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Roller L, Daubnerová I, Mizoguchi A, Satake H, Tanaka Y, Stano M, Klucar L, Žitňan D. Expression analysis of peptidergic enteroendocrine cells in the silkworm Bombyx mori. Cell Tissue Res 2022; 389:385-407. [PMID: 35829810 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-022-03666-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2021] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Enteroendocrine cells (ECs) in the insect midgut respond to physiological changes in the intestine by releasing multiple peptides to control food intake, gastrointestinal activity and systemic metabolism. Here, we performed a comprehensive mapping of ECs producing different regulatory peptides in the larval midgut of Bombyx mori. In total, we identified 20 peptide genes expressed in different ECs in specific regions of the midgut. Transcript-specific in situ hybridisation combined with antibody staining revealed approximately 30 subsets of ECs, each producing a unique peptide or a combination of several different peptides. Functional significance of this diversity and specific roles of different enteroendocrine peptides are largely unknown. Results of this study highlight the importance of the midgut as a major endocrine/paracrine source of regulatory molecules in insects and provide important information to clarify functions of ECs during larval feeding and development.
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- Ladislav Roller
- Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, Centre of Biosciences SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia.
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- Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Aichi Gakuin University, Nisshin, Aichi, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Kyoto, Japan
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- Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Dandamudi M, Hausen H, Lynagh T. Comparative analysis defines a broader FMRFamide-gated sodium channel family and determinants of neuropeptide sensitivity. J Biol Chem 2022; 298:102086. [PMID: 35636513 PMCID: PMC9234716 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2022] [Revised: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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FMRFamide (Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-amide, FMRFa) and similar neuropeptides are important physiological modulators in most invertebrates, but the molecular basis of FMRFa activity at its receptors is unknown. We therefore sought to identify the molecular determinants of FMRFa potency against one of its native targets, the excitatory FMRFa-gated sodium channel (FaNaC) from gastropod mollusks. Using molecular phylogenetics and electrophysiological measurement of neuropeptide activity, we identified a broad FaNaC family that includes mollusk and annelid channels gated by FMRFa, FVRIamides, and/or Wamides (or myoinhibitory peptides). A comparative analysis of this broader FaNaC family and other channels from the overarching degenerin (DEG)/epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) superfamily, incorporating mutagenesis and experimental dissection of channel function, identified a pocket of amino acid residues that determines activation of FaNaCs by neuropeptides. Although this pocket has diverged in distantly related DEG/ENaC channels that are activated by other ligands but enhanced by FMRFa, such as mammalian acid-sensing ion channels, we show that it nonetheless contains residues that determine enhancement of those channels by similar peptides. This study thus identifies amino acid residues that determine FMRFa neuropeptide activity at FaNaC receptor channels and illuminates the evolution of ligand recognition in one branch of the DEG/ENaC superfamily of ion channels.
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- Mowgli Dandamudi
- Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
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Nässel DR, Zandawala M. Hormonal axes in Drosophila: regulation of hormone release and multiplicity of actions. Cell Tissue Res 2020; 382:233-266. [PMID: 32827072 PMCID: PMC7584566 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-020-03264-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Hormones regulate development, as well as many vital processes in the daily life of an animal. Many of these hormones are peptides that act at a higher hierarchical level in the animal with roles as organizers that globally orchestrate metabolism, physiology and behavior. Peptide hormones can act on multiple peripheral targets and simultaneously convey basal states, such as metabolic status and sleep-awake or arousal across many central neuronal circuits. Thereby, they coordinate responses to changing internal and external environments. The activity of neurosecretory cells is controlled either by (1) cell autonomous sensors, or (2) by other neurons that relay signals from sensors in peripheral tissues and (3) by feedback from target cells. Thus, a hormonal signaling axis commonly comprises several components. In mammals and other vertebrates, several hormonal axes are known, such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonad axis or the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis that regulate reproduction and metabolism, respectively. It has been proposed that the basic organization of such hormonal axes is evolutionarily old and that cellular homologs of the hypothalamic-pituitary system can be found for instance in insects. To obtain an appreciation of the similarities between insect and vertebrate neurosecretory axes, we review the organization of neurosecretory cell systems in Drosophila. Our review outlines the major peptidergic hormonal pathways known in Drosophila and presents a set of schemes of hormonal axes and orchestrating peptidergic systems. The detailed organization of the larval and adult Drosophila neurosecretory systems displays only very basic similarities to those in other arthropods and vertebrates.
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- Dick R. Nässel
- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI USA
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Two areas of research that have greatly increased in attention are: dipterans as vectors and the microbes they are capable of vectoring. Because it is the front-end of the fly that first encounters these microbes, this review focuses on the legs, mouthparts, and foregut, which includes the crop as major structures involved in dipteran vectoring ability. The legs and mouthparts are generally involved in mechanical transmission of microbes. However, the crop is involved in more than just mechanical transmission, for it is within the lumen of the crop that microbes are taken up with the meal of the fly, stored, and it is within the lumen that horizontal transmission of bacterial resistance has been demonstrated. In addition to storage of microbes, the crop is also involved in depositing the microbes via a process known as regurgitation. Various aspects of crop regulation are discussed and specific examples of crop involvement with microorganisms are discussed. The importance of biofilm and biofilm formation are presented, as well as, some physical parameters of the crop that might either facilitate or inhibit biofilm formation. Finally, there is a brief discussion of dipteran model systems for studying crop microbe interactions.
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- John G Stoffolano
- Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
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Slocinska M, Kuczer M, Gołębiowski M. Sulfakinin Signalling Influences Fatty Acid Levels and Composition in Tenebrio Molitor Beetle. Protein Pept Lett 2019; 26:949-958. [PMID: 31518216 DOI: 10.2174/0929866526666190913142115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2019] [Revised: 07/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Sulfakinins are arthropod neuropeptides that are structurally and functionally similar to vertebrate gastrin-cholecystokinin. Sulfakinins with sulfated tyrosine (sSK) or nonsulfated tyrosine (nSK) in the C-terminated heptapeptide XY(SO3H)GHMRFamide display different biological functions, including myotropic activity, inhibition of food intake, stimulation of digestive enzymes and regulation of carbohydrate and lipid content. OBJECTIVE To reveal the mechanisms by which sulfakinin signalling modulates lipid homeostasis, we analysed the changes in the level and composition of fatty acids and organic compounds in the fat body and haemolymph of Tenebrio molitor larvae after nSK and sSK treatment. METHODS Fatty acids in fat body and haemolymph of insects were analysed using Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS). RESULTS The direction of the changes observed for major fatty acids, 18:1 and 18:2, and the less abundant fatty acids, 16:0, 18:0, 16:1 and 14:0, was the same for unsaturated (UFAs) and saturated (SFAs) fatty acids, and elevated after nSK application in both analysed tissues. However, the action of sSK in fat body tissue evoked distinct effects and induced either significant decreases in individual fatty acids or UFAs and SFAs. Administration of nSK and sSK significantly increased the level of total organic compounds in the haemolymph, contrary to the effect of sSK in fat body, where the level of total organic compounds decreased, although changes differ between individual chemicals. CONCLUSION Sulfakinins are engaged in the precise modulation of fatty acid levels and composition, but their action depends on the presence of sulfate group on the tyrosyl residue of the peptide what determines the different roles of these peptides in insect physiology.
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, ul Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
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Satake H, Matsubara S, Shiraishi A, Yamamoto T, Osugi T, Sakai T, Kawada T. Peptide receptors and immune-related proteins expressed in the digestive system of a urochordate, Ciona intestinalis. Cell Tissue Res 2019; 377:293-308. [PMID: 31079207 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-019-03024-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The digestive system is responsible for nutrient intake and defense against pathogenic microbes. Thus, identification of regulatory factors for digestive functions and immune systems is a key step to the verification of the life cycle, homeostasis, survival strategy and evolutionary aspects of an organism. Over the past decade, there have been increasing reports on neuropeptides, their receptors, variable region-containing chitin-binding proteins (VCBPs) and Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis. Mass spectrometry-based peptidomes and genome database-searching detected not only Ciona orthologs or prototypes of vertebrate peptides and their receptors, including cholecystokinin, gonadotropin-releasing hormones, tachykinin, calcitonin and vasopressin but also Ciona-specific neuropeptides including Ci-LFs and Ci-YFVs. The species-specific regulation of GnRHergic signaling including unique signaling control via heterodimerization among multiple GnRH receptors has also been revealed. These findings shed light on the remarkable significance of ascidians in investigations of the evolution and diversification of the peptidergic systems in chordates. In the defensive systems of C. intestinalis, VCBPs and TLRs have been shown to play major roles in the recognition of exogenous microbes in the innate immune system. These findings indicate both common and species-specific functions of the innate immunity-related molecules between C. intestinalis and vertebrates. In this review article, we present recent advances in molecular and functional features and evolutionary aspects of major neuropeptides, their receptors, VCBPs and TLRs in C. intestinalis.
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- Honoo Satake
- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 8-1-1 Seikadai, Seika, Souraku, Kyoto, 619-0284, Japan.
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 8-1-1 Seikadai, Seika, Souraku, Kyoto, 619-0284, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 8-1-1 Seikadai, Seika, Souraku, Kyoto, 619-0284, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 8-1-1 Seikadai, Seika, Souraku, Kyoto, 619-0284, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 8-1-1 Seikadai, Seika, Souraku, Kyoto, 619-0284, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 8-1-1 Seikadai, Seika, Souraku, Kyoto, 619-0284, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 8-1-1 Seikadai, Seika, Souraku, Kyoto, 619-0284, Japan
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Nässel DR, Zandawala M. Recent advances in neuropeptide signaling in Drosophila, from genes to physiology and behavior. Prog Neurobiol 2019; 179:101607. [PMID: 30905728 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2019.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Revised: 02/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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This review focuses on neuropeptides and peptide hormones, the largest and most diverse class of neuroactive substances, known in Drosophila and other animals to play roles in almost all aspects of daily life, as w;1;ell as in developmental processes. We provide an update on novel neuropeptides and receptors identified in the last decade, and highlight progress in analysis of neuropeptide signaling in Drosophila. Especially exciting is the huge amount of work published on novel functions of neuropeptides and peptide hormones in Drosophila, largely due to the rapid developments of powerful genetic methods, imaging techniques and innovative assays. We critically discuss the roles of peptides in olfaction, taste, foraging, feeding, clock function/sleep, aggression, mating/reproduction, learning and other behaviors, as well as in regulation of development, growth, metabolic and water homeostasis, stress responses, fecundity, and lifespan. We furthermore provide novel information on neuropeptide distribution and organization of peptidergic systems, as well as the phylogenetic relations between Drosophila neuropeptides and those of other phyla, including mammals. As will be shown, neuropeptide signaling is phylogenetically ancient, and not only are the structures of the peptides, precursors and receptors conserved over evolution, but also many functions of neuropeptide signaling in physiology and behavior.
