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Scanlan JL, Gledhill-Smith RS, Battlay P, Robin C. Genomic and transcriptomic analyses in Drosophila suggest that the ecdysteroid kinase-like (EcKL) gene family encodes the 'detoxification-by-phosphorylation' enzymes of insects. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 123:103429. [PMID: 32540344 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2020.103429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2020] [Revised: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Phosphorylation is a phase II detoxification reaction that, among animals, occurs near exclusively in insects, but the enzymes responsible have never been cloned or otherwise identified. We propose the hypothesis that members of the arthropod-specific ecdysteroid kinase-like (EcKL) gene family encode detoxicative kinases. To test this hypothesis, we annotated the EcKL gene family in 12 species of Drosophila and explored their evolution within the genus. Many ancestral EcKL clades are evolutionarily unstable and have experienced repeated gene gain and loss events, while others are conserved as single-copy orthologs. Leveraging multiple published gene expression datasets from D. melanogaster, and using the cytochrome P450s-a classical detoxification family-as a test case, we demonstrate relationships between xenobiotic induction, detoxification tissue-enriched expression and evolutionary instability in the EcKLs and the P450s. We devised a systematic method for identifying candidate detoxification genes in large gene families that is concordant with experimentally determined functions of P450 genes in D. melanogaster. Applying this method to the EcKLs suggested a significant proportion of these genes play roles in detoxification, and that the EcKLs may constitute a detoxification gene family in insects. Additionally, we estimate that between 11 and 16 uncharacterised D. melanogaster P450s are strong detoxification candidates. Lastly, we also found previously unreported genomic and transcriptomic variation in a number of EcKLs and P450s associated with toxic stress phenotypes using a targeted phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) approach in D. melanogaster, presenting multiple future avenues of research for detoxification genetics in this species.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jack L Scanlan
- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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Shampengtong L, Wong KP. An in vitro assay of 20-hydroxyecdysone sulfotrasferase in the mosquito, Aedes togoi. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(89)90091-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ngah WZ, Smith JN. Acidic conjugate of phenols in insects; glucoside phosphate and glucoside sulphate derivatives. Xenobiotica 1983; 13:383-9. [PMID: 6636834 DOI: 10.3109/00498258309052276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Conjugates of p-nitrophenol in nine species of insects were identified by paper chromatography and ionophoresis as the glucoside, the sulphate, the phosphate and the glucoside phosphate. Metabolites with similar properties to the glucoside phosphates were also formed from 8-hydroxyquinoline, 1-naphthol and 4-methylumbelliferone in Tenebrio larvae. Tenebrio larvae also metabolized p-nitrophenol to a compound believed to be p-nitrophenyl glucoside-6-sulphate. None of the nine species of insect used was able to metabolize [14C]benzoic acid to a glucoside-phosphate or glucoside-sulphate conjugate.
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Landrum PF, Crosby DG. Comparison of the disposition of several nitrogen-containing compounds in the sea urchin and other marine invertebrates. Xenobiotica 1981; 11:351-61. [PMID: 7293226 DOI: 10.3109/00498258109045314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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1. The disposition of an aromatic amine and three aromatic nitro compounds was investigated in the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. 2. The sea urchin rapidly eliminated injected compounds. The elimination rate constants decreased in the order p-toluidine greater than p-nitroanisole = p-nitrophenol greater than p-nitrotoluene. The fraction of total injected compound eliminated in 8 h was lowest for p-nitrophenol less than p-toluidine less than p-nitrotoluene less than p-nitroanisole. 3. Biotransformation for the sea urchin was primarily reduction of the nitro group followed by acetylation of the amine. 4. Other animals, starfish (Pisaster ochraceus), sea cucumber (Cucumaria miniata), gum boot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri) and mussels (Mytilus californianus), injected with p-nitroanisole exhibited a trend toward oxidative biotransformation. 5. Elimination of parent compound was the major pathway for reducing body burden of xenobiotics for the invertebrates studied. 6. p-Toluidine oxidizes during analysis and was thus not suitable for studying biotransformation.
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1. Following an oral dose of [14C]phenol (12.5 or 25 mg/kg) to sheep, pig and rat, urinary elimination of radioactivity was rapid, 80-90% dose being excreted in the first 8 h. 2. In anaesthetized, ureter-cannulated rats, 70-80% of an intraduodenal dose was eliminated in 2 h; 2% dose was excreted as phenol conjugates in the urine within 10 min. 3. The major urinary metabolites from phenol (25 mg/kg) were phenylglucuronide and phenylsulphate. In the sheep, pig and rat, the glucuronide accounted for 49%, 83% and 42% respectively, of the total urinary metabolites and sulphate accounted for 32%, 1% and 55%. Conjugates of quinol were minor urinary metabolites (less than 7%) in all three species. 4. In sheep some 12% of the urinary metabolites was conjugated with phosphate; this metabolite was not found in rat or pig.
