Odorant binding protein 18 increases the pathogen resistance of the imported willow leaf beetle, Plagiodera versicolora.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Insect odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are a class of small molecular weight soluble proteins. In the past few years, OBPs had been found to work as carriers of ligands and play a crucial role in olfaction and various other physiological processes, like immunity. A subset of insect OBPs had been found to be expressed differently and play a function in immunity of fungal infection. However, there are few studies on the role of OBPs in immunity of bacterial infection.

Methods

To identify the immune-related OBPs of Plagiodera versicolora after infected by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, we determined the mortality of P. versicolora to P. aeruginosa and selected the time point of 50% mortality of larvae to collect samples for RNA-seq. RNAi technolo

SUBMITTER: Rong H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10928693 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature