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Eicosanoid-induced calcium signaling mediates cellular immune responses of Tenebrio molitor

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ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA
Volume 169, Issue 10, Pages 888-898

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/eea.13037

Keywords

hemocyte; immunity; calcium; eicosanoids; Tenebrio molitor; Coleoptera; Tenebrionidae; cytoskeleon rearrangement; mealworm; pathogen infection; granulocyte; plasmatocyte

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  1. National Research Foundation (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Republic of Korea [2017R1A-2133009815]

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This study explored cellular immune responses of the mealworm Tenebrio molitor, showing that calcium signaling is associated with eicosanoid mediation, triggering the immune responses in the insect hemocytes.
Calcium signaling is associated with actin cytoskeleton rearrangement. It is required for expressing cellular immune responses of insect hemocytes. Eicosanoids mediate immune responses by cytoskeleton rearrangement against various pathogen infections in insects. The objective of this study was to investigate cellular immune responses of a mealworm, Tenebrio molitor L. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). The hypothesis tested was that immune responses would be mediated by calcium signaling associated with eicosanoid mediation. Larvae of T. molitor possessed at least four morphological types of hemocytes, most (almost 75%) of which were granulocytes and plasmatocytes. They all exhibited a hemocyte-spreading behavior by F-actin extension. Upon bacterial infection, hemocytes exhibited phagocytosis and formed hemocytic nodules. Intracellular calcium was detected in hemocytes. Its amount increased with increasing incubation time after bacterial infection. Inhibition of calcium influx or release from endoplasmic reticulum using specific inhibitors prevented cellular immune responses. Interestingly, treatment with an eicosanoid biosynthesis inhibitor suppressed calcium signals induced by bacterial challenge. Furthermore, treatment with naproxen, a prostaglandin (PG) synthesis inhibitor, or esculetin, a leukotriene synthesis inhibitor, also inhibited the increase of calcium concentration in hemocytes. Among eicosanoids, PGE(2) highly stimulated the increase of calcium signals. These results suggest that cellular immune responses of T. molitor are triggered by calcium signaling, which is up-regulated by eicosanoids.

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