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- Dick R Nässel
- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
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Fabian-Fine R, Anderson CM, Roush MA, Johnson JAG, Liu H, French AS, Torkkeli PH. The distribution of cholinergic neurons and their co-localization with FMRFamide, in central and peripheral neurons of the spider Cupiennius salei. Cell Tissue Res 2017; 370:71-88. [PMID: 28687927 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-017-2652-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2016] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The spider Cupiennius salei is a well-established model for investigating information processing in arthropod sensory systems. Immunohistochemistry has shown that several neurotransmitters exist in the C. salei nervous system, including GABA, glutamate, histamine, octopamine and FMRFamide, while electrophysiology has found functional roles for some of these transmitters. There is also evidence that acetylcholine (ACh) is present in some C. salei neurons but information about the distribution of cholinergic neurons in spider nervous systems is limited. Here, we identify C. salei genes that encode enzymes essential for cholinergic transmission: choline ACh transferase (ChAT) and vesicular ACh transporter (VAChT). We used in-situ hybridization with an mRNA probe for C. salei ChAT gene to locate somata of cholinergic neurons in the central nervous system and immunohistochemistry with antisera against ChAT and VAChT to locate these proteins in cholinergic neurons. All three markers labeled similar, mostly small neurons, plus a few mid-sized neurons, in most ganglia. In the subesophageal ganglia, labeled neurons are putative efferent, motor or interneurons but the largest motor and interneurons were unlabeled. Groups of anti-ChAT labeled small neurons also connect the optic neuropils in the spider protocerebrum. Differences in individual cell labeling intensities were common, suggesting a range of ACh expression levels. Double-labeling found a subpopulation of anti-VAChT-labeled central and mechanosensory neurons that were also immunoreactive to antiserum against FMRFamide-like peptides. Our findings suggest that ACh is an important neurotransmitter in the C. salei central and peripheral nervous systems.
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- Ruth Fabian-Fine
- Department of Biology, Saint Michael's College, One Winooski Park, Box 283, Colchester, VT, 05439, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Saint Michael's College, One Winooski Park, Box 283, Colchester, VT, 05439, USA
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- Department of Biology, Saint Michael's College, One Winooski Park, Box 283, Colchester, VT, 05439, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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Solari P, Rivelli N, De Rose F, Picciau L, Murru L, Stoffolano JG, Liscia A. Opposite effects of 5-HT/AKH and octopamine on the crop contractions in adult Drosophila melanogaster: Evidence of a double brain-gut serotonergic circuitry. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0174172. [PMID: 28334024 PMCID: PMC5363830 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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This study showed that in adult Drosophila melanogaster, the type of sugar-either present within the crop lumen or in the bathing solution of the crop-had no effect on crop muscle contraction. What is important, however, is the volume within the crop lumen. Electrophysiological recordings demonstrated that exogenous applications of serotonin on crop muscles increases both the amplitude and the frequency of crop contraction rate, while adipokinetic hormone mainly enhances the crop contraction frequency. Conversely, octopamine virtually silenced the overall crop activity. The present study reports for the first time an analysis of serotonin effects along the gut-brain axis in adult D. melanogaster. Injection of serotonin into the brain between the interocellar area shows that brain applications of serotonin decrease the frequency of crop activity. Based on our results, we propose that there are two different, opposite pathways for crop motility control governed by serotonin: excitatory when added in the abdomen (i.e., directly bathing the crop) and inhibitory when supplied within the brain (i.e., by injection). Finally, our results point to a double brain-gut serotonergic circuitry suggesting that not only the brain can affect gut functions, but the gut can also affect the central nervous system. On the basis of our results, and data in the literature, a possible mechanism for these two discrete serotonergic functions is suggested.
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- Paolo Solari
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, University Campus, S.P. 8, Monserrato (CA), Italy
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- Stockbridge School of Agriculture, College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, University Campus, S.P. 8, Monserrato (CA), Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, University Campus, S.P. 8, Monserrato (CA), Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, University Campus, S.P. 8, Monserrato (CA), Italy
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- Stockbridge School of Agriculture, College of Natural Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, University Campus, S.P. 8, Monserrato (CA), Italy
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Leander M, Heimonen J, Brocke T, Rasmussen M, Bass C, Palmer G, Egle J, Mispelon M, Berry K, Nichols R. The 5-amino acid N-terminal extension of non-sulfated drosulfakinin II is a unique target to generate novel agonists. Peptides 2016; 83:49-56. [PMID: 27397853 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2016.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2016] [Revised: 06/13/2016] [Accepted: 07/07/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The ability to design agonists that target peptide signaling is a strategy to delineate underlying mechanisms and influence biology. A sequence that uniquely characterizes a peptide provides a distinct site to generate novel agonists. Drosophila melanogaster sulfakinin encodes non-sulfated drosulfakinin I (nsDSK I; FDDYGHMRF-NH2) and nsDSK II (GGDDQFDDYGHMRF-NH2). Drosulfakinin is typical of sulfakinin precursors, which are conserved throughout invertebrates. Non-sulfated DSK II is structurally related to DSK I, however, it contains a unique 5-residue N-terminal extension; drosulfakinins signal through G-protein coupled receptors, DSK-R1 and DSK-R2. Drosulfakinin II distinctly influences adult and larval gut motility and larval locomotion; yet, its structure-activity relationship was unreported. We hypothesized substitution of an N-terminal extension residue may alter nsDSK II activity. By targeting the extension we identified, not unexpectedly, analogs mimicking nsDSK II, yet, surprisingly, we also discovered novel agonists with increased (super) and opposite (protean) effects. We determined [A3] nsDSK II increased larval gut contractility rather than, like nsDSK II, decrease it. [N4] nsDSK II impacted larval locomotion, although nsDSK II was inactive. In adult gut, [A1] nsDSK II, [A2] nsDSKII, and [A3] nsDSK II mimicked nsDSK II, and [A4] nsDSK II and [A5] nsDSK II were more potent; [N3] nsDSK II and [N4] nsDSK II mimicked nsDSK II. This study reports nsDSK II signals through DSK-R2 to influence gut motility and locomotion, identifying a novel role for the N-terminal extension in sulfakinin biology and receptor activation; it also led to the discovery of nsDSK II structural analogs that act as super and protean agonists.
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- M Leander
- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Strand MR, Brown MR, Vogel KJ. Mosquito Peptide Hormones: Diversity, Production, and Function. ADVANCES IN INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 51:145-188. [PMID: 30662099 PMCID: PMC6338476 DOI: 10.1016/bs.aiip.2016.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Mosquitoes, like other insects, produce a diversity of peptide hormones that are processed from different precursor proteins and have a range of activities. Early studies relied on purification of bioactive peptides for hormone identification, but more recently genomic data have provided the information needed to more comprehensively identify peptide hormone genes and associated receptors. The first part of this chapter summarizes the known or predicted peptide hormones that are produced by mosquitoes. The second part of this chapter discusses the sources of these molecules and their functions.
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- M R Strand
- University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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- University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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- University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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Matsubara S, Kawada T, Sakai T, Aoyama M, Osugi T, Shiraishi A, Satake H. The significance of Ciona intestinalis as a stem organism in integrative studies of functional evolution of the chordate endocrine, neuroendocrine, and nervous systems. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2016; 227:101-8. [PMID: 26031189 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2015.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2015] [Revised: 05/13/2015] [Accepted: 05/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Ascidians are the closest phylogenetic neighbors to vertebrates and are believed to conserve the evolutionary origin in chordates of the endocrine, neuroendocrine, and nervous systems involving neuropeptides and peptide hormones. Ciona intestinalis harbors various homologs or prototypes of vertebrate neuropeptides and peptide hormones including gonadotropin-releasing hormones (GnRHs), tachykinins (TKs), and calcitonin, as well as Ciona-specific neuropeptides such as Ciona vasopressin, LF, and YFV/L peptides. Moreover, molecular and functional studies on Ciona tachykinin (Ci-TK) have revealed the novel molecular mechanism of inducing oocyte growth via up-regulation of vitellogenesis-associated protease activity, which is expected to be conserved in vertebrates. Furthermore, a series of studies on Ciona GnRH receptor paralogs have verified the species-specific regulation of GnRHergic signaling including unique signaling control via heterodimerization among multiple GnRH receptors. These findings confirm the remarkable significance of ascidians in investigations of the evolutionary processes of the peptidergic systems in chordates, leading to the promising advance in the research on Ciona peptides in the next stage based on the recent development of emerging technologies including genome-editing techniques, peptidomics-based multi-color staining, machine-learning prediction, and next-generation sequencing. These technologies and bioinformatic integration of the resultant "multi-omics" data will provide unprecedented insights into the comprehensive understanding of molecular and functional regulatory mechanisms of the Ciona peptides, and will eventually enable the exploration of both conserved and diversified endocrine, neuroendocrine, and nervous systems in the evolutionary lineage of chordates.
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- Shin Matsubara
- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 1-1-1 Wakayamadai, Shimamoto, Mishima, Osaka 618-8503, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 1-1-1 Wakayamadai, Shimamoto, Mishima, Osaka 618-8503, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 1-1-1 Wakayamadai, Shimamoto, Mishima, Osaka 618-8503, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Nara Women's University, Kitauoyahigashi-machi, Nara 630-8506, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 1-1-1 Wakayamadai, Shimamoto, Mishima, Osaka 618-8503, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 1-1-1 Wakayamadai, Shimamoto, Mishima, Osaka 618-8503, Japan
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- Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, 1-1-1 Wakayamadai, Shimamoto, Mishima, Osaka 618-8503, Japan.
