Journal
FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 105, Issue -, Pages 244-252Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2020.07.031
Keywords
Barrier-to-autointegration factor; White spot syndrome virus; Transcriptional regulation; Phosphorylation; Cherax quadricarinatus
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of China [U1605214, 41676135]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [20720180123]
- opening project of State-Province Joint Engineering Laboratory of Marine Bioproducts and Technology of Xiamen University, China [201803]
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Barrier-to-autointegration factor (BAF) is a highly conserved DNA binding protein that participates in a variety of biological processes such as transcription, epigenetic regulation and antiviral immunity in vertebrates. However, the function of BAF is poorly understood in crustaceans. In this study, we identified a barrier-to-autointegration factor (CqBAF) from red claw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus, which was responsive to white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) infection. The full-length cDNA sequence of CqBAF was 544 bp, including an open reading frame of 273 bp encoding 90 amino acids, a 107 bp of 5'-Untranslated Regions (5'-UTR) and a 164 bp of 3'-UTR. Gene expression analysis showed that CqBAF was distributed in all tissues examined with the highest expression in the crayfish haematopietic tissue (Hpt), which protein expression was also significantly up-regulated by WSSV infection in Hpt cells. Furthermore, the transcripts of both an immediate early gene IE1 and a late envelope protein gene VP28 of WSSV were clearly reduced in Hpt cells after gene silencing of CqBAF. Importantly, the promoter activity of two immediate early genes of WSSV, including WSV051 and IE1, was strongly enhanced by the increased phosphorylation of CqBAF, which also facilitated the accumulation of CqBAF protein in the cytoplasm of Sf9 cells. Taken together, these data suggest that CqBAF is likely to increase the replication of WSSV by promoting the transcription of viral immediate early genes, probably regulated by phosphorylation of CqBAF, which sheds new light on the molecular mechanism of WSSV infection.
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