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DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY
卷 115, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2020.103878
关键词
Toll; Litopenaeus vannamei; White spot syndrome virus (WSSV); Vibrio parahaemolyticus; Antimicrobial peptides
资金
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFD0900505]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [32073004, 31772881, 31960206, 31702371]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China [2017A030313190]
- China Agriculture Research System [CARS47]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [18lgpy57]
The Toll2 receptor in Pacific white shrimp plays an important role in both antibacterial immunity and antiviral immunity. Silencing Toll2 receptor increases susceptibility to Vibrio parahaemolyticus, but reduces viral load and inhibits WSSV infection in shrimp. Toll2 may promote WSSV infection by affecting the expression of antimicrobial peptides.
The Toll family of receptors are a group of conserved pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) essentially controlling the initiation of innate immune responses. The white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) and Vibrio parahaemolyticus are major pathogens of aquaculture shrimp. Previous study has suggested that expression of the Toll2 receptor in Pacific white shrimp Penaeus vannamei was up-regulated by white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) infection but did not significantly changed upon infection with the bacterial pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The current study intends to investigate the role of P. vannamei Toll2 in antibacterial and antiviral immunity. We demonstrated that compared with the control, the Toll2-silenced shrimp was more susceptible to V. parahaemolyticus infection, suggesting that Toll2 may play a positive role in antibacterial immunity. However, silencing of Toll2 significantly enhanced survivorship of shrimp infected with WSSV and reduced the viral load in shrimp tissues. The expression of WSSV structural protein VP28 was also inhibited in Toll2-silenced shrimp. Histologic pathology analysis further showed that the WSSV infection was attenuated in stomach tissues from Toll2-silenced shrimp. These suggested that Toll2 could promote WSSV infection in shrimp. In Toll2-silenced shrimp, expression of antimicrobial peptides ALFs and PENs was significantly changed, which may contribute to the role of Toll2 in antibacterial immunity and WSSV infection.
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