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Allatostatins of the tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon (Crustacea: Penaeidea).

Abstract：

:More than 40 peptides belonging to the -Y/FXFGL-NH(2) allatostatin superfamily have been isolated and identified from the central nervous system (CNS) of the tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon (Crustacea: Penaeidea). The peptides can be arranged in seven sub-groups according to the variable post-tyrosyl residue represented by Ala, Gly, Ser, Thr, Asn, Asp, and Glu. Two of the residues (Thr and Glu) have not been observed in this position previously in either insects or crustaceans. Also reported for the first time for allatostatins, two of the peptides are N-terminally blocked by a pyroglutamic acid residue. The yields of certain peptides with similar amino acid sequences to each other were, in some instances, very different. As an example, the yield of ANQYTFGL-NH(2) was 2pmol, compared with ASQYTFGL-NH(2), with a yield of 156 pmol. There are several possibilities to account for this. If, as in all species so far investigated, there is a single allatostatin gene in P. monodon, then it would appear that different sub-populations have contributed mutant forms of particular peptides to the extract. Another, less likely possibility is that this species has more than one allatostatin gene, producing a variable array of peptides albeit in different molar ratios. Several peptides were present apparently as a result of the loss of one or more residues at the N-terminus of a larger form, either due to N-terminal degradation or specific post-translational processing. The number of peptides identified exceeds that for any other insect or crustacean species previously investigated. None is identical to any of the 60-70 insect allatostatins so far identified, and only three are common to other crustaceans. Immunohistochemical study of the CNS of P. monodon, with the same antisera as used to monitor the purification, confirms the widespread nature and complexity of allatostatinergic neural pathways in arthropods. Thus, all neuromeres of the brain, and all except one of the ventral cord ganglia, possess allatostatin neurons and extensive areas of allatostatin-innervated neuropile. In addition to the cytological evidence that the allatostatins act as neurotransmitters, associated with tissues as varied as eyes and legs, their presence in neurohemal areas such as the sinus gland and the perineural sheath of the thoracic ganglia suggests a neuroendocrine function. As well as posing a challenge to physiologists assigning specific functions to the allatostatins, their extensive intra-species multiplicity, linked to their inter-species variability, also presents a complex problem to geneticists and evolutionists.

journal_name

Peptides

journal_title

Peptides

authors

Duve H,Johnsen AH,Scott AG,Thorpe A

doi

10.1016/s0196-9781(02)00035-9

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-06-01 00:00:00

pages

1039-51

issue

eissn

0196-9781

issn

1873-5169

pii

S0196978102000359

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Allatostatins of the tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon (Crustacea: Penaeidea).