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Caers J, Boonen K, Van Den Abbeele J, Van Rompay L, Schoofs L, Van Hiel MB. Peptidomics of Neuropeptidergic Tissues of the Tsetse Fly Glossina morsitans morsitans. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2015; 26:2024-2038. [PMID: 26463237 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-015-1248-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2015] [Revised: 08/05/2015] [Accepted: 08/06/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Neuropeptides and peptide hormones are essential signaling molecules that regulate nearly all physiological processes. The recent release of the tsetse fly genome allowed the construction of a detailed in silico neuropeptide database (International Glossina Genome Consortium, Science 344, 380-386 (2014)), as well as an in-depth mass spectrometric analysis of the most important neuropeptidergic tissues of this medically and economically important insect species. Mass spectrometric confirmation of predicted peptides is a vital step in the functional characterization of neuropeptides, as in vivo peptides can be modified, cleaved, or even mispredicted. Using a nanoscale reversed phase liquid chromatography coupled to a Q Exactive Orbitrap mass spectrometer, we detected 51 putative bioactive neuropeptides encoded by 19 precursors: adipokinetic hormone (AKH) I and II, allatostatin A and B, capability/pyrokinin (capa/PK), corazonin, calcitonin-like diuretic hormone (CT/DH), FMRFamide, hugin, leucokinin, myosuppressin, natalisin, neuropeptide-like precursor (NPLP) 1, orcokinin, pigment dispersing factor (PDF), RYamide, SIFamide, short neuropeptide F (sNPF) and tachykinin. In addition, propeptides, truncated and spacer peptides derived from seven additional precursors were found, and include the precursors of allatostatin C, crustacean cardioactive peptide, corticotropin releasing factor-like diuretic hormone (CRF/DH), ecdysis triggering hormone (ETH), ion transport peptide (ITP), neuropeptide F, and proctolin, respectively. The majority of the identified neuropeptides are present in the central nervous system, with only a limited number of peptides in the corpora cardiaca-corpora allata and midgut. Owing to the large number of identified peptides, this study can be used as a reference for comparative studies in other insects. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Jelle Caers
- Functional Genomics and Proteomics, Department of Biology, KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Functional Genomics and Proteomics, Department of Biology, KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Unit of Veterinary Protozoology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium
- Laboratory of Zoophysiology, Department of Physiology, University of Ghent, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Functional Genomics and Proteomics, Department of Biology, KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Functional Genomics and Proteomics, Department of Biology, KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
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- Functional Genomics and Proteomics, Department of Biology, KU Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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Han B, Fang Y, Feng M, Hu H, Qi Y, Huo X, Meng L, Wu B, Li J. Quantitative Neuropeptidome Analysis Reveals Neuropeptides Are Correlated with Social Behavior Regulation of the Honeybee Workers. J Proteome Res 2015; 14:4382-93. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Bin Han
- Institute of Apicultural
Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of
Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 1 Beigou
Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
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- Institute of Apicultural
Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of
Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 1 Beigou
Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
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- Institute of Apicultural
Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of
Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 1 Beigou
Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
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- Institute of Apicultural
Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of
Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 1 Beigou
Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
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- Institute of Apicultural
Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of
Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 1 Beigou
Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
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- Institute of Apicultural
Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of
Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 1 Beigou
Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
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- Institute of Apicultural
Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of
Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 1 Beigou
Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
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- Institute of Apicultural
Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of
Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 1 Beigou
Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
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- Institute of Apicultural
Research/Key Laboratory of Pollinating Insect Biology, Ministry of
Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 1 Beigou
Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China
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Leander M, Bass C, Marchetti K, Maynard BF, Wulff JP, Ons S, Nichols R. Cardiac contractility structure-activity relationship and ligand-receptor interactions; the discovery of unique and novel molecular switches in myosuppressin signaling. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0120492. [PMID: 25793503 PMCID: PMC4368603 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2014] [Accepted: 01/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Peptidergic signaling regulates cardiac contractility; thus, identifying molecular switches, ligand-receptor contacts, and antagonists aids in exploring the underlying mechanisms to influence health. Myosuppressin (MS), a decapeptide, diminishes cardiac contractility and gut motility. Myosuppressin binds to G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) proteins. Two Drosophila melanogaster myosuppressin receptors (DrmMS-Rs) exist; however, no mechanism underlying MS-R activation is reported. We predicted DrmMS-Rs contained molecular switches that resembled those of Rhodopsin. Additionally, we believed DrmMS-DrmMS-R1 and DrmMS-DrmMS-R2 interactions would reflect our structure-activity relationship (SAR) data. We hypothesized agonist- and antagonist-receptor contacts would differ from one another depending on activity. Lastly, we expected our study to apply to other species; we tested this hypothesis in Rhodnius prolixus, the Chagas disease vector. Searching DrmMS-Rs for molecular switches led to the discovery of a unique ionic lock and a novel 3-6 lock, as well as transmission and tyrosine toggle switches. The DrmMS-DrmMS-R1 and DrmMS-DrmMS-R2 contacts suggested tissue-specific signaling existed, which was in line with our SAR data. We identified R. prolixus (Rhp)MS-R and discovered it, too, contained the unique myosuppressin ionic lock and novel 3-6 lock found in DrmMS-Rs as well as transmission and tyrosine toggle switches. Further, these motifs were present in red flour beetle, common water flea, honey bee, domestic silkworm, and termite MS-Rs. RhpMS and DrmMS decreased R. prolixus cardiac contractility dose dependently with EC50 values of 140 nM and 50 nM. Based on ligand-receptor contacts, we designed RhpMS analogs believed to be an active core and antagonist; testing on heart confirmed these predictions. The active core docking mimicked RhpMS, however, the antagonist did not. Together, these data were consistent with the unique ionic lock, novel 3-6 lock, transmission switch, and tyrosine toggle switch being involved in mechanisms underlying TM movement and MS-R activation, and the ability of MS agonists and antagonists to influence physiology.
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- Megan Leander
- Undergraduate Biochemistry Program, Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 48109
- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 48109
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 48109
- Undergraduate Chemistry Program, Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 48109
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- Undergraduate Biochemistry Program, Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 48109
- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 48109
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- Undergraduate Biochemistry Program, Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 48109
- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 48109
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- Laboratorio de Genética y Genómica Funcional, Centro Regional de Estudios Genómicos, Facultad de ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Bv. 120 1459, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Genética y Genómica Funcional, Centro Regional de Estudios Genómicos, Facultad de ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Bv. 120 1459, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Undergraduate Biochemistry Program, Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 48109
- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 48109
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Goncharuk VD, Buijs RM, Jhamandas JH, Swaab DF. The hypothalamic neuropeptide FF network is impaired in hypertensive patients. Brain Behav 2014; 4:453-67. [PMID: 25161813 PMCID: PMC4075637 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2013] [Revised: 03/02/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The human hypothalamus contains the neuropeptide FF (NPFF) neurochemical network. Animal experiments demonstrated that NPFF is implicated in the central cardiovascular regulation. We therefore studied expression of this peptide in the hypothalamus of individuals who suffered from essential hypertension (n = 8) and died suddenly due to acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and compared to that of healthy individuals (controls) (n = 6) who died abruptly due to mechanical trauma of the chest. METHODS The frozen right part of the hypothalamus was cut coronally into serial sections of 20 μm thickness, and each tenth section was stained immunohistochemically using antibody against NPFF. The central section through each hypothalamic nucleus was characterized by the highest intensity of NPFF immunostaining and thus was chosen for quantitative densitometry. RESULTS In hypertensive patients, the area occupied by NPFF immunostained neuronal elements in the central sections through the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCh), paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus (Pa), bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST), perinuclear zone (PNZ) of the supraoptic nucleus (SON), dorso- (DMH), ventromedial (VMH) nuclei, and perifornical nucleus (PeF) was dramatically decreased compared to controls, ranging about six times less in the VMH to 15 times less in the central part of the BST (BSTC). The NPFF innervation of both nonstained neuronal profiles and microvasculature was extremely poor in hypertensive patients compared to control. CONCLUSIONS The decreased NPFF expression in the hypothalamus of hypertensive patients might be a cause of impairment of its interaction with other neurochemical systems, and thereby might be involved in the pathogenesis of the disease.
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- Valeri D Goncharuk
- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Amsterdam ZO, 1105 BA, The Netherlands ; Russian Cardiology Research Center Moscow, 121552, Russia ; Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, T6G 2S2, Canada
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, T6G 2S2, Canada
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- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Amsterdam ZO, 1105 BA, The Netherlands
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Hillyer JF, Estévez-Lao TY, de la Parte LE. Myotropic effects of FMRFamide containing peptides on the heart of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2014; 202:15-25. [PMID: 24747482 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.03.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2014] [Revised: 03/19/2014] [Accepted: 03/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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FMRFamide-like peptides (FLPs) are produced by invertebrate and vertebrate animals, and regulate diverse physiological processes. In insects, several FLPs modulate heart physiology, with some increasing and others decreasing dorsal vessel contraction dynamics. Here, we describe the FMRFamide gene structure in the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, quantify the developmental and spatial expression of FMRFamide and its putative receptor (FMRFamideR), and show that the peptides FMRFamide and SALDKNFMRFamide have complex myotropic properties. RACE sequencing showed that the FMRFamide gene encodes eight putative FLPs and is alternatively spliced. Of the eight FLPs, only one is shared by A. gambiae, Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus: SALDKNFMRFamide. Quantitative PCR showed that peak expression of FMRFamide and FMRFamideR occurs in second instar larvae and around eclosion. In adults, FMRFamide is primarily transcribed in the head and thorax, and FMRFamideR is primarily transcribed in the thorax. Intravital video imaging of mosquitoes injected FMRFamide and SALDKNFMRFamide revealed that at low doses these peptides increase heart contraction rates. At high doses, however, these peptides decrease heart contraction rates and alter the proportional directionality of heart contractions. Taken altogether, these data describe the FMRFamide gene in A. gambiae, and show that FLPs are complex modulators of mosquito circulatory physiology.
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- Julián F Hillyer
- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Heifetz Y, Lindner M, Garini Y, Wolfner MF. Mating regulates neuromodulator ensembles at nerve termini innervating the Drosophila reproductive tract. Curr Biol 2014; 24:731-7. [PMID: 24631240 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2013] [Revised: 01/31/2014] [Accepted: 02/18/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Abstract
Upon mating, regions of the female reproductive tract mature and alter their function [1-3], for example to facilitate storage of sperm or control the release of eggs [4-6]. The female's nervous system and neuromodulators play important roles in her responses to mating [7-13]. However, it is difficult to reconcile the reproductive tract's many changing but coordinated events with the small set of neuromodulators present [14-18]. We hypothesized that each part of the reproductive tract contains a characteristic combination of neuromodulators that confer unique identities on each region and that postmating changes in these combinations coordinate subsequent actions. We examined the presence, locations, and levels of neuromodulators and related molecules ("signaling molecules") in the reproductive tract of Drosophila melanogaster females before and after mating: the biogenic amine octopamine, which regulates ovulation rate in Drosophila and locusts [7, 14-20]; serotonin, which regulates muscle contraction in locust oviducts [21]; and the FMRF amide dromyosuppressin, which regulates contraction of Drosophila heart muscle [22] and may regulate muscle contractions in the reproductive tract, if it is expressed there. We find that separate aspects of mating (sperm, seminal proteins, and physical effects) independently modulate the release of signaling molecules. Each reproductive tract subregion displays a characteristic combination of signaling molecule release, resulting in a unique functional identity. These patterns, and thus functions, change reproducibly after mating. Thus, one event (mating) promotes new combinations of signaling molecules that endow different parts of the reproductive tract with unique temporal and spatial identities that facilitate many aspects of fertilization.
