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JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 1629-1639Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/pr7006208
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polyphagous herbivore; digestive enzymes; insect proteomics; tandem mass spectrometry; MS BLAST; EST
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The gut lumen is the primary site of digestion and detoxification and thus presents conditions hostile to most proteins. We used 2D-gel electrophoresis and MS/MS de novo peptide sequencing to identify the major proteins stable enough to persist in the midgut lumen of caterpillars of the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera, a generalist herbivorous insect and a major crop pest worldwide. As expected, we found several enzymes responsible for digestion of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. In addition, we identified nondigestive proteins such as a multidomain lipocalin, a protein with pathogen recognition domains, an arginine kinase related to a class of major human allergens, and abundant proteins of unknown function. Identification of the set of proteins that are secreted into the lumen will enable us to further characterize the nutritional and defensive functions of this important intraorganismal space.
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