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:Phosphorylation of the translational repressor 4E-binding protein (4E-BP) plays a critical role in regulating the overall translation levels in cells. In the present study, we investigated 4E-BP phosphorylation of Bombyx mori eggs by an immunoblot analysis of a conserved phospho-specific antibody to 4E-BP and demonstrated its role during embryonic development. When HCl treatment was applied to diapause-destined eggs at 20 h after oviposition, a dramatic increase in the phosphorylation of 4E-BP occurred 5 min after treatment with HCl, and high phosphorylation levels were maintained throughout embryonic stage in HCl-treated eggs compared to those in diapause (control) eggs. When HCl treatment was applied to diapause eggs on day 10 after oviposition, no dramatic activation in 4E-BP phosphorylation occurred, indicating stage-specific effects of HCl treatment. In both non-diapause eggs and eggs whose diapause had been terminated by chilling of diapausing eggs at 5°C for 70 days and then were transferred to 25°C, high phosphorylation levels of 4E-BP were also detected. Moreover, 4E-BP phosphorylation dramatically increased when dechorionated eggs were incubated in medium. The addition of rapamycin, a specific inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling, and LY294002, a phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor, but not the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) kinase (MEK) inhibitor, U0126, dose-dependently inhibited 4E-BP phosphorylation in dechorionated eggs, indicating that PI3K/TOR signaling is an upstream signaling event involved in 4E-BP phosphorylation. Examination of 4E-BP gene expression levels showed no differences between treatments with HCl and water in the first hour after treatment, indicating that changes in phosphorylation of 4E-BP upon HCl treatment are mainly regulated at the post-transcriptional level. In addition, MAPK pathways and glycogen synthase kinase (GSK)-3β phosphorylation were not significantly affected in the first hour after HCl treatment. These results demonstrate that the rapid phosphorylation of 4E-BP is an early signaling event in embryonic development in the eggs whose diapause initiation was prevented by HCl treatment, thus being involved in the embryonic development of B. mori.
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J Insect Physioljournal_title
Journal of insect physiologyauthors
Gu SH,Young SC,Tsai WH,Lin JL,Lin PLdoi
10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.04.014subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-07-01 00:00:00pages
978-85issue
7eissn
0022-1910issn
1879-1611pii
S0022-1910(11)00110-7journal_volume
57pub_type
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