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Ravasi D, Topalis P, Puggioli A, Leo C, Flacio E, Papagiannakis G, Balestrino F, Martelli M, Bellini R. Random mutations induced by a sub-sterilizing dose of gamma ray on Aedes albopictus male pupae and transmission to progeny. Acta Trop 2024; 256:107271. [PMID: 38795874 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2024.107271] [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: 03/27/2024] [Revised: 05/23/2024] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/28/2024]
Abstract
The application of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to mosquito control is based on the systematic release of large numbers of adult males that have been previously sterilized by irradiation. Ionizing radiation doses inducing full sterility also cause somatic damages that reduce the capacity of the treated males to compete with wild males. The optimal dose inducing high levels of male sterility and minimal impact on competitiveness can be assessed by establishing a dose-response curve. Sub-sterile males are, to a variable degree, still fertile and might be able to transmit to the progeny and following generation(s) sub-lethal random mutations resulting from irradiation. To investigate this, we treated Ae. albopictus male pupae with a sub-sterilizing (2-4 % of egg hatching) dose of gamma rays and explored expressed mutated genes in treated males and their progeny using RNA-seq. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were called using two independent pipelines. Only SNPs common to both pipelines (less than 5 % of the total SNPs predicted) were considered reliable and were annotated to genes. Over 600 genes with mutations likely induced by irradiation were found in the treated Ae. albopictus males. A part of the genes found mutated in irradiated males were also found in (and therefore probably passed on to) males of the F1 and F2 progeny, indicating that genetic variations induced by irradiation may be transmitted along generations. The mutated genes in irradiated males did not seem to significantly affect biological processes, except in one case (i.e., oxidative phosphorylation). Only in four cases (i.e., oxidative phosphorylation, UDP-glucose metabolic process, proton transmembrane transport and riboflavin metabolism) we found biological processes to be significantly affected by mutated genes that were likely transmitted to the male progeny. Our results suggest that random mutations induced by a sub-sterilizing dose of gamma ray in Ae. albopictus male pupae and transmitted to the male progeny of the irradiated mosquitoes do not affect biological processes potentially harmful, from a public-health point of view.
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Affiliation(s)
- Damiana Ravasi
- Department for Environment Constructions and Design, Vector Ecology Unit, Institute of Microbiology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Mendrisio 6850, Switzerland.
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- Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Nikolaou Plastira 100, Crete, Heraklion GR-70013, Greece
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- Centro Agricoltura Ambiente "G. Nicoli", Via Sant'Agata 835, Crevalcore 40014, Italy
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- Polo d'Innovazione di Genomica, Genetica e Biologia S.r.l., Strada del Petriccio e Belriguardo 35, Siena 53100, Italy
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- Department for Environment Constructions and Design, Vector Ecology Unit, Institute of Microbiology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Via Flora Ruchat-Roncati 15, Mendrisio 6850, Switzerland
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- Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Nikolaou Plastira 100, Crete, Heraklion GR-70013, Greece
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- Centro Agricoltura Ambiente "G. Nicoli", Via Sant'Agata 835, Crevalcore 40014, Italy
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- Polo d'Innovazione di Genomica, Genetica e Biologia S.r.l., Strada del Petriccio e Belriguardo 35, Siena 53100, Italy
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- Centro Agricoltura Ambiente "G. Nicoli", Via Sant'Agata 835, Crevalcore 40014, Italy
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Léger A, Cormier SB, Blanchard A, Menail HA, Pichaud N. Investigating the thermal sensitivity of key enzymes involved in the energetic metabolism of three insect species. J Exp Biol 2024; 227:jeb247221. [PMID: 38680096 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.247221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
Abstract
The metabolic responses of insects to high temperatures have been linked to their mitochondrial substrate oxidation capacity. However, the mechanism behind this mitochondrial flexibility is not well understood. Here, we used three insect species with different thermal tolerances (the honey bee, Apis mellifera; the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster; and the potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata) to characterize the thermal sensitivity of different metabolic enzymes. Specifically, we measured activity of enzymes involved in glycolysis (hexokinase, HK; pyruvate kinase, PK; and lactate dehydrogenase, LDH), pyruvate oxidation and the tricarboxylic acid cycle (pyruvate dehydrogenase, PDH; citrate synthase, CS; malate dehydrogenase, MDH; and aspartate aminotransferase, AAT), and the electron transport system (Complex I, CI; Complex II, CII; mitochondrial glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, mG3PDH; proline dehydrogenase, ProDH; and Complex IV, CIV), as well as that of ATP synthase (CV) at 18, 24, 30, 36, 42 and 45°C. Our results show that at high temperature, all three species have significantly increased activity of enzymes linked to FADH2 oxidation, specifically CII and mG3PDH. In fruit flies and honey bees, this coincides with a significant decrease of PDH and CS activity, respectively, that would limit NADH production. This is in line with the switch from NADH-linked substrates to FADH2-linked substrates previously observed with mitochondrial oxygen consumption. Thus, we demonstrate that even though the three insect species have a different metabolic regulation, a similar response to high temperature involving CII and mG3PDH is observed, denoting the importance of these proteins for thermal tolerance in insects.
