Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 188, Issue -, Pages 924-931Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.07.186
Keywords
Small heat shock protein (sHSP); Chilo suppressalis; Temperature; Humidity; Gene expression; RNA interference
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20191440]
- Post-graduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province [KYCX21_3255]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31401733, 31371937]
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The study identified Cshsp19.0 as a small heat shock protein that plays a significant role in insect development and stress tolerance. Expression of Cshsp19.0 in C. suppressalis is influenced by developmental stage, heat and cold stress, and shows a difference between male and female pupae in response to humidity. Silencing of Cshsp19.0 results in reduced larval survival, confirming its importance in environmental stress tolerance and physiological activities in C. suppressalis.
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) function as ATP-independent chaperones that preserve cellular proteostasis under stressful conditions. In this study, Cshsp19.0, which encodes a new small heat shock protein, was isolated and characterized from Chilo suppressalis (Walker) to better understand the contribution of sHSPs to insect development and stress tolerance. The full-length Cshsp19.0 cDNA was 697 bp and encoded a 19.0 kDa protein with an isoelectric point of 5.95. Phylogenetic analysis and amino acid alignments indicated that Cshsp19.0 is a member of the sHSP family. Cshsp19.0 was expressed at maximal levels in foreguts and showed the least amount of expression in fat bodies. Expression analysis in different developmental stages of C. suppressalis revealed that Cshsp19.0 was most highly expressed in 1st instar larvae. Furthermore, Cshsp19.0 was upregulated when insects were exposed to heat and cold stress for a 2-h period. There were significant differences in the male and female pupae in response to humidity; Cshsp19.0 expression increased in male pupae as RH increased, whereas the inverse pattern was observed in female pupae. Larvae exhibited a lower rate of survival when Cshsp19.0 was silenced by a nanomaterial-promoted RNAi method. The results confirm that Cshsp19.0 functions to increase environmental stress tolerance and regulates physiological activities in C. suppressalis.
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