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Genes encoding a group of related small secreted proteins from the gut of Hessian fly larvae [ Mayetiola destructor (Say)]
Author(s) -
CHEN MINGSHUN,
LIU XIANG,
ZHU YUCHENG,
REESE JOHN C.,
WILDE GERALD E.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
insect science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1744-7917
pISSN - 1672-9609
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2006.00102.x
Subject(s) - biology , gene , complementary dna , intron , signal peptide , genetics , cdna library , exon , microbiology and biotechnology , peptide sequence
A group of related genes has been isolated and characterized from the gut of Hessian fly larvae [ Mayetiola destructor (Say)]. Members in this group appear to encode proteins with secretary signal pep tides at the N‐terminals. The mature putative proteins are small, acidic proteins with calculated molecular masses of 14.5 to 15.3 kDa, and isoelectric points from 4.56 to 4.88. Northern blot analysis revealed that these genes are expressed predominantly in the gut of Hessian fly larvae and pupae. Two related genes, G10K1 and G10K2 , were isolated as tandem repeats. Both genes contain three exons and two introns. The intron/exon boundaries were conserved in terms of amino acid encoding, suggesting that they arose by gene duplication. The fact that the frequency of this group of clones in a gut cDNA library higher than that of total cDNA clones encoding digestive enzymes suggested that this group of proteins may perform an important function in the gut physiology of this insect. However, the exact functions of these proteins are as yet known since no sequence similarity could be identified between these proteins and any known sequences in public databases using standard methods.