This article is a correction to:
Sex Pheromone Receptors of Lepidopteran Insects
Chan Yang
Jie Cheng2
Xiao Yu
Jinpeng Sun- 1Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Science, Ministry of Education, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 2Key Laboratory Experimental Teratology of the Ministry of Education and Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- 3Key Laboratory Experimental Teratology of the Ministry of Education and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
A Corrigendum on
Sex Pheromone Receptors of Lepidopteran Insects
by Yang, C., Cheng, J., Lin, J., Zheng, Y., Yu, X., and Sun, J. (2022). Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:797287. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.797287
In the original article, the sentence “The identified SPRs and their specific sex pheromone ligands were summarized (Table 1).” should have been removed.
A correction has been made to Introduction, paragraph 3:
“In this review, we summarized SPR and Orco information from 10 families (i.e., Bombycidae, Plutellidae, Sphingidae, Saturniidae, Geometridae, Nymphalidae, Noctuidae, Tortricidae, Pyralidae, and Crambidae) of Lepidopteran insects (Krieger et al., 2004, 2005; Sakurai et al., 2004; Miura et al., 2005; Nakagawa et al., 2005; Grosse-Wilde et al., 2007, 2010, 2011; Mitsuno et al., 2008; Jordan et al., 2009; Patch et al., 2009; Zhang et al., 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015; Wanner et al., 2010; Legeai et al., 2011; Wang et al., 2011; Yasukochi et al., 2011; Zhan et al., 2011; Bengtsson et al., 2012; Carraher et al., 2012; Leary et al., 2012; Liu et al., 2012, 2014; Montagne et al., 2012; Xu et al., 2012, 2015; Liu C. et al., 2013; Liu Y. et al., 2013; Sun et al., 2013; Wu et al., 2013; Zhang and Lofstedt, 2013; Jiang et al., 2014; Corcoran et al., 2015; De Fouchier et al., 2015; Feng et al., 2015; Garczynski and Leal, 2015; Lin et al., 2015; Steinwender et al., 2015; Chang et al., 2016; Ge et al., 2016; Jia et al., 2016; Walker et al., 2016; Zhang D.D. et al., 2016; Zhang Y.N. et al., 2016; Gonzalez et al., 2017; Li et al., 2017; Wicher et al., 2017; Yang et al., 2017; Du et al., 2018; Grapputo et al., 2018; Rojas et al., 2018; Table 1). Among all the Lepidopteran SPRs, several of them have been characterized to be sex pheromone sensing receptors. First of all, we reviewed the phylogenetic analyses of Lepidopteran SPRs, and the evolution of the summarized Lepidopteran SPRs was analyzed through MEGA X (Whelan and Goldman, 2001; Kumar et al., 2018). Second, we reviewed the transmembrane predictions of Lepidopteran SPRs, and the protein structure of Lepidopteran SPRs was predicted by online software Consensus Constrained TOPology Prediction (CCTOP) (Dobson et al., 2015) and SwissModel (Bertoni et al., 2017; Bienert et al., 2017; Waterhouse et al., 2018; Guex et al., 2019; Studer et al., 2020). Third, the interaction of Lepidopteran SPM and SPR was reviewed. Finally, the research status of downstream signaling responses and ligand-gated ion channels by the coupling of SPR and Orco was depicted.”
In the original article, Figures 3 and 4 did not match their captions because the figures were erroneously interchanged. The corrected Figures 3 and 4 with their captions appear below.
FIGURE 3
Figure 3. Predicted structure of Lepidopteran SPRs BmOR3 and Orcos through SwissModel. In total, 7 transmembrane helixes were colored rainbow in the form of silk ribbon (Cartoon) and lines.
FIGURE 4
Figure 4. Downstream signaling pathway of SPR and metabotropic channel of SPR-Orco. In macro environment, male insects sense the SPM released by female insects through an olfactory sensory neuron in antennae, and SPM works as an agonist to SPR, and signal transduction leads to ultimate mating behavior.
