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Cytochrome c Oxidase at Full Thrust: Regulation and Biological Consequences to Flying Insects. Cells 2021; 10:cells10020470. [PMID: 33671793 PMCID: PMC7931083 DOI: 10.3390/cells10020470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2021] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Flight dispersal represents a key aspect of the evolutionary and ecological success of insects, allowing escape from predators, mating, and colonization of new niches. The huge energy demand posed by flight activity is essentially met by oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) in flight muscle mitochondria. In insects, mitochondrial ATP supply and oxidant production are regulated by several factors, including the energy demand exerted by changes in adenylate balance. Indeed, adenylate directly regulates OXPHOS by targeting both chemiosmotic ATP production and the activities of specific mitochondrial enzymes. In several organisms, cytochrome c oxidase (COX) is regulated at transcriptional, post-translational, and allosteric levels, impacting mitochondrial energy metabolism, and redox balance. This review will present the concepts on how COX function contributes to flying insect biology, focusing on the existing examples in the literature where its structure and activity are regulated not only by physiological and environmental factors but also how changes in its activity impacts insect biology. We also performed in silico sequence analyses and determined the structure models of three COX subunits (IV, VIa, and VIc) from different insect species to compare with mammalian orthologs. We observed that the sequences and structure models of COXIV, COXVIa, and COXVIc were quite similar to their mammalian counterparts. Remarkably, specific substitutions to phosphomimetic amino acids at critical phosphorylation sites emerge as hallmarks on insect COX sequences, suggesting a new regulatory mechanism of COX activity. Therefore, by providing a physiological and bioenergetic framework of COX regulation in such metabolically extreme models, we hope to expand the knowledge of this critical enzyme complex and the potential consequences for insect dispersal.
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Van der Horst DJ, Rodenburg KW. Locust flight activity as a model for hormonal regulation of lipid mobilization and transport. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2010; 56:844-853. [PMID: 20206629 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2010] [Revised: 02/10/2010] [Accepted: 02/10/2010] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Flight activity of insects provides a fascinating yet relatively simple model system for studying the regulation of processes involved in energy metabolism. This is particularly highlighted during long-distance flight, for which the locust constitutes a long-standing favored model insect, which as one of the most infamous agricultural pests additionally has considerable economical importance. Remarkably many aspects and processes pivotal to our understanding of (neuro)hormonal regulation of lipid mobilization and transport during insect flight activity have been discovered in the locust; among which are the peptide adipokinetic hormones (AKHs), synthesized and stored by the neurosecretory cells of the corpus cardiacum, that regulate and integrate lipid (diacylglycerol) mobilization and transport, the functioning of the reversible conversions of lipoproteins (lipophorins) in the hemolymph during flight activity, revealing novel concepts for the transport of lipids in the circulatory system, and the structure and functioning of the exchangeable apolipopotein, apolipophorin III, which exhibits a dual capacity to exist in both lipid-bound and lipid-free states that is essential to these lipophorin conversions. Besides, the lipophorin receptor (LpR) was identified and characterized in the locust. In an integrative approach, this short review aims at highlighting the locust as an unrivalled model for studying (neuro)hormonal regulation of lipid mobilization and transport during insect flight activity, that additionally has offered a broad and profound research model for integrative physiology and biochemistry, and particularly focuses on recent developments in the concept of AKH-induced changes in the lipophorin system during locust flight, that deviates fundamentally from the lipoprotein-based transport of lipids in the circulation of mammals. Current studies in this field employing the locust as a model continue to attribute to its role as a favored model organism, but also reveal some disadvantages compared to model insects with a completely sequenced genome.
