Molecular Analysis and Sex-specific Response of the Hepcidin Gene in Yellow Perch (Perca Flavescens) Following Lipopolysaccharide Challenge

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第一作者： Lu, Xing

作者： Lu, Xing;Xiang, Ying;Deng, Dong-Fang;Han, Yueh-Chiang;Shepherd, Brian S. S.;Vinyard, Bryan T. T.;Lu, Xing;Xiang, Ying

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关键词： Gender difference; Antimicrobial peptide; Hepcidin; Lipopolysaccharide; Yellow perch

期刊名称：PROBIOTICS AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEINS （ 影响因子：4.9； 五年影响因子：5.4 ）

ISSN： 1867-1306

年卷期： 2023 年 15 卷 2 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Hepcidin antimicrobial peptide (hamp) is active in teleosts against invading pathogens and plays important roles in the stress and immune responses of finfish. The response of hamp gene was studied in yellow perch (yp) (Perca flavescens) challenged with lipopolysaccharides to understand if this immunity response is sex-specifically different. The cloned hamp gene consists of an open-reading frame of 273 bp and encodes a deduced protein of 90 amino acids (a.a.), which includes a signal peptide of 24 a.a., a pro-domain of 40 a.a. and a mature peptide of 26 a.a. Yp hamp involves 8 cysteine residues with 4 disulfide bonds, and a protein with an internal alpha helix flanked with C- and N-terminal random coils was modeling predicted. RT-qPCR was used to analyze the relative abundances (RAs) of hamp mRNA in the livers of juvenile female and male yellow perch challenged with lipopolysaccharide. The expression levels of hamp were significantly elevated by 3 h (RA = 7.3) and then peaked by 6 h (RA = 29.4) post-treatment in females but the peak was delayed to 12 h (RA = 65.4) post-treatment in males. The peak mRNA level of challenged males was shown 7.6-fold higher than females. The post-treatment responses in both genders decreased to their lowest levels by 24 h and 48 h. Overall, female perch had an earlier but less-sensitive response to the lipopolysaccharide challenge than male.

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