CN108037121B - Method for accurately measuring real pH value of insect intestinal environment - Google Patents

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CN108037121B
CN108037121B CN201711116143.9A CN201711116143A CN108037121B CN 108037121 B CN108037121 B CN 108037121B CN 201711116143 A CN201711116143 A CN 201711116143A CN 108037121 B CN108037121 B CN 108037121B
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The invention discloses a method for accurately measuring the real pH value of an insect intestinal environment, which comprises the steps of firstly obtaining the insect intestinal tract, collecting a certain amount of insect intestinal tract and the content thereof, grinding the insect intestinal tract and the content thereof by using a biological tissue grinder, centrifuging by using a cold centrifuge to obtain the supernatant of the insect intestinal tract and the content thereof, and quickly measuring the pH value of the supernatant by using wide pH test paper and precise pH test paper, so that the real pH value of the insect intestinal environment can be obtained, the real pH value of the insect larva intestinal environment can be accurately obtained in a short time, convenience is provided for the subsequent research of insect intestinal microorganisms and intestinal enzyme systems, and the method has the characteristics of simple operation and real and reliable measured values. Has important guiding value for the food digestion and nutrition acquisition of insects and the development of biological pesticides related to insect midgut.

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Method for accurately measuring real pH value of insect intestinal environment
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technology of insect intestinal environment determination, and particularly relates to a method for accurately measuring the real pH value of an insect intestinal environment.
Background
The digestive tract of insects has the functions of digesting food particles, absorbing nutrients, maintaining ion balance in the body and discharging metabolic waste. It is divided into foregut, midgut and hindgut according to its function. Among them, the foregut has a crop for the temporary storage of food, and the midgut is the site where intestinal commensals and digestive enzymes and proteases mainly exist, with the most prominent function. The middle intestine primarily secretes digestive juices, digests food, and absorbs nutrients. The main function of the hindgut (including the ileum and rectum) is to exclude nitrogenous metabolic wastes and food residues, while providing a favorable nutrient environment for the insect gut flora.
The insect intestinal tract is the most important component of the insect digestive system, and is a dynamic and stable environment accompanied with various vital metabolic activities of insects, and the complex intestinal environment of insects provides a superior colonization environment for certain microorganisms. A large number of intestinal microorganisms exist in the intestinal environment, and partial researches show that the existence of the microorganisms has great significance on normal life activities of host insects. Most microorganisms are in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with host insects, and they contain multiple enzyme systems that also play important roles in vitamin synthesis, fat and carbohydrate absorption and utilization. The intestinal microorganisms and the insect intestinal tract influence each other to finally reach dynamic equilibrium, so that the insect intestinal environment is maintained at a constant pH value.
Because insects have diversified ecological habits and different feeding characteristics, intestinal flora of different types of insects also has diversified characteristics. The intestinal environment is greatly different due to different insect species, which is also a long-term co-evolution result of insects adapting to various different ecological niches and feeding habits, and the co-evolution gradually evolves to a phenomenon that specific intestinal parts of insects colonize and fix intestinal microorganisms. Therefore, different species of insect intestinal tracts colonize different intestinal microorganisms, the species of the intestinal microorganisms can affect the actual pH value of the intestinal environment, and the actual pH value of the intestinal environment can be affected to a certain extent by eating different host plants. The stable pH value of the intestinal environment has an important function in the aspect of maintaining normal physiological activities of insects, can resist invasion and colonization of foreign bacteria to a certain extent, and plays an important role in promoting the function of an immune system.
Most proteases and peptidases in insects are secreted directly into the midgut, and some of the enzyme systems in insects remain in the midgut cells or in association with the outer membrane, so that the pH in the intestinal lumen directly affects the level of enzyme activity, to an extent dependent on the pH optimum for enzyme activity. And the difference of intestinal pH environment among different insects is large. The method has practical application value in researching the intestinal enzyme activity of the insects under the condition of the real pH value of the intestinal tracts of the insects, and can reflect the real enzyme activity change. The variety of enzymes in the insect intestinal environment is large, and in recent years, digestive enzymes, proteases, amylases, cellulases, lipases, carboxylesterases, trehalases, various midgut receptor proteins, and the like have been most studied. The functions of the series of enzymes play a remarkable role in maintaining normal metabolism and physiological activities of insects, and the real pH value of the intestinal environment of the insects has a direct influence on the activity of the enzymes. The series of researches on the enzyme activity related to the insect intestinal tract have to be established on the basis of the real pH value of the insect intestinal tract environment so as to be more practical and valuable.