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Turner JC, Shanks V, Kelly WJ, Green RS. The effect of sodium phenobarbital and 3,4-benzpyrene on the glucuronidation of 1-naphthol in rat small intestinal loops in vivo. GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY 1977; 8:51-3. [PMID: 590723 DOI: 10.1016/0306-3623(77)90065-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Kumar S, Wyman Dorough H. Glucosylation by housefly microsomes and effect of monoamine oxidase inhibitors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1975. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(75)90064-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Heenan MP, Smith JN. Water-soluble metabolites of p-nitrophenol and 1-naphthyl N-methylcarbamate in flies and grass grubs. Formation of glucose phosphate and phosphate conjugates. Biochem J 1974; 144:303-10. [PMID: 4218960 PMCID: PMC1168497 DOI: 10.1042/bj1440303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Metabolites isolated from houseflies dosed with 1-napththol or p-nitrophenol were identified as the phosphate and glucose phosphate conjugates of these phenols by titrations, hydrolysis, ionophoresis, i.r. spectra and mixed melting point. [(3)H]Carbaryl (1-naphthyl N-methylcarbamate) was metabolized by houseflies, blowflies and grass grubs to water-soluble metabolites which had chromatographic and ionophoretic behaviour similar to those of the conjugates of 1-naphthol with glucose, sulphate, phosphate and glucose 6-phosphate.
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Capel ID, Millburn P, Williams RT. The conjugation of 1- and 2-naphthols and other phenols in the cat and pig. Xenobiotica 1974; 4:601-15. [PMID: 4428787 DOI: 10.1080/00498257409169763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Bodnaryk RP, Brunet PC. 3-O-hydrosulphato-4-hydroxyphenethylamine (dopamine 3-O-sulphate), a metabolite involved in the sclerotization of insect cuticle. Biochem J 1974; 138:463-9. [PMID: 4429543 PMCID: PMC1166232 DOI: 10.1042/bj1380463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Dopamine 3-O-sulphate (3-O-hydrosulphato-4-hydroxyphenethylamine) was isolated from newly ecdysed cockroaches, Periplaneta americana (L.), and its structure established by chemical and physical techniques and by synthesis. Relatively high concentrations (about 1mumol/g wet. wt.) of dopamine 3-O-sulphate exist in the newly ecdysed insect, and these concentrations decrease sharply as sclerotization of the cuticle proceeds. At least 40% of the radioactivity of (14)C-labelled dopamine 3-O-sulphate injected into newly ecdysed nymphs was recovered in the sclerotized cuticle 7-12 days after the injection. However, less than 1% of the radioactivity of injected dopamine 3-O-[(35)S]sulphate was recovered, and this value was not appreciably different from that for the incorporation of Na(2) (35)SO(4). Apparently, little or none of the sulphate moiety of dopamine 3-O-sulphate is incorporated directly into the cuticle as the intact sulphate ester. These observations are discussed in relation to current concepts of cuticular sclerotization in insects.
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Yang RS, Wilkinson CF. Sulphotransferases and phosphotransferases in insects. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1973; 46:717-26. [PMID: 4271668 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(73)90116-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Yang RS, Pelliccia JG, Wilkinson CF. Age-dependent arylsulphatase and sulphotransferase activities in the southern armyworm: a possible insect endocrine regulatory mechanism? Biochem J 1973; 136:817-20. [PMID: 4780704 PMCID: PMC1166020 DOI: 10.1042/bj1360817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Arylsulphate and sulphotransferase activities were determined during the late larval development of the southern armyworm. Arylsulphatase titre attains a maximum during the moult and is at a minimum between moults. Sulphotransferase titre appeared to follow the inverse course. A possible enzymic regulatory mechanism for insect steroid hormones is discussed.
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Minck K, Schupp RR, Illing HP, Kahl GF, Netter KJ. Interrelationship between demethylation of p-nitroanisole and conjugation of p-nitrophenol in rat liver. NAUNYN-SCHMIEDEBERG'S ARCHIVES OF PHARMACOLOGY 1973; 279:347-60. [PMID: 4273712 DOI: 10.1007/bf00500800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Yang RS, Wilkinson CF. Enzymic sulphation of p-nitrophenol and steroids by larval gut tissues of the southern armyworm (Prodenia evidania Cramer). Biochem J 1972; 130:487-93. [PMID: 4268883 PMCID: PMC1174428 DOI: 10.1042/bj1300487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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1. An enzyme system that catalyses the sulphation of p-nitrophenol, cholesterol, alpha-ecdysone, beta-sitosterol, dehydroepiandrosterone, oestrone and four other steroids of plant and insect origin was obtained from the soluble fraction of southern-armyworm gut tissues. 2. The enzyme system required ATP and inorganic sulphate, and activity was slightly enhanced in the presence of GSH. 3. The properties of this enzyme system with respect to pH, temperature, substrate and protein concentrations and various cofactors and reagents were studied. At -23 degrees C the enzyme preparation could be stored for 2 weeks without drastic loss of activity. At the end of storage for 1 month the loss of activity was approx. 21%. 4. The possible involvement of this enzyme system in insect endocrine control is discussed.
