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Molecular and Cell Biological studies on Intracellular Symbiosis

Research Project

Project/Area Number 03454020
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 動物発生・生理学
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

ISHIKAWA Hajime  The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Professor, 大学院・理学系研究科, 教授 (70012482)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SASAKI Tetsuhiko  The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Instructor, 大学院・理学系研究科, 助手 (60235257)
YAMASHITA Tetsuro  The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Instructor, 大学院・理学系研究科, 助手 (20202377)
藤原 晴彦  東京大学, 理学部, 講師 (40183933)
Project Period (FY) 1991 – 1993
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1993)
Budget Amount *help
¥6,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1991: ¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
KeywordsIntracellular Symbiosis / Chaperonin / Energy-Coupling / Histidine Protein Kinase / Glutamine / Adaptive Molecular Evolution / Gut Microbes / 分子進化 / ツノアブラ族 / 共生体置換 / ヒスチジン・タンパク質キナーゼ / リン酸化 / 窒素再循環系 / 消化共生 / アブラムシ / 細胞内共生体 / シンビオニン / symオペロン / 自己触媒活性 / 分子シャペロン / 有機窒素再循環
Research Abstract

1. Symbionin, an aphid endosymbiont-specific protein, is an energy-coupling protein which undergoes autophosphorylation in the presence of high-energy phosphate compounds and transfers its phosphate group to other acceptor compounds. While this property of symbionin is reminiscent of that of histidine protein kinases in the tow-component system that transduces environmental signals in E.coli, no considerable homology between the two proteins is apparent.
2. It has been suggested that symbionin is phophorylated at His-133, where GroEL has Ala instead of His. Since between the two proteins the overall amino acid sequence is highly conserved, it is all the more conspicuous that symbionin has created His at this position as the result of three consecutive base substitutions of a codon for Ala in GroEL.It is possible that symbionin has acquired a new function through positive selection in favor of His at this position, suggesting that adaptive evolution is in action even at molecular level.
3. While in the groE operon the expression of GroES and GroEL are comparable with each other, in the aphid endosymbiont the expression of GroES homolog is disproportionately less than that of symbionin.
4. In the synthesis of essential amino acids by the endosymbiont using glutamine, glutamine is first converted into glutamate and ammonia in the bacteriocyte and then absorbed by the symbiont.
5. One of gut microbes of aphid resembles E.coli, but prefers lower temperatures than does the latter. Comparison of structure of several genes suggested that the gut microbe is phylogenetically closer to the endosymbiont than is E.coli.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1993 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1992 Annual Research Report
  • 1991 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (31 results)

All Other

All Publications (31 results)

