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Antimicrobial peptides and cell processes tracking endosymbiont dynamics
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Masson F
; Zaidman-Rémy A
; Heddi A
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
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Many insects sustain long-term relationships with intracellular symbiotic
bacteria that provide them with essential nutrients. Such endosymbiotic
relationships likely emerged from ancestral infections of the host by free-living
bacteria, the genomes of which experience drastic gene losses and rearrangements
during the host-symbiont coevolution. While it is well documented that
endosymbiont genome shrinkage results in the loss of bacterial virulence genes,
whether and how the host immune system evolves towards the tolerance and control
of bacterial partners remains elusive. Remarkably, many insects rely on a
'compartmentalization strategy' that consists in secluding endosymbionts within
specialized host cells, the bacteriocytes, thus preventing direct symbiont
contact with the host systemic immune system. In this review, we compile recent
advances in the understanding of the bacteriocyte immune and cellular regulators
involved in endosymbiont maintenance and control. We focus on the cereal weevils
Sitophilus spp., in which bacteriocytes form bacteriome organs that strikingly
evolve in structure and number according to insect development and physiological
needs. We discuss how weevils track endosymbiont dynamics through at least two
mechanisms: (i) a bacteriome local antimicrobial peptide synthesis that regulates
endosymbiont cell cytokinesis and helps to maintain a homeostatic state within
bacteriocytes and (ii) some cellular processes such as apoptosis and autophagy
which adjust endosymbiont load to the host developmental requirements, hence
ensuring a fine-tuned integration of symbiosis costs and benefits.This article is
part of the themed issue 'Evolutionary ecology of arthropod antimicrobial
peptides'.