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ArticleBMC biology2024

The accumulation of modular serine protease mediated by a novel circRNA sponging miRNA increases Aedes aegypti immunity to fungus.

Tengfei Lu, Yannan Ji, Mengmeng Chang, Xiaoming Zhang, Yanhong Wang, Zhen Zou

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Article in BMC biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Tengfei Lu *State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
Yannan Ji *State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
Mengmeng ChangState Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
Xiaoming ZhangState Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
Yanhong WangState Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China. wangyanhong@ioz.ac.cn.
Zhen ZouState Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China. zouzhen@ioz.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-3550-7656
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

Innovative program of the CAS ZDBS-LY-SM027National Natural Science Foundation of China 32370522National Natural Science Foundation of China 82372288
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMosquitoes transmit many infectious diseases that affect human health. The fungus Beauveria bassiana is a biological pesticide that is pathogenic to mosquitoes but harmless to the environment.

resultsWe found a microRNA (miRNA) that can modulate the antifungal immunity of Aedes aegypti by inhibiting its cognate serine protease. Fungal infection can induce the expression of modular serine protease (ModSP), and ModSP knockdown mosquitoes were more sensitive to B. bassiana infection. The novel miRNA-novel-53 is linked to antifungal immune response and was greatly diminished in infected mosquitoes. The miRNA-novel-53 could bind to the coding sequences of ModSP and impede its expression. Double fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) showed that this inhibition occurred in the cytoplasm. The amount of miRNA-novel-53 increased after miRNA agomir injection. This resulted in a significant decrease in ModSP transcript and a significant increase in mortality after fungal infection. An opposite effect was produced after antagomir injection. The miRNA-novel-53 was also knocked out using CRISPR-Cas9, which increased mosquito resistance to the fungus B. bassiana. Moreover, mosquito novel-circ-930 can affect ModSP mRNA by interacting with miRNA-novel-53 during transfection with siRNA or overexpression plasmid.

conclusionsNovel-circ-930 affects the expression level of ModSP by a novel-circ-930/miRNA-novel-53/ModSP mechanism to modulate antifungal immunity, revealing new information on innate immunity in insects.

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AedesMicroRNAsMycosesAnimalsAntifungal AgentsFungiHumansIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceRNA, CircularSerine EndopeptidasesSerine ProteasesAntifungal AgentsMicroRNAsRNA, CircularSerine EndopeptidasesSerine ProteasesAedes aegyptiAntifungal immunityBeauveria bassianamiRNAModSP

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PMID38233907
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