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- Yael Heifetz
- Department of Entomology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot 7610000, Israel.
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- Physics Department and Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Physics Department and Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, 423 Biotechnology Building, 526 Campus Drive, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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Bass C, Katanski C, Maynard B, Zurro I, Mariane E, Matta M, Loi M, Melis V, Capponi V, Muroni P, Setzu M, Nichols R. Conserved residues in RF-NH₂ receptor models identify predicted contact sites in ligand-receptor binding. Peptides 2014; 53:278-85. [PMID: 23811075 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2013.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2013] [Revised: 06/04/2013] [Accepted: 06/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Peptides in the RF-NH2 family are grouped together based on an amidated dipeptide C terminus and signal through G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) to influence diverse physiological functions. By determining the mechanisms underlying RF-NH2 signaling targets can be identified to modulate physiological activity; yet, how RF-NH2 peptides interact with GPCRs is relatively unexplored. We predicted conserved residues played a role in Drosophila melanogaster RF-NH2 ligand-receptor interactions. In this study D. melanogaster rhodopsin-like family A peptide GPCRs alignments identified eight conserved residues unique to RF-NH2 receptors. Three of these residues were in extra-cellular loops of modeled RF-NH2 receptors and four in transmembrane helices oriented into a ligand binding pocket to allow contact with a peptide. The eighth residue was unavailable for interaction; yet its conservation suggested it played another role. A novel hydrophobic region representative of RF-NH2 receptors was also discovered. The presence of rhodopsin-like family A GPCR structural motifs including a toggle switch indicated RF-NH2s signal classically; however, some features of the DMS receptors were distinct from other RF-NH2 GPCRs. Additionally, differences in RF-NH2 receptor structures which bind the same peptide explained ligand specificity. Our novel results predicted conserved residues as RF-NH2 ligand-receptor contact sites and identified unique and classic structural features. These discoveries will aid antagonist design to modulate RF-NH2 signaling.
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- C Bass
- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0600, USA
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- Biochemistry Undergraduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0600, USA
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- Biochemistry Undergraduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0600, USA
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- Biological Cellulare e Moleculare, Università di Cagliari-Monserrato, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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- Biological Cellulare e Moleculare, Università di Cagliari-Monserrato, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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- Biological Cellulare e Moleculare, Università di Cagliari-Monserrato, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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- Biological Cellulare e Moleculare, Università di Cagliari-Monserrato, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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- Biological Cellulare e Moleculare, Università di Cagliari-Monserrato, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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- Biological Cellulare e Moleculare, Università di Cagliari-Monserrato, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Sperimentale, Sezione di Fisiologia Generale, Università di Cagliari-Monserrato, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Sperimentale, Sezione di Fisiologia Generale, Università di Cagliari-Monserrato, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0600, USA; Biochemistry Undergraduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0600, USA; Visiting Professor Program, Università di Cagliari-Monserrato, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy.
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Nässel DR, Williams MJ. Cholecystokinin-Like Peptide (DSK) in Drosophila, Not Only for Satiety Signaling. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2014; 5:219. [PMID: 25566191 PMCID: PMC4270250 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2014.00219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2014] [Accepted: 12/01/2014] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Cholecystokinin (CCK) signaling appears well conserved over evolution. In Drosophila, the CCK-like sulfakinins (DSKs) regulate aspects of gut function, satiety and food ingestion, hyperactivity and aggression, as well as escape-related locomotion and synaptic plasticity during neuromuscular junction development. Activity in the DSK-producing neurons is regulated by octopamine. We discuss mechanisms behind CCK function in satiety, aggression, and locomotion in some detail and highlight similarities to mammalian CCK signaling.
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- Dick R. Nässel
- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Functional Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Kiss B, Szlanka T, Zvara Á, Žurovec M, Sery M, Kakaš Š, Ramasz B, Hegedűs Z, Lukacsovich T, Puskás L, Fónagy A, Kiss I. Selective elimination/RNAi silencing of FMRF-related peptides and their receptors decreases the locomotor activity in Drosophila melanogaster. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2013; 191:137-45. [PMID: 23770020 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2013] [Revised: 05/21/2013] [Accepted: 05/29/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Five neuropeptide genes are classified in the FMRF-related (FaRP) group: the Fmrf, dromyosuppressin (Dms), drosulfakinin (Dsk), neuropeptide F (npf) and short neuropeptide F (sNPF) genes coding for 8, 1, 2, 1 and 4 peptides, respectively. In order to compare their effects on the locomotor activity of Drosophila adults, we made RNAi knockdown of the peptides and their specific receptor genes. In addition, we constructed Gal4 drivers with three distinct parts of the Fmrf gene's 5' regulatory sequence (RS8-Gal4, RS11-Gal4, RS17-Gal4), and used them to ablate FMRF-positive neurons inducing apoptosis by expressing the reaper (rpr) gene. We examined the locomotor activity of flies by measuring the mean velocity of movement (MVM) following repeated air-puffs. Locomotor activity was decreased by RNAi knockdown induced in the CNS by the elav-Gal4 driver. According to the MVM curve profiles, RNAi knockdown most effectively decreased the velocity when the DmsR-1 and DmsR-2 genes were silenced together (DmsR-1-RNAi/elav-Gal4; DmsR-2-RNAi/+). Similar effect was observed in Dsk-RNAi/ elav-Gal4; DskR-2-RNAi/+, while moderate effects were found in three other combinations (Fmrf-RNAi/elav-Gal4; FR-RNAi/+, Dms-RNAi/ elav-Gal4;DmsR-2-RNAi/+, CCKLR-17D1-RNAi/elav-Gal4; CCKLR-17D3-RNAi/+), and weak effect in DmsR-2-RNAi/elav-Gal4; DmsR-1-RNAi/+. Male and female flies were not different in this respect. In the cell ablation experiment, the MVM profiles of the female flies were different from the controls when the UAS-rpr transgene was driven by RS8-Gal4 or RS17-Gal4. The RS11-Gal4 and Fmrf-Gal4 drivers were ineffective. In the males only the RS17-Gal4 showed a weak effect. RNAi silencing of the FaRP and FaRP-receptor genes effectively decreased the startle-induced locomotor activity of flies. Ablation of FMRF-positive neurons by the RS8-Gal4 and/or RS17-Gal4 drivers also decreased the flies' activity.
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- Brigitta Kiss
- Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Temesvári krt. 62, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
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Kromann SH, Hansson BS, Ignell R. Distribution of neuropeptides in the antennal lobes of male Spodoptera littoralis. Cell Tissue Res 2013; 354:431-40. [PMID: 23955643 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-013-1703-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2012] [Accepted: 07/10/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Olfaction is an important sensory modality that regulates a plethora of behavioural expressions in insects. Processing of olfactory information takes place in the primary olfactory centres of the brain, namely the antennal lobes (ALs). Neuropeptides have been shown to be present in the olfactory system of various insect species. In the present study, we analyse the distribution of tachykinin, FMRFamide-related peptides, allatotropin, allatostatin, myoinhibitory peptides and SIFamide in the AL of the male Egyptian cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis. Immunocytochemical analyses revealed that most neuropeptides were expressed in different subpopulations of AL neurons. Their arborisation patterns within the AL suggest a significant role of neuropeptide signalling in the modulation of AL processing. In addition to local interneurons, our analysis also revealed a diversity of extrinsic peptidergic neurons that connected the antennal lobe with other brain centres. Their distributions suggest that extrinsic neurons perform various types of context-related modulation.
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- Sophie H Kromann
- Department of Plant Protection Biology, Unit of Chemical Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 102, 230 53, Alnarp, Sweden,
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Gadjieva SN, Akhmedov NA, Masimov EA, Godjaev NM. Spatial structure of Thr-Pro-Ala-Glu-Asp-Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2 molecule. Biophysics (Nagoya-shi) 2013. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006350913040052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Vogel KJ, Brown MR, Strand MR. Phylogenetic investigation of Peptide hormone and growth factor receptors in five dipteran genomes. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2013; 4:193. [PMID: 24379806 PMCID: PMC3863949 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2013.00193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2013] [Accepted: 11/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Peptide hormones and growth factors bind to membrane receptors and regulate a myriad of processes in insects and other metazoans. The evolutionary relationships among characterized and uncharacterized ("orphan") receptors can provide insights into receptor-ligand biology and narrow target choices in deorphanization studies. However, the large number and low sequence conservation of these receptors make evolutionary analysis difficult. Here, we characterized the G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), receptor guanylyl cyclases (RGCs), and protein kinase receptors (PKRs) of mosquitoes and select other flies by interrogating the genomes of Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae, Culex quinquefasciatus, Drosophila melanogaster, and D. mojavensis. Sequences were grouped by receptor type, clustered using the program CLANS, aligned using HMMR, and phylogenetic trees built using PhyML. Our results indicated that PKRs had relatively few orphan clades whereas GPCRs and RGCs had several. In addition, more than half of the Class B secretin-like GPCRs and RGCs remained uncharacterized. Additional studies revealed that Class B GPCRs exhibited more gain and loss events than other receptor types. Finally, using the neuropeptide F family of insect receptors and the neuropeptide Y family of vertebrate receptors, we also show that functional sites considered critical for ligand binding are conserved among distinct family members and between distantly related taxa. Overall, our results provide the first comprehensive analysis of peptide hormone and growth factor receptors for a major insect group.
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- Kevin J. Vogel
- Department of Entomology, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
- *Correspondence: Kevin J. Vogel, Department of Entomology, The University of Georgia, 413 Biological Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Entomology, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Department of Entomology, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Chen X, Ganetzky B. A neuropeptide signaling pathway regulates synaptic growth in Drosophila. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 196:529-43. [PMID: 22331845 PMCID: PMC3283997 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201109044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Neuropeptide signaling, which is known to affect synaptic function in neural communication, also promotes neuromuscular junction growth in Drosophila. Neuropeptide signaling is integral to many aspects of neural communication, particularly modulation of membrane excitability and synaptic transmission. However, neuropeptides have not been clearly implicated in synaptic growth and development. Here, we demonstrate that cholecystokinin-like receptor (CCKLR) and drosulfakinin (DSK), its predicted ligand, are strong positive growth regulators of the Drosophila melanogaster larval neuromuscular junction (NMJ). Mutations of CCKLR or dsk produced severe NMJ undergrowth, whereas overexpression of CCKLR caused overgrowth. Presynaptic expression of CCKLR was necessary and sufficient for regulating NMJ growth. CCKLR and dsk mutants also reduced synaptic function in parallel with decreased NMJ size. Analysis of double mutants revealed that DSK/CCKLR regulation of NMJ growth occurs through the cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)–protein kinase A (PKA)–cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) pathway. Our results demonstrate a novel role for neuropeptide signaling in synaptic development. Moreover, because the cAMP–PKA–CREB pathway is required for structural synaptic plasticity in learning and memory, DSK/CCKLR signaling may also contribute to these mechanisms.
