Cloning of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) MyD88 Gene and Its Activating Effect on NF-κB
GAO Feng-Ying1, DONG Jun-Jian1, ZHANG He-Tong1, LI Jia-Xin2, ZHU Zhi-Lin2, SUN Cheng-Fei1,*, Ye Xing1
1 Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute/Key Laboratory of Tropical & Subtropical Fishery Resource Application &Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Fishery Science, Guangzhou 510380, China;
2 College of Fisheries, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin 300384, China
Abstract:Adapter protein myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88) is involved in the interleukin-1 receptor (IL-1R) and Toll-like receptor (TLR)-mediated activation of nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB), which plays important role in innate immunity. In this study, the full-length cDNA of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) MyD88 was isolated. Its ORF was 867 bp in length which encoded 288 amino acid residues. Protein secondary structure analysis showed that MyD88 protein had a N-terminal death domain and a TIR (Toll-like/IL-1) domain, which are known as important functional structural domains in mammalian MyD88. The largemouth bass MyD88 protein had high identity (58.5%~99.3%) with other vertebrates. Phylogenetic analysis showed that largemouth bass MyD88 gathered together with MyD88 of other fish species. In healthy largemouth bass, MyD88 mRNA was detected in all sampled tissues, and MyD88 mRNA had the highest expression levels in the liver. To study the role of MyD88 in innate immunity, its mRNA expression profile after stimulation with polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (PolyI:C) and Nocardia seriolae was studied in the intestine, gill, spleen and kidney. The results showed that in all 4 detected issues, 2 kinds of immune stimuli both upregulated the transcription level of largemouth bass MyD88, and the induction by N. seriolae in the kidney was the strongest. In kidney tissue, MyD88 showed the maximum upregulation at 9 d after infection, and the expression level in the infection group was 8.5 times of that in the control group (P<0.05). The induction by PolyI:C in the gill was initiated earliest. In gill tissue, after 8 h of stimulation, the relative expression level of the experimental group was 5.6 times of that in the control group. Largemouth bass MyD88 were distributed in the HeLa cytoplasm. Overexpression of MsMyD88 could activate NF-κB. These results provide basic data for elucidating the role of MyD88 in the innate immunity of largemouth bass.
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