recognized in cockroaches. The results of this study suggest that there are two or more vasopressin-like peptides in cockroaches and mantids and that these peptides may be released either as hormones in the blood or as neurosecretions within the CNS. Their function(s) in these insects remains to be determined.
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- N T Davis
- Arizona Research Laboratories, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Andriès JC, Belemtougri G, Tramu G. Multiple peptide immunoreactivities in the nervous system of Aeschna cyanea (Insecta, Odonata). An immunohistochemical study using antisera to cholecystokinin octapeptide, somatoliberin, vasoactive intestinal peptide, motilin and proctolin. HISTOCHEMISTRY 1991; 96:139-48. [PMID: 1917570 DOI: 10.1007/bf00315984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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By use of the indirect immunoperoxidase method, the brain, the suboesophageal ganglion and the corpora cardiaca of the dragonfly Aeschna cyanea have been shown to be immunoreactive to proctolin antiserum and to several mammalian peptide antisera including unsulfated cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8 NS) (Andriès et al. 1989), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), human somatoliberin (hGRF) (Andriès et al. 1984) and motilin antisera. Immunohistochemical studies have been performed on material fixed in a solution of picricacid paraformaldehyde or in Bouin Hollande's sublimate solution. Antisera were applied on alternate sections or, according to the elution-restaining method of Tramu et al. (1978), one after another on the same section. Multiple peptide immunoreactivities appear expressed in the brain and the suboesophageal ganglion. Cells reactive to both hGRF and VIP antisera show also gastrin/CCK-like immunoreactivity and some of them are also detected by motilin antiserum. Besides, some cells immunopositive to CCK-8 NS and motilin antisera do not show hGRF or VIP immunoreactivity. At least, two pairs of protocerebral cells appear immunoreactive to both CCK-8 NS and proctolin antisera. Therefore, the present observations support our previously developed idea (Andriès et al. 1989) that the population of CCK-like cells is heterogenous.
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- J C Andriès
- Laboratoire de Biologie Animale et Unité Associée au CNRS n degrees 148, Université des Sciences et Techniques de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq., France
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Spittaels K, Schoofs L, Grauwels L, Smet H, Van Damme J, Proost P, De Loof A. Isolation, identification and synthesis of novel oviductal motility stimulating head peptide in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Peptides 1991; 12:31-6. [PMID: 2052497 DOI: 10.1016/0196-9781(91)90162-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A novel myotropic peptide was isolated from an extract of 10,000 heads of adult Leptinotarsa decemlineata by means of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The peptide stimulates the contractions of the oviduct of Leptinotarsa as well as that of Locusta migratoria. Gas phase sequencing and comparison of candidate synthetic peptides in the amide and acid form revealed the following primary structure: Ile-Ala-Tyr-Lys-Pro-Glu-NH2. This new peptide has a molecular weight of 720 Da and has been named Led OVM. Led OVM does not exhibit significant sequence homology with any known vertebrate or invertebrate peptide. Sixteen additional myotropic factors were also separated by means of HPLC, but were as yet not recovered in amounts large enough for them to be sequenced.
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- K Spittaels
- Zoological Institute of K.U. Leuven, Belgium
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Evans PD, Cournil I. Co-localization of FLRF- and vasopressin-like immunoreactivity in a single pair of sexually dimorphic neurones in the nervous system of the locust. J Comp Neurol 1990; 292:331-48. [PMID: 2341608 DOI: 10.1002/cne.902920302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The distribution of Phe-Leu-Arg-Phe (FLRF)-like immunoreactivity is described in the brain and in the ganglia of the ventral nerve cord of the locust Schistocerca gregaria. A single homologous pair of immunoreactive cell bodies occurs ventrally and medially in the suboesophageal ganglion. Each cell sends a process dorsally which bifurcates into anteriorly and posteriorly running neurites. The single anterior neurite passes along the circumoesophageal connectives to the brain where it ascends in a posterior running tract, giving off branches to innervate the tritocerebral neuropile and ending in an extensive network of highly varicose immunoreactive processes in the protocerebral neuropile. No processes are seen in the optic lobes or associated with the structured neuropiles of the muschroom bodies. The single posterior neurite from each cell passes into the suboesophageal-prothoracic connectives. It runs in the lateral dorsal tract of each ganglion in the ventral nerve cord as a highly varicose process and in each ganglion gives rise to an ipsilateral network of varicose processes in the dorsal and lateral neuropiles. In the seventh and terminal abdominal ganglia the innervation pattern exhibits sexual dimorphism. Vasopressin-like immunoreactivity is co-localized in the same pair of suboesophageal neurones and their processes. A similar pair of ventral median neurones stains with both antibodies in the suboesophageal ganglion of another species of locust, Locusta migratoria. Although the basic distribution pattern of immunoreactive processes is similar in both species there are also marked species differences in the pattern.
