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Scholl CL, Holmstrup M, Graham LA, Davies PL. Polyproline type II helical antifreeze proteins are widespread in Collembola and likely originated over 400 million years ago in the Ordovician Period. Sci Rep 2023; 13:8880. [PMID: 37264058 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35983-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023] Open
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Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) bind to ice crystals to prevent organisms from freezing. A diversity of AFP folds has been found in fish and insects, including alpha helices, globular proteins, and several different beta solenoids. But the variety of AFPs in flightless arthropods, like Collembola, has not yet been adequately assessed. Here, antifreeze activity was shown to be present in 18 of the 22 species of Collembola from cold or temperate zones. Several methods were used to characterize these AFPs, including isolation by ice affinity purification, MALDI mass spectrometry, amino acid composition analysis, tandem mass spectrometry sequencing, transcriptome sequencing, and bioinformatic investigations of sequence databases. All of these AFPs had a high glycine content and were predicted to have the same polyproline type II helical bundle fold, a fold unique to Collembola. These Hexapods arose in the Ordovician Period with the two orders known to produce AFPs diverging around 400 million years ago during the Andean-Saharan Ice Age. Therefore, it is likely that the AFP arose then and persisted in many lineages through the following two ice ages and intervening warm periods, unlike the AFPs of fish which arose independently during the Cenozoic Ice Age beginning ~ 30 million years ago.
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- Connor L Scholl
- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, 18 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON, K7L3N6, Canada
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- Section of Terrestrial Ecology, Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, C.F. Møllers Allé 4, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
- Arctic Research Center, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, 18 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON, K7L3N6, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, 18 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON, K7L3N6, Canada.
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William N, Acker JP. High Sub-Zero Organ Preservation: A Paradigm of Nature-Inspired Strategies. Cryobiology 2021; 102:15-26. [PMID: 33905707 DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2021.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2020] [Revised: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 04/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The field of organ preservation is filled with advancements that have yet to see widespread clinical translation, with some of the more notable strategies deriving their inspiration from nature. While static cold storage (SCS) at 2 °C to 4 °C is the current state-of-the-art, it contributes to the current shortage of transplantable organs due to the limited preservation times it affords combined with the limited ability of marginal grafts (i.e. those at risk for post-transplant dysfunction or primary non-function) to tolerate SCS. The era of storage solution optimization to minimize SCS-induced hypothermic injury has plateaued in its improvements, resulting in a shift towards the use of machine perfusion systems to oxygenate organs at normothermic, sub-normothermic, or hypothermic temperatures, as well as the use of sub-zero storage temperatures to leverage the protection brought forth by a reduction in metabolic demand. Many of the rigors that organs are subjected to at low sub-zero temperatures (-80 °C to -196 °C) commonly used for mammalian cell preservation have yet to be surmounted. Therefore, this article focuses on an intermediate temperature range (0 °C to -20 °C), where much success has been seen in the past two decades. The mechanisms leveraged by organisms capable of withstanding prolonged periods at these temperatures through either avoiding or tolerating the formation of ice has provided a foundation for some of the more promising efforts. This article therefore aims to contextualize the translation of these strategies into the realm of mammalian organ preservation.
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- Nishaka William
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada; Centre for Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, 8249 114th Street, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R8, Canada.
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Ampaw AA, Sibthorpe A, Ben RN. Use of Ice Recrystallization Inhibition Assays to Screen for Compounds That Inhibit Ice Recrystallization. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2180:271-283. [PMID: 32797415 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0783-1_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Ice recrystallization inhibition assays are used to screen for compounds that possess the ability to inhibit ice recrystallization. The most common of these assays are the splat cooling assay (SCA) and sucrose sandwich assay (SSA). These two assays possess similarities; however, they vary in their sample size, cooling rate, and the solution used to dissolve the analyte. In this chapter, both assay methods are described in detail, and we perform a direct comparison of the assays by evaluating the IRI activity of an antifreeze protein (AFP I). IRI activity is quantified by using ImageJ software to analyze ice crystals, and a quantitative value describing the efficiency of the inhibitor is generated. This analysis emphasizes the importance of choosing the right assay to measure IRI activity.
