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A single von Willebrand factor C-domain protein acts as an extracellular pattern-recognition receptor in the river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense
- Source :
- Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295:10468-10477
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- The single von Willebrand factor C-domain proteins (SVWCs) are mainly found in arthropods. Their expression may be regulated by several environmental stresses, including nutritional status and bacterial and viral infections. However, the underlying regulatory mechanism is unclear. In the present study, we identified a member of the SVWC family from the river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense as a soluble and bacteria-inducible pattern-recognition receptor (designated MnSVWC). In vitro, recombinant MnSVWC exhibited pronounced binding and Ca2+-dependent agglutinating abilities against diverse microbes, including Gram-negative bacteria (i.e. Escherichia coli and Aeromonas victoria), Gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis), and yeast (Pichia pastoris). ELISA assays revealed that recombinant MnSVWC recognizes a broad range of various pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and has high affinity to lipopolysaccharide and lysine-type and diaminopimelic acid-type peptidylglycan and d-galactose and low affinity to d-mannan and β-1,3-glucan. Mutant MnSVWCP57A with an impaired Glu-Pro-Asn (EPN) motif displayed reduced affinity to all these PAMPs to varying extent. Moreover, MnSVWC bound to the surface of hemocytes and promoted their phagocytic activity and clearance of invasive bacteria. RNAi-mediated MnSVWC knockdown in prawn reduced the ability to clear invading bacteria, but did not block the activities of the Toll pathway or the arthropod immune deficiency (IMD) pathway, or the expression of antimicrobial peptide genes. These results indicate that MnSVWC functions as an extracellular pattern-recognition receptor in M. nipponense that mediates cellular immune responses by recognizing PAMPs, agglutinating invasive microbes, and promoting phagocytosis in hemocytes.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Innate immune system
030102 biochemistry & molecular biology
biology
Lipopolysaccharide
Pattern recognition receptor
Cell Biology
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease_cause
Biochemistry
Pichia pastoris
Microbiology
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
030104 developmental biology
chemistry
medicine
Macrobrachium nipponense
Receptor
Molecular Biology
Escherichia coli
Bacteria
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Details
- ISSN :
- 00219258
- Volume :
- 295
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........67f832c458a06667e14af102087ff4c1