Transcriptomic analyses of Diaphorina citri Kuwayama in response to the infection by Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus
Author of the article:ZENG Li-Xia; TIAN Ming-Yi; WU Feng-Nian; WANG Yan-Jing; DENG Xiao-Ling; CEN Yi-Jing
Author's Workplace:1. College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; 2. Guangdong Lingnan Vocational and Technical College, Guangzhou 510663, China)
Key Words: Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, huanglongbing, transcriptome, differential expression, interaction
Abstract:
[Objectives] Understanding of the molecular mechanism of
interaction between Asian citrus psyllid Diaphorina
citri Kuwayama and huanglongbing which is associated with Canditatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas). [Methods] RNA- Seq
technology was used to analyze the transcriptome of CLas infected and uninfected D.
citri adults. The differentially expression genes after CLas-infection were obtained, and their
functions were analyzed. [Results] There
were 1 502 unigenes that were differentially expressed between the infected
and uninfected D. citri, with 764
up-regulated and 752 down-regulated in the infected psyllids. These unigenes
were assigned to NCBI NR, KEGG and GO database, 1 099 unigenes had significant BlastX hit with NCBI
protein database and their annotations of predicted protien were obtained.
Among them, 852 unigenes were
categorized into GO function categories; 931 unigenes were categorized into 239
KEGG pathways. According to the GO analysis, the unigenes which involved
in metabolic process and catalytic activity function were significantly up-regulated. Among the 53
immune-related genes which showed different express, 28 were related to the
cellular immunity, 25 to the immune signaling pathway, and the up-regulated
genes of these 2 groups was 64% and 32% respectively. [Conclusion] Interaction is present between CLas and it’s vector D.
citri. The metabolic activity and the immunoreaction might be
affected as the related genes of these activity differently express in the CLas-infected psyllid.