title: Mass spectrometric analysis of the perisympathetic organs in locusts: identification of novel periviscerokinins.
abstract: A mass spectrometric analysis carried out to determine the peptidome of the abdominal perisympathetic organs in the locust species Locusta migratoria and Schistocerca gregaria yielded a number of predominant ion peaks, among which are Lom-PVK (AAGLFQFPRVamide) and Scg-MT-2 (TSSLFPHPRLamide). In addition, three novel peptides were identified: Lom-PVK-2 (identical in Schistocerca): GLLAFPRVamide, Lom-PVK-3: DGGEPAAPLWFGPRVamide, and Scg-PVK-3: DGAETPGAAASLWFGPRVamide. An extensive mass spectrometric study of the central nervous system showed that the periviscerokinins (-PRVamides) and Scg-MT-2 (-FXXPRLamide) are restricted to the abdominal ganglia and their perisympathetic organs, while the pyrokinins (-FXPRLamides) are present only in the brain-retrocerebral complex. Sequence comparison with the Drosophila genes supports a conserved gene structure whereby a capability-like gene encodes the periviscerokinins that are expressed in the abdominal ganglia and stored in the perisympathetic organs, while a hugin-like gene encodes the pyrokinins that are expressed in the head ganglia and stored in the retrocerebral complex.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Developmental Physiology and Molecular Biology, Zoological Institute, Naamsestraat 59, B-3000 K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Elke.Clynen@bio.kuleuven.ac.be
authors.forename: Elke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Clynen
authors.forename: Jurgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huybrechts
authors.forename: Arnold
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Loof
authors.forename: Liliane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schoofs
mesh_terms: D034841:Abdominal Cavity; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D006110:Grasshoppers / Q000737:chemistry*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009420:Nervous System / Q000737:chemistry*; D009479:Neuropeptides / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009479:Neuropeptides; C093061:periviscerokinin; C079229:pyrokinin; C109814:schistomyotropin-2