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Molting-associated suppression. of symbiont population and up-regulation of antimicrobial activity in the midgut symbiotic organ of the Riptortus-Burkholderia symbiosis

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DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY
卷 43, 期 1, 页码 10-14

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2013.10.010

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Insect molting; Antimicrobial activity; Gut symbiosis; Riptortus pedestris; Burkholderia symbiont

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  1. Global Research Laboratory Grant of the National Research Foundation of Korea [2011-0021535]
  2. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24117525] Funding Source: KAKEN

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The majority of insects possess symbiotic bacteria. Since symbiont titers can affect host phenotypes of biological importance, host insects are expected to evolve some mechanisms for regulating symbiont population. Here we report that, in the Riptortus-Burkholderia gut symbiosis, titers of the beneficial symbiont transiently decrease at the pre-molt stages in host development. This molting-associated suppression of the symbiont population is coincident with the increase of antimicrobial activity in the symbiotic midgut, which is observed in both symbiotic and aposymbiotic insects. Two genes, pyrrhocoricin-like antimicrobial peptide and c-type lysozyme, exhibit significantly increased expression in the symbiotic midgut at the pre-molt stages. These results suggest that the molting-associated up-regulation of antimicrobial activity in the symbiotic midgut represents a physiological mechanism of the host insect to regulate symbiosis, which is presumably for defending molting insects against injury and infection and/or for allocating symbiont-derived energy and resources to host molting. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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