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- Dick J Van der Horst
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Biology and Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Dantuma NP, Pijnenburg MA, Diederen JH, Van der Horst DJ. Electron microscopic visualization of receptor-mediated endocytosis of Dil-labeled lipoproteins by diaminobenzidine photoconversion. J Histochem Cytochem 1998; 46:1085-89. [PMID: 9705975 DOI: 10.1177/002215549804600913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We present a modified diaminobenzidine (DAB) photoconversion method that enables staining of internalized Dil-labeled lipoproteins without the apparent punctate background staining that was observed with the original DAB photoconversion method. This is illustrated by the localization of Dil-labeled insect lipoproteins in natural recipient cells that internalize these lipoproteins by receptor-mediated endocytosis. Exposure to Dil-excitation light of cells that had been incubated with Dil-labeled lipoproteins yielded a light- and electron-dense DAB reaction product. In addition to the expected staining, an apparent punctate background staining of vesicular structures hindered proper identification of Dil-containing vesicles because these background-stained vesicles were indistinguishable from putative late endosomal and lysosomal structures at the electron microscopic level. This background staining was completely abrogated by inhibition of peroxisomal catalase with aminotriazole. The conversion of DAB by the emitted light of Dil was not affected by aminotriazole. We conclude that specific staining of Dil-labeled intracellular structures can be achieved with the modified DAB photoconversion method reported here.
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- N P Dantuma
- Biochemical Physiology Research Group, Department of Experimental Zoology and Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Dantuma NP, Pijnenburg MA, Diederen JH, Van der Horst DJ. Multiple interactions between insect lipoproteins and fat body cells: extracellular trapping and endocytic trafficking. J Lipid Res 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2275(20)32176-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Flight activity of insects comprises one of the most intense biochemical processes known in nature, and therefore provides an attractive model system to study the hormonal regulation of metabolism during physical exercise. In long-distance flying insects, such as the migratory locust, both carbohydrate and lipid reserves are utilized as fuels for sustained flight activity. The mobilization of these energy stores in Locusta migratoria is mediated by three structurally related adipokinetic hormones (AKHs), which are all capable of stimulating the release of both carbohydrates and lipids from the fat body. To exert their effects intracellularly, these hormones induce a variety of signal transduction events, involving the activation of AKH receptors, GTP-binding proteins, cyclic AMP, inositol phosphates and Ca2+. In this review, we discuss recent advances in the research into AKH signaling. This not only includes the effects of the three AKHs on each of the signaling molecules, but also crosstalk between signaling cascades and the degradation rates of the hormones in the hemolymph. On the basis of the observed differences between the three AKHs, we have tried to construct a physiological model for their action in locusts, in order to answer a fundamental question in endocrinology: why do several structurally and functionally related peptide hormones co-exist in locusts (and animals in general), when apparently one single hormone would be sufficient to exert the desired effects? We suggest that the success of the migratory locust in performing long-distance flights is in part based on this neuropeptide multiplicity, with AKH-I being the strongest lipid-mobilizing hormone, AKH-II the most powerful carbohydrate mobilizer and AKH-III, a modulatory entity that predominantly serves to provide the animal with energy at rest.
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- S F Vroemen
- Department of Experimental Zoology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Dantuma NP, Pijnenburg MA, Diederen JH, Van der Horst DJ. Developmental down-regulation of receptor-mediated endocytosis of an insect lipoprotein. J Lipid Res 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2275(20)37438-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Van Heusden MC, Erickson BA, Pennington JE. Lipophorin levels in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, and the effect of feeding. ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 1997; 34:301-312. [PMID: 9055439 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6327(1997)34:3<301::aid-arch5>3.0.co;2-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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High density lipophorin (HDLp) is the major lipid transport vehicle in insect hemolymph. Using an indirect ELISA, levels of HDLp were measured in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. The level of lipophorin, when normalized to the total weight of the insect, was similar in the different developmental stages. Starvation (access to water only) of adult females did not affect the level of HDLp nor its density when compared to sugar-fed females. On the other hand, blood feeding (of normally sugar-fed females) resulted in a three-fold increase of the HDLp level at 40 h after feeding. This increase was accompanied by a slight but significant increase in the density of HDLp at 24 h after feeding. Ingestion of a lipid-free protein meal or a lipid-supplemented protein meal induced changes in HDLp level and density that were comparable to those induced by ingestion of a blood meal. Ingestion of a blood meal, following starvation (access to water only) from the moment of adult emergence, did not induce an increase in HDLp level. The results presented indicate that, in contrast to other insect species, A. aegypti responds to an increased need for lipid transport in the hemolymph by increasing the amount of HDLp. Arch. Insect Biochem.
