Regulation of antimicrobial peptide genes via insulin-like signaling pathway in the silkworm Bombyx mori

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第一作者： Zhang, Jie

作者： Zhang, Jie;Yang, Weike;Xu, Junfeng;Yang, Wanying;Zhong, Yangjin;Cao, Yang;Deng, Xiaojuan;Li, Qingrong;Zhang, Jie;Yu, Xiao-Qiang

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关键词： Akt; Antimicrobial peptide; FoxO; Insulin-like signaling; Starvation

期刊名称：INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY （ 影响因子：4.714； 五年影响因子：4.953 ）

ISSN： 0965-1748

年卷期： 2018 年 103 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are important effector molecules of insect humoral immunity, and expression of AMPs is mainly regulated by the Toll and immune deficiency (IMD) pathways. FoxO, a key downstream regulator of the insulin-like signaling (ILS) pathway, has been recently reported to be involved in the regulation of AMPs in Drosophila melanogaster. In the present study, we investigated AMP gene expression and the regulation pathway controlled by the starvation in the silkworm Bombyx mori. We discovered that antibacterial activity in the hemolymph of B. mori larvae was increased by starvation, and expression of AMP genes (BmCecB6, BmAtta1, BmLeb3 and BmDefB) as well as the ILS target genes (FoxO, InR and Brummer) were strongly activated in the fat body by starvation. Moreover, phosphorylation of Akt kinase was reduced in the Bm-12 cells after starvation, suggesting that the ILS pathway was inhibited by starvation. We then showed that more FoxO protein was present in the cytoplasm than in the nucleus of Bm-12 cells under normal conditions, but more FoxO was detected in the nucleus after cells were starved for 8 h, indicating that FoxO was activated by starvation. In summary, our results indicated that starvation can activate AMP gene expression in B. mori via the ILS/FoxO signaling pathway.

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