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Insect Biochem Mol Biol


Title:Functional expression of a bark beetle cytochrome P450 that hydroxylates myrcene to ipsdienol
Author(s):Sandstrom P; Welch WH; Blomquist GJ; Tittiger C;
Address:"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557, USA"
Journal Title:Insect Biochem Mol Biol
Year:2006
Volume:20060830
Issue:11
Page Number:835 - 845
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2006.08.004
ISSN/ISBN:0965-1748 (Print) 0965-1748 (Linking)
Abstract:"The final steps in the pheromone-biosynthetic pathway of the pine engraver beetle, Ips pini (Say) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) are unknown, but likely involve myrcene (7-methyl-3-methylene-1,6-octadiene) hydroxylation to produce the aggregation pheromone component, ipsdienol (2-methyl-6-methylene-2,7-octadien-4-ol). We have isolated a full-length I. pini cDNA encoding a cytochrome P450, CYP9T2. The recovered cDNA is 1.83kb and the open reading frame encodes a 532 amino acid protein. CYP9T2 is regulated by the same physiological factors that induce pheromone production. Quantitative real-time PCR experiments showed that feeding on host phloem induced CYP9T2 expression in males, but not females, and that basal expression levels are highest in male midguts, similar to other I. pini pheromone-biosynthetic genes. Microsomes prepared from Sf9 cells co-expressing baculoviral-mediated recombinant CYP9T2 and housefly (Musca domestica) NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase converted myrcene to ipsdienol. The product identified by coupled GC-MS was mostly (4R)-(-)-ipsdienol, an important aggregation pheromone component for western North American I. pini. These results are consistent with CYP9T2 encoding a myrcene hydroxylase that functions near the end of the pheromone-biosynthetic pathway"
Keywords:"Acyclic Monoterpenes Alkenes/*metabolism Amino Acid Sequence Animals Base Sequence Coleoptera/*metabolism Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System/*metabolism DNA, Complementary/isolation & purification Female Gene Expression Regulation Hydroxylation Male Molecular;"
Notes:"MedlineSandstrom, Pamela Welch, William H Blomquist, Gary J Tittiger, Claus eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. England 2006/10/19 Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2006 Nov; 36(11):835-45. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2006.08.004. Epub 2006 Aug 30"

 
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