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- M C Van Heusden
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
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Dantuma NP, Van Marrewijk WJ, Wynne HJ, Van der Horst DJ. Interaction of an insect lipoprotein with its binding site at the fat body. J Lipid Res 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2275(20)39164-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Fournier BR, Wolff RL, Nogaro M, Radallah D, Darret D, Larrue J, Girardie A. Fatty acid composition of phospholipids and metabolism in rectal tissues of the African locust. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(95)00002-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Vroemen SF, Van Marrewijk WJ, Van der Horst DJ. Stimulation of glycogenolysis by three locust adipokinetic hormones involves Gs and cAMP. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1995; 107:165-71. [PMID: 7768328 DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(94)03438-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Insect adipokinetic hormones (AKHs) have been shown to mobilize fat body carbohydrate by glycogen phosphorylase activation. In this study, the signal transduction pathways of AKH-I, -II and -III from the migratory locust are further elucidated. We show that the AKHs enhance fat body cAMP levels in vitro. For all hormones, maximal levels are reached after 1 min and correspond to a 200% increase compared to resting levels. Although cAMP levels induced by massive doses of AKH-I, -II and -III are equal, AKH-III is the most potent when applied in a physiological dose. This difference in potency also applies to glycogen phosphorylase activation. Cholera toxin (CTX) likewise ennhaces cAMP levels and phosphorylase activity, however pertussis toxin (PTX) has no effect. Increases induced by CTX and AKH are not additive, suggesting that they share the same pathway. Phosphorylase activation by the AKHs is strongly attenuated by guanosine-5'-O-(2-thiodiphosphate) (GDP beta S). These results demonstrate a role for cAMP in AKH signal transduction and indicate that the AKH receptor(s) are coupled to cAMP formation and glycogen phosphorylase activation via the stimulatory guanine nucleotide-binding protein (Gs).
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- S F Vroemen
- Department of Experimental Zoology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Maatman RG, Degano M, Van Moerkerk HT, Van Marrewijk WJ, Van der Horst DJ, Sacchettini JC, Veerkamp JH. Primary structure and binding characteristics of locust and human muscle fatty-acid-binding proteins. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1994; 221:801-10. [PMID: 8174560 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1994.tb18794.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The conservation between muscle fatty-acid-binding proteins (M-FABP) of Locusta migratoria flight muscle and human skeletal muscle was investigated. The locust M-FABP cDNA (632 bp) was isolated by 5' and 3' rapid amplification of cDNA ends. The identities of the locust and human M-FABP on the cDNA and protein levels were 54% and 42%, respectively. The predicted amino acid sequence of locust M-FABP indicated a molecular mass of 14935 Da and isoelectric point 6.1. The locust M-FABP was expressed in Escherichia coli, purified by (NH4)2SO4 precipitation, anion-exchange and gel-filtration chromatographies and compared with the recombinant human M-FABP with respect to immunological and binding properties. In spite of the high sequence similarity, the proteins did not show immunological cross-reactivity. The binding parameters of locust M-FABP were analyzed with radiolabeled oleic acid by the Lipidex assay and titration microcalorimetry. Both methods revealed a Kd for oleic acid of 0.5 microM and a binding stoichiometry of 1 mol fatty acid/mol FABP. The delta H, delta G and delta S for oleic acid binding were -146 kJ.mol-1 and -36 J.mol-1 and -369 J.mol-1.K-1 respectively. All the information obtained from binding, fluorescence and displacement studies indicated that locust M-FABP has binding characteristics similar to human M-FABP. Finally the recombinant locust M-FABP was crystallized with and without oleic acid. All crystals were trigonal in the P3(1)21 space group. The unit cell dimensions were a = b = 5.89 nm and c = 14.42 nm.
