Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 55, Issue -, Pages 21-31Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2015.10.008
Keywords
Inflammatory cytokines; Inflammasome; Intracellular PRRs; NLR; Japanese pufferfish; LPS recognition
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- Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [26450288]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT
- Monbukagakusho), Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26450288] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Some of NOD-like receptors (NLRs), the cytosolic pattern recognition receptors form a multi-protein complex, inflammasome consisting of one or more NLRs, the adaptor protein ASC and inflammatory caspase to generate mature inflammatory cytokines, interleukin (IL)-1 beta and IL-18. However, inflammasome-mediated inflammatory cascade involving any NLR member is unknown in a lower vertebrate like fish. Also, inflammatory cytokine induction pathway in response to a specific ligand, namely bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has not yet been clarified. Therefore, 13 predicted NLR sequences of the Japanese pufferfish, Fugu (Takifugu rubripes) were retrieved in silico and categorized as NLR-C1 similar to 13. Expression analysis of these genes in Fugu head kidney (HK) cells stimulated with a heat-killed Lactobacillus paracasei spp. paracasei (Lpp), LPS, nigericin and a combination of nigericin + LPS showed consistent up-regulations of NLR-C1, 5, 7, 10 and 12 genes in both Lpp and LPS stimulations and NLR-C9 gene in LPS stimulation only. However, nigericin and nigericin + LPS caused an increased expression of NLR-C10 and 12 in HK cells and leukocytes. Fugu treated with Lpp and LPS (in vivo), and infected with Vibrio harveyi had an elevated expression of NLR-C10 and 12. Increased transcription of caspase-1, ASC, IL-1 beta and IL-18 was recorded in nigericin-stimulated HK cells and leukocytes. Results suggested activation of probable inflammasome-mediated inflammatory cytokine response in Fugu. Moreover, LPS may be a key ligand that induces some of the Fugu NLR-Cs (NLR-C9, 10 and 12). Further characterization and functional analysis of Fugu NLR-C10 and 12 for ligand sensing, and processing of pro-inflammatory cytokine, IL-1 beta would elucidate the inflammasome evolution in fish. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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