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Abstract
The insulin and insulin-like signalling (IIS) network plays an important role in mediating several life-history traits, including growth, reproduction and senescence. Although insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) 1 and 2 are both key hormones in the vertebrate IIS network, research on IGF2 in juveniles and adults has been largely neglected because early biomedical research on rodents found negligible IGF2 postnatal expression. Here, we challenge this assumption and ask to what degree IGF2 is expressed during postnatal life across amniotes by quantifying the relative gene expression of IGF1 and IGF2 using publicly available RNAseq data for 82 amniote species and quantitative polymerase chain reaction on liver cDNA at embryonic, juvenile and adult stages for two lizard, bird and mouse species. We found that (i) IGF2 is expressed postnatally across amniote species and life stages-often at a higher relative expression than IGF1, contradicting rodent models; (ii) the lack of rodent postnatal IGF2 expression is due to phylogenetic placement, not inbreeding or artificial selection; and (iii) adult IGF2 expression is sex-biased in some species. Our results demonstrate that IGF2 expression is typical for amniotes throughout life, suggesting that a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms mediating variation in life-history traits will require studies that measure both IGFs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Abby Beatty
- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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Boatwright JL, Yeh CT, Hu HC, Susanna A, Soltis DE, Soltis PS, Schnable PS, Barbazuk WB. Trajectories of Homoeolog-Specific Expression in Allotetraploid Tragopogon castellanus Populations of Independent Origins. Front Plant Sci 2021; 12:679047. [PMID: 34249049 PMCID: PMC8261302 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.679047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Polyploidization can have a significant ecological and evolutionary impact by providing substantially more genetic material that may result in novel phenotypes upon which selection may act. While the effects of polyploidization are broadly reviewed across the plant tree of life, the reproducibility of these effects within naturally occurring, independently formed polyploids is poorly characterized. The flowering plant genus Tragopogon (Asteraceae) offers a rare glimpse into the intricacies of repeated allopolyploid formation with both nascent (< 90 years old) and more ancient (mesopolyploids) formations. Neo- and mesopolyploids in Tragopogon have formed repeatedly and have extant diploid progenitors that facilitate the comparison of genome evolution after polyploidization across a broad span of evolutionary time. Here, we examine four independently formed lineages of the mesopolyploid Tragopogon castellanus for homoeolog expression changes and fractionation after polyploidization. We show that expression changes are remarkably similar among these independently formed polyploid populations with large convergence among expressed loci, moderate convergence among loci lost, and stochastic silencing. We further compare and contrast these results for T. castellanus with two nascent Tragopogon allopolyploids. While homoeolog expression bias was balanced in both nascent polyploids and T. castellanus, the degree of additive expression was significantly different, with the mesopolyploid populations demonstrating more non-additive expression. We suggest that gene dosage and expression noise minimization may play a prominent role in regulating gene expression patterns immediately after allopolyploidization as well as deeper into time, and these patterns are conserved across independent polyploid lineages.
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- J. Lucas Boatwright
- Advanced Plant Technology Program, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
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- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
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- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
- Covance Inc., Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- Botanic Institute of Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, ICUB, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Biodiversity Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Biodiversity Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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DeBlasio SL, Wilson JR, Tamborindeguy C, Johnson RS, Pinheiro PV, MacCoss MJ, Gray SM, Heck M. Affinity Purification-Mass Spectrometry Identifies a Novel Interaction between a Polerovirus and a Conserved Innate Immunity Aphid Protein that Regulates Transmission Efficiency. J Proteome Res 2021; 20:3365-3387. [PMID: 34019426 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.1c00313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
The vast majority of plant viruses are transmitted by insect vectors, with many crucial aspects of the transmission process being mediated by key protein-protein interactions. Still, very few vector proteins interacting with viruses have been identified and functionally characterized. Potato leafroll virus (PLRV) is transmitted most efficiently by Myzus persicae, the green peach aphid, in a circulative, non-propagative manner. Using affinity purification coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (AP-MS), we identified 11 proteins from M. persicaedisplaying a high probability of interaction with PLRV and an additional 23 vector proteins with medium confidence interaction scores. Three of these aphid proteins were confirmed to directly interact with the structural proteins of PLRV and other luteovirid species via yeast two-hybrid. Immunolocalization of one of these direct PLRV-interacting proteins, an orthologue of the human innate immunity protein complement component 1 Q subcomponent-binding protein (C1QBP), shows that MpC1QBP partially co-localizes with PLRV in cytoplasmic puncta and along the periphery of aphid gut epithelial cells. Artificial diet delivery to aphids of a chemical inhibitor of C1QBP leads to increased PLRV acquisition by aphids and subsequently increased titer in inoculated plants, supporting a role for C1QBP in the acquisition and transmission efficiency of PLRV by M. persicae. This study presents the first use of AP-MS for the in vivo isolation of a functionally relevant insect vector-virus protein complex. MS data are available from ProteomeXchange.org using the project identifier PXD022167.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stacy L DeBlasio
- Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States.,Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States.,Section of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Section of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98109, United States
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- Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States.,Section of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98109, United States
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- Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States.,Section of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States.,Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States.,Section of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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