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- R G Maatman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Soulages JL, Wells MA. Lipophorin: the structure of an insect lipoprotein and its role in lipid transport in insects. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 1994; 45:371-415. [PMID: 8154373 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3233(08)60644-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- J L Soulages
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Van Heusden MC. Characterization and identification of a lipoprotein lipase from Manduca sexta flight muscle. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1993; 23:785-792. [PMID: 8374612 DOI: 10.1016/0965-1748(93)90066-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Lipoprotein lipase (LpL) activity in Manduca sexta flight muscle tissue was measured using in vivo radiolabeled lipophorin as a substrate. LpL hydrolyses diacylglycerol in the low density lipophorin (that occurs during flight) at a higher rate than diacylglycerol in the high density lipophorin (present in the resting insect). LpL has a pH-optimum of 7.5 and is less sensitive to NaCl than mammalian LpL. LpL is inhibited by bovine albumin and chicken ovalbumin. LpL is inhibited by the serine protease inhibitors diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP) and phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride (PMSF), which indicates the presence of an active site serine similar to mammalian LpL. Flight muscle LpL shows affinity for immobilized copper as well as for immobilized heparin. Using radiolabeled DFP, a protein of 37 kDa was identified (after SDS-PAGE) as the DFP-binding protein in a partially purified preparation of LpL. This 37 kDa protein is proposed to be the LpL or a subunit thereof.
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- M C Van Heusden
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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van der Horst DJ, van Doorn JM, Passier PC, Vork MM, Glatz JF. Role of fatty acid-binding protein in lipid metabolism of insect flight muscle. Mol Cell Biochem 1993; 123:145-52. [PMID: 8232256 DOI: 10.1007/bf01076486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Since insect flight muscles are among the most active muscles in nature, their extremely high rates of fuel supply and oxidation pose interesting physiological problems. Long-distance flights of species like locusts and hawkmoths are fueled through fatty acid oxidation. The lipid substrate is transported as diacylglycerol in the blood, employing a unique and efficient lipoprotein shuttle system. Following diacyglycerol hydrolysis by a flight muscle lipoprotein lipase, the liberated fatty acids are ultimately oxidized in the mitochondria. Locusta flight muscle cytoplasm contains an abundant fatty acid-binding protein (FABP). The flight muscle FABP of Locusta migratoria is a 15 kDa protein with an isoelectric point of 5.8, binding fatty acids in a 1:1 molar stoichiometric ratio. Binding affinity of the FABP for long-chain fatty acids (apparent dissociation constant Kd = 5.21 +/- 0.16 microM) is however markedly lower than that of mammalian FABPs. The NH2-terminal amino acid sequence shares structural homologies with two insect FABPs recently purified from hawkmoth midgut, as well as with mammalian FABPs. In contrast to all other isolated FABPs, the NH2 terminus of locust flight muscle FABP appeared not to be acetylated. During development of the insect, a marked increase in fatty acid binding capacity of flight muscle homogenate was measured, along with similar increases in both fatty acid oxidation capacity and citrate synthase activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- D J van der Horst
- Department of Experimental Zoology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Surholt B, Goldberg J, Schulz TK, Beenakkers AM, Van der Horst DJ. Lipoproteins act as a reusable shuttle for lipid transport in the flying death's-head hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1086:15-21. [PMID: 1954241 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(91)90149-c] [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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High-density lipophorin (HDLp), the major insect plasma lipoprotein in resting insects, has been postulated to function as a 'reusable shuttle' for lipid transport between tissues, capable of accepting or depositing lipids with maintenance of the structural properties of the particle. Injection of differentially radiolabeled HDLp into resting death's-head hawkmoths revealed that disappearance of the [14C]palmitate labeled lipid component of HDLp (principally diacyglycerol) was relatively quickly (half-life approx. 3 h), whereas turnover time of the apolipoproteins (marked with [14C]protein hydrolysate) was considerably longer (half-life approx. 26 h). These results strongly support the above proposal. To fuel long-distance flight, insects transport lipid in the hemolymph in the form of diacylglycerol-rich low-density lipophorin (LDLp) resulting from a conversion of HDLp to LDLp. By injection of differentially radiolabeled LDLp into flying hawkmoths we demonstrate for the first time in vivo that this mechanism of lipoprotein conversion also functions as a 'reusable shuttle'. While half-life of the lipid moiety of LDLp labeled with [14C]palmitate or [14C]glycerol (mainly diacylglycerol) during flight was only 43 and 94 min, respectively, turnover rate of its apolipoprotein moiety was considerably lower (half-life approx. 30 h). The results demonstrate the unique role of HDLp, i.e., the reversible conversion to LDLp, in lipid delivery to insect flight muscles.
