tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: The gene road to royalty – differential expression of hydroxylating genes in the mandibular glands of the honeybee

The advances in honeybee sociogenomics have paved the way for the study of social communication processes at the gene level, in particular the expression of caste-specific pheromones. The queen honeybee mandibular pheromone provides an excellent model system, in that biosynthesis of the hydroxylating fatty acid caste-specific pheromone appears to be reduced to a single chemical hydroxylation step of stearic acid. | The gene road to royalty - differential expression of hydroxylating genes in the mandibular glands of the honeybee Osnat Malka1 Iris Karunker2 Adva Yeheskel3 Shai Morin2 and Abraham Hefetz1 1 Department of Zoology George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences TelAviv University Ramat Aviv Israel 2 Department of Entomology Faculty of Agricultural Food and EnvironmentalQuality Sciences Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rehovot Israel 3 Bioinformatics Unit George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences TelAviv University Ramat Aviv Israel Keywords caste specificity gene expression honeybee P450 queen pheromone Correspondence O. Malka Department of Zoology George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences TelAviv University Ramat Aviv 69978 Israel Fax 972 3 6406991 Tel 972 3 6408766 E-mail malkaosn@ Received 28 April2009 revised 9 July 2009 accepted 23 July 2009 doi The advances in honeybee sociogenomics have paved the way for the study of social communication processes at the gene level in particular the expression of caste-specific pheromones. The queen honeybee mandibular pheromone provides an excellent model system in that biosynthesis of the hydroxylating fatty acid caste-specific pheromone appears to be reduced to a single chemical hydroxylation step of stearic acid. Queens are typified by ro-1-hydroxylation as opposed to the worker-typical ro-hydroxylation. We hypothesized that this bifurcation is the consequence of differential expression of caste-specific genes that code for fatty acid-hydroxylating enzymes from the cytochrome P450 CYP family. Bioinformatics studies disclosed two candidate proteins CYP4AA1 and CYP18A1. We thus investigated the expression of these genes in the mandibular glands of queens and of queenright QR and queenless QL workers. The real-time PCR results revealed that CYP4AA1 ro-hydroxylation was expressed at high levels in both QR and QL workers whereas in queens its expression was negligible. The expression of .

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