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标题：Characterization and RNAi-mediated knockdown of Chitin Synthase A in the potato tuber moth, Phthorimaea operculella
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作者：Ahmed M. A. Mohammed ; Mervat R. Diab ; Mohamed Abdelsattar 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2017
卷号：7
期号：1
DOI：10.1038/s41598-017-09858-y
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：Chitin is a major component of insect exoskeleton, tracheal system and gut where it is synthesized by chitin synthase (CHS) enzymes. In this paper, we report the isolation and RNAi of chitin synthase A (PhoCHSA) from the potato tuber moth Phthorimaea operculella. The full-length cDNA of PhoCHSA is 5,627 bp with 4,689 bp open reading frame coding for 1,563 amino acids. Structural analysis of conceptual amino acid translation showed three distinct regions found in all known insect CHS proteins; N-terminus region having 9 transmembrane helices, middle catalytic region containing several conserved domains identified in insect CHS enzymes, and C-terminus region containing seven transmembrane spans. Phylogenetic analysis showed that PhoCHSA protein clustered with CHSA enzymes identified from insects from different insect orders. RNAi targeting three different regions of the gene showed different efficacy against potato tuber moth larvae and dsRNA targeting the 5' region has the highest efficacy. Results were verified by qRT-PCR which showed that dsRNA targeting the 5' region caused the highest reduction in PhoCHSA mRNA level. Our results show the importance of selecting the RNAi target region and that chitin synthase A can be a suitable RNAi target for the potato tuber moth control.