Expressional and functional interactions of two Apis cerana cerana olfactory receptors
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Abstract
Apis cerana cerana relies on the sensitive olfactory system to perform the foraging activities in the surrounding environment. Olfactory receptors (ORs) are a primary requirement for odorant recognition and coding. However, the molecular recognition of volatile with olfactory receptor in Apis cerana cerana is still not clear. Hence, in the present study, we achieved transient transfection and cell surface expression of Apis cerana cerana ORs (AcerOr1 and AcerOr2; AcerOr2 is orthologous to the co-receptor) in Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 cells. The results showed that both mRNA and protein levels of AcerOr1 and AcerOr2 were drastically reduced when treated with their respective double stranded (ds) RNA compared to those in the control and double-stranded green fluorescent protein (dsGFP)-treated cells. The response to Ca2+ using 33 volatile odorants indicated that the molecular receptive range of AcerOr2 narrowly responded to N-(4-ethylphenyl)-2-((4-ethyl-5-(3-pyridinyl)-4H-1, 2, 4- triazol-3-yl) thio) acetamide (VUAA1) whereas AcerOr1 was sensitive to eugenol, lauric acid, ocimene, 1-nonanol, linolenic acid, hexyl acetate, undecanoic acid, 1-octyl alcohol, and nerol, and it revealed distinct changes in the dose-response curve. We discovered ligands that were useful for probing receptor activity during odor stimulation and validated three of them using an electroantennography (EAG) assay. The response increased with the concentration of the odorant. Further, both AcerOr1 and AcerOr2 knockdowns exhibited significantly reduced intracellular Ca2+ levels in response to the corresponding ligands in vitro. Overall, the present study provides insight into the mechanism of olfactory discrimination in Apis cerana cerana.
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2018. Expressional and functional interactions of two Apis cerana cerana olfactory receptors. PeerJ Preprints 6:e3513v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3513v1note This preprint is not peer-reviewed. You may wish to reference the subsequent peer-reviewed version of this article.
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Lina Guo conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the manuscript, prepared the figure and table.
Huiting Zhao reviewed drafts of the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Yusuo Jiang contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, reviewed drafts of the paper.
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This work was supported by Shanxi Scholarship Council of China (Grant number 2015-063) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number 31272513). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.