期刊
MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY
卷 46, 期 8-9, 页码 1897-1904出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2009.01.005
关键词
LvIMD; Death domain; AMPs; Innate immunity; Toll/Imd pathway
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30325035]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2006CB101802]
- Chinese National '863'Project [2006AA10A406, 2006AA09Z445, 1206]
- [FJ592176]
Invertebrates rely on innate immunity as the first line defense against microbes. In Drosophila, the inducible antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) regulated by the Toll and immune deficiency (Imd) pathways are important effectors in innate immunity. Here we report an immune deficiency homolog (LvIMD) from the white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. The full-length cDNA of LvIMD is 758 bp with an open reading frame of 483 bp that encodes a putative protein of 160 amino acids including a death domain at the C-terminus. LvIMD death domain shows similarity to that of Drosophila IMID and human receptor interacting protein 1 (RIP1) of the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) pathway, with 27.9% and 26.4% identity, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis shows that LvIMD clusters with a predicted protein from the starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) independent to insect IMDs and vertebrates RIP1s. LvIMD mRNA is expressed in most tissues and is induced in hepatopancreas and hemocytes after immune challenge. Luciferase reporter assays confirm that LvIMD is able to induce the expression of AMP genes, including Drosophila Attacin A and shrimp Penaeidin 4 in S2 cells. To our knowledge, this is the first report that LvIMD participates in innate signaling to activate the expression of AMP genes in shrimp. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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