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- Xu Chen
- Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Bendena WG, Campbell J, Zara L, Tobe SS, Chin-Sang ID. Select Neuropeptides and their G-Protein Coupled Receptors in Caenorhabditis Elegans and Drosophila Melanogaster. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2012; 3:93. [PMID: 22908006 PMCID: PMC3414713 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2012.00093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2012] [Accepted: 07/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) family is comprised of seven transmembrane domain proteins and play important roles in nerve transmission, locomotion, proliferation and development, sensory perception, metabolism, and neuromodulation. GPCR research has been targeted by drug developers as a consequence of the wide variety of critical physiological functions regulated by this protein family. Neuropeptide GPCRs are the least characterized of the GPCR family as genetic systems to characterize their functions have lagged behind GPCR gene discovery. Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans are genetic model organisms that have proved useful in characterizing neuropeptide GPCRs. The strength of a genetic approach leads to an appreciation of the behavioral plasticity that can result from subtle alterations in GPCRs or regulatory proteins in the pathways that GPCRs control. Many of these invertebrate neuropeptides, GPCRs, and signaling pathway components serve as models for mammalian counterparts as they have conserved sequences and function. This review provides an overview of the methods to match neuropeptides to their cognate receptor and a state of the art account of neuropeptide GPCRs that have been characterized in D. melanogaster and C. elegans and the behaviors that have been uncovered through genetic manipulation.
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- William G. Bendena
- Department of Biology, Queen’s UniversityKingston, ON, Canada
- *Correspondence: William G. Bendena, Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6. e-mail:
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- Department of Biology, Queen’s UniversityKingston, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Queen’s UniversityKingston, ON, Canada
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Tanaka Y. Recent topics on the regulatory mechanism of ecdysteroidogenesis by the prothoracic glands in insects. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2011; 2:107. [PMID: 22645515 PMCID: PMC3355830 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2011.00107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2011] [Accepted: 12/06/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Molting and metamorphosis are strictly regulated by steroid hormones known as ecdysteroids. It is now widely recognized that ecdysteroid biosynthesis (ecdysteroidogenesis) in the prothoracic gland (PG) is regulated by the tropic factor prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH). However, the importance of PTTH in the induction of molting and metamorphosis remains unclear, and other mechanisms are thought to be involved in the regulation of ecdysteroidogenesis by the PG. Recently, new regulatory mechanisms, prothoracicostatic factors, and neural regulation have been explored using the silkworm, Bombyx mori, and two circulating prothoracicostatic factors, prothoracicostatic peptide (PTSP) and Bommo-myosuppressin (BMS), have been identified. Whereas PTTH and BMS are secreted from the brain, PTSP is secreted from the peripheral neurosecretory system - the epiproctodeal gland - during the molting stage. The molecular basis of neural regulation of ecdysteroidogenesis has been revealed for the first time in B. mori. The innervating neurons supply both Bommo-FMRF related peptide (BRFa) and orcokinin to maintain low levels of ecdysteroids during the feeding stage. These complex regulatory mechanisms - involving tropic and static factors, peripheral neurosecretory cells as well as the central neuroendocrine system, and neural regulation in addition to circulating factors collaborate to regulate ecdysteroidogenesis. Thus, together they create the finely tuned fluctuations in ecdysteroid titers needed in the hemolymph during insect development.
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- Yoshiaki Tanaka
- Insect Growth Regulation Research Unit, Division of Insect Science, National Institute of Agrobiological SciencesTsukuba, Japan
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Aroua S, Andouche A, Martin M, Baratte S, Bonnaud L. FaRP cell distribution in the developing CNS suggests the involvement of FaRPs in all parts of the chromatophore control pathway in Sepia officinalis (Cephalopoda). ZOOLOGY 2011; 114:113-22. [PMID: 21397478 DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2010.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2010] [Revised: 07/30/2010] [Accepted: 11/08/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The FMRFamide-related peptide (FaRP) family includes a wide range of neuropeptides that have a role in many biological functions. In cephalopods, these peptides intervene in the peculiar body patterning system used for communication and camouflage. This system is particularly well developed in the cuttlefish and is functional immediately after hatching (stage 30). In this study, we investigate when and how the neural structures involved in the control of body patterning emerge and combine during Sepia embryogenesis, by studying the expression or the production of FaRPs. We detected FaRP expression and production in the nervous system of embryos from the beginning of organogenesis (stage 16). The wider FaRP expression was observed concomitantly with brain differentiation (around stage 22). Until hatching, FaRP-positive cells were located in specific areas of the central and peripheral nervous system (CNS and PNS). Most of these areas were implicated in the control of body patterns, suggesting that FaRPs are involved in all parts of the neural body pattern control system, from the 'receptive areas' via the CNS to the chromatophore effectors.
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- Salima Aroua
- Laboratory Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques, UMR MNHN/CNRS 7208/IRD 207/UPMC, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, DMPA, 55 rue Buffon, CP51, F-75005 Paris, France.
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Kahsai L, Winther ÅM. Chemical neuroanatomy of the Drosophila central complex: Distribution of multiple neuropeptides in relation to neurotransmitters. J Comp Neurol 2010; 519:290-315. [DOI: 10.1002/cne.22520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Nichols R, Demers LA, Larsen BM, Robinson D, Converso K, Russell MW, Westfall MV. Human RFamide-related peptide-1 diminishes cellular and integrated cardiac contractile performance. Peptides 2010; 31:2067-74. [PMID: 20797420 PMCID: PMC3449299 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2010.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2010] [Revised: 07/19/2010] [Accepted: 07/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Peptides influence cardiac dysfunction; however, peptidergic modulation of contractile performance remains relatively uncharacterized. We identified a novel human peptide that modulates mammalian contractile performance. Members of the FMRFamide-related peptide (FaRP) family contain a C-terminal RFamide but structurally variant N-terminal extension. We report human RFamide-related peptide-1 (hRFRP-1) and rat RFRP-1 rapidly and reversibly decreased shortening and relaxation in isolated mammalian cardiac myocytes in a dose dependent manner. The mammalian FaRP, 26RFa, structurally related to RFRP-1 by only an RFamide did not influence myocyte contractile function. The protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor bisindolylmaleimide-1 blocked hRFRP-1 activity. Pretreatment with pertussis toxin (PTX) did not diminish hRFRP-1 influence on contractile function. In addition, intravenous injection of hRFRP-1 in mice decreased heart rate, stroke volume, ejection fraction, and cardiac output. Collectively these findings are consistent with the conclusion RFRP-1 is an endogenous signaling molecule that activates PKC and acts through a PTX-insensitive pathway to modulate cardiac contractile function. Taken together these negative chronotropic, inotropic, and lusitropic effects of hRFRP-1 are significant; they suggest direct acute cellular and organ-level responses in mammalian heart. This is the first known study to identify a mammalian FaRP with cardio-depressant effects, opening a new area of research on peptidergic modulation of contractile performance. The high degree of RFRP structure conservation from amphibians to mammals, and similarity to invertebrate cardioinhibitory peptides suggests RFRP-1 is involved in important physiological functions. Elucidation of mechanisms involved in hRFRP-1 synthesis, release, and signaling may aid the development of strategies to prevent or attenuate cardiac dysfunction.
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- R Nichols
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Carlsson MA, Diesner M, Schachtner J, Nässel DR. Multiple neuropeptides in the Drosophila antennal lobe suggest complex modulatory circuits. J Comp Neurol 2010; 518:3359-80. [PMID: 20575072 DOI: 10.1002/cne.22405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The fruitfly, Drosophila, is dependent on its olfactory sense in food search and reproduction. Processing of odorant information takes place in the antennal lobes, the primary olfactory center in the insect brain. Besides classical neurotransmitters, earlier studies have indicated the presence of a few neuropeptides in the olfactory system. In the present study we made an extensive analysis of the expression of neuropeptides in the Drosophila antennal lobes by direct profiling using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry and immunocytochemistry. Neuropeptides from seven different precursor genes were unambiguously identified and their localization in neurons was subsequently revealed by immunocytochemistry. These were short neuropeptide F, tachykinin related peptide, allatostatin A, myoinhibitory peptide, SIFamide, IPNamide, and myosuppressin. The neuropeptides were expressed in subsets of olfactory sensory cells and different populations of local interneurons and extrinsic (centrifugal) neurons. In some neuron types neuropeptides were colocalized with classical neurotransmitters. Our findings suggest a huge complexity in peptidergic signaling in different circuits of the antennal lobe.
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- Mikael A Carlsson
- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, S-10691, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Kahsai L, Kapan N, Dircksen H, Winther ÅME, Nässel DR. Metabolic stress responses in Drosophila are modulated by brain neurosecretory cells that produce multiple neuropeptides. PLoS One 2010; 5:e11480. [PMID: 20628603 PMCID: PMC2900207 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2010] [Accepted: 06/15/2010] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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In Drosophila, neurosecretory cells that release peptide hormones play a prominent role in the regulation of development, growth, metabolism, and reproduction. Several types of peptidergic neurosecretory cells have been identified in the brain of Drosophila with release sites in the corpora cardiaca and anterior aorta. We show here that in adult flies the products of three neuropeptide precursors are colocalized in five pairs of large protocerebral neurosecretory cells in two clusters (designated ipc-1 and ipc-2a): Drosophila tachykinin (DTK), short neuropeptide F (sNPF) and ion transport peptide (ITP). These peptides were detected by immunocytochemistry in combination with GFP expression driven by the enhancer trap Gal4 lines c929 and Kurs-6, both of which are expressed in ipc-1 and 2a cells. This mix of colocalized peptides with seemingly unrelated functions is intriguing and prompted us to initiate analysis of the function of the ten neurosecretory cells. We investigated the role of peptide signaling from large ipc-1 and 2a cells in stress responses by monitoring the effect of starvation and desiccation in flies with levels of DTK or sNPF diminished by RNA interference. Using the Gal4-UAS system we targeted the peptide knockdown specifically to ipc-1 and 2a cells with the c929 and Kurs-6 drivers. Flies with reduced DTK or sNPF levels in these cells displayed decreased survival time at desiccation and starvation, as well as increased water loss at desiccation. Our data suggest that homeostasis during metabolic stress requires intact peptide signaling by ipc-1 and 2a neurosecretory cells.
