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INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 7, Pages 491-498Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.03.006
Keywords
FoxO; Insulin; Juvenile hormone; Vitellogenin; Blattella germanica; Nutritional signalling
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) [BFU2006-01090/BFI]
- FEDER [BFU2006-01090/BFI]
- MICINN [BFU2010-15906]
- European Social Fund
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The transcription factor Forkhead-box 0 (FoxO) is the main transcriptional effector of the Insulin Receptor/Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (InR/PI3K) pathway. In a situation of nutrient restriction, the pathway is inactive and Fox translocates to the nucleus to exert its transcriptional action. In starved females of the cockroach Blattella germanica, the reproductive processes, and in particular the synthesis of juvenile hormone in the corpora allata and that of vitellogenin in the fat body, are arrested. In the present report we examine the possible role of Fox in the transduction of the nutritional signals to these reproductive events. We first cloned Fox() cDNA from B. germanica (BgFoxO), and showed that its expression is not nutritionally regulated. BgFoxO knockdown using systemic RNAi in vivo in starved females elicited an increase of juvenile hormone biosynthesis, although without modifying mRNA levels of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) synthase-1, HMG-CoA synthase-2, HMG-CoA reductase or methyl farnesoate epoxidase (CYP15A1) in corpora allata. In addition, BgFoxO RNAi treatment produced a remarkable increase of vitellogenin mRNA levels in fat body and of vitellogenin protein in the haemolymph. Our results indicate that BgFoxO plays an inhibitory role on juvenile hormone biosynthesis and vitellogenin production in a situation of nutrient shortage. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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