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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02646-8
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- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China [31525024]
- Spanish Government through the LONGFAQUA project [AGL2013-40986-R]
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In the present study, two elongases, Elovl4 and Elovl5, were functionally characterized and their transcriptional regulation in response to n-3 LC-PUFA administration were investigated in vivo and in vitro. We previously described the molecular characterization of croaker elovl5. Here, we report the full-length cDNA sequence of croaker elovl4, which contained 1794 bp (excluding the polyA tail), including 909 bp of coding region that encoded a polypeptide of 302 amino acids possessing all the characteristic features of Elovl proteins. Functional studies showed that croaker Elovl5, displayed high elongation activity towards C-18 and C-20 PUFA, with only low activity towards C-22 PUFA. In contrast, croaker Elovl4 could effectively convert both C-20 and C-22 PUFA to longer polyenoic products up to C-34. n-3 LC-PUFA suppressed transcription of the two elongase genes, as well as srebp-1 and Lxr alpha, major regulators of hepatic lipid metabolism. The results of dual-luciferase reporter assays and in vitro studies both indicated that the transcriptions of elovl5 and elovl4 elongases could be regulated by Lxr alpha. Moreover, Lxr alpha could mediate the transcription of elovl4 directly or indirectly through regulating the transcription of srebp-1. The above findings contribute further insight and understanding of the mechanisms regulating LC-PUFA biosynthesis in marine fish species.
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