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- Lily Kahsai
- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Kawada T, Sekiguchi T, Sakai T, Aoyama M, Satake H. Neuropeptides, hormone peptides, and their receptors in Ciona intestinalis: an update. Zoolog Sci 2010; 27:134-53. [PMID: 20141419 DOI: 10.2108/zsj.27.134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The critical phylogenetic position of ascidians leads to the presumption that neuropeptides and hormones in vertebrates are highly likely to be evolutionarily conserved in ascidians, and the cosmopolitan species Ciona intestinalis is expected to be an excellent deuterostome Invertebrate model for studies on neuropeptides and hormones. Nevertheless, molecular and functional characterization of Ciona neuropeptides and hormone peptides was restricted to a few peptides such as a cholecystokinin (CCK)/gastrin peptide, cionin, and gonadotropin-releasing hormones (GnRHs). In the past few years, mass spectrometric analyses and database searches have detected Ciona orthologs or prototypes of vertebrate peptides and their receptors, including tachykinin, insulin/relaxin, calcitonin, and vasopressin. Furthermore, studies have shown that several Ciona peptides, including vasopressin and a novel GnRH-related peptide, have acquired ascidian-specific molecular forms and/or biological functions. These findings provided indisputable evidence that ascidians, unlike other invertebrates (including the traditional protostome model animals), possess neuropeptides and hormone peptides structurally and functionally related to vertebrate counterparts, and that several peptides have uniquely diverged in ascidian evolutionary lineages. Moreover, recent functional analyses of Ciona tachykinin in the ovary substantiated the novel tachykininergic protease-assoclated oocyte growth pathway, which could not have been revealed in studies on vertebrates. These findings confirm the outstanding advantages of ascidians in understanding the neuroscience, endocrinology, and evolution of vertebrate neuropeptides and hormone peptides. This article provides an overview of basic findings and reviews new knowledge on ascidian neuropeptides and hormone peptides.
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- Tsuyoshi Kawada
- Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research, 1-1-1 Wakayamadai, Shimamoto, Mishima, Osaka 618-8503, Japan
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Marchal E, Vandersmissen HP, Badisco L, Van de Velde S, Verlinden H, Iga M, Van Wielendaele P, Huybrechts R, Simonet G, Smagghe G, Vanden Broeck J. Control of ecdysteroidogenesis in prothoracic glands of insects: a review. Peptides 2010; 31:506-19. [PMID: 19723550 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2009] [Revised: 08/21/2009] [Accepted: 08/21/2009] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The very first step in the study of the endocrine control of insect molting was taken in 1922. Stefan Kopec characterized a factor in the brain of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar which appeared to be essential for metamorphosis. This factor was later identified as the neuropeptide prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH), the first discovery of a series of factors involved in the regulation of ecdysteroid biosynthesis in insects. It is now accepted that PTTH is the most important regulator of prothoracic gland (PG) ecdysteroidogenesis. The periodic increases in ecdysteroid titer necessary for insect development can basically be explained by the episodic activation of the PGs by PTTH. However, since the characterization of the prothoracicostatic hormone (PTSH), it has become clear that in addition to 'tropic factors', also 'static factors', which are responsible for the 'fine-tuning' of the hemolymph ecdysteroid titer, are at play. Many of these regulatory factors are peptides originating from the brain, but also other, extracerebral factors both of peptidic and non-peptidic nature are able to affect PG ecdysteroidogenesis, such as the 'classic' insect hormones, juvenile hormone (JH) and the molting hormone (20E) itself. The complex secretory pattern of ecdysteroids as observed in vivo is the result of the delicate balance and interplay between these ecdysiotropic and ecdysiostatic factors.
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- Elisabeth Marchal
- Department of Animal Physiology and Neurobiology, K.U. Leuven, Naamsestraat 59, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Rahman MM, Fromm B, Neupert S, Kreusch S, Predel R. Extended FMRFamides in dipteran insects: conservative expression in the neuroendocrine system is accompanied by rapid sequence evolution. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2009; 162:52-8. [PMID: 18789334 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2008] [Revised: 08/11/2008] [Accepted: 08/19/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Extended FMRFamides are found throughout the central nervous system (CNS) of insects and exhibit diverse physiological effects on different target organs, such as muscles, intestine, and the nervous system. The genes encoding for extended FMRFamides are known from a number of flies, including Drosophila species, and the pest insects Lucilia cuprina, Calliphora vomitoria, and Musca domestica. No data, however, exist about the expression of the numerous paralogs of the latter three species, and studies on Drosophila melanogaster resulted in controversial findings. We could unambiguously verify, that all predictable products of the extended FMRFamide precursor are expressed in neurohemal tissues of the thoracic neuromers of these flies and can easily be identified and also sequenced by using single specimens. In addition to the confirmation of extended FMRFamides in species with known precursor sequences, the current knowledge about homologous peptides of Sarcophaga (=Neobellieria) bullata could be extended by de novo sequencing using tandem mass spectrometry. The most intriguing finding in this study was the detection of an internal gene duplication, followed by an amino acid substitution, in an insecticide-resistant strain of L. cuprina. To our knowledge, this is the first detection of such an intraspecific event and confirms the low conservation of the extended FMRFamide gene sequences. In insects, no other neuropeptide family is known that shows such sequence variability between related species.
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- Mohammad M Rahman
- Department of General Zoology and Animal Physiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Erbertstr. 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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Clark J, Milakovic M, Cull A, Klose MK, Mercier AJ. Evidence for postsynaptic modulation of muscle contraction by a Drosophila neuropeptide. Peptides 2008; 29:1140-9. [PMID: 18394755 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2008.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2007] [Revised: 02/19/2008] [Accepted: 02/20/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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DPKQDFMRFamide, the most abundant FMRFamide-like peptide in Drosophila melanogaster, has been shown previously to enhance contractions of larval body wall muscles elicited by nerve stimulation and to increase excitatory junction potentials (EJPs). The present work investigated the possibility that this peptide can also stimulate muscle contraction by a direct action on muscle fibers. DPKQDFMRFamide induced slow contractions and increased tonus in body wall muscles of Drosophila larvae from which the central nervous system had been removed. The threshold for this effect was approximately 10(-8)M. The increase in tonus persisted in the presence of 7x10(-3)M glutamate, which desensitized postsynaptic glutamate receptors. Thus, the effect on tonus could not be explained by enhanced release of glutamate from synaptic terminals and, thus, may represent a postsynaptic effect. The effect on tonus was abolished in calcium-free saline and by treatment with L-type calcium channel blockers, nifedipine and nicardipine, but not by T-type blockers, amiloride and flunarizine. The present results provide evidence that this Drosophila peptide can act postsynaptically in addition to its apparent presynaptic effects, and that the postsynaptic effect requires influx through L-type calcium channels.
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- Julie Clark
- Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1, Canada
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Ma M, Chen R, Sousa GL, Bors EK, Kwiatkowski M, Goiney CC, Goy MF, Christie AE, Li L. Mass spectral characterization of peptide transmitters/hormones in the nervous system and neuroendocrine organs of the American lobster Homarus americanus. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2008; 156:395-409. [PMID: 18304551 PMCID: PMC2293973 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2007] [Revised: 12/08/2007] [Accepted: 01/04/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The American lobster Homarus americanus is a decapod crustacean with both high economic and scientific importance. To facilitate physiological investigations of peptide transmitter/hormone function in this species, we have used matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization Fourier transform mass spectrometry (MALDI-FTMS), matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and nanoscale liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry (nanoLC-ESI-Q-TOF MS/MS) to elucidate the peptidome present in its nervous system and neuroendocrine organs. In total, 84 peptides were identified, including 27 previously known H. americanus peptides (e.g., VYRKPPFNGSIFamide [Val(1)-SIFamide]), 23 peptides characterized previously from other decapods, but new to the American lobster (e.g., pQTFQYSRGWTNamide [Arg(7)-corazonin]), and 34 new peptides de novo sequenced/detected for the first time in this study. Of particular note are a novel B-type allatostatin (TNWNKFQGSWamide) and several novel FMRFamide-related peptides, including an unsulfated analog of sulfakinin (GGGEYDDYGHLRFamide), two myosuppressins (QDLDHVFLRFamide and pQDLDHVFLRFamide), and a collection of short neuropeptide F isoforms (e.g., DTSTPALRLRFamide and FEPSLRLRFamide). Our data also include the first detection of multiple tachykinin-related peptides in a non-brachyuran decapod, as well as the identification of potential individual-specific variants of orcokinin and orcomyotropin-related peptide. Taken collectively, our results not only expand greatly the number of known H. americanus neuropeptides, but also provide a framework for future studies on the physiological roles played by these molecules in this commercially and scientifically important species.
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- Mingming Ma
- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2222 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1396 USA
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- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, P.O. Box 35, Old Bar Harbor Road, Salisbury Cove, Maine 04672 USA
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- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, P.O. Box 35, Old Bar Harbor Road, Salisbury Cove, Maine 04672 USA
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- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, P.O. Box 35, Old Bar Harbor Road, Salisbury Cove, Maine 04672 USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, Washington 98195-1800 USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 USA
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- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, P.O. Box 35, Old Bar Harbor Road, Salisbury Cove, Maine 04672 USA
- Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, Washington 98195-1800 USA
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2222 USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1396 USA
- Correspondence to: Dr. Lingjun Li, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2222 USA; Phone: 608-265-8491; Fax: 608-262-5345;
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Johard HAD, Enell LE, Gustafsson E, Trifilieff P, Veenstra JA, Nässel DR. Intrinsic neurons of Drosophila mushroom bodies express short neuropeptide F: relations to extrinsic neurons expressing different neurotransmitters. J Comp Neurol 2008; 507:1479-96. [PMID: 18205208 DOI: 10.1002/cne.21636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Mushroom bodies constitute prominent paired neuropils in the brain of insects, known to be involved in higher olfactory processing and learning and memory. In Drosophila there are about 2,500 intrinsic mushroom body neurons, Kenyon cells, and a large number of different extrinsic neurons connecting the calyx, peduncle, and lobes to other portions of the brain. The neurotransmitter of the Kenyon cells has not been identified in any insect. Here we show expression of the gene snpf and its neuropeptide products (short neuropeptide F; sNPFs) in larval and adult Drosophila Kenyon cells by means of in situ hybridization and antisera against sequences of the precursor and two of the encoded peptides. Immunocytochemistry displays peptide in intrinsic neuronal processes in most parts of the mushroom body structures, except for a small core in the center of the peduncle and lobes and in the alpha'- and beta'-lobes. Weaker immunolabeling is seen in Kenyon cell bodies and processes in the calyx and initial peduncle and is strongest in the more distal portions of the lobes. We used different antisera and Gal4-driven green fluorescent protein to identify Kenyon cells and different populations of extrinsic neurons defined by their signal substances. Thus, we display neurotransmitter systems converging on Kenyon cells: neurons likely to utilize dopamine, tyramine/octopamine, glutamate, and acetylcholine. Attempts to identify other neurotransmitter components (including vesicular glutamate transporter) in Kenyon cells failed. However, it is likely that the Kenyon cells utilize an additional neurotransmitter, yet to be identified, and that the neuropeptides described here may represent cotransmitters.