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- Adèle Léger
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, CanadaE1A 3E9
- New Brunswick Centre for Precision Medicine (NBCPM), Moncton, NB, CanadaE1C 8X3
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, CanadaE1A 3E9
- New Brunswick Centre for Precision Medicine (NBCPM), Moncton, NB, CanadaE1C 8X3
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, CanadaE1A 3E9
- New Brunswick Centre for Precision Medicine (NBCPM), Moncton, NB, CanadaE1C 8X3
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, CanadaE1A 3E9
- New Brunswick Centre for Precision Medicine (NBCPM), Moncton, NB, CanadaE1C 8X3
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, CanadaE1A 3E9
- New Brunswick Centre for Precision Medicine (NBCPM), Moncton, NB, CanadaE1C 8X3
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Ren M, Xu Y, Phoon CKL, Erdjument-Bromage H, Neubert TA, Schlame M. Cardiolipin prolongs the lifetimes of respiratory proteins in Drosophila flight muscle. J Biol Chem 2023; 299:105241. [PMID: 37690688 PMCID: PMC10622840 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Revised: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Respiratory complexes and cardiolipins have exceptionally long lifetimes. The fact that they co-localize in mitochondrial cristae raises the question of whether their longevities have a common cause and whether the longevity of OXPHOS proteins is dependent on cardiolipin. To address these questions, we developed a method to measure side-by-side the half-lives of proteins and lipids in wild-type Drosophila and cardiolipin-deficient mutants. We fed adult flies with stable isotope-labeled precursors (13C615N2-lysine or 13C6-glucose) and determined the relative abundance of heavy isotopomers in protein and lipid species by mass spectrometry. To minimize the confounding effects of tissue regeneration, we restricted our analysis to the thorax, the bulk of which consists of post-mitotic flight muscles. Analysis of 680 protein and 45 lipid species showed that the subunits of respiratory complexes I-V and the carriers for phosphate and ADP/ATP were among the longest-lived proteins (average half-life of 48 ± 16 days) while the molecular species of cardiolipin were the longest-lived lipids (average half-life of 27 ± 6 days). The remarkable longevity of these crista residents was not shared by all mitochondrial proteins, especially not by those residing in the matrix and the inner boundary membrane. Ablation of cardiolipin synthase, which causes replacement of cardiolipin by phosphatidylglycerol, and ablation of tafazzin, which causes partial replacement of cardiolipin by monolyso-cardiolipin, decreased the lifetimes of the respiratory complexes. Ablation of tafazzin also decreased the lifetimes of the remaining cardiolipin species. These data suggest that an important function of cardiolipin in mitochondria is to protect respiratory complexes from degradation.
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- Mindong Ren
- Departments of Anesthesiology, Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; Departments of Cell Biology, Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
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- Departments of Anesthesiology, Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Departments of Anesthesiology, Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; Departments of Cell Biology, Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
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Treidel LA, Quintanilla Ramirez GS, Chung DJ, Menze MA, Vázquez-Medina JP, Williams CM. Selection on dispersal drives evolution of metabolic capacities for energy production in female wing-polymorphic sand field crickets, Gryllus firmus. J Evol Biol 2022; 35:599-609. [PMID: 35255175 PMCID: PMC9311679 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Abstract
Life history and metabolism covary, but the mechanisms and individual traits responsible for these linkages remain unresolved. Dispersal capability is a critical component of life history that is constrained by metabolic capacities for energy production. Conflicting relationships between metabolism and life histories may be explained by accounting for variation in dispersal and maximal metabolic rates. We used female wing-polymorphic sand field crickets, Gryllus firmus, selected either for long wings (LW, flight-capable) or short wings (SW, flightless) to test the hypothesis that selection on dispersal capability drives the evolution of metabolic capacities. While resting metabolic rates were similar, long-winged crickets reached higher maximal metabolic rates than short-winged crickets, resulting in improved running performance. We further provided insight into the mechanisms responsible for covariation between life history and metabolism by comparing mitochondrial content of tissues involved in powering locomotion and assessing the function of mitochondria isolated from long- and short-winged crickets. Our results demonstrated that larger metabolic capacities in long-winged crickets were underpinned by increases in mitochondrial content of dorsoventral flight muscle and enhanced bioenergetic capacities of mitochondria within the fat body, a tissue responsible for fuel storage and mobilization. Thus, selection on flight capability correlates with increases in maximal, but not resting metabolic rates, through modifications of tissues powering locomotion at the cellular and organelle levels. This allows organisms to meet high energetic demands of activity for life history. Dispersal capability should therefore explicitly be considered as a potential factor driving the evolution of metabolic capacities.
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- Lisa A Treidel
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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