Huang Yuxi, Han Xiao, Peng Huan, Li Anxing, Li Ruijun
Liaoning Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Immunology, Dalian Key Laboratory of Marine Animal Disease Control and Prevention, College of Fisheries and Life Science, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, China.
Key Laboratory for Aquatic Products Safety of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Dev Comp Immunol. 2021 Jun;119:104040. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2021.104040. Epub 2021 Feb 6.
l-amino acid oxidase (LAAO) is a recently discovered novel fish immune enzyme. To explore the role of LAAO in the immune system of bony fishes, we cloned the full-length coding sequence (CDS) of LAAO of the zebrafish Danio rerio (ZF-LAAO), conducted bioinformatics analysis of ZF-LAAO, and analyzed its expression profile in zebrafish infected with the pathogen Streptococcus agalactiae. The CDS of ZF-LAAO was 1,515 base pairs long, and the encoded protein of ZF-LAAO contained an 18 amino acid signal peptide. ZF-LAAO contained the conserved domains of the LAAO family (dinucleotide binding motif and GG-motif), 2 N-glycosylation sites, and 2 O-glycosylation sites, and it was a stable hydrophilic exocrine protein. Similarity of the amino acid sequence of ZF-LAAO with LAAOs of 14 other bony fish species was >50% in all cases. The greatest similarity (79.45%) was with the LAAO of Anabarilius grahami, and these two LAAOs were grouped together in the phylogenetic tree. In wild-type zebrafish infected with S. agalactiae, changes in ZF-LAAO gene (zflaao) expression occurred mainly in the early stage of infection, and the changes in zflaao expression were more pronounced than those of the immune enzyme lysozyme (LYZ). The expression levels of both LYZ gene of zebrafish (zflyz) and zflaao were significantly elevated at 6 h after infection (p < 0.001), but zflyz expression in the spleen decreased at 12 h whereas zflaao expression in the liver and spleen peaked at 12 h. These results provided a reference for functional studies of the novel immune enzyme LAAO in bony fish.
L-氨基酸氧化酶(LAAO)是一种最近发现的新型鱼类免疫酶。为了探究LAAO在硬骨鱼类免疫系统中的作用,我们克隆了斑马鱼(Danio rerio)LAAO的全长编码序列(CDS)(ZF-LAAO),对ZF-LAAO进行了生物信息学分析,并分析了其在感染无乳链球菌病原体的斑马鱼中的表达谱。ZF-LAAO的CDS长1515个碱基对,其编码的蛋白质包含一个18个氨基酸的信号肽。ZF-LAAO包含LAAO家族的保守结构域(二核苷酸结合基序和GG基序)、2个N-糖基化位点和2个O-糖基化位点,是一种稳定的亲水性外分泌蛋白。ZF-LAAO的氨基酸序列与其他14种硬骨鱼类的LAAO的相似性在所有情况下均>50%。与云南光唇鱼的LAAO相似性最高(79.45%),这两种LAAO在系统发育树中归为一组。在感染无乳链球菌的野生型斑马鱼中,ZF-LAAO基因(zflaao)表达的变化主要发生在感染早期,且zflaao表达的变化比免疫酶溶菌酶(LYZ)更明显。斑马鱼LYZ基因(zflyz)和zflaao的表达水平在感染后6小时均显著升高(p<0.001),但脾脏中zflyz的表达在12小时下降,而肝脏和脾脏中zflaao的表达在12小时达到峰值。这些结果为新型免疫酶LAAO在硬骨鱼类中的功能研究提供了参考。