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- P D Evans
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, England
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During the last years many positive immunocytochemical reactions have been described in invertebrates using antisera to vertebrate regulatory peptides. However, due to the specificity problems associated with immunocytochemistry, the significance of the majority of these findings remains unclear, as so far only a few of the substances causing the immunoreactions in invertebrates have been isolated. It is proposed that comparing the localizations of "vertebrate" peptides in different and not closely related species of an invertebrate group may give a clue to the physiological relevance of the immunoreactive substances.
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- J A Veenstra
- Department of Biological Organic Chemistry, C.S.I.C., Barcelona, Spain
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Reuter M, Lehtonen M, Wikgren M. Immunocytochemical Evidence of Neuroactive Substances in Flatworms of Different Taxa-a Comparison. ACTA ZOOL-STOCKHOLM 1988. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.1988.tb00898.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Schooneveld H, Veenstra JA. Immunocytochemistry. SPRINGER SERIES IN EXPERIMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY 1988. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3798-3_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Reuter M. Immunocytochemical Demonstration of Serotonin and Neuropeptides in the Nervous System ofGyrodactylus salaris(Monogenea). ACTA ZOOL-STOCKHOLM 1987. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6395.1987.tb00890.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Kubben FJ, van Assche CL, Bosman FT. FMRF-amide immunoreactivity in the mammalian gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine system. HISTOCHEMISTRY 1986; 84:439-44. [PMID: 3522500 DOI: 10.1007/bf00482976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The presence of FMRF-amide, a cardioactive tetrapeptide, was studied by immunocytochemistry in human and rat gastric antrum and pancreas, and in the ovine, bovine, canine and rabbit pancreas. In human and rat gastric antrum, numerous cells contained FMRF-amide immunoreactive material. By staining of serial sections and by double staining, colocalization of immunoreactivity for gastrin and FMRF-amide was observed in part of the gastrin cells. In the pancreas of these and the other species, immunoreactivity for FMRF-amide was located both in acinar and islet endocrine cells. Colocalization of FMRF-amide and pancreatic polypeptide was found in a proportion of pancreatic polypeptide cells in the pancreas. FMRF-amide immunoreactivity never colocalized with the other neurohormonal peptides which occur in the gastric antrum and the pancreas. Our observations show that neuroendocrine cells occur in the gastric antrum and pancreas which are exclusively immunoreactive or gastrin and for pancreatic polypeptide respectively. In addition cells occur which show immunoreactivity for FMRF-amide as well as for gastrin in the gastric antrum and with antiserum to FMRF-amide as well as for pancreatic polypeptide in the pancreas. It is concluded that FMRF-amide antibodies probably recognize a substance in G and PP cells which is not identical but may be structurally related to gastrin and pancreatic polypeptide.
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Meyer EP, Matute C, Streit P, Nässel DR. Insect optic lobe neurons identifiable with monoclonal antibodies to GABA. HISTOCHEMISTRY 1986; 84:207-16. [PMID: 3710830 DOI: 10.1007/bf00495784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Five monoclonal antibodies against GABA were tested on glutaraldehyde fixed sections of optic lobes of three insect species, blowflies, houseflies and worker bees. The specificity of these antibodies was analyzed in several tests and compared with commercially available anti-GABA antiserum. A very large number of GABA-like immunoreactive neurons innervate all the neuropil regions of these optic lobes. Immunoreactive processes are found in different layers of the neuropils. The immunoreactive neurons are amacrines and columnar or noncolumnar neurons connecting the optic lobe neuropils. In addition some large immunoreactive neurons connect the optic lobes with centers of the brain. Some neuron types could be matched with neurons previously identified with other methods. The connections of a few of these neuron types are partly known from electron microscopy or electrophysiology and a possible role of GABA in certain neural circuits can be discussed.
