title: Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) juvenile hormone esterase: hormonal regulation, developmental expression and cDNA cloning.
abstract: We have used the differential display of mRNAs technique to identify Choristoneura fumiferana genes that are induced by juvenile hormone I (JH I). Of the six PCR products identified, one bound to a 2.8-kb mRNA from CF-203 cells whose abundance increased when the cells were grown in the presence of JH I. The same 2.8-kb mRNA decreased to undetectable levels when the CF-203 cells were grown in the presence of 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E). The PCR fragment probe also detected a 2.8-kb mRNA in the C. fumiferana larval tissues. This 2.8-kb mRNA was present on the first day of the first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth larval and pupal stadia, but was conspicuously absent on the first day of the second larval stadium, as well as during the intermolt periods of the first to fifth instar larval stages. In the sixth instar larvae the 2.8-kb mRNA was detected in the fat body, epidermis and midgut during the intermolt period. The PCR fragment was used as a probe to screen a cDNA library. The deduced amino acid sequence of this 2.8-kb cDNA clone showed similarity with the deduced amino acid sequences of Heliothis virescens juvenile hormone esterases (HvJHE). The deduced amino acid sequence of the cDNA clone contained all five functional motifs that are present in most of esterases, proteases and lipases. The cDNA clone was expressed in the baculovirus expression system, producing a protein that showed JHE activity.
authors.affiliation: Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Canada.
authors.forename: Q L
authors.initials: QL
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Ladd
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Tomkins
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sundaram
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Sohi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Retnakaran
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Davey
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Palli
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D020134:Catalytic Domain; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004441:Ecdysterone / Q000494:pharmacology; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D007814:Larva; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009036:Moths / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000494:pharmacology; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D012717:Sesquiterpenes; C008442:juvenile hormone I; D004441:Ecdysterone; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases; C038003:juvenile hormone esterase