In recent years, research on a series of enzyme activities in insect intestinal microorganisms and insects has become a new focus of general attention of researchers. Therefore, the method for rapidly measuring the real and accurate pH value of the insect intestinal tract is particularly important in the aspect of physiological and biochemical research of insects, and has important guiding values for food digestion and nutrition acquisition of insects and development of biological pesticides related to the insect midgut.
The conventional methods related to the measurement of the pH value of the intestinal tract of the insect mainly comprise the following two types, namely the method of the yellow gentamian and the like (2009) in the document of 'influence of pH on the activity of the major protease of the intestinal tract of a locusta pratensefolia' is as follows: "the midgut portion was immediately trimmed and the midgut and its contents were eluted in a small beaker with 2mL of ultrapure water, and the pH of the midgut intestinal fluid was immediately measured at room temperature with a pH meter. "pH is a hydrogen ion concentration index (hydrogen ion concentration) refers to the ratio of the total number of hydrogen ions in a solution to the amount of total substances. In the method, the pH value of the middle intestine and the content thereof is eluted in a beaker by 2mL of ultrapure water, and the original H ion concentration in the intestinal tract solution is diluted due to the addition of the ultrapure water in the intestinal tract solution, so that the measured value cannot reflect the real pH value of the intestinal tract. Article published by king pillar et al: "identification of major protease activity in midgut of Heliothis armigera larvae" (journal of insects, Vol.39, No. 1, 2 months 1996), and Zhao Aiping et al: the influence of protease inhibitors on the activity of midgut protease in Grapholitha molesta larvae (proceedings of insects, vol.59, 10, 2016, 1069-1078) was determined by: respectively measuring enzyme activity in a plurality of buffers with different concentration gradients in a pH value range of 5.5-11.0, and determining the pH value with the highest enzyme activity as an optimal pH value; the method has large workload and the measured result can not reflect the enzyme activity under the condition of real intestinal pH value.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above technical problems in the background of the present invention, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for accurately measuring the true pH of the intestinal environment of an insect.
In order to realize the task, the invention adopts the following technical solution:
a method for accurately measuring the real pH value of the intestinal environment of insects is characterized by comprising the following steps:
firstly, taking 30 quick-frozen insect larvae (the number of the quick-frozen insect larvae can be properly adjusted according to the sizes of different types of insect larvae), putting the insect bodies on ice for fixation, quickly cutting off the body walls of the insect larvae along the ventral midline of the insect larvae by using scissors to expose the tissues of the whole digestive tract, cutting off the digestive tract from the front ends of the insect larvae esophagus by using an operation blade, then cutting off the digestive tract at the rear ends of the rear intestines, and then separating out the whole intestinal tracts and the contents of the insect larvae by using tweezers;
step two, placing the dissected intestinal tract and the tissue of the content thereof into a 1.5mL EP tube until the volume of the intestinal tract and the tissue of the content thereof in the EP tube reaches 0.2mL, and then grinding the intestinal tract and the content thereof on ice by using a biological tissue grinder for the EP tube filled with the intestinal tract and the content thereof;
step three, putting the EP tube containing the intestinal tract and the content thereof into a refrigerated centrifuge, and centrifuging for 20min at 4 ℃ and 12000 rpm;
step four, dipping the supernatant in the centrifuged EP tube by using a glass rod, and then, spotting the supernatant on a wide pH test paper, comparing the wide pH test paper with a standard color plate after half a second, reading the pH value, and determining the range of the pH; then, reading out the accurate pH value on a precise pH test paper by the same method; the pH value read out from the precision pH test paper is the real pH value of the intestinal environment of the insect larva.
