State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Insect Sci. 2024 Oct;31(5):1453-1465. doi: 10.1111/1744-7917.13321. Epub 2024 Jan 16.
Fat body metabolism plays crucial roles in each aspect of insect life traits. Although neuropeptides have been documented to be one of the major neuroendocrinal regulators involved in fat body metabolism, the detailed regulatory mechanism is poorly explored. Here, we conducted comparative metabolome and transcriptome analyses of fat body between wide type (WT) and adipokinetic hormone/corazonin-related peptide (ACP) loss of function mutants of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria. We found that knockout of ACP resulted in significantly reduced fat body triacylglycerol content but enhanced abundance of phospholipids, particularly phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine. Additionally, the expression levels of genes involved in triacylglycerol and phospholipid synthesis and degradation were significantly altered in the fat body of ACP mutants. Moreover, female ACP mutants displayed much higher fecundity compared to WT females. These findings highlight the important role of neuropeptide ACP in fat body lipid metabolism homeostasis in locusts.
脂肪体代谢在昆虫生命特征的各个方面都起着至关重要的作用。尽管神经肽已被证明是参与脂肪体代谢的主要神经内分泌调节剂之一,但详细的调节机制仍未被充分探索。在这里,我们对广食性(WT)和脂肪激活激素/心侧体相关肽(ACP)缺失功能突变体的飞蝗脂肪体进行了比较代谢组学和转录组学分析。我们发现,ACP 的敲除导致脂肪体三酰基甘油含量显著降低,但磷脂,特别是磷脂酰胆碱和磷脂酰乙醇胺的丰度增加。此外,脂肪体中参与三酰基甘油和磷脂合成和降解的基因的表达水平在 ACP 突变体中发生了显著改变。此外,与 WT 雌性相比,雌性 ACP 突变体表现出更高的生殖力。这些发现强调了神经肽 ACP 在飞蝗脂肪体脂质代谢平衡中的重要作用。