果蝇先天免疫分子机制研究进展

以果蝇为模式生物,在胚胎发育、基因表达调控、疾病发病机制以及昆虫先天免疫等方面的研究发挥了重要的作用。果蝇的先天免疫系统包括细胞免疫和体液免疫,当其遭受细菌、真菌和病毒等病原体攻击时,果蝇能通过细胞吞噬、集结、包囊作用以及产生抗菌肽等方式来清除入侵的微生物。结合近年来果蝇先天性免疫分子机制的研究进展,对其在病原体识别、信号转导途径及效应机制方面进行综述,为深入研究家蚕、蜜蜂等经济昆虫的免疫机制以及提高它们的经济效益提供参考。     

黑腹果蝇先天免疫研究进展

先天免疫是昆虫适应复杂环境的关键,也是新型害虫防治的重要研究方向。昆虫通过模式识别受体识别环境中不同的病原物,激活先天免疫系统以清除病原物。昆虫的先天免疫系统主要包括体液免疫与细胞免疫,体液免疫包括免疫信号通路诱导产生抗菌肽、活性氧以及黑化作用等,细胞免疫包括血细胞的吞噬、包囊和凝结。本文将重点总结黑腹果蝇Drosophila melanogaster在模式识别受体、免疫信号通路和细胞免疫相关方面的研究进展,为进一步研究其他经济昆虫与农业害虫的免疫机制,提高生产经济效益提供参考。     

番茄中两个高度同源的NAC类转录因子通过不同的机制调控病原菌诱导的气孔关闭和重新开张

作物-昆虫-病原微生物三者之间存在着复杂的共生、寄生和互惠关系。以不同的互作模型为研究对象,诠释这些互作关系中的种间信息流识别、传递及应答的分子机制,对于提高农作物的抗病虫能力具有科学指导意义。已有研究表明,植物激素茉莉酸(JA)在植物-昆虫-病原微生物的复杂互作系统中起核心调控作用。中国科学院遗传与发育生物学研究所李传友研究组长期致力于研究茉莉酸调控植物先天免疫的分子机理。本研究组作为“国际茄科基因组计划”的重要成员,历经8年多的艰苦努力,和国际同行一道完成了对番茄基因组的精细序列分析(The Tomato Genome Consortium, 2012),为以番茄为模式系统解析植物先天免疫的分子机理奠定了坚实的基础。     

昆虫抗菌肽结构、性质和基因调控

昆虫抗菌肽是昆虫先天免疫系统中非常重要的一类效应分子。昆虫抗菌肽带正电荷,分子量小,大多数少于100个氨基酸残基。根据结构可以将昆虫抗菌肽分为一些不同的家族。昆虫抗菌肽不同的抗菌谱表明,它具有不同的作用机制。以果蝇为模式生物研究表明,昆虫抗菌肽的基因调控涉及到多个信号通路及大量的信号分子。     

PI3K和受体型酪氨酸激酶介导家蚕麻痹肽免疫诱导信号的传递

【目的】普遍存在于鳞翅目昆虫中的ENF肽具有非常相似的结构和生理功能, 对昆虫的发育、 免疫、 应激反应等方面都起着重要的调控作用。有研究报道, 作为ENF肽家族成员之一的家蚕Bombyx mori麻痹肽（paralytic peptide, PP）通过激活MAPK来调控家蚕的免疫应答, 但其完整的分子作用机制尚不明确。本研究旨在解析传递家蚕PP免疫诱导信号的分子通路。【方法】首先通过荧光定量PCR检测了多种昆虫细胞系在PP诱导下抗菌肽基因的转录水平, 并利用Western blot检测p38 MAPK的磷酸化水平, 然后利用不同信号传递分子的抑制剂处理BmE细胞筛选参与传递PP免疫诱导信号的分子。【结果】PI3K抑制剂LY294002和受体型酪酸激酶抑制剂Genistein抑制了PP对BmE细胞抗菌肽基因表达的诱导作用; 且BmE细胞和家蚕血细胞在PP的诱导下, Akt和大小约为70 kDa的细胞膜蛋白均出现磷酸化水平的动态变化。【结论】PI3K/Akt信号通路和Genistein敏感性的受体型酪氨酸激酶介导了PP免疫诱导信号的传递。     

细胞外诱捕网介导的抗微生物途径

活化中性粒细胞与肥大细胞在细胞外形成纤维样诱捕网结构（ETs）。ETs以染色质-DNA为骨架,吸附有抗微生物肽和抗微生物酶组成,具有捕获与杀灭微生物的作用。由ETs介导的抗微生物途径构成了一种重要的先天免疫应答机制。     

