Changes in translatable mRNAs during the larval-pupal transformation of the epidermis of the tobacco hornworm.
Changes in translatable mRNAs during the larval-pupal transformation of the epidermis of the tobacco hornworm.
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烟草天蛾表皮幼虫-蛹转化过程中可翻译 mRNA 的变化。
DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(82)90179-8
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发表时间:
1982
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2.7
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Riddiford,LM
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Riddiford,LM
At the initiation of metamorphosis when exposed to ecdysteroid in the absence of juvenile hormone (JH), the lepidopteran epidermis changes its commitment from one for larval differentiation to one for pupal differentiation. Changes in mRNA populations during this change bothin vivoandin vitrowere followed by a one-dimensional SDS-gel electrophoretic analysis of translation products made in a mRNA-dependent rabbit reticulocyte lysate system. The larval epidermal cell was found to lose its translatable mRNAs for larval cuticular proteins and the larval-specific pigment insecticyanin during the change in commitment; these never reappeared. For Class I cuticular proteins and for insecticyanin, this loss occurred during the exposure to ecdysteroid, each with a differing time course. By contrast, Class II cuticular mRNAs first increased during this time, then also disappeared by the time the cells were pupally committed.In vitrothese mRNAs appeared in only trace amounts in response to 20-hydroxyecdysone (20-HE). The pupally committed cell (late in the wandering stage) contained mRNAs for three low-molecular-weight proteins which were precipitable with the pupal cuticular antiserum. The remainder of the pupal cuticular mRNAs were not translatable until the third day after wandering, a time when pupal cuticle is being deposited in response to a molting surge of ecdysteroid. The pupally committed cell also had at least one new noncuticular mRNA which coded for a 34K protein and which was absent from both larval and pupal epidermal cells making cuticle. Since its appearance in response to 20-HEin vitrois repressed by JH, it is called a pupal commitment-specific protein. Thus, during the change of commitment 20-HE inactivates larval-specific genes irreversibly in a sequential cascade of events. The activation of most pupal-specific genes then requires a subsequent exposure to more ecdysteroid.