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- Anna A Ampaw
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
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Cold Tolerance and Population Dynamics of Leptoglossus zonatus (Hemiptera: Coreidae). INSECTS 2019; 10:insects10100351. [PMID: 31627302 PMCID: PMC6836135 DOI: 10.3390/insects10100351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Revised: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In California's San Joaquin Valley, feeding by the coreid pest, Leptoglossus zonatus, can cause considerable economic loss on almond and pistachio. This research was conducted to improve understanding of how winter temperatures affect mortality of overwintering adult L. zonatus and to develop a better understanding of the role pomegranate plays in the species' life-history. We exposed 7410 field-collected adult L. zonatus to temperatures between -2 and -10 °C for a period of three, four, or six hours using insect incubators. At six hours of exposure, the, LD50 and LD95 occur at -5.8 and -9.7 °C, respectively. We classified L. zonatus as chill-intolerant. Temperatures cold enough to affect substantial mortality of overwintering L. zonatus rarely occur in the San Joaquin Valley. Whole aggregation destructive sampling from a pomegranate hedgerow in Fresno County was conducted to determine population dynamics. At late summer to early fall, aggregations consisted of >90% immature stages. By early to mid-winter, mean aggregation size decreased, consisting of only three to 12 late-instars and adults. During years one and two of the experiment, L. zonatus produced a generation on pomegranate, mostly between September and mid-November. Overwintering did not occur on pomegranate, rather the majority of adults emigrated to other overwintering locations by mid-winter.
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Designing the next generation of cryoprotectants - From proteins to small molecules. Pept Sci (Hoboken) 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/pep2.24086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Heisig M, Mattessich S, Rembisz A, Acar A, Shapiro M, Booth CJ, Neelakanta G, Fikrig E. Frostbite protection in mice expressing an antifreeze glycoprotein. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0116562. [PMID: 25714402 PMCID: PMC4340617 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Accepted: 12/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Ectotherms in northern latitudes are seasonally exposed to cold temperatures. To improve survival under cold stress, they use diverse mechanisms to increase temperature resistance and prevent tissue damage. The accumulation of anti-freeze proteins that improve cold hardiness occurs in diverse species including plants, arthropods, fish, and amphibians. We previously identified an Ixodes scapularis anti-freeze glycoprotein, named IAFGP, and demonstrated its cold protective function in the natural tick host and in a transgenic Drosophila model. Here we show, in a transgenic mouse model expressing an anti-freeze glycoprotein, that IAFGP protects mammalian cells and mice from cold shock and frostbite respectively. Transgenic skin samples showed reduced cell death upon cold storage ex vivo and transgenic mice demonstrated increased resistance to frostbite injury in vivo. IAFGP actively protects mammalian tissue from freezing, suggesting its application for the prevention of frostbite, and other diseases associated with cold exposure.
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- Martin Heisig
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Department of Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Haydarpasa Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, United States of America
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A novel function – Thermal protective properties of an antifreeze protein from the summer desert beetle Microdera punctipennis. Cryobiology 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2012.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Koštál V, Doležal P, Rozsypal J, Moravcová M, Zahradníčková H, Simek P. Physiological and biochemical analysis of overwintering and cold tolerance in two Central European populations of the spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 57:1136-46. [PMID: 21420974 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2011] [Revised: 03/11/2011] [Accepted: 03/14/2011] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Overwintering success is one of the key aspects affecting the development and outbreaks of the spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus (L.) populations. This paper brings detailed analysis of cold tolerance, and its influence on overwintering success, in two Central European populations of I. typographus during two cold seasons. Evidence for a supercooling strategy in overwintering adults is provided. The lower lethal temperature corresponds well to the supercooling point that ranges between -20 and -22°C during winter months. The supercooled state is stabilized by the absence of internal ice nucleators and by seasonal accumulation of a mixture of sugars and polyols up to the sum concentration of 900 mM. The cryoprotective function of accumulated metabolites is probably based on increasing the osmolality and viscosity of supercooled body fluids and decreasing the relative proportion of water molecules available for lethal formation of ice nuclei. No activity of thermal hysteresis factors (stabilizers of supercooled state) was detected in hemolymph. Lethal times for 50% mortality (Lts50) in the supercooled state at -5, -10 or -15°C are weeks (autumn, spring) or even months (winter), suggesting relatively little mortality caused by chill injury. Lts50 at -15°C are significantly shorter in moist (6.9 days) than in dry (>42 days) microenvironment because there is higher probability of external ice nucleation and occurrence of lethal freezing in the moist situation.
