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Applying microarray-based technique to study and analyze silkworm (Bombyx mori) transcriptomic response to long-term high iron diet.

Abstract
To investigate the biological processes affected by long-term iron supplementation, newly hatched silkworms were exposed to high iron mulberry diet (10 and 100 ppm) and its effect on silkworm transcriptom was determined. The results showed that the silkworm was responsive to iron by increasing iron concentration and ferritin levels in the hemolymph and by regulating the expression of many other genes. A total of 523 and 326 differentially expressed genes were identified in 10 and 100 ppm Fe group compared to the control, respectively. Of these genes, 249 were shared between in both the 10 ppm and 100 ppm Fe group, including 152 up-regulated and 97 down-regulated genes. These shared genes included 19 known Fe regulated, 24 immune-related, 12 serine proteases and serine proteases homologs, 41 cuticular and cuticle genes. Ten genes (carboxypeptidases A, serine protease homologs 85, fibrohexamerin/P25, transferrin, sex-specific storage-protein 2, fungal protease inhibitor F, insect intestinal mucin, peptidoglycan recognition protein B, cuticle protein CPH45, unknown gene) were involved in the regulation of iron overload responses.
AuthorsYang Zhou, Yingying Wang, Xiaofeng Li, Frank Addai Peprah, Xiaochen Wang, Haitao Liu, Feng Lin, Jie Gu, Feng Yu, Haifeng Shi
JournalGenomics (Genomics) Vol. 111 Issue 6 Pg. 1504-1513 (12 2019) ISSN: 1089-8646 [Electronic] United States
PMID30391296 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
CopyrightCopyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Chemical References
  • Insect Proteins
  • Iron, Dietary
  • Iron
Topics
  • Animals
  • Bombyx (drug effects, genetics)
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Regulation (drug effects)
  • Insect Proteins (genetics, metabolism)
  • Iron (administration & dosage)
  • Iron Overload (genetics, physiopathology)
  • Iron, Dietary (administration & dosage)
  • Male
  • Transcriptome (drug effects)

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