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- Helena A D Johard
- Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Soehler S, Neupert S, Predel R, Stengl M. Examination of the role of FMRFamide-related peptides in the circadian clock of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae. Cell Tissue Res 2008; 332:257-69. [PMID: 18338182 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-008-0585-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2007] [Accepted: 01/17/2008] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The accessory medulla, the circadian clock of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae, is abundant in neuropeptides. Among these neuropeptides are the FMRFamide-related peptides (FaRPs), which generally share the C-terminal RFamide. As a first step toward understanding the functional role of FaRPs in the circadian clock of the cockroach, immunocytochemistry with antisera against various FaRPs, MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, and injections of two FaRPs combined with running-wheel assays were performed. Prominent FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity was found in maximally four soma clusters associated with the accessory medulla and in most neuropils of the protocerebrum. By MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, various extended FMRFamides of the cockroach L. maderae were partially identified in thoracic perisympathetic organs, structures known to accumulate extended FMRFamides in insects. By mass match, several of these peptides were also detected in the accessory medulla. Injections of FMRFamide and Pea-FMRFa-7 (DRSDNFIRF-NH(2)) into the vicinity of the accessory medulla caused time-dependent phase-shifts of locomotor activity rhythms at circadian times 8, 18, and 4. Thus, our data suggest a role for the different FaRPs in the control of circadian locomotor activity rhythms in L. maderae.
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- Sandra Soehler
- Department of Biology, Animal Physiology, Philipps University Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany
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Hauser F, Cazzamali G, Williamson M, Park Y, Li B, Tanaka Y, Predel R, Neupert S, Schachtner J, Verleyen P, Grimmelikhuijzen CJP. A genome-wide inventory of neurohormone GPCRs in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Front Neuroendocrinol 2008; 29:142-65. [PMID: 18054377 DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2007.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2007] [Revised: 10/16/2007] [Accepted: 10/17/2007] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Insect neurohormones (biogenic amines, neuropeptides, and protein hormones) and their G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play a central role in the control of behavior, reproduction, development, feeding and many other physiological processes. The recent completion of several insect genome projects has enabled us to obtain a complete inventory of neurohormone GPCRs in these insects and, by a comparative genomics approach, to analyze the evolution of these proteins. The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum is the latest addition to the list of insects with a sequenced genome and the first coleopteran (beetle) to be sequenced. Coleoptera is the largest insect order and about 30% of all animal species living on earth are coleopterans. Some coleopterans are severe agricultural pests, which is also true for T. castaneum, a global pest for stored grain and other dried commodities for human consumption. In addition, T. castaneum is a model for insect development. Here, we have investigated the presence of neurohormone GPCRs in Tribolium and compared them with those from the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera) and the honey bee Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera). We found 20 biogenic amine GPCRs in Tribolium (21 in Drosophila; 19 in the honey bee), 48 neuropeptide GPCRs (45 in Drosophila; 35 in the honey bee), and 4 protein hormone GPCRs (4 in Drosophila; 2 in the honey bee). Furthermore, we identified the likely ligands for 45 of these 72 Tribolium GPCRs. A highly interesting finding in Tribolium was the occurrence of a vasopressin GPCR and a vasopressin peptide. So far, the vasopressin/GPCR couple has not been detected in any other insect with a sequenced genome (D. melanogaster and six other Drosophila species, Anopheles gambiae, Aedes aegypti, Bombyx mori, and A. mellifera). Tribolium lives in very dry environments. Vasopressin in mammals is the major neurohormone steering water reabsorption in the kidneys. Its presence in Tribolium, therefore, might be related to the animal's need to effectively control water reabsorption. Other striking differences between Tribolium and the other two insects are the absence of the allatostatin-A, kinin, and corazonin neuropeptide/receptor couples and the duplications of other hormonal systems. Our survey of 340 million years of insect neurohormone GPCR evolution shows that neuropeptide/receptor couples can easily duplicate or disappear during insect evolution. It also shows that Drosophila is not a good representative of all insects, because several of the hormonal systems that we now find in Tribolium do not exist in Drosophila.
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- Frank Hauser
- Center for Functional and Comparative Insect Genomics; and Department of Cell Biology and Comparative Zoology, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Haselton AT, Yin CM, Stoffolano JG. FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity in the central nervous system and alimentary tract of the non-hematophagous blow fly, Phormia regina, and the hematophagous horse fly, Tabanus nigrovittatus. JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE (ONLINE) 2008; 8:1-17. [PMID: 20302523 PMCID: PMC3062497 DOI: 10.1673/031.008.6501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2006] [Accepted: 12/10/2007] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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FMRFamide-related peptides (FaRPs) are a diverse and physiologically important class of neuropepeptides in the metazoa. In insects, FaRPs function as brain-gut neuropeptides and have been immunolocalized throughout the nervous system and alimentary tract where they have been shown to affect feeding behavior. The occurrence of FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity (FLI) was examined in the central nervous system and alimentary tract of non-hematophagous blow fly, Phormia regina Meigen (Diptera: Calliphoridae), and the hematophagous horse fly, Tabanus nigrovittatus Macquart (Diptera:Tabanidae). Although the central nervous system and alimentary anatomy differ between these two dipteran species, many aspects of FLI remain similar. FLI was observed throughout the central and stomatogastric nervous systems, foregut, and midgut in both flies. In the central nervous system, cells and processes with FLI occurred in the brain, subesophageal ganglion, and ventral nerve cord. FLI was associated with neurohemal areas of the brain and ventral nerve cord. A neurohemal plexus of fibers with FLI was present on the dorsal region of the thoracic central nervous system in both species. In the gut, processes with FLI innervated the crop duct, crop and anterior midgut. Endocrine cells with FLI were present in the posterior midgut. The distribution of FLI in these two flies, in spite of their different feeding habits, further supports the role of FaRPs as important components of the braingut neurochemical axis in these insects and implicates FaRPs as regulators of insect feeding physiology among divergent insect taxa.
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- Aaron T Haselton
- Department of Biology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
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- Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA
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Palmer GC, Tran T, Duttlinger A, Nichols R. The drosulfakinin 0 (DSK 0) peptide encoded in the conserved Dsk gene affects adult Drosophila melanogaster crop contractions. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 53:1125-33. [PMID: 17632121 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2007.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2007] [Revised: 06/02/2007] [Accepted: 06/04/2007] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We report that the drosulfakinin 0 (DSK 0; NQKTMSFNH2) structure and genomic organization are conserved. The DSK 0 C-terminus, SFNH2, is widely distributed in the animal kingdom suggesting it defines a novel peptide family. We also report the first description of DSK 0 activity. DSK 0, I (DSK I, FDDYGHMRFNH2), and II (DSK II, GGDDQFDDYGHMRFNH2) are encoded in sulfakinin (Dsk). Drosophila erecta, Drosophila sechellia, Drosophila simulans, and Drosophila yakuba shared 62.5-87.5% identity to Drosophila melanogaster DSK 0; Drosophila pseudoobscura shared 37.5% identity; numerous amino acids were one nucleotide different from a corresponding residue in D. melanogaster. DSK I and II were identical among the drosopholids. DSK 0 proteolytic processing sites were RR except D. yakuba contained KR and D. pseudoobscura contained HR, one nucleotide different from RR. DSK I and II processing sites were identical among the drosopholids. We established DSK 0 decreased adult (EC50=237nM and R(2)=0.941), but not larval gut contractions. DSK 0 exists in the central nervous system including the subesophageal ganglion and an abdominal ganglion. Peptide and genomic conservation, activity, and spatial and temporal distribution support the conclusion that DSK 0 plays diverse biological roles in drosopholids including regulating gut muscle contraction.
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- Gregory C Palmer
- Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan Medical School, Medical Science Research Building III, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0606, USA
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Turski ML, Thiele DJ. Drosophila Ctr1A Functions as a Copper Transporter Essential for Development. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:24017-26. [PMID: 17573340 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m703792200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Copper is an essential trace element required by all aerobic organisms as a cofactor for enzymes involved in normal growth, development, and physiology. Ctr1 proteins are members of a highly conserved family of copper importers responsible for copper uptake across the plasma membrane. Mice lacking Ctr1 die during embryogenesis from widespread developmental defects, demonstrating the need for adequate copper acquisition in the development of metazoan organisms via as yet uncharacterized mechanisms. Whereas the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, expresses three Ctr1 genes, ctr1A, ctr1B, and ctr1C, little is known about their protein isoform-specific roles. Previous studies demonstrated that Ctr1B localizes to the plasma membrane and is not essential for development unless flies are severely copper-deficient or are subjected to copper toxicity. Here we demonstrate that Ctr1A also resides on the plasma membrane and is the primary Drosophila copper transporter. Loss of Ctr1A results in copper-remedial developmental arrest at early larval stages. Ctr1A mutants are deficient in the activity of copper-dependent enzymes, including cytochrome c oxidase and tyrosinase. Amidation of Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-amides, a group of cardiomodulatory neuropeptide hormones that are matured via the action of peptidylglycine alpha-hydroxylating monooxygenase, is defective in neuroendocrine cells of Ctr1A mutant larvae. Moreover, both the Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-amide maturation and heart beat rate defects observed in Ctr1A mutant larvae can be partially rescued by exogenous copper. These studies establish clear physiological distinctions between two Drosophila plasma membrane copper transport proteins and demonstrate that copper import by Ctr1A is required to drive neuropeptide maturation during normal growth and development.