By adopting the method for rapidly measuring the real pH value of the insect intestinal environment, the real pH value of the insect larva intestinal environment can be accurately obtained in a short time, convenience is provided for the follow-up research of insect intestinal microorganisms and intestinal enzyme systems, and the method has the characteristics of simple operation and real and reliable measured values. Has important guiding value for the food digestion and nutrition acquisition of insects and the development of biological pesticides related to insect midgut.
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In order that the invention may be clearly understood, further details of the invention are set forth in the following description and in the examples.
In this embodiment, the measurement of the real pH value of the intestinal tract of the apple leafroll moth whose host is peach leaf is taken as an example, and it should be noted that the present invention is not limited to this example.
In the following examples, in order to measure the true pH value of the intestinal environment of insects, the inventors collected larvae of healthy 4-year-old apple leaffolders which host peach leaves on the same peach tree, quickly frozen according to a conventional method after collection, then taken out the intestinal tracts of insects, collected a certain amount of intestinal tracts and their contents, ground the intestinal tracts and their contents with a biological tissue grinder, then obtain the supernatant of the intestinal tracts and their contents by high-speed centrifugation, and then measure the true pH value of the intestinal tracts.
The specific operation steps are as follows:
1. taking 30 quick-frozen larvae of apple leaf roller, and cooling and fixing the larvae on an ice bath.
2. Cutting off the body wall of the larvae of the apple leaf roller along the ventral midline of the larvae of the apple leaf roller by using scissors on ice to expose the tissues of the whole digestive tract, cutting off the digestive tract from the front end of the esophagus of the larvae of the apple leaf roller by using an operation blade, cutting off the digestive tract at the rear end of the rear intestine, and separating out the whole intestinal tract and the contents of the larvae of the apple leaf roller by using tweezers.
3. The dissected intestinal tract and its content tissues were immediately put into a 1.5mL EP tube until the volume of the intestinal tract of the larvae and its content tissues in the EP tube reached 0.2mL, and then the intestinal tract and its content tissues were ground on ice using a biological tissue grinder.
4. The EP tube containing the intestinal tract and its contents is placed in a refrigerated centrifuge and centrifuged at 12000rpm for 20min at 4 ℃.
5. The centrifuged clear solution from the EP tube was dipped with a glass rod, spotted on a wide pH paper, compared to a standard color plate after half a second, and read to pH 7.0, determined to be between pH 6.0 and 8.0, and then read to exact pH 6.5 on a precision pH paper using the same method. The pH value read out from the precision pH test paper is the real pH value of the intestinal environment of the larvae of the apple leafroller with the hosts being peach leaves.
Of course, the number and size of the larvae can be adjusted as appropriate for different types of insects.

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1. A method for accurately measuring the real pH value of the intestinal environment of insects is characterized by comprising the following steps:
taking 30 quick-frozen apple leaf roller moth larvae, fixing the larvae on ice, quickly cutting off body walls along the ventral midline of the insect larvae by using scissors to expose the tissues of the whole digestive tract, cutting off the digestive tract from the front end of the esophagus of the apple leaf roller moth larvae by using an operation blade, cutting off the digestive tract at the rear end of the rear intestine, and separating out the whole intestinal tract and the contents of the insect larvae by using tweezers;
step two, placing the dissected intestinal tract and the tissue of the content thereof into a 1.5mL EP tube until the volume of the intestinal tract and the tissue of the content thereof in the EP tube reaches 0.2mL, and then grinding the intestinal tract and the content thereof on ice by using a biological tissue grinder for the EP tube filled with the intestinal tract and the content thereof;
step three, putting the EP tube containing the intestinal tract and the content thereof into a refrigerated centrifuge, and centrifuging for 20min at 4 ℃ and 12000 rpm;
step four, dipping the supernatant in the centrifuged EP tube by using a glass rod, and then, spotting the supernatant on a wide pH test paper, comparing the wide pH test paper with a standard color plate after half a second, reading the pH value, and determining the range of the pH; then, reading out the accurate pH value on a precise pH test paper by the same method; the pH value read out from the precision pH test paper is the real pH value of the intestinal environment of the apple leaf roller moth larva.
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