| Literature DB >> 25783953 |
Rui-Long Wang1, Qing-Qing Xia1, Scott R Baerson2, Yong Ren1, Jie Wang1, Yi-Juan Su1, Si-Chun Zheng3, Ren-Sen Zeng4.
Abstract
Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) play a prominent role in the adaptation of insects to host plant chemical defenses. To investigate the potential role of P450s in adaptation of the lepidopteran pest Spodoptera litura to host plant allelochemicals, an expressed sequence data set derived from 6th instar midgut tissues was first mined. One sequence identified from the S. litura 6th instar midgut EST database was determined by phylogenetic analysis to belong to the CYP6AB P450 subfamily, and named CYP6AB14. Dietary supplementation of S. litura larvae with either xanthotoxin (XAN), coumarin (COU) and flavone (FLA) led to elevated CYP6AB14 transcript levels in both midgut and fat body tissues. Injection of CYP6AB14-derived double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) into S. litura individuals significantly reduced CYP6AB14 transcript levels, and resulted in increased developmental abnormalities and higher mortality rates among XAN, COU and FLA-fed larvae. Our results strongly suggest a key role for CYP6AB14 in plant allelochemical detoxification in S. litura.Entities:
Keywords: CYP6AB14; Cytochrome P450; Plant allelochemical; RNA interference; Spodoptera litura
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Year: 2015 PMID： 25783953 DOI： 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2015.02.013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Insect Physiol ISSN： 0022-1910 Impact factor: 2.354