Diapausing Colorado potato beetles are devoid of short neuropeptide F I and II

An extract of head ganglia and retrocerebral complexes of nondiapausing and diapausing Leptinotarsa decemlineata was prepared to characterize regulatory neuropeptides involved in adult diapause by using a differential peptidomics approach. To reduce sample complexity, both extracts were roughly sepa...

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Published in:Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2004-05, Vol.317 (3), p.909-916
Main Authors: Huybrechts, Jurgen, De Loof, Arnold, Schoofs, Liliane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Bombyx mori
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
Coleoptera - chemistry
Coleoptera - physiology
Diapause
Differential peptidomics
Leptinotarsa decemlineata
Mass spectrometry
Molecular Sequence Data
Neuropeptides - analysis
Neuropeptides - chemistry
Pyrokinin
Short NPF
Solanum tuberosum
Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
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Summary:An extract of head ganglia and retrocerebral complexes of nondiapausing and diapausing Leptinotarsa decemlineata was prepared to characterize regulatory neuropeptides involved in adult diapause by using a differential peptidomics approach. To reduce sample complexity, both extracts were roughly separated by means of an identical chromatographic step. MALDI-TOF MS led to the identification of proctolin, an adipokinetic hormone, and short neuropeptide F I and II in the extract of nondiapausing beetles. In combination with nano-ESI-Q-TOF MS 2 evidence was found for the presence of three pyrokinins, the first to be identified in a coleopteran species. Pyrokinins, involved in the induction of embryonic diapause in Bombyx mori, were present in both physiological conditions suggesting that they are of minor importance in the regulation of adult diapause in the Colorado potato beetle. A striking difference, detected by the differential peptidomics approach, between both neuropeptide profiles was the absence of ions corresponding to the short neuropeptide F (sNPF) related peptides, also known as Led-NPF-I and -II, in the extract of diapausing animals. Therefore, we postulate that “short NPFs” are involved in the regulation of adult diapause, displayed by the Colorado potato beetle.
ISSN:0006-291X
1090-2104
DOI:10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.03.136