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- Michelle L Turski
- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Hill SR, Orchard I. Isolation and sequencing of two FMRFamide-related peptides from the gut of Locusta migratoria L. Peptides 2007; 28:1490-7. [PMID: 17707763 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2007.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2006] [Revised: 06/02/2007] [Accepted: 06/04/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Two FMRFamide-related peptides (FaRPs) have been isolated and sequenced from the whole gut of Locusta migratoria L. Peptides were extracted from 500 locust whole guts and separated using reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). Fractions containing FMRFamide-like immunoreactive (FLI) material were identified using radioimmunoassay (RIA). Sequencing of fractions, using tandem mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS/MS), revealed the myosuppressin previously isolated from the locust CNS, SchistoFLRFamide (PDVDHVFLRFamide), and a novel extended RFamide (LWENLRFamide). The isolation of SchistoFLRFamide from midgut tissue supports the hypothesis that this myosuppressin is released locally from FLI processes over the gut and/or from endocrine-like midgut cells to play a role in the regulation of digestion.
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- Sharon R Hill
- Division of Chemical Ecology, Department of Crop Science, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden.
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Mousley A, Maule AG, Halton DW, Marks NJ. Inter-phyla studies on neuropeptides: the potential for broad-spectrum anthelmintic and/or endectocide discovery. Parasitology 2007; 131 Suppl:S143-67. [PMID: 16569287 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182005008553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Flatworm, nematode and arthropod parasites have proven their ability to develop resistance to currently available chemotherapeutics. The heavy reliance on chemotherapy and the ability of target species to develop resistance has prompted the search for novel drug targets. In view of its importance to parasite/pest survival, the neuromusculature of parasitic helminths and pest arthropod species remains an attractive target for the discovery of novel endectocide targets. Exploitation of the neuropeptidergic system in helminths and arthropods has been hampered by a limited understanding of the functional roles of individual peptides and the structure of endogenous targets, such as receptors. Basic research into these systems has the potential to facilitate target characterization and its offshoots (screen development and drug identification). Of particular interest to parasitologists is the fact that selected neuropeptide families are common to metazoan pest species (nematodes, platyhelminths and arthropods) and fulfil specific roles in the modulation of muscle function in each of the three phyla. This article reviews the inter-phyla activity of two peptide families, the FMRFamide-like peptides and allatostatins, on motor function in helminths and arthropods and discusses the potential of neuropeptide signalling as a target system that could uncover novel endectocidal agents.
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- A Mousley
- Parasitology Research Group, School of Biology and Biochemistry, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, UK.
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Angioy AM, Muroni P, Barbarossa IT, McCormick J, Nichols R. Evidence dromyosuppressin acts at posterior and anterior pacemakers to decrease the fast and the slow cardiac activity in the blowfly Protophormia terraenovae. Peptides 2007; 28:585-93. [PMID: 17141921 PMCID: PMC3422744 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2006] [Revised: 10/30/2006] [Accepted: 10/30/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The molecular complexity of the simple blowfly heart makes it an attractive preparation to delineate cardiovascular mechanisms. Blowfly cardiac activity consists of a fast, high-frequency signal phase alternating with a slow, low-frequency signal phase triggered by pacemakers located in the posterior abdominal heart and anterior thoracocephalic aorta, respectively. Mechanisms underlying FMRFamide-related peptides (FaRPs) effects on heart contractions are not well understood. Here, we report antisera generated to a FaRP, dromyosuppressin (DMS, TDVDHVFLRFamide), recognized neuronal processes that innervated the blowfly Protophormia terraenovae heart and aorta. Dromyosuppressin caused a reversible cardiac arrest. High- and low-frequency signals were abolished after which they resumed; however, the concentration-dependent resumption of the fast phase differed from the slow phase. Dromyosuppressin decreased the frequency of cardiac activity in a dose-dependent manner with threshold values between 5 fM and 0.5 fM (fast phase), and 0.5 fM and 0.1 fM (slow phase). Dromyosuppressin structure-activity relationship (SAR) for the decrease of the fast-phase frequency was not the same as the SAR for the decrease of the slow-phase frequency. The alanyl-substituted analog TDVDHVFLAFamide ([Ala9] DMS) was inactive on the fast phase, but active on the slow phase, a novel finding. FaRPs including myosuppressins are reported to require the C-terminal RFamide for activity. Our data are consistent with the conclusions DMS acts on posterior and anterior cardiac tissue to play a role in regulating the fast and slow phases of cardiac activity, respectively, and ligand-receptor binding requirements of the abdominal and thoracocephalic pacemakers are different.
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- Anna Maria Angioy
- Dipartimento di Biologia Sperimentale, Sezione di Fisiologia Generale, Università di Cagliari, 09042 Monserrato-Cagliari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Sperimentale, Sezione di Fisiologia Generale, Università di Cagliari, 09042 Monserrato-Cagliari, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia Sperimentale, Sezione di Fisiologia Generale, Università di Cagliari, 09042 Monserrato-Cagliari, Italy
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-0606 USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-0606 USA
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Hauser F, Cazzamali G, Williamson M, Blenau W, Grimmelikhuijzen CJP. A review of neurohormone GPCRs present in the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster and the honey bee Apis mellifera. Prog Neurobiol 2007; 80:1-19. [PMID: 17070981 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2006.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2006] [Revised: 07/17/2006] [Accepted: 07/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) genes are large gene families in every animal, sometimes making up to 1-2% of the animal's genome. Of all insect GPCRs, the neurohormone (neuropeptide, protein hormone, biogenic amine) GPCRs are especially important, because they, together with their ligands, occupy a high hierarchic position in the physiology of insects and steer crucial processes such as development, reproduction, and behavior. In this paper, we give a review of our current knowledge on Drosophila melanogaster GPCRs and use this information to annotate the neurohormone GPCR genes present in the recently sequenced genome from the honey bee Apis mellifera. We found 35 neuropeptide receptor genes in the honey bee (44 in Drosophila) and two genes, coding for leucine-rich repeats-containing protein hormone GPCRs (4 in Drosophila). In addition, the honey bee has 19 biogenic amine receptor genes (21 in Drosophila). The larger numbers of neurohormone receptors in Drosophila are probably due to gene duplications that occurred during recent evolution of the fly. Our analyses also yielded the likely ligands for 40 of the 56 honey bee neurohormone GPCRs identified in this study. In addition, we made some interesting observations on neurohormone GPCR evolution and the evolution and co-evolution of their ligands. For neuropeptide and protein hormone GPCRs, there appears to be a general co-evolution between receptors and their ligands. This is in contrast to biogenic amine GPCRs, where evolutionarily unrelated GPCRs often bind to the same biogenic amine, suggesting frequent ligand exchanges ("ligand hops") during GPCR evolution.
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- Frank Hauser
- Center for Functional and Comparative Insect Genomics, Department of Cell Biology and Comparative Zoology, Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Söhler S, Neupert S, Predel R, Nichols R, Stengl M. Localization of leucomyosuppressin in the brain and circadian clock of the cockroach Leucophaea maderae. Cell Tissue Res 2007; 328:443-52. [PMID: 17216199 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-006-0338-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2006] [Accepted: 08/30/2006] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The myosuppressins (X1DVX2HX3FLRFamide), which reduce the frequency of insect muscle contractions, constitute a subgroup of the FMRFamide-related peptides. In the cockroach Leucophaea maderae, we have examined whether leucomyosuppressin (pQDVDHVFLRFamide) is present in the accessory medulla, viz., the circadian clock, which governs circadian locomotor activity rhythms. Antisera that specifically recognize leucomyosuppressin stain one to three neurons near the accessory medulla. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry has confirmed the presence of leucomyosuppressin in the isolated accessory medulla. Injections of 1.15 pmol leucomyosuppressin into the vicinity of the accessory medulla at various circadian times have revealed no statistically significant effects on the phase of circadian locomotor activity rhythms. This is consistent with the morphology of the myosuppressin-immunoreactive neurons, which restrict their arborizations to the circadian clock and other optic lobe neuropils. Thus, leucomyosuppressin might play a role in the circadian system other than in the control of locomotor activity rhythms.
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- Sandra Söhler
- Department of Biology, Animal Physiology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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Downer KE, Haselton AT, Nachman RJ, Stoffolano JG. Insect satiety: sulfakinin localization and the effect of drosulfakinin on protein and carbohydrate ingestion in the blow fly, Phormia regina (Diptera: Calliphoridae). JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 53:106-12. [PMID: 17166511 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2006.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2006] [Revised: 10/30/2006] [Accepted: 10/31/2006] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Sulfakinins, which are satiety factors in invertebrates, have previously been shown to inhibit feeding in the German cockroach and desert locust. This study examines the occurrence of sulfakinin immunoreactivity and the role of sulfakinin as a feeding satiety factor in the black blow fly, Phormia regina. Specifically, this study examines the effect of sulfakinin on two of the blow fly's nutrient requirements (i.e., carbohydrates and proteins). We observed sulfakinin immunoreactive cells in the brains of both male and female flies. We found that drosulfakinin I (DrmSKI, FDDY[SO(3)H]GHMRFa) significantly inhibited carbohydrate feeding by 44% at the most effective dose (10 nmol) in female flies. Statistically, there was no significant effect on males; however, injections of 10 nmol DrmSKI reduced carbohydrate feeding by 34% compared to the sham. Drosulfakinin had no effect on protein feeding and no significant inhibition was detected in females or males. The results of this study lend further support to the idea that carbohydrate and protein feeding are regulated by separate control mechanisms, especially in Calliphoridae.
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- K E Downer
- Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences, Division of Entomology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
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Neupert S, Gundel M. Mass spectrometric analysis of FMRFamide-like immunoreactive neurons in the prothoracic and subesophageal ganglion of Periplaneta americana. Peptides 2007; 28:11-7. [PMID: 17145118 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2006] [Revised: 09/19/2006] [Accepted: 09/19/2006] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry combined with immunocytochemistry and retrograde labeling, was used to study the expression pattern and morphology of Pea-FMRFamide-related peptides in single neurons of the prothoracic ganglion and the subesophageal ganglion (SEG) of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana. In contrast to the postero-lateral cells (PLCs) of the meta- and mesothoracic ganglion, the prothoracic FMRFamide-related peptides expressing neurons not only extend in the posterior median nerve but also in an anterior median nerve, which is described herein. The peptidome of the prothoracic PLCs is identical with that of the meso- and metathoracic neurons, respectively. In this study, we identified a truncated form of Pea-FMRFa-24 which was found to be more abundant than the peptide originally designated as Pea-FMRF-24. FMRFamide-related peptides expressing postero-lateral cells were also detected in the labial neuromere of the SEG. Although their projection could not be solved, mass spectrometric analyses revealed the same peptide complement in these neurons as found in the thoracic postero-lateral cells. In all neurons which we studied no co-localized peptides of other peptide families were observed.
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- Susanne Neupert
- Institute of General Zoology and Animal Physiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Erbertstrasse 1, 07743 Jena, Germany.
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