生物
补体系统
DNA甲基化
免疫系统
补体成分3
哈维氏弧菌
基因表达
系数H
补体因子B
凝集素途径
替代补体途径
补体因子I
基因敲除
分子生物学
基因表达调控
基因
免疫学
遗传学
弧菌
细菌
作者
Xinran Ma,Min Wei,Huijuan Chen,Junwei Zhang,Quanchao Chen,Songlin Chen,Qian Zhou
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.fsi.2024.109755
摘要
Complement factor H-related protein (CFHR) plays an important role in regulating complement activation and defensive responses. The function of CFHR2 (complement factor H related 2), a member of the CFHR family, in fish remains unclear. Here, we report the genetic relationship, expression characteristics and regulatory mechanism of cfhl5 (complement factor H like 5) gene, which encodes CFHR2 in Chinese tongue sole. We observed that the cfhl5 gene was widely expressed in several tissues, such as brain, heart and immune organs, and was most abundantly expressed in liver. After injection with Vibrio harveyi, the expression of cfhl5 was up-regulated significantly in liver, spleen and kidney at 12 or 24 hours post infection (hpi), suggesting an involvement of this gene in the acute immune response. Knockdown of cfhl5 in liver cells significantly up-regulated the expression of the pro-inflammatory cytokines tnf-α (tumor necrosis factor-alpha) and il1β (interleukin-1beta), the immunomodulatory factor il10 (interleukin-10) and the lectin complement pathway gene masp1 (MBL-associated serine protease 1), and down-regulated the expression of complement components c3 (complement 3) and cfi (complement factor I). In our previous work, we found that cfhl5 gene was significantly higher methylated and lower expressed in the resistant family compared with the susceptible family. Therefore, we used dual-luciferase reporter system to determine the effect of DNA methylation on this gene and found that DNA methylation could inhibit the promoter activity to reduce its expression. These results demonstrated that the expression of cfhl5 is regulated by DNA methylation, and this gene might play an important role in the immune response by regulating the expression of cytokines and complement components genes in Chinese tongue sole.
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