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- V Koštál
- Biology Centre, AS CR, Institute of Entomology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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Joshi A, Olson DL, Carey DR. Overwintering survival of Aphthona beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): a biological control agent of leafy spurge released in North Dakota. ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY 2009; 38:1539-1545. [PMID: 20021747 DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We evaluated the effects of snow cover and debris cover on overwintering success of Aphthona from 2001 to 2004 in southeast North Dakota. Chill degree-days, soil temperature, and duration of soil temperatures were monitored in field plots. Emergence of Aphthona from soil cores collected in October and held in the laboratory under simulated winter conditions did not differ across treatments. Field emergence of Aphthona was significantly reduced compared with emergence of Aphthona in the laboratory under simulated winter. Snow cover protected overwintering of Aphthona during 3 yr. Overwintering success was 77-94% lower in no-snow plots than in snow plots except in 2002. In 2001, when the soil temperature was as low as -4.4 degrees C, 90% of the Aphthona beetles emerged from snow-covered plots. The ranges of winter temperature and winter period for overwintering Aphthona were determined as -5.0-4.5 degrees C and 56-132 d, respectively, by using linear regression. A negative linear relationship between soil temperature and winter period may help predict the minimum needed overwintering period at a given winter temperature. Warmer temperatures during the winter of 2002 caused snow to melt in the snow plots, which led to excessive moisture that seemed to reduce overwintering success of Aphthona in those plots. Overall emergence was too low to conduct statistical procedures in 2003 and 2004 because of temperature extremes and warm periods during the winters that may have caused Aphthona to break diapause prematurely.
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- Ankush Joshi
- Entomology Department, Hulz Hall, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA.
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Sonoda S, Fukumoto K, Izumi Y, Ashfaq M, Yoshida H, Tsumuki H. Methionine-rich storage protein gene in the rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis, is expressed during diapause in response to cold acclimation. INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 15:853-9. [PMID: 17201777 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2006.00670.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Gene expressions of acclimatized and non-acclimatized diapausing larvae were examined in Chilo suppressalis using a subtraction technique. A gene encoding a methionine-rich storage protein, CsSP1, was cloned and its complete cDNA sequence was determined. Potentially, CsSP1 encoded a 758-amino acid protein, with a calculated molecular weight of 88.8 kDa. The expression level of CsSP1 was higher in nondiapausing larvae than in diapausing ones. The CsSP1 expression was up-regulated in diapausing larvae when the temperature of cold acclimation was shifted to 5 degrees C. The up-regulated level was maintained at 40 days after incubation at 5 degrees C. In nondiapausing larvae, CsSP1 expression was down-regulated when the temperature was below developmental zero. Involvement of CsSP1 in diapause, cold tolerance acquisition and postdiapause development in C. suppressalis is discussed.
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- S Sonoda
- Research Institute for Bioresources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan.
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Pedersen SA, Kristiansen E, Hansen BH, Andersen RA, Zachariassen KE. Cold hardiness in relation to trace metal stress in the freeze-avoiding beetle Tenebrio molitor. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2006; 52:846-53. [PMID: 16806256 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2006.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2006] [Revised: 05/08/2006] [Accepted: 05/08/2006] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are a family of proteins characterised by their ability to inhibit the growth of ice. These proteins have evolved as a protection against lethal freezing in freeze avoiding species. Metal stress has been shown to reduce the cold hardening in invertebrates, but no study has investigated how this type of stress affects the production of AFPs. This study demonstrates that exposure to cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) reduces the normal developmental increase in AFP levels in Tenebrio molitor larvae reared under summer conditions. Exposure to winter conditions, however stimulated the production of AFPs in the metal exposed larvae, and raised the concentrations of AFPs to normal winter levels. The reduced level of AFPs in metal-stressed animals acclimated to summer conditions seems to arise from alterations in the normal gene expression of AFPs. The results indicate that metal exposure may cause freeze avoiding insects to become more susceptible to lethal freezing, as they enter the winter with lowered levels of AFPs. Such an effect cannot be revealed by ordinary toxicological tests, but may nevertheless be of considerable ecological importance.