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- B Surholt
- Zoologisches Institut, Universität Münster, Germany
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Van der Horst DJ, Van Doorn JM, Voshol H, Kanost MR, Ziegler R, Beenakkers AM. Different isoforms of an apoprotein (apolipophorin III) associate with lipoproteins in Locusta migratoria. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 196:509-17. [PMID: 2007409 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb15843.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Insects transport lipid for flight in the form of diacylglycerol-rich low-density lipoproteins (low-density lipophorin, LDLp), which in the hemolymph are produced from high-density lipophorin (HDLp) by reversible association with several molecules of an apolipoprotein, apolipophorin III (apoLp-III, Mr approximately 18,000-20,000) during lipid loading. Two isoforms of apoLp-III (a and b) were purified both from adult Locusta migratoria migratorioides hemolymph and LDLp, which have identical apparent Mr but differ in amino acid composition, NH2-terminal amino acid sequence, and isoelectric points (5.35 +/- 0.01 for apoLp-IIIa, 5.10 +/- 0.01 for apoLp-IIIb). The NH2-terminal sequence of apoLp-IIIb is identical to the primary structure of apoLp-III deduced from cloned cDNA [Kanost et al. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 10,568-10,573], whereas the NH2-terminal sequence of apoLp-IIIa is identical to that of apoLp-IIIb but preceded by Arg-Pro-, which is the C-terminal of the putative signal peptide coded by cDNA upstream from that coding for apoLp-IIIb. The ratio apoLp-IIIa apoLp-IIIb free in hemolymph is identical to that in LDLp (5:9); since 14 molecules of apoLp-III appear to be bound in one molecule of LDLp, an average of 5 molecules of apoLp-IIIa and 9 of apoLp-IIIb are involved in formation of each LDLp particle. In vivo studies using 35S-labeled apoLp-IIIa and b demonstrate that each of the isoforms can associate with HDLp to produce LDLp reversibly; in an in vitro system, production of LDLp containing exclusively apoLp-IIIa or apoLp-IIIb demonstrates independent participation of each isoform in LDLp formation.
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- D J Van der Horst
- Department of Experimental Zoology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Van der Horst DJ. Lipid transport function of lipoproteins in flying insects. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1990; 1047:195-211. [PMID: 2252909 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(90)90518-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- D J Van der Horst
- Department of Experimental Zoology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Van Heusden MC, Law JH. An Insect Lipid Transfer Particle Promotes Lipid Loading from Fat Body to Lipoprotein. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)71490-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Van Antwerpen R, Wynne HJ, Van der Horst DJ, Beenakkers AM. Binding of lipophorin to the fat body of the migratory locust. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(89)90063-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Soulages JL, Rimoldi OJ, Peluffo OR, Brenner RR. Transport and utilization of free fatty acids in Triatoma infestans. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1988; 157:465-71. [PMID: 3060117 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(88)80272-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Triatoma infestans hemolymph has 0.31 mg/ml of free fatty acids and 2.8 mg/ml of diacylglycerols. Almost all the diacylglycerols are transported by lipophorin whereas free fatty acids are carried by lipophorin and a very high density lipoprotein. The binding of cis-parinaric acid to lipophorin was employed to specify the free fatty acid binding properties of lipophorin. Lipophorin has 10 binding sites of high affinity (3 x 10(7)) and approximately 45 binding sites of low affinity (1 x 10(6)). The relative rate of tissue incorporation of free fatty acids and diacylglycerols was measured by injecting insects with hemolymph previously labeled in both, free fatty acids and diacylglycerols. In this way, the half-life of the hemolymph free fatty acids was estimated to be about 4 min. Based on this result and taking into account the content of free fatty acids and diacylglycerols in hemolymph, the incorporation of free fatty acids, expressed in moles of fatty acids, seems to be 3.4 times higher than that of diacylglycerols. This finding can be applied to other insects.
