Tissue‐Specific and Stage‐Specific Expression of Two Silkworm Ecdysone Receptor Isoforms

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  • Ecdysteroid‐Dependent Transcription in Cultured Anterior Silk Glands

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<jats:p>Previously, we isolated a cDNA clone for the ecdysone receptor B1 isoform of the silkworm, <jats:italic>Bombyx mori</jats:italic> (BmEcR‐B1). Here we report the cloning of a cDNA that encodes the <jats:italic>Bombyx</jats:italic> ecdysone receptor A isoform (BmEcR‐A) and mRNA expression of the two BmEcR isoforms during molting and metamorphosis. At larval‐pupal transformation, mRNA expression of BmEcR‐B1 was predominant in most tissues examined, including three larval tissues (midgut, epidermis, and fat body) and the wing imaginal disc. The anterior silk gland was the only tissue where BmEcR‐A was predominant. These expression patterns were different from observations demonstrated in <jats:italic>Drosophila.</jats:italic> In the anterior silk gland, both EcR isoforms were expressed synchronously during the fifth larval instar, while expression of the A isoform preceded that of the B1 isoform by two days in the fourth instar. Precedence of BmEcR‐A during the fourth instar and synchronization of both isoforms during the fifth instar were also observed in the middle and posterior silk glands, suggesting that transcription of BmEcR in the silk gland is regulated differently in these two instars. In the cultured anterior silk glands of day 0 of the fifth instar, transcription of BmEcR‐A and BmEcR‐B1 was induced dose dependently by more than 5 ng/ml 20‐hydroxyecdysone. BmEcR‐A and BmEcR‐B1 mRNAs were induced within 2 h and 1 h, respectively, of the addition of 20‐hydroxyecdysone. These results suggest that the increase of BmEcR mRNAs during the fifth instar is induced <jats:italic>in vivo</jats:italic> by a small increase in ecdysteroids.</jats:p>

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