Effects of single and repeated infections with Neoparamoeba perurans on antibody levels and immune gene expression in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Amoebic gill disease (AGD) is the main health problem for the salmon industry in Tasmania, Australia and is now reported in most salmon producing countries. Antibody and gene expression responses to the pathogen, Neoparamoeba perurans, have been studied independently following primary exposure; however, the effects of sequential reinfection, which can often occur during net-pen culture of salmon, remain unclear. The association between the transcription of immunoglobulin (Ig) and their systemic and mucosal antibody levels in regards to AGD is unknown. Herein, we assessed the antibody responses as well as Ig transcription in the gills of Atlantic salmon infected only once and also sequentially with N. perurans. After four successive AGD challenges, no significant differences in plasma or skin mucus levels of IgM were observed between AGD-naïve and challenged fish. However, IgM gene expression in gill lesions of AGD-affected fish increased up to 31 d after infection, while no changes in IgT, TCR and CD8 transcription were observed. Changes at IgM transcription level did not match the lack of antibody response in mucus, which is possibly explained by weak correlations existing between protein and mRNA abundances in cells and tissues. In the second experiment, which investigated Ig responses to AGD at the transcriptional as well as antibody production level in salmon after a single infection, the levels of serum or skin mucus IgM antibody were not affected and no changes in the IgM or IgT transcription were induced..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Fish & shellfish immunology - 42(2015), 2, Seite 522-529

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Valdenegro-Vega, Victoria A [VerfasserIn]
Polinski, Mark [Sonstige Person]
Bridle, Andrew [Sonstige Person]
Crosbie, Philip [Sonstige Person]
Leef, Melanie [Sonstige Person]
Nowak, Barbara F [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Amebiasis - genetics
Amebiasis - immunology
Amebiasis - parasitology
Amebiasis - veterinary
Antibodies, Protozoan - blood
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay - veterinary
Fish Diseases - genetics
Fish Diseases - immunology
Fish Diseases - parasitology
Fish Proteins - genetics
Fish Proteins - metabolism
Gene Expression Regulation - immunology
Gills - immunology
Gills - parasitology
Immunity, Mucosal - immunology
Immunoglobulin M - blood
Immunoglobulins - blood
Mucus - immunology
Mucus - parasitology
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction - veterinary

doi:

10.1016/j.fsi.2014.11.031

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1958885118