Affiliation:
1. Scottish Fish Immunology Research Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, United Kingdom
2. Fisheries Research Institute, Keelung, Taiwan
3. Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, People's Republic of China
Abstract
ABSTRACT
We report the cloning of a novel antimicrobial peptide gene, termed
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CATH_1, found in the rainbow trout,
Oncorhynchus mykiss
. The predicted 216-residue
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CATH_1 prepropeptide consists of three domains: a 22-residue signal peptide, a 128-residue cathelin-like region containing two identifiable cathelicidin family signatures, and a predicted 66-residue C-terminal cationic antimicrobial peptide. This predicted mature peptide was unique in possessing features of different known (mammalian) cathelicidin subgroups, such as the cysteine-bridged family and the specific amino-acid-rich family. The
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CATH_1 gene comprises four exons, as seen in all known mammalian cathelicidin genes, and several transcription factor binding sites known to be of relevance to host defenses were identified in the 5′ flanking region. By Northern blot analysis, the expression of
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CATH_1 was detected in gill, head kidney, and spleen of bacterially challenged fish. Primary cultures of head kidney leukocytes from rainbow trout stimulated with lipopolysaccharide or poly(I · C) also expressed
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CATH_1. A 36-residue peptide corresponding to the core part of the fish cathelicidin was chemically synthesized and shown to exhibit potent antimicrobial activity and a low hemolytic effect. Thus,
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CATH_1 represents a novel antimicrobial peptide gene belonging to the cathelicidin family and may play an important role in the innate immunity of rainbow trout.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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