期刊
DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY
卷 38, 期 1, 页码 66-77出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2012.04.005
关键词
Inositol-requiring enzyme-1; X-box binding protein 1; Litopenaeus vannamei; White spot syndrome virus; Endoplasmic reticulum-stress; Unfolded protein response
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1131002]
- China Agriculture Research System [47]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (973 Program) [2012CB114401]
- Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest [201103034]
- Administration of Ocean and Fisheries of Guangdong Province [A201101B02]
- Open Project of the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol [SKLBC09K04]
- Science and Technology Bureau of Guangdong Province [2011A020102002, 2009A020102002]
The inositol-requiring enzyme-1 (IRE1)-X-box binding protein 1 (IRE1-XBP1) pathway is the key branch of the unfolded protein response (UPR). To investigate the role of the IRE1-XBP1 pathway in reducing environmental stress and increasing anti-viral immunity in Litopenaeus vannamei, homologues of IRE1 (designated as LvIRE1) and XBP1 (designated as LvXBP1) were identified and characterized. The full-length cDNA of LvIRE1 is 4908 bp long, with an open reading frame (ORF) that encodies a putative 1174 amino acid protein. The full-length cDNA of LvXBP1 is 1746 bp long. It contains two ORFs that encode putative 278 amino acid and 157 amino acid proteins, respectively. LvXBP1 mRNA has the predicted IRE1 splicing motifs CNG'CNGN located within the loop regions of two short hairpins. Sequencing of the splicing fragment induced by endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-stress showed a 3 bp or 4 bp frame shift from the predicted sites. The spliced form LvXBP1 (LvXBP1s) contained an ORF encodes a putative 463 amino acid protein. The reporter gene assays indicated that LvXBP15 activates the promoter of L. vannamei immunoglobulin heavy chain binding protein (LvBip), an important UPR effector. RT-PCR showed that LvXBP1 was spliced during the experiments. For heat shock treatment, the total LvXBP1 expression was increased and peaked at about 36 h, whereas the percentages of the two isoforms were relatively stable. For the WSSV challenge, LvXBP1 was upregulated during the experiment and the percentage of the spliced form continuously declined after 18 h of infection. Knock-down of LvXBP1 by RNA interference resulted in a lower cumulative mortality of L vannamei under WSSV infection. Furthermore, the expression profiles of LvIRE1 and LvXBP1 in the gills, hemocytes, intestines, and hepatopancreas of the WSSV-challenged shrimp were detected using real-time RT-PCR. Taken together, these results confirm that the IRE1-XBP1 pathway is important for L vannamei environmental stress resistance, suggest that L vannamei IRE1-XBP1 may activated by WSSV and be annexed to serve the virus. Crown Copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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