052抗微生物肽与内毒素相互作用抑制巨噬细胞α肿瘤坏死因子和一氧化氮的释放但能增强其呼吸爆发

抗微生物肽（antimierobial peptides,AMP）作为吞噬细胞的组分储存于胞质颗粒并释放至吞噬溶酶体中;而非吞噬细胞在应答有害刺激如细菌内毒素等则可诱导合成AMP,其非氧化杀伤作用在机体抗病原体非特异性免疫中发挥重要作用。AMP不仅具有抗菌作用,而且是连接非特异性免疫和特异性免疫反应的趋化分子和信号分子。本文主要研究AMP和细菌内毒素（1ipopolysaccharide,LPS;或lipooligosaccharide,     

从形态学不同到基因水平差异: 家蚕与果蝇早期胚胎发育比较

昆虫的分化多样性一直是研究的一个热点, 对家蚕胚胎发育调控机制的研究将有助于加深人们对其他昆虫早期胚胎发育机制的了解。文章综述了鳞翅目昆虫家蚕和双翅目昆虫果蝇的早期胚胎发育在形态学及基因水平的研究结果。通过比较, 发现二者的早期胚胎发育存在较大差异。这一结果不但可以为家蚕胚胎发育调控机制的分子水平研究提供重要参考, 也可为昆虫分化多样性的分子机制研究提供线索。     

20-羟基蜕皮酮调控昆虫先天免疫的分子机制研究进展

昆虫先天免疫(innate immunity)包括细胞免疫(cellular immunity)和体液免疫(humoral immunity)。近年来研究表明,作为昆虫生长发育调节的关键激素之一,20-羟基蜕皮酮(20-hydroxyecdysone, 20E)参与调节了昆虫的先天免疫。本文在介绍昆虫免疫机制的基础上,重点阐述20E调控昆虫先天免疫及微生物影响20E滴度的分子调控机制。20E可以激活细胞免疫和体液免疫来对抗外源入侵微生物,而外源微生物的刺激也会通过3-脱氢蜕皮激素-3β-还原酶(3-dehydroecdysteroid-3β-reductase, 3DE-3β-reductase)促进20E滴度升高。20E对昆虫免疫系统有显著影响,其滴度升高可以激活细胞免疫,包括吞噬(phagocytosis)、包被(encapsulation)和结节(nodulation);而对体液免疫的影响则比较复杂,除可以加速黑化作用(menalization)外,对抗菌肽的表达究竟是促进还是抑制尚不明确。研究人员鉴定发现了一些20E调控体液免疫的关键基因,这些基因的作用途径总结起来可以分为3类:(1)依赖于Toll和IMD等先天免疫通路;(2)依赖于胰岛素(insulin)信号途径;(3)依赖于20E信号通路因子BR-C等的直接调控。但这些通路因子究竟是如何互作以及其分子调控机制等都尚不清楚,值得进一步深入探讨。     

家蚕免疫稳态调控分子的鉴定和表达模式分析

昆虫免疫稳态的维持有赖于准确地激活和有效地抑制Toll或IMD信号通路中的关键转录因子-- Dorsal/Dif或Relish。在果蝇等昆虫中, 已报道了多种降低转录因子稳定性和活性的免疫稳态调控分子, 突变或敲除这类分子导致免疫系统的过度激活。对家蚕Bombyx mori免疫信号通路的研究中, 至今为止尚无对这类分子的探索。本研究通过比较基因组学, 在家蚕基因组中鉴定了多个可能参与免疫稳态调控的分子, 包括Wnt家族成员、 Ubc9、 FAF和POSH等; 并通过检测家蚕被微生物感染后这些分子在多种免疫器官中的诱导表达模式, 发现这些分子的表达水平在微生物感染后普遍呈下降趋势, 虽然在某些组织中表达量有明显的升高（>1.5倍）, 但此高表达水平均不能维持且迅速下降; 而且免疫稳态调控分子和受其调控的信号通路的对应关系在不同组织中表现出差异。本研究是首次对家蚕免疫稳态调控分子的报道, 为深入研究家蚕免疫负调控的分子机制提供了参考。     

Insect antimicrobial peptides: structures, properties and gene regulation

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are part of the armament that insects have developed to fight off pathogens. Insect AMPs are typically cationic and often made of less than 100 amino acid residues. Although their structures are diverse, most of the AMPs can be assigned to a limited number of families. The most common structures are represented by peptides assuming a alpha-helical conformation in organic solutions or disulfide-stabilized beta-sheets with or without alpha-helical domains present. The diverse activity spectrum of these peptides may indicate different modes of action. Genetic analysis in the Drosophila model evidenced that multiple signal transduction pathways are activating the genes coding AMPs.     

