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DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 433-444Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(01)00092-1
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interleukin 8; chemokine; rainbow trout; evolution
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An interleukin 8 (IL-8) homologue has been identified in the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. The transcript contains an open reading frame of 294 nucleotides that translates into a 97 amino acid putative peptide, with 5' and 3' untranslated regions (UTR) of 171 and 453 nucleotides, respectively. As with previously sequenced lamprey and flounder genes, the trout amino acid sequence lacks the typical ELR motif upstream of the first pair of cysteines, where DLR is present. The trout IL-8 gene contains four exons divided by three short introns of 341, 247 and 292 bp, and occupies 1824 bp of genomic DNA. RT-PCR reveals a low level constitutive expression of the IL-8 homologue in many tissues, including spleen, heart, liver, head kidney and gill. Expression was not detectable in the brain. Whilst no apparent affect of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on IL-8 expression was observed in vivo, stimulation of a trout macrophage, cell line (RTS-11) with either LPS or poly I:C did result in clear up-regulation of IL-8 expression, detectable by RT-PCR and Northern blot analysis. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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