EpOMEs act as immune suppressors in a lepidopteran insect, Spodoptera exigua.

Scientific Reports
Mohammad VatanparastYonggyun Kim

Abstract

Epoxyoctadecamonoenoic acids (EpOMEs) are epoxide derivatives of linoleic acid (9,12-octadecadienoic acid) and include 9,10-EpOME and 12,13-EpOME. They are synthesized by cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYPs) and degraded by soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH). Although EpOMEs are well known to play crucial roles in mediating various physiological processes in mammals, their role is not well understood in insects. This study chemically identified their presence in insect tissues: 941.8 pg/g of 9,10-EpOME and 2,198.3 pg/g of 12,13-EpOME in fat body of a lepidopteran insect, Spodoptera exigua. Injection of 9,10-EpOME or 12,13-EpOME into larvae suppressed the cellular immune responses induced by bacterial challenge. EpOME treatment also suppressed the expression of antimicrobial peptide (AMP) genes. Among 139 S. exigua CYPs, an ortholog (SE51385) to human EpOME synthase was predicted and its expression was highly inducible upon bacterial challenge. RNA interference (RNAi) of SE51385 prevented down-regulation of immune responses at a late stage (> 24 h) following bacterial challenge. A soluble epoxide hydrolase (Se-sEH) of S. exigua was predicted and showed specific expression in all development stages and in different larval tissues. ...Continue Reading

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Datasets Mentioned

BETA
MT375603
ETN62858.1
MT375604

Methods Mentioned

BETA
PCR
electrophoresis
Fluorescence
dissection

Software Mentioned

EpOME
Expasy
DNASTAR
MegAlign
Chimera
MassView1
ClustalW
- Viewer Chimera
SAS
Clustal W

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