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Short-term heat shock affects the course of immune response in Galleria mellonella naturally infected with the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana.

Abstract
We aimed to investigate how exposition of infected insects to short-term heat shock affects the biochemical and molecular aspects of their immune response. Galleria mellonella larvae were exposed to 43°C for 15min, at the seventy second hour after natural infection with entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana. As a result, both qualitative and quantitative changes in hemolymph protein profiles, and among them infection-induced changes in the amount of apolipophorin III (apoLp-III), were observed. Heat shock differently affects the expression of the tested immune-related genes. It transiently inhibits expression of antifungal peptides gallerimycin and galiomicin in both the fat body and hemocytes of infected larvae. The same, although to a lesser extent, concerned apoLp-III gene expression and was observed directly after heat shock. Nevertheless, in larvae that had recovered from heat shock, apoLp-III expression was higher in comparison to unshocked larvae in the fat body but not in hemocytes, which was consistent with the higher amount of this protein detected in the hemolymph of the infected, shocked larvae. Furthermore, lysozyme-type activity was higher directly after heat shock, while antifungal activity was significantly higher also in larvae that had recovered from heat shock, in comparison to the respective values in their non-shocked, infected counterparts. These results show how changes in the external temperature modulate the immune response of G. mellonella suffering from infection with its natural pathogen B. bassiana.
AuthorsLidiia Vertyporokh, Paulina Taszłow, Małgorzata Samorek-Pieróg, Iwona Wojda
JournalJournal of invertebrate pathology (J Invertebr Pathol) Vol. 130 Pg. 42-51 (Sep 2015) ISSN: 1096-0805 [Electronic] United States
PMID26149823 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
CopyrightCopyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Chemical References
  • Apolipoproteins
  • Insect Proteins
  • apolipophorin III
Topics
  • Animals
  • Apolipoproteins (metabolism)
  • Beauveria (immunology)
  • Blotting, Western
  • Hemolymph (metabolism)
  • Host-Parasite Interactions (immunology)
  • Hot Temperature
  • Insect Proteins (metabolism)
  • Moths (immunology, metabolism, parasitology)
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction

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