Functions of duplicated genes encoding CCAP (cas 107090-96-0) receptors in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

Add time:08/17/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

Crustacean cardioactive peptide (CCAP (cas 107090-96-0)) is a nonapeptide originally isolated from the shore crab, Carcinus maenas, based on its cardioacceleratory activity. This peptide is highly conserved in insects and other arthropods. In insects CCAP also has an essential role in ecdysis behavior. We previously identified two homologous genes, ccapr-1 and ccapr-2, encoding putative CCAP receptors in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. In contrast, some insects, including Drosophila melanogaster, carry only one gene encoding a CCAP receptor. Phylogenetic analysis of putative CCAP receptor orthologs reveals a number of independent gene duplications in several insect lineages. In this study, we confirmed that CCAP activates both putative T. castaneum receptors in a heterologous expression system. RNA interference (RNAi) of ccapr-1 and ccapr-2 revealed that ccapr-2 is essential for eclosion behavior in T. castaneum, while RNAi for ccapr-1 did not result in any abnormal phenotype. In vivo cardioacceleratory activity of exogenously applied CCAP was abolished by RNAi of ccapr-2, but not by that of ccapr-1. Thus, only ccapr-2 mediates the cardioacceleratory function, ccapr-1 having apparently lost both functions for eclosion behavior and for cardioacceleration since the recent gene duplication event.

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