昆虫天然免疫相关基因研究进展

在长期进化过程中,昆虫形成了强大的天然免疫防御系统,即体液免疫和细胞免疫。体液免疫主要包括Toll、IMD和JAK/STAT 3条信号通路,通过信号转导及免疫途径调控免疫相关基因的表达,诱导产生抗菌肽和其他效应分子。细胞免疫由血细胞介导,主要完成对病原物的包裹、吞噬和集结等。近年来,昆虫基因组学快速发展,通过生物信息学等方法从昆虫基因组数据中已鉴定到大量免疫相关基因,对这些基因的研究加深了人们对昆虫天然免疫分子机制的认识和理解。根据基因功能,免疫相关基因分为识别、信号转导、调制器、效应分子、黑化反应、RNA干扰和其他基因等7类,这些基因通过互作来调控体液免疫和细胞免疫。本文对昆虫免疫相关基因的分类、功能及家族进化等方面的研究成果进行总结,并对今后昆虫免疫的研究重点进行了展望,以期为昆虫免疫分子机制的研究及开发新的害虫防治策略提供依据。     

Antimicrobial peptides in the interactions between insects and flagellate parasites

Innate immunity has a key role in the control of microbial infections in both vertebrates and invertebrates. In insects, including vectors that transmit parasites that cause major human and animal diseases, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are important components of innate immunity. AMPs are induced upon parasitic infections and can participate in regulating parasite development in the digestive tract and in the hemolymph. This review presents our current knowledge of a field that is in its infancy: the role of innate immunity in different models of insects infected with flagellate parasites, and in particular the potential role of AMPs in regulating these parasitic infections.     

Molecular evolution of the NF-κB signaling system

The mechanisms of innate immunity in vertebrates show certain overall resemblances to immune mechanisms of insects. Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain these resemblances. (1) According to the evolutionary continuity hypothesis, innate immune mechanisms evolved in the common ancestor of vertebrates and insects and have been conserved since that time. (2) In the independent-evolution hypothesis, the mechanisms of innate immunity in vertebrates evolved independently from invertebrate immune mechanisms. Phylogenetic analysis of five gene families (Pelle, Rel, IkappaB, Toll, and TRAF) whose members are involved in NF-kappaB signaling in vertebrates and insects were used to decide between these hypotheses. The phylogenies of the Rel and TRAF families strongly supported independent evolution of immune functions in vertebrates and invertebrates, and, except for a possible case in the Pelle family, orthologous molecules having immune functions in both vertebrates and invertebrates were not found. The results suggest that NF-kappaB represents an ancient, generalized signaling system that has been co-opted for immune system roles independently in vertebrate and insect lineages.     

The genetics and genomics of insecticide resistance

The past ten years have seen the elucidation of the molecular basis of insect resistance to many chemical insecticides. Target genes, mostly in the nervous system, have been identified and cloned from Drosophila melanogaster and resistance-associated mutations have been examined in a range of pest insects. More recently, with the advent of annotated insect genomes, resistance mediated by complex multi-gene enzyme systems such as esterases, cytochrome p450s and glutathione-S-transferases has also been elucidated. In this article, we review the impact of Drosophila genetics on the field of insect resistance and focus on the current and future impact of genomics. These studies enable us to address three fundamental questions in the evolution of resistance. How many genes are involved? How many mutations are there within these genes? How often do these mutations arise in natural populations?     

昆虫先天性免疫信号通路研究进展

昆虫体内形成了强大的免疫防御系统,其被各种微生物攻击时能依靠病原相关分子模式识别蛋白对感染进行区分和激活体内信号通路诱导如抗菌肽之类的效应分子.昆虫体内控制先天性免疫的信号通路分别是:Toll通路、IMD通路和JAS/STAT通路,这3条通路在信号传递过程中存在协作,并且,这些通路与脊椎动物体内某些通路存在惊人相似、在免疫调控通路方面存在共同的进化起源.这揭示了先天性免疫在动物体内存在的普遍性和机体抵御病原感染的重要性.     

Identification of new immune induced molecules in the haemolymph of Drosophila melanogaster by 2D-nanoLC MS/MS

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) play an important role in the innate immunity of insects. In Drosophila 17 additional immune induced molecules (DIMs) were found in the haemolymph of adult flies upon septic injury. Previous studies using MALDI mass spectrometry combined with Edman degradation, detected AMPs and DIMs of a predominantly large size. By means of 2D-nanoLC ESI MS/MS, 43 DIMs were identified in this study from the haemolymph of Drosophila third instar larvae 12h after challenge with a mixture of Micrococcus luteus and Escherichia coli. Most peptides were derived from known AMP or DIM precursors, but only four peptides were purified and identified before. The majority of the peptides that we detected were smaller in size. Interestingly, two previously unknown peptide precursors were found and hereby related to immune defense. These include CG7738 and CG32185. Many of the identified peptides are post-translationally modified by an N-terminal pyroglutamic acid and/or a C-terminal amide. Haemolymph of control larvae was treated in the same way and revealed only one peptide.