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- Sindre A Pedersen
- Department of Biology, Realfagsbygget, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim, Norway.
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Qin W, Tyshenko MG, Doucet D, Walker VK. Characterization of antifreeze protein gene expression in summer spruce budworm larvae. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 36:210-8. [PMID: 16503482 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2006.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2005] [Revised: 01/06/2006] [Accepted: 01/19/2006] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Not surprisingly, in the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana, antifreeze protein (AFP) gene expression is most abundant in the second instar, overwintering stage. However, low level RNA and protein expression was also found in the sixth instar larvae, a summer stage. In situ hybridization further confirmed the presence of AFP mRNA in sixth instar midgut tissues. Sequencing of cDNAs corresponding to "summer-expressed" transcripts revealed an isoform that was not apparent in a cDNA library made to second instar larvae. Although similar to AFP cDNAs obtained from overwintering larvae, this AFP-like isoform (CfAFP6) has two Cys substitutions. Since AFPs from this species fold into a beta-helix that is stabilized by disulfide bonds, it was of interest to determine if this summer-expressed isoform had AFP activity. No thermal hysteresis activity was found when CfAFP6 was cloned and expressed in E. coli, even after in vitro denaturation and refolding. As well, there was no activity detected when the sequence of a known, active isoform was changed to mimic the Cys substitutions in CfAFP6. Since CfAFP6 does not appear to contribute to freeze resistance, its apparent absence in the overwintering second instar should not in itself be considered curious.
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- Wensheng Qin
- Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., Canada K7L 3N6
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Duman JG, Bennett V, Sformo T, Hochstrasser R, Barnes BM. Antifreeze proteins in Alaskan insects and spiders. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2004; 50:259-266. [PMID: 15081818 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2003.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2003] [Revised: 12/09/2003] [Accepted: 12/09/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Prior to this study, antifreeze proteins (AFPs) had not been identified in terrestrial arthropods from the Arctic or anywhere in Alaska. The hemolymph of 75 species of insects and six spiders from interior and arctic Alaska were screened for thermal hysteresis (a difference between the freezing and melting points), characteristic of the presence of AFPs. Eighteen species of insects and three spiders were shown to have AFPs. Ten of the insects with AFPs were beetles including the first species from the families Chrysomelidae, Pythidae, Silphidae and Carabidae. In addition, the first Neuropteran to have AFPs was identified, the lacewing Hemerobius simulans together with the second and third Diptera (the first Tipulids) and the second and third Hemiptera, the stinkbug Elasmostethus interstinctus (the first Pentatomid), and the water strider Limnoporus dissortis (the first Gerrid). Prior to this study, 33 species of insects and three spiders had been reported to have AFPs. Most AFP-producing terrestrial arthropods are freeze avoiding, and the AFPs function to prevent freezing. However, some of the AFP- producing insects identified in this study are known to be freeze tolerant (able to survive freezing) to very low temperatures (-40 to -70 degrees C).
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- J G Duman
- Department of Biological Sciences, Box 369, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
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Bale JS. Insects and low temperatures: from molecular biology to distributions and abundance. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2002; 357:849-62. [PMID: 12171648 PMCID: PMC1693004 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 258] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Insects are the most diverse fauna on earth, with different species occupying a range of terrestrial and aquatic habitats from the tropics to the poles. Species inhabiting extreme low-temperature environments must either tolerate or avoid freezing to survive. While much is now known about the synthesis, biochemistry and function of the main groups of cryoprotectants involved in the seasonal processes of acclimatization and winter cold hardiness (ice-nucleating agents, polyols and antifreeze proteins), studies on the structural biology of these compounds have been more limited. The recent discovery of rapid cold-hardening, ice-interface desiccation and the daily resetting of critical thermal thresholds affecting mortality and mobility have emphasized the role of temperature as the most important abiotic factor, acting through physiological processes to determine ecological outcomes. These relationships are seen in key areas such as species responses to climate warming, forecasting systems for pest outbreaks and the establishment potential of alien species in new environments.
