title: Molecular characterization of diapause hormone and pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide from the black-back prominent moth, Clostera anastomosis (L.) (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae).
abstract: Using a strategy of rapid amplification of cDNA ends, the cDNA of diapause hormone (DH) and pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide (PBAN) was cloned from the head of Clostera anastomosis (L.). The Cloan-DH-PBAN cDNA contains an open reading frame encoding a 196-amino acid preprohormone, from which five putative FXPRL peptides, DH, PBAN, alpha-SGNP(SGNP, suboesophageal ganglion neuropeptide), beta-SGNP and gamma-SGNP, are released. Comparing the deduced amino acid sequences from cDNAs of these five FXPRL peptides to those known from other insects, Cloan-DH shows highest similarity of 93.1% to that from Agrotis ipsilon, Cloan-PBAN 93.9% to those from Helicoverpa armigera, Helicoverpa zea and Helicoverpa assulta, which show the highest similarity to species of Noctuidae. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the Cloan-DH-PBAN gene is relatively closely related to those from Noctuoidea, but distant from those from Tortricoidea, Yponomeutoidea and Bombycoidea species. The DNA sequence encoding Cloan-DH-PBAN was cloned by PCR, which is 3698bp in size and comprises six exons interspersed by five introns. Developmental expression of the DH-PBAN transcripts in the head was also showed by a semi-quantitative RT-PCR method, which was relatively low in larvae and remained low in pupae of both sexes, increased sharply in adults of both sexes.
authors.affiliation: School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China. jingtianzhong@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Tian-Zhong
authors.initials: TZ
authors.lastname: Jing
authors.forename: Zhi-Ying
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Feng-Hui
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Kuan-Yu
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005260:Female; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D017344:Genes, Insect; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009036:Moths / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005810:Multigene Family; D009479:Neuropeptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D009479:Neuropeptides; C075027:diapause hormone