Journal
INSECT SCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 721-731Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12565
Keywords
Blattodea; cockroach; molting; Periplaneta fuliginosa; RNA interference; vacuolar-type H+-ATPase
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- Research Institute for Biological Function, Chubu University
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15J09961] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The vacuolar (H+)-ATPases (V-ATPases) are ATP-driven proton pumps with multiple functions in many organisms. In this study, we performed structural and functional analysis of vha55 gene that encodes V-ATPase subunit B in the smokybrown cockroach Periplaneta fuliginosa (Blattodea). We observed a high homology score of the deduced amino acid sequences between 10 species in seven orders. RNAi of the vha55 gene in P. fuliginosa caused nymphal/nymphal molting defects with incomplete shedding of old cuticles, growth inhibition, as well as bent and wrinkled cuticles of thoraxes and abdominal segments. Since growth inhibition caused by vha55 RNAi did not interfere in the commencement of cockroach molting, molting timing and body growth might be controlled by independent mechanism. Our study suggested V-ATPases might be a good candidate molecule for evolutionary and developmental studies of insect molting.
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