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- J S Bale
- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
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Zachariassen KE, DeVries AL, Hunt B, Kristiansen E. Effect of ice fraction and dilution factor on the antifreeze activity in the hemolymph of the cerambycid beetle Rhagium inquisitor. Cryobiology 2002; 44:132-41. [PMID: 12151268 DOI: 10.1016/s0011-2240(02)00014-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The freezing-melting hysteresis in a given volume of hemolymph from the cerambycid beetle Rhagium inquisitor was linearly and negatively related to the logarithm of the mass fraction of ice in the sample. When the ice fraction dropped by a factor of 10, the hysteresis activity increased by about 2 degrees C. When the hemolymph was diluted, the hysteresis activity was linearly and negatively related to the logarithm of the dilution factor. Dilution of the hemolymph by a factor of 2 led to a 1 degree C reduction in hysteresis activity. In the diluted samples, the ice growth took place along the a-axes, implying that the antifreeze peptides of insects block ice growth along the c-axis, in addition to the a-axis.
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- Karl Erik Zachariassen
- Laboratory of Ecophysiology and Toxicology, Department of Zoology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491, Trondheim Norway.
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Salin C, Renault D, Vannier G, Vernon P. A sexually dimorphic response in supercooling temperature, enhanced by starvation, in the lesser mealworm Alphitobius diaperinus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). J Therm Biol 2000; 25:411-418. [PMID: 10880863 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4565(00)00003-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The effect of starvation on supercooling temperature (SCP) distribution was investigated in adults and larvae of Alphitobius diaperinus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).The mean values for SCPs of adults fed at 20 degrees C were -14.5+/-2.4 degrees C (31 males) and -10.3+/-1.3 degrees C (29 females). The distribution of the SCPs of these control adults was unimodal. No significant differences were observed in either mean wet weight or mean dry weight between males and females.The mean values for SCPs of adults starved for 1 month at 20 degrees C were found to be bimodal due to sexual dimorphism. The mean SCPs for males was lower (-17+/-2.6 degrees C; 28) than that for females (-11.2+/-1.8 degrees C; 26). No significant differences were observed in either mean dry weight or wet weight between males and females.The SCPs of both fed and starved larvae, kept for 1 month at 20 degrees C were -12.3+/-2.4 degrees C (fed) and -18.0+/-2.6 degrees C (starved).
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- C Salin
- Station biologique, UMR 6553 CNRS, Université de Rennes-I, 35380, Paimpont, France
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Arthropods, as poikilotherms, adapt to cold environments in a variety of ways that include extension of locomotory activity to low temperatures, enhancement of metabolic rate and maintenance of a positive energy balance whenever possible. The ecological implications for many such animals are extension of the life cycle and a requirement for an individual to overwinter several times. Prolonged sub-zero temperatures increase the risk of tissue freezing, and two main strategies have been evolved, first avoidance of freezing by supercooling, and secondly, tolerance of extracellular ice. In the first strategy, freezing is invariably lethal and extensive supercooling (to — 30 °C and below) occurs through elimination or masking of potential ice nucleators in the body and accumulation of cryoprotective substances such as polyhydric alcohols and sugars. Such species are termed freezing intolerant. The second strategy, freezing tolerance, is uncommon in arthropods and other invertebrates, and usually occurs in a single life stage of a species. Freezing of liquid in the extracellular compartment is promoted by proteinaceous ice nucleators. Freezing is therefore protective, and the lethal temperature is well below the supercooling point in freezing tolerant individuals, whereas in most freezing intolerant species it is close to or at the supercooling point. Proteins also act as antifreezes in insects of both strategies, producing a thermal hysteresis by lowering the freezing point of haemolymph in a non-colligative fashion while not affecting the melting point temperature. Recent studies and developments in arthropod cold tolerance are discussed against this background, and a broader approach than hitherto is advocated, which integrates ecological information with physiological data.
