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- Insect ecdysis triggering hormone (ETH) receptors (ETHRs) are G protein-coupled receptors that, upon binding to ETH, initiate the behavior and physiological processes necessary for insect molting (ecdysis).
- Different splicing isoforms of the ETH gene (ETHRA and ETHRB) have distinct roles, with ETHRA linked to a series of hormonal activations for ecdysis at all stages, while ETHRB is essential during pupal and adult stages.
- In a study on the Colorado potato beetle, RNA interference (RNAi) targeting ETH isoforms resulted in developmental arrest in larvae, demonstrating the critical and isoform-specific roles of ETHRA and ETHRB in regulating the transition from larva to pupa.
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Insect ecdysis triggering hormone (ETH) receptors (ETHRs) are rhodopsin-like G protein-coupled receptors. Upon binding its ligand ETH, ETHR initiates a precisely programed ecdysis behavior series and physiological events. In , the gene produces two functionally distinct splicing isoforms, and . ETH/ETHRA activates eclosion hormone (EH), kinin, crustacean cardioactive peptide (CCAP), and bursicon (burs and pburs) neurons, among others, in a rigid order, to elicit the behavioral sequences and physiological actions for ecdysis at all developmental stages, whereas ETH/ETHRB is required at both pupal and adult ecdysis. However, the role of ETHRB in regulation of molting has not been clarified in any non-drosophila insects. In the present paper, we found that 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) signaling triggers the expression of both and in a Coleopteran insect pest, the Colorado potato beetle . RNA interference (RNAi) was performed using double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) targeting the common (ds) or isoform-specific (ds, ds) regions of . RNAi of ds, ds, or ds by the final-instar larvae arrested larva development. The arrest was not rescued by feeding 20E. All the depleted larvae stopped development at prepupae stage; the body cavity was expanded by a large amount of liquid. Comparably, more than 80% of the RNAi larvae developmentally halted at the prepupae stage. The remaining hypomorphs became pupae, with blackened wings and highly-expressed , and four melanin biosynthesis genes. Therefore, ETHRA and ETHRB play isoform-specific roles in regulation of ecdysis during larva-pupa transition in .
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