In the original article, the citation “[18]” should have been replaced with “Wicher et al., 2017”. The citation has now been inserted in “Downstream Signaling Pathways of Sex Pheromone Receptors”, paragraph 1 and should read:
“Early research revealed the presence of G-protein, belonging to the Gαq family, in antennal preparations (especially the pheromone-sensitive sensilla trichodea) of B. mori and Antheraea pernyi, implied a participation of G-protein of the Gαq family in the signal transduction of OR cells in moths (Laue et al., 1997; Nakagawa et al., 2005). The bombykol stimulation of Xenopus laevis oocytes expressing BmOR-1 and BmGαq elicited robust dose-dependent inward Ca2+-dependent Cl− currents on two-electrode voltage-clamp recordings, demonstrating that the binding of bombykol to BmOR-1 leads to the activation of a BmGαq-mediated signaling cascade (Sakurai et al., 2004). MsexOR1 and MsexOrco coexpressed in HEK293 and CHO cells caused bombykal-dependent increases in the intracellular free Ca2+ concentration, and inhibitor evidence showed that phospholipase C (PLC) and protein kinase C (PKC) activities are involved in the bombykal-receptor-mediated Ca2+ signals of hawk moths. It could be hypothesized that MsexOrs couple to Gαq proteins, requiring the activation of PLC for pheromone transduction (Wicher et al., 2017). Immunocytochemistry research showed that anti-Gαq and anti-Gαs antisera stained the inner and outer dendritic segments of the putative OR neuron in male and female antennae, which suggested that each subunit mediates a subset of the odorant response (Miura et al., 2005). In addition, a computational model of the insect pheromone transduction cascade had been used to calculate the presence of the G-protein pathway in pheromone detection (Gu et al., 2009). Furthermore, recent research showed that in HEK293A cells expressing BmOR3 and human Gαi, the dose-dependent coupling of BmOR3 and Gαi on bombykal stimulation was detected through BRET (Lin et al., 2021). From the biophysical perspective, a conservation residue W103 in transmembrane 2 of BmOR3 is the key that determines receptor-Gi coupling (Lin et al., 2021). Pretreatment with specific Gi inhibitor PTX had no significant effects on bombykal-induced BmOR3-BmOrco complex formation or complex-regulated calcium influx, suggesting that Gi coupling and BmOrco coupling are the two independent processes in the case of BmOR3 (Lin et al., 2021).”
Due to a production error, bombykol was erroneously described as the agonist of MsexOR1 and BmOR3; the correct agonist is bombykal.
A correction has been made to “Downstream Signaling Pathways of Sex Pheromone Receptors”, paragraphs 1 and 2:
“Early research revealed the presence of G-protein, belonging to the Gαq family, in antennal preparations (especially the pheromone-sensitive sensilla trichodea) of B. mori and Antheraea pernyi, implied a participation of G-protein of the Gαq family in the signal transduction of OR cells in moths (Laue et al., 1997; Nakagawa et al., 2005). The bombykol stimulation of Xenopus laevis oocytes expressing BmOR-1 and BmGαq elicited robust dose-dependent inward Ca2+-dependent Cl− currents on two-electrode voltage-clamp recordings, demonstrating that the binding of bombykol to BmOR-1 leads to the activation of a BmGαq-mediated signaling cascade (Sakurai et al., 2004). MsexOR1 and MsexOrco coexpressed in HEK293 and CHO cells caused bombykal-dependent increases in the intracellular free Ca2+ concentration, and inhibitor evidence showed that phospholipase C (PLC) and protein kinase C (PKC) activities are involved in the bombykal-receptor-mediated Ca2+ signals of hawk moths. It could be hypothesized that MsexORs couple to Gαq proteins, requiring the activation of PLC for pheromone transduction (Wicher et al., 2017). Immunocytochemistry research showed that anti-Gαq and anti-Gαs antisera stained the inner and outer dendritic segments of the putative OR neuron in male and female antennae, which suggested that each subunit mediates a subset of the odorant response (Miura et al., 2005). In addition, a computational model of the insect pheromone transduction cascade had been used to calculate the presence of the G-protein pathway in pheromone detection (Gu et al., 2009). Furthermore, recent research showed that in HEK293A cells expressing BmOR3 and human Gαi, the dose-dependent coupling of BmOR3 and Gαi on bombykal stimulation was detected through BRET (Lin et al., 2021). From the biophysical perspective, a conservation residue W103 in transmembrane 2 of BmOR3 is the key that determines receptor-Gi coupling (Lin et al., 2021). Pretreatment with specific Gi inhibitor PTX had no significant effects on bombykal-induced BmOR3-BmOrco complex formation or complex-regulated calcium influx, suggesting that Gi coupling and BmOrco coupling are the two independent processes in the case of BmOR3 (Lin et al., 2021).
