文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Wang, Yue ¹ ; Zhang, Xiao-Wen ² ; Wang, Hui ¹ ; Fang, Wen-Hong ¹ ; Ma, Hongyu ³ ; Zhang, Fengxia; Wang, Yuan ¹ ; Li, X ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Chinese Acad Fishery Sci, East China Sea Fisheries Res Inst, Minist Agr, Key Lab East China Sea Fishery Resources Exploita, Shanghai 200090, Peoples R China

2.Henan Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Xinxiang 453007, Henan, Peoples R China

3.Shantou Univ, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Marine Biotechnol, Shantou 515063, Peoples R Ch

关键词： Type I crustins; Expression profiles; Antibacterial activity; Binding activity; Agglutination activity

期刊名称：DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY （ 影响因子：3.636； 五年影响因子：3.654 ）

ISSN： 0145-305X

年卷期： 2018 年 82 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Type I crustins are crucial effectors of crustacean immune system. Various type I crustins with high sequence diversity possess different antimicrobial activities. To date, the mechanism on how the sequence diversity of type I crustins affects their antimicrobial activities is largely unclear, and how different crustins function together against bacterial invasion still remains unknown. In this study, we identified two novel type I crustins, namely, SpCrus3 and SpCrus4, from an economically important crab, Scylla paramamosain. Either SpCrus3 or SpCrus4 was highly expressed in gill. After challenges with Vibrio parahemolyticus or Staphylococcus aureus, SpCrus4 was up-regulated, whereas SpCrus3 was down regulated. No significant expression change of SpCrus3 and SpCrus4 was observed after white spot syndrome virus injection, suggesting that these two genes may not participate in the antiviral immune responses. SpCrus3 and SpCrus4 had the common 5' terminus and high similarity of 66.06%, but SpCrus4 exhibited stronger antimicrobial activity than that of SpCrus3. Microorganism-binding assay results revealed that both SpCrus3 and SpCrus4 exhibited binding ability to all tested microorganisms. Furthermore, the polysaccharide-binding assay showed that these two proteins exhibited strong binding activity to bacterial polysaccharides, such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), lipoteichoic acid (LTA), and peptidoglycan (PGN). SpCrus3 and SpCrus4 exhibited stronger binding activity to LPS or LTA than to PGN. Moreover, SpCrus4 showed stronger binding activity to LTA than that of SpCrus3, which may be responsible for the significantly distinct antimicrobial activity between these two proteins. In addition, SpCrus4 displayed stronger agglutination activity against several kinds of microorganisms than that of SpCrus3. This increased agglutination activity may also contribute to the strong antibacterial activity of SpCrus4. On the basis of all these results, a possible antibacterial mode exerted by SpCrus3 and SpCrus4 was proposed as follows. SpCrus3 was highly expressed in normal crabs to maintain low-level antibacterial activity without bacterial challenges. When crabs were challenged with bacteria, large amount of SpCrus4 was generated to exhibit strong antibacterial activity against bacterial invasion. This study provides new insights to understand the antibacterial functions and mechanisms of type I crustins. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.