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Storey KB, Keefe D, Kourtz L, Storey JM. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in cold hardy insects: Kinetic properties, freezing stabilization, and control of hexose monophosphate shunt activity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(91)90046-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Block W, Duman JG. Presence of thermal hysteresis producing antifreeze proteins in the antarctic mite,Alaskozetes antarcticus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1989. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402500215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Storey KB, Storey JM. Freeze Tolerance and Freeze Avoidance in Ectotherms. ADVANCES IN COMPARATIVE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY 1989. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-74078-7_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Physiological adaptations to low temperature and brine exposure in the circumpolar amphipod Gammarus wilkitzkii. Polar Biol 1987. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00297067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Ivanović J, Janković-Hladni M, Spasić V, Frušić M. Compensatory reactions at the level of digestive enzymes in relation to acclimatization in Morimus asper funereus larvae. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(87)90320-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Overwintering adaptations of the stag beetle,Ceruchus piceus: removal of ice nucleators in the winter to promote supercooling. J Comp Physiol B 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00692749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Li XM, Trinh KY, Hew CL, Buettner B, Baenziger J, Davies PL. Structure of an antifreeze polypeptide and its precursor from the ocean pout, Macrozoarces americanus. J Biol Chem 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)38811-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Biochemical Adaptation to the Freezing Environment — Structure, Biosynthesis and Regulation of Fish Antifreeze Polypeptides. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-70610-3_45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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A mild winter delays supercooling point elevation in freeze tolerantChymomyza amoena larvae (Diptera: Drosophilidae). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1984. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01952012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Duman JG. Thermal hysteresis antifreeze proteins in the midgut fluid of overwintering larvae of the beetleDendroides canadensis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1984. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402300304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Band HT, Band RN, Ives PT. The existence of LSP-1 beta S in Drosophila melanogaster natural populations in two northern states. Biochem Genet 1984; 22:551-66. [PMID: 6431966 DOI: 10.1007/bf00484522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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LSP-1 beta S is present in Michigan and Massachusetts Drosophila melanogaster natural populations. Its frequency, 10%, is significantly higher in an East Jordan, Mich. (latitude, 45.10 degrees N), population than in East Lansing, Mich. (latitude 42.44 degrees N), or Hadley, Mass. (latitude, 42.21 degrees N), populations, where it averages 3% at each location. The average frequency of LSP-2S is more comparable, 6, 5, and 7% at East Jordan, East Lansing, and Hadley, respectively. LSP-1 gamma F variants are also present. A total of 342 single third-instar larvae was scored for LSP-1 autosomal variants, and 323 for LSP-2 variants. Each larva represented a newly established isofemale line from collections at East Jordan in 1981 and 1983, East Lansing in 1982, and Hadley in 1981, 1982, and 1983. Within localities, frequencies of hemolymph protein variants did not differ significantly between years. Proteins 9, 10, 11, and 15 correspond to the LSP-1 gamma, beta, and alpha triplet and LSP-2 polypeptide in D. melanogaster. Our results together with those of Singh and Coulthart [(1982). Genetics 102:437] indicate that D. melanogaster populations in north temperate climates maintain considerable genetic heterogeneity for the larval hemolymph proteins.
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Burton RF. The composition of animal cells: solutes contributing to osmotic pressure and charge balance. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1983; 76:663-71. [PMID: 6362972 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(83)90375-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The cytoplasmic solutes of vertebrates and invertebrates, other than Na, K and Cl, are surveyed in relation to their influence on ionic regulation through osmolality and charge balance. The most abundant include MgATP, phosphagens, amino acids, various other nitrogen and phosphorus compounds and sometimes anaerobic end products and antifreeze agents. Differences in muscle osmolality, e.g. between marine and non-marine animals, affect mainly nitrogenous solutes of no net charge, such as certain amino acids, taurine, betaine, trimethylamine oxide and urea. The high osmolality of axoplasm in marine invertebrates is due more to anions such as aspartate, glutamate and isethionate.
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Horwath KL, Duman JG. Preparatory adaptations for winter survival in the cold hardy beetles,Dendroides canadensis andDendroides concolor. J Comp Physiol B 1983. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00689922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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