Occurrence of chaperonin 60 and chaperonin 10 in primary and secondary bacterial symbionts of aphids: implications for the evolution of an endosymbiotic system in aphids

• Published in: Journal of molecular evolution Vol. 36; no. 6; p. 568
• Main Authors: Fukatsu, T, Ishikawa, H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany 01.06.1993
• Subjects: Animals; Aphids - classification; Aphids - embryology; Aphids - genetics; Aphids - microbiology; Bacterial Proteins - genetics; Blotting, Western; Chaperonin 10; Chaperonin 60; Chaperonins; Escherichia coli - genetics; Genes, Insect; Heat-Shock Proteins - genetics; Immunoenzyme Techniques; Male; Models, Biological; Organelles; Phylogeny; Prokaryotic Cells - chemistry; Proteins - genetics; Rabbits; Species Specificity; Symbiosis

All aphids harbor symbiotrophic prokaryotes ("primary symbionts") in a specialized-abdominal cell, the bacteriocyte. Chaperonin 60 (Cpn60, symbionin) and chaperonin 10 (Cpn10), which are high and low molecular weight heatshock proteins, were sought in tissues of more than 60 aphid species....