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Biological and immunological relationships between molt-inhibiting hormone (MIH) activity in eyestalk ganglia extracts of the crab, Cancer antennarius Stimpson, and peptides of the vasopressin-oxytocin family were assessed. Lysine vasopressin (LVP), arginine vasopressin (AVP), vasotocin (VT), and oxytocin (OT) mimicked MIH action by inhibiting ecdysteroid production of Y-organ segments in vitro with the relative potencies LVP greater than AVP greater than VT much much greater than OT. The inhibitory effect was reversible and specific (6 other peptides did not alter Y-organ activity). MIH and LVP increased Y-organ cyclic adenosine 3',5' monophosphate (cAMP) levels dose-dependently and with identical time course in which the rise in cAMP preceded inhibition of ecdysteroid production. The synthetic vasopressin antidiuretic agonist 1-deamino-8-D-AVP (dDAVP) inhibited Y-organ steroidogenesis dose-dependently; the vasopressin analog ([1(B-mercapto-beta, beta-cyclopentamethylenepropionic acid), 2-(O-methyl)tyrosine[AVP) (d(CH2)5Tyr(Me)AVP), a vasopressor antagonist, had no effect on basal or MIH-suppressed steroidogenesis. AVP antiserum abolished the inhibitory action of MIH, LVP, and AVP. Competitive binding curves for MIH, LVP, AVP, VT, and OT with the AVP antiserum suggested that MIH is most closely related to LVP. MIH may be structurally related to the vasopressins and act on Y-organ cells via type V2 (cAMP-linked) receptors.
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Veenstra J, Romberg-Privee H, Schooneveld H. A proctolin-like peptide and its immunocytochemical localization in the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Cell Tissue Res 1985. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00216342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Schooneveld H, Romberg-Privee HM, Veenstra JA. Adipokinetic hormone-immunoreactive peptide in the endocrine and central nervous system of several insect species: a comparative immunocytochemical approach. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1985; 57:184-94. [PMID: 3979801 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(85)90262-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The distribution of intrinsic glandular cells containing adipokinetic hormone (AKH)-like material in the corpora cardiaca (CC) and the occurrence of immunoreactive neurons in the nervous system in 19 species belonging to nine insect orders was studied by means of an immunocytochemical method (peroxidase-antiperoxidase), with antisera raised against an AKH analogue [( Tyr1]-AKH). The CC gland cells in Locusta migratoria migratorioides and Schistocerca americana gregaria were strongly immunoreactive. Those in other orders showed less or no immunoreactivity indicating that AKH has a very restricted distribution. Neurons containing immunoreactive material were found in the brain and ventral ganglia in all species investigated. As the specificity of the antiserum has not been determined, it is not known whether this peptide is identical to AKH. Considering the distribution of their axons, these neurons may be involved with one or more of the following functions: (1) nervous communication within the central nervous system; (2) communication with the stomatogastric nervous system; (3) possible release of peptide from the CC; (4) release of neuropeptide in or from the corpus allatum. A combination of these features has been found in only a few of the species investigated. The immunocytochemical study demonstrated significant differences among species belonging to Apterygota, Hemi-, and Holometabola in the number of neurons, the length and degree of branching of their axon, and the amount of immunoreactive peptide stored therein.
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Veenstra JA, Romberg-Privee HM, Schooneveld H, Polak JM. Immunocytochemical localization of peptidergic neurons and neurosecretory cells in the neuro-endocrine system of the Colorado potato beetle with antisera to vertebrate regulatory peptides. HISTOCHEMISTRY 1985; 82:9-18. [PMID: 2858460 DOI: 10.1007/bf00502085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A large number of antisera to regulatory vertebrate peptides was tested immunocytochemically on the nervous system of the Colorado potato beetle to further characterize the peptidergic cells of the neuro-endocrine system and to reveal cells participating in endocrine control mechanisms. Neurons, neurosecretory cells, axons and axon terminals were revealed by antisera to ACTH, gastrin, CCK, alpha-endorphin, beta-endorphin, gamma 1-MSH, insulin, motilin, human calcitonin, growth hormone, somatostatin, CRF, ovine prolactin and rat prolactin. Together with previously described results these findings demonstrate that at least 19 different peptidergic cell types are present in the Colorado potato beetle. Several of these cell types are identical with the known neurosecretory cells, while others have not been identified before. The functions of the immunoreactive neurons are as yet unclear, although in two cases the localization of these cells gives some clues. Thus the lateral neurosecretory cells, which are immunoreactive with antisera to beta-endorphin and ovine prolactin, may regulate corpus allatum activity, whereas a CRF immunoreactive substance seems to be used as neurotransmitter by antennal receptors. These immunocytochemical findings do not imply that the immunoreactive substances are evolutionarily related to the vertebrate peptides to which the antisera were raised. It is postulated that if the part of the substance recognized by a certain antiserum is functionally important for the insect, which should be so if the insect peptide is evolutionarily related to its vertebrate homologue, the antiserum should reveal homologous cells in different insect species. The consequence of this hypothesis is, that if an antiserum does not reveal homologous neurons in different insect species, the immunologically demonstrated substance is probably of little physiological importance, and will not be related evolutionarily to the vertebrate analogue. The positive immunocytochemical results in the Colorado potato beetle are discussed in relation to these considerations.
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