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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY
卷 48, 期 1, 页码 117-123出版社
MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETY KOREA
DOI: 10.1007/s12275-009-9261-3
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polydnavirus; cecropin; P. xylostella; C. plutellae; expression; immunosuppression
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- Korean Government (MOEHRD) [KRF-2008-313-F00009]
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Korea
An endoparasitoid wasp, Cotesia plutellae, induces significant immunosuppression of host insect, Plutella xylostella. This study was focused on suppression in humoral immune response of P. xylostella parasitized by C. plutellae. An EST database of P xylostella provided a putative cecropin gene (PxCec) which is 627 bp long and encodes 66 amino acids. A signal peptide (22 amino acids) is predicted and two putative O-glycosylation sites in threonine are located at positions 58 and 64. Without bacterial infection, PxCec was expressed in pupa and adult stages but not in the egg and larval stages. Upon bacterial challenge, however, the larvae expressed PxCec as early as 3 h post infection (PI) and maintained high expression levels at 12-24 h PI. By 48 h PI, its expression noticeably diminished. All tested tissues of bacteria-infected P. xylostella showed PxCec expression. However, other microbes, such as virus and fungus, did not induce the PxCec expression. Parasitization by C. plutellae suppressed the expression of PxCec in response to bacterial challenge. Among the parasitic factors of C. plutellae, its symbiotic virus (C. plutellae bracovirus: CpBV) alone was able to inhibit the expression of PxCec of P xylostella challenged by bacteria. These results indicate that PxCec expression is regulated by both immune and developmental processes in P xylostella. The parasitization by C. plutellae inhibited the expression of PxCec by the wasp's symbiotic virus.
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