Developmental and Comparative Immunology. 81():74–82, APR 2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2017.11.010
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PMID: 29155012
Issn Print: 0145-305X
Publication Date: 2018/04/01
Litopenaeus vannameinotch affects lipopolysaccharides induced reactive oxygen species
Pei Ning;Zhihong Zheng;Jude Aweya;Defu Yao;Shengkang Li;Hongyu Ma;Fan Wang;Yueling Zhang;
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Department of Biology and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China
Abstract
Notch signaling pathway was originally discovered in the development stage of drosophila but has recently been found to play essential roles in innate immunity. Most previous studies on Notch have focused on mammals, whereas, in this study, we employed the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei as a model to study the functions of Notch in invertebrate innate immune system. Our results showed that LvNotch was highly expressed in hemocytes and could be strongly induced by lipopolysaccharides (LPS) injection. Small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated knockdown of LvNotch could significantly increase LPS induced L. vannamei mortality, which might be due to the fact that LPS induced ROS was greatly enhanced in LvNotch knockdown shrimps. Further, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) analysis revealed that LvNotch could affect the expression of multiple genes, including dorsal, relish, anti-lipopolysaccharide factor 1 (ALF1), ALF3 and NADH dehydrogenases which were upregulated, and Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF, α/β) which were downregulated in LPS treated shrimps. In summary, LvNotch is important in the control of inflammation-induced ROS production in shrimp.We applied a featured invertebrate animal model-shrimp to study Notch function for the first time.Notch can affect inflammation related genes and generate ROS with LPS injection in shrimp.Notch from L. vannamei (LvNotch) was cloned and characterized.
