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Enteroendocrine Regulation of Metabolism and Innate Immunity in Drosophila melanogaster
Enteroendocrine Regulation of Metabolism and Innate Immunity in Drosophila melanogaster
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103507
- ISBN
- 9798280712102
- DDC
- 574
- 서명/저자
- Enteroendocrine Regulation of Metabolism and Innate Immunity in Drosophila melanogaster
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Harvard University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 107 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Watnick, Paula I.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Despite comprising a very small percentage of the total intestinal epithelium cell population, enteroendocrine cells (EECs) collectively form the largest endocrine organ in the body, secreting over 20 peptide hormones, or enteroendocrine peptides (EEPs), that regulate several physiological processes, including feeding behavior, metabolism, and immunity. Drosophila melanogaster, also known as the common fruit fly, shares structural and functional homology with the mammalian gastrointestinal tract and has therefore served as an excellent model organism to study intestinal physiology. My thesis work explores the role and regulation of the Drosophila EEP tachykinin (Tk) in the context of innate immunity and intestinal and systemic lipid metabolism. Previous work by the lab has established that activation of innate immune signaling in EECs induces expression of Tk and subsequent production of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). In the first part of my thesis work, I discovered that, in addition to AMPs, Tk activates expression of Peritrophin-15a, a chitin-binding protein that is part of the protective peritrophic matrix (PM) that lines the intestinal epithelium. I further found that Peritrophin-15a is necessary for robust intestinal colonization by the pathogen V. cholerae and that, in addition to Drosophila, other arthropods that associate with V. cholerae in the environment express close structural homologs of Peritrophin-15a. Our findings suggest that V. cholerae might exploit activation of the host innate immune response and upregulation of Peritrophin-15a to increase adhesion to the intestinal surface of environmental arthropod hosts. Much like mammalian EECs, Drosophila EECs express nutrient transporters and G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that sense intestinal nutrient status to regulate EEP production. In the second part of my thesis work, I found that the EEC-exclusive GPCR GulpR regulates expression of Tk and other EEPs. I also report that, through Tk, GulpR modulates utilization of systemic lipid stores when flies experience starvation but not infection stress. This suggests that activation of lipid mobilization in response to nutrient limitation and infection are regulated via different mechanisms. Overall, my thesis work identifies a GPCR that regulates expression of Tk and other EEPs in Drosophila, discovers additional roles of Tk in modulating innate immunity and metabolism, and identifies a protein produced by arthropods that may contribute to the survival and persistence of the human pathogen V. cholerae in the environment.
- 일반주제명
- Molecular biology
- 일반주제명
- Public health
- 일반주제명
- Biology
- 일반주제명
- Biochemistry
- 일반주제명
- Endocrinology
- 키워드
- GulpR modulates
- 키워드
- Intestine
- 키워드
- Peritrophin
- 키워드
- Tachykinin
- 키워드
- Vibrio cholerae
- 기타저자
- Harvard University Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-12B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0084.
■650 4▼aMolecular biology
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■650 4▼aEndocrinology
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■653 ▼aTachykinin
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17357404▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