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- J L Soulages
- Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de La Plata, CONICET-UNLP, Facultad de Cs.Médicas, Argentina
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Diederen JH, van Etten EW, Biegstraaten AI, Terlou M, Vullings HG, Jansen WF. Flight-induced inhibition of the cerebral median peptidergic neurosecretory system in Locusta migratoria. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1988; 71:257-64. [PMID: 3203873 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(88)90253-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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This study discusses the effects of a 1-hr period of flight on the peptidergic pars intercerebralis (PI)-corpus cardiacum storage part (CCS) system in male Locusta migratoria, particularly the effect on material in this system stained by a histochemical method for peptidergic neurosecretory material (NSM) or labeled by in vivo incorporation of radioactive amino acid molecules. By use of an automatic image analysis system a number of parameters of the stained or radioactively labeled substances were measured to quantify the flight-induced effects and to get information on the manner in which the neurosecretory cell bodies in the PI and their axonal endings in the CCS accommodate changing amounts of NSM. The CCS of flown locusts contained distinctly more stained and radioactively labeled substances than the CCS of unflown locusts. A tendency to similar differences was observed in the cluster of neurosecretory cell bodies in the PI. The results indicate that 1 hr flight inhibited the release of NSM by the PI-CCS system. After the onset of reduced release activity by flight, some NSM continued to be synthesized and transported from the PI to the CCS, gradually filling up and expanding the entire PI-CCS system, the NSM at the same time becoming more and more densely packed. It is concluded that the peptidergic PI-CCS system is not actively involved in the control of flight metabolism or flight behavior.
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- J H Diederen
- Department of Experimental Zoology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Van Antwerpen R, Linnemans WA, Van der Horst DJ, Beenakkers AM. Immunocytochemical localization of lipophorins in the flight muscles of the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) at rest and during flight. Cell Tissue Res 1988; 252:661-8. [PMID: 3190830 DOI: 10.1007/bf00216654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Locust lipoproteins (lipophorins) were localized by indirect immunofluorescence- and immunogold labelling in cryosections of dorsolongitudinal flight muscles. Immunolabelling was performed with monoclonal antibodies against apolipoproteins epitopes that are exposed at the surfaces of the lipophorin particles. Both at rest and during flight, lipophorins were located only in the wider spaces of the extracellular matrix, in the basement membranes of the individual muscle fibers and in the extracellular spaces that surround interfibrillar tracheoles. No internalization of lipophorins by the flight muscle cells was observed. Our results indicate that the unloading of lipophorins at the flight muscles is an extracellular event. Similarities with the vertebrate system of chylomicron and very-low-density lipoprotein degradation are discussed.
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Vaandrager S, Wynne H, Beenakkers A. Regulation of flight related trehalose utilization in the locust Locusta migratoria. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(88)90943-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Teo LH, Fescemyer HW, Woodring J, Hammond AM. Carbohydrate and fatty acid titres during flight of the migrant noctuid moth, Anticarsia gemmatalis Hübner. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(87)90011-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Beenakkers AM, Van der Horst DJ, Van Marrewijk WJ. Insect lipids and lipoproteins, and their role in physiological processes. Prog Lipid Res 1985; 24:19-67. [PMID: 3916237 DOI: 10.1016/0163-7827(85)90007-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 220] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Biochemical Processes Directed to Flight Muscle Metabolism. Biochemistry 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-08-030811-1.50019-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Downer RG, Chino H. Turnover of protein and diacylglycerol components of lipophorin in insect haemolymph. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(85)90124-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Peptides with adipokinetic (and usually carbohydrate-mobilizing) potency have been demonstrated in various insects, including Locusta migratoria, Schistocerca gregaria, Manduca sexta, Danaus plexippus and Periplaneta americana. As far as characterized by now the adipokinetic factors are blocked peptides, consisting of eight to ten amino acid residues. In locusts the adipokinetic hormones are synthesized in the glandular lobe of the corpus cardiacum and released into the haemolymph in response to flight stimuli. This release is under direct control of neurons, the cell bodies of which are located in the lateral areas of the protocerebrum, while their axons run via the nervi corporis cardiaci II into the glandular lobe. Hormone release is modulated by axons present in the nervi corporis cardiaci I as well as by the haemolymph trehalose concentration. Trehalose apparently exerts its influence via a neuronal network present in the corpus cardiacum. The fat body is the main target organ of the adipokinetic hormones, which are involved in both mobilization and release of flight substrates from fat body stores, i.e., trehalose from glycogen and diacylglycerol from triacylglycerol. Lipid release is accompanied by haemolymph lipoprotein conversions.
