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A scallop nitric oxide synthase (NOS) with structure similar to neuronal NOS and its involvement in the immune defense.

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العنوان: A scallop nitric oxide synthase (NOS) with structure similar to neuronal NOS and its involvement in the immune defense.
المؤلفون: Qiufen Jiang, Zhi Zhou, Leilei Wang, Lingling Wang, Feng Yue, Jingjing Wang, Linsheng Song
المصدر: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 7, p e69158 (2013)
بيانات النشر: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013.
سنة النشر: 2013
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Science
الوصف: BACKGROUND: Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) is responsible for synthesizing nitric oxide (NO) from L-arginine, and involved in multiple physiological functions. However, its immunological role in mollusc was seldom reported. METHODOLOGY: In the present study, an NOS (CfNOS) gene was identified from the scallop Chlamys farreri encoding a polypeptide of 1486 amino acids. Its amino acid sequence shared 50.0~54.7, 40.7~47.0 and 42.5~44.5% similarities with vertebrate neuronal (n), endothelial (e) and inducible (i) NOSs, respectively. CfNOS contained PDZ, oxygenase and reductase domains, which resembled those in nNOS. The CfNOS mRNA transcripts expressed in all embryos and larvae after the 2-cell embryo stage, and were detectable in all tested tissues with the highest level in the gonad, and with the immune tissues hepatopancreas and haemocytes included. Moreover, the immunoreactive area of CfNOS distributed over the haemocyte cytoplasm and cell membrane. After LPS, β-glucan and PGN stimulation, the expression level of CfNOS mRNA in haemocytes increased significantly at 3 h (4.0-, 4.8- and 2.7-fold, respectively, P < 0.01), and reached the peak at 12 h (15.3- and 27.6-fold for LPS and β-glucan respectively, P < 0.01) and 24 h (17.3-fold for PGN, P < 0.01). In addition, TNF-α also induced the expression of CfNOS, which started to increase at 1 h (5.2-fold, P < 0.05) and peaked at 6 h (19.9-fold, P < 0.01). The catalytic activity of the native CfNOS protein was 30.3 ± 0.3 U mgprot(-1), and it decreased significantly after the addition of the selective inhibitors of nNOS and iNOS (26.9 ± 0.4 and 29.3 ± 0.1 U mgprot(-1), respectively, P < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: These results suggested that CfNOS, with identical structure with nNOS and similar enzymatic characteristics to nNOS and iNOS, played the immunological role of iNOS to be involved in the scallop immune defense against PAMPs and TNF-α.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1932-6203
Relation: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3724850?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069158
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/fee0b65c676046d09e8cb9afff9a8776
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.fee0b65c676046d09e8cb9afff9a8776
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
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تدمد:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0069158