Journal
INSECT SCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue 6, Pages 455-464Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2009.01275.x
Keywords
Choristoneura fumiferana; cuticle; metamorphosis; molt; serine protease
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- National Natural Science Foundation [30571258]
- Guangdong Natural Science Foundation of China [5005941]
- Genome Canada Grant through the Ontario Genomics Institute of Canada
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A trypsin-like molting-related serine protease cDNA (CfMRSP) was cloned from the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana. The full-length CfMRSP complementary DNA (cDNA) encoded a 43 kDa protein that contained a trypsin-like serine protease catalytic domain, but no clip domain. The C-terminal extension contained five cystein residues, which may allow the protein to form a homodimer through interchain disulfide bonds and regulate the activity of CfMRSP. Phylogenetic tree analysis showed that CfMRSP clusters with lepidopteran homologues such as serine protease 1 of Lonomia obliqua, hemolymph proteinase 20 (HP20), pattern recognition serine proteinase precursor (ProHP14) and a trypsin-like protein of Manduca sexta. Northern blot analysis of developmental expression of CfMRSP indicated that its transcripts were found primarily in the epidermis and were produced during all of the tested stadia, from 4th instar larvae to pupae, but increased levels of CfMRSP transcripts were always found after each molt. A high level of the protein was found in the epidermis by immunohistochemistry analysis. Altogether these data suggest that CfMRSP plays a role in the epidermis during molting and metamorphosis.
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