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Dev Comp Immunol ; 81: 252-261, 2018 04.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29247722

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Lysozyme is well-known as an immune effector in the immune system. Here we identified three genes including one c-type lysozyme, Btlysc, and two i-type lysozymes, Btlysi1 and Btlysi2, from the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. All three lysozymes were constitutively expressed in different tissues and developmental stages, but the two types of lysozymes showed different expression patterns. The expression levels of Btlysi1 and Btlysi2 were dramatically induced after the whitefly fed with different host plants while the expression level of Btlysc kept unchanged. After fungal infection and begomovirus acquisition, Btlysc expression was significantly upregulated while Btlysi1 and Btlysi2 expression were basically not induced. Furthermore, we found that Btlysc showed muramidase and antibacterial activities. Altogether, our results suggest that the two types of lysozymes act in two different ways in B. tabaci, that is, Btlysc is involved in the whitefly immune system while Btlysi1 and Btlysi2 may play a role in digestion or nutrition absorption.


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Beauveria/inmunología , Begomovirus/inmunología , Infecciones por Virus ADN/inmunología , Hemípteros/genética , Proteínas de Insectos/genética , Muramidasa/genética , Micosis/inmunología , Isoformas de Proteínas/genética , Animales , Clonación Molecular , Regulación de la Expresión Génica , Gossypium , Hemípteros/inmunología , Inmunidad Innata , Proteínas de Insectos/metabolismo , Muramidasa/metabolismo , Control de Plagas , Isoformas de Proteínas/metabolismo , Transcriptoma
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Nat Commun ; 9(1): 2205, 2018 06 07.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29880839

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Parasitic wasps produce several factors including venom, polydnaviruses (PDVs) and specialized wasp cells named teratocytes that benefit the survival of offspring by altering the physiology of hosts. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms for the alterations remain unclear. Here we find that the teratocytes of Cotesia vestalis, an endoparasitoid of the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella, and its associated bracovirus (CvBV) can produce miRNAs and deliver the products into the host via different ways. Certain miRNAs in the parasitized host are mainly produced by teratocytes, while the expression level of miRNAs encoded by CvBV can be 100-fold greater in parasitized hosts than non-parasitized ones. We further show that one teratocyte-produced miRNA (Cve-miR-281-3p) and one CvBV-produced miRNA (Cve-miR-novel22-5p-1) arrest host growth by modulating expression of the host ecdysone receptor (EcR). Altogether, our results show the first evidence of cross-species regulation by miRNAs in animal parasitism and their possible function in the alteration of host physiology during parasitism.


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Interacciones Huésped-Parásitos/genética , MicroARNs/fisiología , Mariposas Nocturnas/crecimiento & desarrollo , Parásitos/genética , Polydnaviridae/genética , Avispas/genética , Animales , Femenino , Regulación del Desarrollo de la Expresión Génica/genética , Larva/genética , Larva/virología , Mariposas Nocturnas/parasitología , Receptores de Esteroides/genética , Receptores de Esteroides/metabolismo , Avispas/virología
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