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  • Title: Molecular characterization and expression analysis of the IFN-gamma related gene (IFN-gammarel) in grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella.
    Author: Chen WQ, Xu QQ, Chang MX, Zou J, Secombes CJ, Peng KM, Nie P.
    Journal: Vet Immunol Immunopathol; 2010 Apr 15; 134(3-4):199-207. PubMed ID: 19800136.
    Abstract:
    Interferon gamma (IFN-gamma), the only member of the type II class of interferons, has been identified in teleost fish. In addition to the IFN-gamma gene, fish possess an IFN-gamma related gene (IFN-gammarel) neighbouring the authentic IFN-gamma gene in the genome. In the present study, the cDNA sequence encoding 167 amino acids of IFN-gammarel and its genomic organization were identified in grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella. The predicted protein sequence of grass carp IFN-gammarel (gcIFN-gammarel) showed 63% and 50% identities to zebrafish and common carp IFN-gammarel (previously termed as IFN-gamma1), respectively. The IFN-gammarel gene consists of 4 exons, with 3 intervening introns, spanning approximately 2kb of genomic sequence. The gcIFN-gammarel gene did not contain any polymorphic DNA repeats in the introns. Realtime PCR analysis showed that grass carp reovirus induced a high and long lasting (from days 1 to 7) expression of gcIFN-gammarel in spleen. The expression of gcIFN-gammarel in blood, head kidney, trunk kidney and spleen was also increased by bacterial peptidoglycan (PGN), lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and the interferon inducer polyI:C. The highest induction of gcIFN-gammarel expression by PGN was observed in spleen, then in blood and head kidney. Further analysis of the expression patterns of gcIFN-gammarel and PGN receptors, nucleotide oligomerization domains (NOD) 1 and 2, may suggest that IFN-gammarel was possibly activated in a NOD2-dependent mechanism.
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