Abstract
Type II crustacean hyperglycemic hormone (CHH) neuropeptides play diverse roles in crustaceans. In the hermaphrodite shrimp Lysmata vittata, two transcripts of type II CHHs (molt-inhibiting hormone/gonad-inhibiting hormone, MIH/GIH1 and MIH/GIH2) were identified by transcriptome sequencing, and MIH/GIH1 was later named Lvit-GIH1 for its inhibitory effect on ovarian development. Based on the high similarity of MIH/GIH2 to Lvit-GIH1, we named tentatively MIH/GIH2 as Lvit-GIH2 and explored the role of Lvit-GIH2 in ovarian development. The open reading frame (ORF) of Lvit-GIH2 was 333 bp in length, encoding a precursor consisted of a 32-aa signal peptide and a 78-aa mature peptide, which shared high sequence similarity with the type II subfamily peptides in crustaceans. Notably, Lvit-GIH2 was widely expressed in multiple tissues. The qRT-PCR findings indicated a rising trend in the expression of Lvit-GIH2 from the male phase to the euhermaphrodite phase. Both RNA interference and addition of GIH2 recombinant proteins (rGIH2) experiments showed that Lvit-GIH2 suppressed Lvit-Vg expression in hepatopancreas and Lvit-VgR expression in ovary. To further investigate the role of Lvit-GIH2 in ovarian development, the RNA-sequence analysis was performed to examine the changes in ovary after addition of rGIH2. The results showed that the pathways (Cysteine and methionine metabolism, Apoptosis-multiple species, etc.) and the genes (17bHSD8, IGFR, CHH, etc.) related to ovarian development were negatively regulated by rGIH2. In brief, Lvit-GIH2 might inhibit the ovarian development in L. vittata.
Funder
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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