Hormonally-regulated differential expression of the two duplicated insecticyanin genes, ins-a and ins-b, during development of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta.

Rouxs Arch Dev Biol

Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Harkness Eye Institute, Research Division, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, 5th Floor, Room #503, 630 West 168th Street, 10032, New York, NY, USA.

Published: September 1995

The effects of juvenile hormone (JH) and 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) on the developmental expression of the two insecticyanin genes, ins-a and ins-b, were investigated with two gene-specific probes. Removal of the corpora allata (-CA, source of JH) clearly delayed and down-regulated the epidermal expression of these genes but enhanced their expression in the fat body during the early development of the fifth instar. Application of JH I to the -CA larvae at the time of head capsule slippage completely restored the normal epidermal expression pattern of the two genes in the early fifth instar, then INS-a mRNA declined prematurely whereas INS-b mRNA remained similar to that in the intact larvae. By contrast, in the fat body of -CA larvae, the exogenous JH had little effect on the levels of INS-a mRNA, but enhanced expression of INS-b mRNA relative to intact larvae. Culture of epidermis from day 1 fifth instar larvae with 40 ng/ml 20E for up to 24 h accelerated the loss of INS-a mRNA without affecting the levels of INS-b mRNA. Both mRNAs declined in isolated larval abdomens over a 24 h period, and this decline was slowed by 1 μg methoprene (a JH analog). Together these results indicate that JH controls the levels of the two mRNAs in both the epidermis and fat body, with additional factors involved in regulating these genes in the fat body during the molt and in the epidermis during the growth phase.

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