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Lipolytic activity in the flight muscles of Locusta migratoria measured with haemolymph lipoproteins as substrates. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1984. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(84)90058-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Van der Horst D, Abbink J, Van Doorn J, Van Marrewijk W, Beenakkers A. Glycerol dynamics and metabolism during flight of the locust, Locusta migratoria. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(83)90063-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Van der Horst D, Stoppie P, Huybrechts R, De Loof A, Beenakkers A. Immunological relationships between the diacylglycerol-transporting lipoproteins in the haemolymph of Locusta. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(81)90271-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Interconversions of diacylglycerol-transporting lipoproteins in the haemolymph of Locusta migratoria. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(81)90064-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Langley P, Bursell E, Kabayo J, Pimley R, Trewern M, Marshall J. Haemolymph lipid transport from fat body to uterine gland in pregnant females of Glossina morsitans. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(81)90100-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Van den Hondel-Franken MA, Van den Broek AT, Beenakkers AM. Flight muscle development in Locusta migratoria: effects of implantation of corpora allata on the attainment of metabolic enzyme activities. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1980; 41:477-86. [PMID: 7409452 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(80)90052-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Lok CM, van der Horst DJ. Chiral 1,2-diacylglycerols in the haemolymph of the locust, Locusta migratoria. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1980; 618:80-7. [PMID: 7378433 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(80)90055-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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A 1H-NMR method using chiral shift reagents was applied in the stereochemical analysis of the haemolymph 1,2-diacylglycerols of Locusta migratoria. Conversion of the 1,2-diacylglycerols into 1,2-diacetyl-3-tritylglycerols allowed the accurate determination of the enantiomeric purity, whereas direct trimethylsilylation of the unmodified or hydrogenated haemolymph 1,2-diacylglycerols proved to be less suitable because of signal broadening. In the haemolymph of Locusta, sn-1,2-diacylglycerols with a remarkably high optical purity were found to be present. In the resting locust, at least 96% of the haemolymph 1,2-diacylglycerols have the sn-1,2-configuration, in locusts in which the haemolymph diacylglycerol concentration was elevated by fat body triacylglycerol mobilization induced by flight activity or injection of adipokinetic hormone, over 97% of the 1,2-diacylglycerols is the sn-1,2-enantiomer. The few percent sn-2,3-enantiomer may not have been present initially. Positional distribution of the fatty acids in the fat body triacylglycerols and in the haemolymph sn-1,2-diacylglycerols obtained from locusts after a 2 h flight revealed nearly identical occupation of the sn-2-positions in both acylglycerols. The distribution patterns in the sn-1-position of the 1,2-diacylglycerols and the combined sn-1 and sn-3 positions of the triacylglycerols are compatible with the possible existence of a stereospecific sn-3-triacylglycerol lipase.
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Regulation of substrate utilization in the flight muscle of the locust, Locusta migratoria, during flight. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(80)90038-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Regulatory properties of changes in the contents of coenzyme A, carnitine and their acyl derivatives in flight muscle metabolism of Locusta migratoria. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(80)90011-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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van Marrewijk W, van den Broek A, Beenakkers A. Regulation of glycogenolysis in the locust fat body during flight. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(80)90057-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Van Der Horst D, Van Doorn J, Beenakkers A. Effects of the adipokinetic hormone on the release and turnover of haemolymph diglycerides and on the formation of the diglyceride-transporting lipoprotein system during locust flight. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1979. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(79)90102-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Dynamics in the haemolymph trehalose pool during flight of the locust, Locusta migratoria. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1978. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(78)90053-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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