  • [Publications] Minoru Kobayashi: "Breakdown of indirect flight muscles of alate aphids in relation to their flight,feeding and reproductive behavior." Journal of Insect Physiology. 39. 549-554 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Mizue Morioka: "Chaperonin produced by an intracellular symbiont is an energy-coupling protein with phosphotransferase activity." Journal of Biochemistry. 114. 246-250 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tetsuhiko Sasaki: "Nitrogen recycling in the endosymbiotic system of the pea aphid,Acyrthosiphon pisum." Zoological Science. 10. 779-785 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Mizue Morioka: "Self-assembly of symbionin,a chaperonin of intracellular symbiont." Journal of Biochemistry. 114. 468-472 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Nancy A.Moran: "A molecular clock in endosymbiotic bacteria is calibrated using the insect host." Proceedings of Royal Society of London,Series B. 253. 167-171 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hosami Harada: "Gut microbe closely related to its intracellular symbiont." BioSystems. 31. 185-191 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Minoru Kobayashi: "Breakown of indirect flight muscles of alate aphids in relation to their flight, feeding and reproductive behavior" Journal of Insect Physiology. 39. 549-554 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Mizue Morioka: "Chaperonin produced by an intracellular symbiont is an energy-coupling protein with phosphotransferase activity" Journal of Biochemistry. 114. 246-250 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tetsuhiko Sasaki: "Nitrogen recycling in the endosymbiotic system of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum" Zoological Science. 10. 779-785 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Mizue Morioka: "Self-assembly of symbionin, a chaperonin of intracellular symbiont" Journal of Biochemistry. 114. 468-472 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Nancy A.Moran: "A molecular clock in endosymbiotic bacteria is calibrated using the insect host" Proceedings of Royal Society of London, Series B. 253. 167-171 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hosami Harada: "Gut microbe closely related to its intracellular symbiont" BioSystems. 31. 185-191 (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1993 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Minoru Kobayashi: "Breakdown of indirect flight muscles of alate aphids in relation to their flight,feeding and reproductive behavior." Journal of Insect Physiology. 39. 549-554 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Mizue Morioka: "Chaperonin produced by an intracellular symbiont is an energy-coupling protein with phosphotransferase activity." Journal of Biochemistry. 114. 246-250 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Tetsuhiko Sasaki: "Nitrogen recycling in the endosymbiotic system of the pea aphid,Acyrthosiphon pisum." Zoological Science. 10. 779-785 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Mizue Morioka: "Self-assembly of symbionin,a chaperonin of intracellular symbiont." Journal of Biochemistry. 114. 468-472 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Nancy A.Moran: "A molecular clock in endosymbiotic bacteria is calibrated using the insect host." Proceedings of Royal Society of London,Series B. 253. 167-171 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Hosami Harada: "Gut microbe closely related to its intracellular symbiont." BioSystems. 31. 185-191 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] O-Yu Kwon: "Unique structure in the intergenic and 5'external transcribed spacer of rDNA from the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum." European Journal of Biochemistry. 206. 935-940 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Takema Fukatsu: "A novel eukaryotic extracellular symbiont in an aphid, Astegopteryx styraci (Homoptera) Aphididae, Hormaphidinae)" Journal of Insect Physiology. 38. 763-773 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Takema Fukatsu: "Soldier and male of an eusocial aphid Colophina arma lack endosymbiont: Implication for physiological and evolutionary interaction between host and symbiont." Journal of Insect Physiology. 38. 1033-1042 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] O-Yu Kwon: "Nucleotide sequence and presumed secondary structure of the internal transcribed spacers of rDNA of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum." Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. 103B. 651-655 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Chiaki Ohtaka: "Accumulation of adenine and thymine in a groE homologous operon of an intracellular symbiont." Journal of Molecular Evolution. (1993)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Takema Fukatsu: "Occurence of chaperonin 60 and chaperonin 10 in primary and secondary symbiont of aphids: Implications for evolution of endosymbiotic system in aphids." Journal of Molecular Evolution. (1993)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 石川 統: "生物科学入門コース1 遺伝子の生物学" 岩波書店, 174 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Tetsuhiko Sasaki: "Growth and reproduction of the symbiotic and aposymbiotic pea aphids,Acyrthosiphon pisum maintained on artificial diets." Journal of Insect Physiology. 37. 749-756 (1991)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Keiko Kakeda: "Molecular chaperone produced by an intracellular symbiont" Journal of Biochemistry. 110. 583-587 (1991)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] OーYu Kwon: "The longest 18S ribosomal RNA ener known:Nucleotide sequence and presumed secondary structure of the 18S rRNA of the pea aphid,Acyrthosiphon pisum." European Journal of Biochemistry. 202. 827-833 (1991)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Mizue Morioka: "Mutualism based on stress:Selective synthesis and phosphorylation of a stress protein by an intracellular symbiont." Journal of Biochemistry. (1992)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Takema Fukatsu: "Synthesis and localization of symbionin,an aphid endosymbiont protein." Insect Biochemistry. (1992)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Chiaki Ohtaka: "Structure of chaperonins from an intracellular symbiont and their functional expression in E. coli groE mutants." Journal of Bacteriology. (1992)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report

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