For insects, chilling injuries that occur in the absence of freezing are often related to a systemic loss of ion and water balance that leads to extracellular hyperkalemia, cell depolarization, and the triggering of apoptotic signalling cascades. The ability of insect ionoregulatory organs (e.g. the Malpighian tubules) to maintain ion balance in the cold has been linked to improved chill tolerance, and many neuroendocrine factors are known to influence ion transport rates of these organs. Injection of micromolar doses of CAPA (an insect neuropeptide) have been previously demonstrated to improve Drosophila cold tolerance, but the mechanisms through which it impacts chill tolerance are unclear, and low doses of CAPA have been previously demonstrated to cause anti-diuresis in insects, including dipterans. Here, we provide evidence that low (fM) and high (µM) doses of CAPA impair and improve chill tolerance, respectively, via two different effects on Malpighian tubule ion and water transport. While low doses of CAPA are anti-diuretic, reduce tubule K+ clearance rates and reduce chill tolerance, high doses facilitate K+ clearance from the haemolymph and increase chill tolerance. By quantifying CAPA peptide levels in the central nervous system, we estimated the maximum achievable hormonal titres of CAPA, and found further evidence that CAPA may function as an anti-diuretic hormone in Drosophila melanogaster. We provide the first evidence of a neuropeptide that can negatively affect cold tolerance in an insect, and further evidence of CAPA functioning as an anti-diuretic peptide in this ubiquitous insect model.
Anti-diuretic activity of a CAPA neuropeptide can compromise Drosophila chill tolerance
Present address: Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, K1S 5B6
Present address: Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, N1G 2W1
Present address: DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, L8S 4L8
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Heath A. MacMillan, Basma Nazal, Sahr Wali, Gil Y. Yerushalmi, Lidiya Misyura, Andrew Donini, Jean-Paul Paluzzi; Anti-diuretic activity of a CAPA neuropeptide can compromise Drosophila chill tolerance. J Exp Biol 2018; jeb.185884. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.185884
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