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Jordan TW, McNaught RW, Smith JN. Detoxications in peripatus. Sulphate, phosphate and histidine conjugations. Biochem J 1970; 118:1-8. [PMID: 5472152 PMCID: PMC1179071 DOI: 10.1042/bj1180001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Phenols were detoxified in the Onycophoran Peripatoides novaezealandiae by conjugation with sulphuric acid and phosphoric acid, but no evidence for a glycoside detoxication could be found. [(14)C]Benzoic acid was metabolized in 24h to N(2)-benzoyl-l-histidine, which was identified by electrophoresis, chromatography and dilution analysis. Similar conjugates were formed with p-aminobenzoic acid and p-nitrobenzoic acid. In longer-duration experiments further unidentified metabolites were formed, two of which appeared to result from the further metabolism of the histidine conjugate.
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Clark AG, Murphy S, Smith JN. The metabolism of hexachlorocyclohexanes and pentachlorocyclohexenes in flies and grass grubs. Biochem J 1969; 113:89-96. [PMID: 4185147 PMCID: PMC1184607 DOI: 10.1042/bj1130089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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1. gamma-Hexachlorocyclohexane, gamma-pentachlorocyclohexene and delta-pentachlorocyclohexene were converted by houseflies and grass grubs into metabolites that had chromatographic properties identical with those of S-2,4-dichlorophenylglutathione. 2. The metabolism of gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane and the pentachlorocyclohexene isomers was negligible in newly emerged blowflies, but increased over the next 10 days. 3. The metabolism of both gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane and the pentachlorocyclohexene isomers was inhibited by simultaneous dosage with tetrabromophenolphthalein ethyl ester or Bromophenol Blue in both grass grubs and flies, but only the metabolism of pentachlorocyclohexenes in blowflies was stopped by simultaneous dosage with bis-(N-dimethylaminophenyl)methane. NN-Di-n-butyl-p-chlorobenzenesulphonamide had no effect on the metabolism of pentachlorocyclohexenes by blowflies. 4. The use of these inhibitors and colorimetric assays leads to the conclusion that a pentachlorocyclohexene is not a major intermediary metabolite of gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane in these insects.
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Linzell JL, Mepham TB, Annison EF, West CE. Mammary metabolism in lactating sows: arteriovenous differences of milk precursors and the mammary metabolism of [14C]glucose and [14C]acetate. Br J Nutr 1969; 23:319-32. [PMID: 5815149 DOI: 10.1079/bjn19690039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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1. The following techniques, which have been applied successfully to goats, were used to study mammary metabolism in lactating sows:(I) measurements of mammary arteriovenous (A-V) differences in milk precursors in the conscious undisturbed animal (five sows); (2) continuous intravenous infusion of [U-14C]glucose with concomitant arterial and mammary venous blood sampling for measurement of mammary blood flow and specific radioactivity of glucose and CO, (one sow); (3) perfusion of the isolated gland in vitro (eight glands from four sows), with the inclusion of [U-14C]glucose (two glands) and [U-14C]acetate(two glands) in the substrate mixture.2. Sow mammary tissue was similar to that goats in its milk yield, blood flow, and glucose uptake per unit weight of tissue. As in goats, mammary uptake of glucose was many times that of the rest of the body and the total mammary tissue was utilizing about half of the total glucose entering the circulation. Glucose was a major source of milk lactose and glycerol and of mammary CO2.3. Of the plasma lipid components, only the triglyceride fraction was consistently and significantly removed by the gland. In contrast to the results obtained for the goat, both [U-14C[acetate and [U-14C]glucose carbon were used for milk fatty acid synthesis, and although the pattern of labelling of fatty acid from each precursor was similar, the formation of fatty acids from glucose was at least five times greater than that from acetate. Quantitative evaluation of the contribution of these precursors was not possible, but the RQ (1.09–1.63) suggest that in some instances it may have been considerable.4. The substantial A-V differences of most plasma essential amino acids suggest that these are the sole precursors of the corresponding residues in the mammary synthesized protein. The low A-V differences for several non-essential amino acids suggest that these are synthe- sized in the gland; this suggestion is supported by the incorporation of glucose carbon into non-essential amino acid residues of casein observed in one experiment. However, in contrast to results with the goat, mammary absorption of serine was consistently large.
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Seligman M, Friedman S, Fraenkel G. Hormonal control of turnover of tyrosine and tyrosine phosphate during tanning of the adult cuticle in the fly, Sarcophaga bullata. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 1969; 15:1085-1101. [PMID: 5768888 DOI: 10.1016/0022-1910(69)90146-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Bridges RG, Ricketts J. The effect of 2-aminobutan-1-ols on the growth of the housefly (Musca domestica). COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 1968; 25:383-400. [PMID: 5653696 DOI: 10.1016/0010-406x(68)90348-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Linzell JL. The magnitude and mechanisms of the uptake of milk precursors by the mammary gland. Proc Nutr Soc 1968; 27:44-52. [PMID: 5697546 DOI: 10.1079/pns19680011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Smith JN. The comparative metabolism of xenobiotics. ADVANCES IN COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY 1968; 3:173-232. [PMID: 4874871 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-395512-8.50009-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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