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Adv Biosyst ; 4(4): e1900275, 2020 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32293157

ABSTRACT

Animals are thought to use only glucose polymers (glycogen) as energy reserve, whereas both glucose (starch) and fructose polymers (fructans) are used by microbes and plants. Here, it is reported that the gall midge Mayetiola destructor, and likely other herbivorous animal species, gained the ability to utilize dietary fructans directly as storage polysaccharides by a single horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of bacterial levanase/inulinase gene followed by gene expansion and differentiation. Multiple genes encoding levanases/inulinases have their origin in a single HGT event from a bacterium and they show high expression levels and enzymatic activities in different tissues of the gall midge, including nondigestive fat bodies and eggs, both of which contained significant amounts of fructans. This study provides evidence that animals can also use fructans as energy reserve by incorporating bacterial genes in their genomes.


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Diptera , Fructans/metabolism , Gene Transfer, Horizontal , Glycoside Hydrolases , Insect Proteins , Animals , Bacterial Proteins/genetics , Diptera/enzymology , Diptera/genetics , Glycoside Hydrolases/genetics , Glycoside Hydrolases/metabolism , Insect Proteins/genetics , Insect Proteins/metabolism
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