누에 체액의 유약호르몬 결합단자질(Juvenile hormone hinding protein)에 관한 연구

Study on the Juvenile Hormone Binding Protein in the Hemolymph of the Silkworm Larva, Bombyx mori.

누에 유충에 있어서 체액 JH 결합단자질(JHBP)의 생리적 역할을 알기 위하여, 체액 중의 JH 1과 결합하는 단자질을 polyacrylamide gel 전기영동으로 분리하고, 또 발육에 따른 JH 결합단자질의 활성 변화를 측정한 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 누에 체액중에서 JH 1과 결합하는 단자질은 JH 결합지질단자질(JH-LP)과 Jh 결합단자질(JHBP) 등 JH결합단자질의 Rm은 0.81∼0.33이었고, JH 결합단자질의 Rm은 0.81∼0.84이었다. 두 단자질의 Rm은 성별, 발육시기에 관계없이 일정하였다. 2. 체액단자질의 함량은 발육의 진행에 따라 점차 증가하여 토사기에 가장 높았으며 전용기에 다소 감소하였고 암컷의 함량은 숫컷보다 높았다. 3. 체액 ml 당 JH 결합단자질의 활성은 영의 초기에 낮았고 토사기에 최대로 나타난 후 전용기에 다소 감소하였다. 4. 체액 ml 당 JH 결합단자질의 활성 변화는 체액단자질의 함량의 변화양상과 매우 유사하였다. 5. 체액단자질 mg 당 JH 결합단자질의 활성은 영의 초기에 높았고 5령 6일에서 전용기까지 낮은 수준을 유지하였다.

In order to examine a physiological role of juvenile(JH) binding proteins in the hemolymph of the silkworm larva, Bombyx mori, [3H] JH I incubated hemolymph was separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the fifth-instar larva and the activity of the binding protein was analyzed using charcoal binding assay. The results obtained were as follows; 1. The JH was bound by two protein fractions in the hemolymph of the fifth-instar larva; One was JH binding lipoprotein(JH-LP), the other was JH speific binding protein(JHBP). Their relative mobility values(Rm) were 0.3∼0.33 and 0.81∼0.84, respectively. There were no valid differences in those values from developmental stages of both male and female silkworms. 2. Total protein contents of the hemolymph were gradually increased during the fifth-instar larva, while at the prepupa decreased. The maximum ones were observed at the spinning period and the contents from female were much higher than those from the male. 3. JH binding activity per ml of the hemolymph was low in the early stage of the fifth-instar larva and its activity was maximized at the psinning period and at the prepupa slightly decreased. 4. There was a similar pattern between changes of the JH binding activity per ml of the hemolymph and of the total protein contents of the hemolymph. 5. The JH binding activity per mg of the hemolymph proteins was high in the early stage of the fifth-instar larva, while from the 6th day of the fifth-instar larva to the prepupa its activity showed the lowest levels.