Journal
INSECT SCIENCE
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 2-13Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12629
Keywords
Bombyx mori; CRISPR; Cas9; minute wing; palmitoyltransferase; promoter
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31572320] Funding Source: Medline
- Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences [16A0618] Funding Source: Medline
- Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province [KYCX17_1827] Funding Source: Medline
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The silkworm Bombyx mori is an important lepidopteran model insect in which many kinds of natural mutants have been identified. However, molecular mechanisms of most of these mutants remain to be explored. Here we report the identification of a gene Bm-app is responsible for the silkworm minute wing (mw) mutation which exhibits exceedingly small wings during pupal and adult stages. Compared with the wild type silkworm, relative messenger RNA expression of Bm-app is significantly decreased in the u11 mutant strain which shows mw phenotype. A 10 bp insertion in the putative promoter region of the Bm-app gene in mw mutant strain was identified and the dual luciferase assay revealed that this insertion decreased Bm-app promoter activity. Furthermore, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/RNA-guided Cas9 nucleases-mediated depletion of the Bm-app induced similar wing defects which appeared in the mw mutant, demonstrating that Bm-app controls wing development in B. mori. Bm-app encodes a palmitoyltransferase and is responsible for the palmitoylation of selected cytoplasmic proteins, indicating that it is required for cell mitosis and growth during wing development. We also discuss the possibility that Bm-app regulates wing development through the Hippo signaling pathway in B. mori.
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