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In situ hybridization analysis of leucomyosuppressin mRNA expression in the cockroach, Diploptera punctata.

Abstract
In the cockroach Diploptera punctata, sequencing of the cDNA for the insect myoinhibitory neuropeptide, leucomyosuppressin (LMS), has demonstrated that LMS is the only Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-amide (NH2) (FMRFamide)-related peptide to be encoded by this gene (Donly et al. [1996] Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 26:627-637). However, in the present study, high performance liquid chromatography analysis of brain extracts showed six discrete FMRFamide-like immunoreactive fractions, one of which co-eluted with LMS. This study compared the distribution of FMRFamide-related peptides visualized by immunohistochemistry with LMS mRNA expression demonstrated by in situ hybridization in D. punctata. Immunohistochemistry with a polyclonal antiserum generated against FMRFamide, but which recognizes extended RFamide peptides, demonstrated numerous RFamide-like immunoreactive cells and processes in both nervous and nonnervous tissues. RFamide-like immunoreactivity was found in cells and processes of the brain and optic lobes, the stomatogastric nervous system, including the frontal and ingluvial ganglia, and the suboesophageal ganglion. Immunoreactivity was also present in all ganglia of the ventral nerve cord and in the alimentary canal. Within the alimentary canal, positively stained processes were found in the crop, midgut, and hindgut, and immunoreactive endocrinelike cells were located in the midgut. In situ hybridization with a digoxigenin-labeled RNA probe spanning the entire LMS coding region showed cell bodies containing LMS mRNA in all ganglia studied, other than the ingluvial ganglion. Expression was most abundant in the brain and optic lobes and in the frontal and suboesophageal ganglia. LMS mRNA was also apparent, although less intensely, in all other ganglia of the ventral nerve cord. Within the alimentary canal, LMS mRNA-positive cells were only visible in the anterior portion of the midgut, in the endocrinelike cells. The appearance of LMS mRNA in the central nervous system, stomatogastric nervous system, and midgut suggests that LMS may play a central role in Diploptera and may be associated with feeding and digestion.
AuthorsM Fusé, W G Bendena, B C Donly, S S Tobe, I Orchard
JournalThe Journal of comparative neurology (J Comp Neurol) Vol. 395 Issue 3 Pg. 328-41 (Jun 08 1998) ISSN: 0021-9967 [Print] United States
PMID9596527 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Insect Hormones
  • Neuropeptides
  • RNA, Messenger
  • leucomyosuppressin
  • FMRFamide
  • Digoxigenin
Topics
  • Animals
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Cockroaches (metabolism)
  • Digestive System (innervation, metabolism)
  • Digoxigenin
  • FMRFamide (pharmacology)
  • Female
  • Ganglia, Invertebrate (metabolism)
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • In Situ Hybridization
  • Insect Hormones (biosynthesis)
  • Nervous System (metabolism)
  • Neuropeptides (biosynthesis)
  • RNA, Messenger (biosynthesis)

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