Metabolomic and transcriptomic data on major metabolic/biosynthetic pathways in workers and soldiers of the termite Prorhinotermes simplex (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) and chemical synthesis of intermediates of defensive (E)-nitropentadec-1-ene biosynthesis

0498659 - ÚOCHB 2019 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Jirošová, Anna - Jančařík, Andrej - Menezes, R. C. - Bazalová, Olga - Dolejšová, Klára - Vogel, H. - Jedlička, Pavel - Buček, Aleš - Brabcová, Jana - Majer, Pavel - Hanus, Robert - Svatoš, Aleš
Metabolomic and transcriptomic data on major metabolic/biosynthetic pathways in workers and soldiers of the termite Prorhinotermes simplex (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) and chemical synthesis of intermediates of defensive (E)-nitropentadec-1-ene biosynthesis.
Data in Brief. Roč. 18, Jun (2018), s. 1614-1627. ISSN 2352-3409
R&D Projects: GA ČR GP13-25137P
Institutional support: RVO:61388963 ; RVO:60077344
Keywords : biosynthesis * termites * chemical defense * Prorhinotermes simplex * nitroalkenes * (E)-1-nitropentadec-1-ene * metabolomics * transcriptomics
OECD category: Biochemistry and molecular biology
Method of publishing: Open access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340918304037?via%3Dihub

Production of nitro compounds has only seldom been recorded in arthropods. The aliphatic nitroalkene (E)-nitropentadec-1-ene (NPD), identified in soldiers of the termite genus Prorhinotermes, was the first case documented in insects in early seventies. Yet, the biosynthetic origin of NPD has long remained unknown. We previously proposed that NPD arises through the condensation of amino acids glycine and/or L-serine with tetradecanoic acid along a biosynthetic pathway analogous to the formation of sphingolipids. Here, we provide a metabolomics and transcriptomic data of the Prorhinotermes simplex termite workers and soldiers. Data are related to NPD biosynthesis in P. simplex soldiers. Original metabolomics data were deposited in MetaboLights metabolomics database and are become publicly available after publishing the original article. Additionally, chemical synthesis of biosynthetic intermediates of NPD in non labeled and stable labeled forms are reported. Data extend our poor knowledge of arthropod metabolome and transcriptome and would be useful for comparative study in termites or other arthropods. The data were used for de-replication of NPD biosynthesis and published separately (Jirosova et al., 2017) [1].
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0291138