MAPK-directed activation of the whitefly transcription factorCREBleads to P450-mediated imidacloprid resistance

Author:

Yang XinORCID,Deng Shun,Wei Xuegao,Yang Jing,Zhao Qiannan,Yin Cheng,Du Tianhua,Guo Zhaojiang,Xia Jixing,Yang Zezhong,Xie Wen,Wang Shaoli,Wu Qingjun,Yang Fengshan,Zhou Xuguo,Nauen Ralf,Bass Chris,Zhang YoujunORCID

Abstract

The evolution of insect resistance to pesticides poses a continuing threat to agriculture and human health. While much is known about the proximate molecular and biochemical mechanisms that confer resistance, far less is known about the regulation of the specific genes/gene families involved, particularly bytrans-acting factors such as signal-regulated transcription factors. Here we resolve in fine detail thetrans-regulation ofCYP6CM1, a cytochrome P450 that confers resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides in the whiteflyBemisia tabaci,by the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)-directed activation of the transcription factorcAMP-response element binding protein(CREB). Reporter gene assays were used to identify the putative promoter ofCYP6CM1, but no consistent polymorphisms were observed in the promoter of a resistant strain ofB. tabaci(imidacloprid-resistant, IMR), which overexpresses this gene, compared to a susceptible strain (imidacloprid-susceptible, IMS). Investigation of potentialtrans-acting factors using in vitro and in vivo assays demonstrated that the bZIP transcription factorCREBdirectly regulatesCYP6CM1expression by binding to a cAMP-response element (CRE)-like site in the promoter of this gene.CREBis overexpressed in the IMR strain, and inhibitor, luciferase, and RNA interference assays revealed that a signaling pathway of MAPKs mediates the activation ofCREB, and thus the increased expression ofCYP6CM1, by phosphorylation-mediated signal transduction. Collectively, these results provide mechanistic insights into the regulation of xenobiotic responses in insects and implicate both the MAPK-signaling pathway and a transcription factor in the development of pesticide resistance.

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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