Comparative genomic of the teleost cathepsin B and H and involvement in bacterial induced immunity of miiuy croaker

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Cathepsins are a family of lysosomal proteases play different roles at physiological and pathological states and present in almost all animals as well as other organisms. Cathepsins B and H are both cysteine proteases of cathepsins. Cathepsin B and H have been studied playing parts in protein degradation/turnover, antigen presentation/processing and hormone maturation in mammals. However, little is known about the structures and functions of cathepsin B and H in teleosts. In the present study, we identified and characterized the full-length miiuy croaker (Miichthys miiuy) cathepsin B and H genes. The sequence analysis results showed that both cathepsin B and H contain the characteristics of papain family with a signal peptide, propeptide and mature peptide regions. The comparison of the genomic organizations and locations indicated the conserved synteny and mild evolution in the cathepsin B and H genes adjacent regions. In addition, the gene synteny analysis showed that miiuy croaker cathepsin B has a closer relationship to stickleback and fugu than to cave fish and zebrafish, and cathepsin H was most similar with the 2 subtype in tilapia and fugu. By phylogenetic analysis, miiuy croaker cathepsin B and H were all assigned to cysteine proteases, and with a close relationship to Salmo salar cathepsin B and Oplegnathus fasciatus cathepsin H, respectively. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR analysis results confirmed that cathepsin B and H genes expressed ubiquitously in all tested healthy tissues from miiuy croaker. Furthermore, up-regulated expression of the cathepsin B and H transcripts in liver, spleen and kidney after exposure upon Vibrio anguillarum suggested that they may play important roles in innate immune response and antigen processing of miiuy croaker.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:41

Enthalten in:

Fish & shellfish immunology - 41(2014), 2 vom: 16. Dez., Seite 163-71

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Che, Rongbo [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Rixin [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Tianjun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cathepsin
Cathepsin B
Cathepsin H
Comparative Study
Comparative genomics
EC 3.4.22.1
EC 3.4.22.16
Gene synteny
Immune responses
Journal Article
Miichthys miiuy (miiuy croaker)
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 27.07.2015

Date Revised 03.12.2014

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.fsi.2014.08.025

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM241525780