The GPCRs usually direct the recruitment, activation, and scaffolding of the cytoplasmic signaling complexes via two multifunctional adaptor and transducer molecules, β-arrestins 1 and 2, and arrestins also function to activate signaling cascades independently of G-protein activation or mediate receptor desensitization (Lefkowitz and Shenoy, 2005; DeWire et al., 2007). Individual arrestins had been reported to function in both olfactory and visual pathways in Dipteran insects (Merrill et al., 2001) but not in Lepidopteran insects. Recent research reported that bombykal robustly stimulated the recruitment of human β-arrestin-1/2 and B. mori intrinsic arrestin to BmOR3 in HEK293A cells in a concentration-dependent manner, and the arrestin, in turn, regulated BmOR3 internalization (Lin et al., 2021). Bombykal also induced downstream kinase (i.e., ERK, SRC, AKT, and JNK) activation (phosphorylation) through arrestin (Lin et al., 2021). These results confirmed the arrestin-mediated signaling downstream of BmOR3. The knockdown of β-arrestins significantly reduced bombykal-induced calcium influx through BmOR3-BmOR2, which was accompanied by the collapse of the receptor complex, suggesting that the β-arrestins mediate Ca2+ response mainly by regulating the structural and functional integrity of the BmOR3-BmOR2 complex (Lin et al., 2021). The summarized researches show that insect pheromone receptors may both have G-protein and arrestin downstream pathways (Figure 4).”
The same correction has also been made to “Metabotropic Ion Channel by the Coupling of Lepidopteran Sex Pheromone Receptors and Orcos”, paragraphs 1 and 2:
“BmOR1 and BmOR3 of B. mori are mutually exclusively expressed in a pair of adjacent pheromone-sensitive neurons of male antennae, and both of which are coexpressed with the highly conserved insect Orco. Heterologous cells coexpressing BmOR2 can greatly enhance the sensitivity of BmOR1 to bombykol, and the current-voltage analysis showed that bombykol activated a non-selective cation channel in oocytes expressing BmOR1 and BmOR2, which is different from Ca2+-activated Cl− channel through BmGαq, and the non-selective cation channel activity in response to bombykol was also observed when BmOR1 was coexpressed with HvirOR2 or Or83b (Whelan and Goldman, 2001; Nakagawa et al., 2005; Figure 4). As reported in MsexOR1, the PLC/PKC activity is a prerequisite to bombykal-receptor-mediated Ca2+ signals in HEK293 and CHO cells, and it could be hypothesized that MsexOR1 and MsexOrco need to be phosphorylated before they can be gated by bombykal as an ionotropic odor receptor-ion channel complex (Wicher et al., 2017).
In a recent study, the BmOR3-BmOR2 combination elicited a response to bombykal and showed similar channel properties, and the coupling of BmOR3 and BmOR2 forms a cation channel with the detection of calcium influx (Lin et al., 2021). From the view of biophysics, there was also physical interaction between BmOR3 and its Orco BmOR2. On bombykal stimulation, the cytoplasmic parts intracellular loop 1 (ICL1), ICL2, and ICL3 moved away from the N-terminus, while the C-terminal helical kink moved close to the N-terminus of BmOR3. On the contrary, the lower part of loop7a-7b moved away from the N-terminus in BmOR2. ICL1, ICL2, and ICL3 also moved away from the N-terminus of BmOR2 (Lin et al., 2021). The replacement of transmembrane 7 in both receptors confirmed its indispensable role in BmOR3-BmOrco coupling for ionotropic functions (Lin et al., 2021). Several key motifs determine the BmOR3-BmOR2 coupling, the charged residue pair of BmOR3-E403 and BmOrco-K437 represents an important “ionic lock” in regard to mediating BmOR3-BmOrco coupling, and the hydrophobic patches F428/F433 of BmOR3 and zipper Y464/V467/L468/L471 of BmOrco are spatially close to each other, suggesting that they might form hydrophobic interactions (Lin et al., 2021). These reports suggest that the coupling of both SPR and Orco plays a vital role in sex pheromone signal detection and transduction.”
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Keywords: sex pheromone receptor, structure, signal transduction, Lepidopteran insects, evolution, function
Citation: Yang C, Cheng J, Lin J, Zheng Y, Yu X and Sun J (2022) Corrigendum: Sex Pheromone Receptors of Lepidopteran Insects. Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:900818. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.900818
Received: 21 March 2022; Accepted: 23 March 2022;
Published: 14 April 2022.
Edited and reviewed by: Rui Tang, Guangdong Academy of Science (CAS), China
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