ProPhenolOxidase in Daphnia magna: cDNA sequencing and expression in relation to resistance to pathogens

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 674-680

  Labbé, Pierrick ^a   Little, Tom J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Invertebrate immunity; Pasteuria ramosa; Pathogen; ProPhenolOxidase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASTEURIA RAMOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPO GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIA PULEX; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PASTEURIA RAMOSA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 59349087258     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2008.11.012     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Siva-Jothy M.T., Moret Y., and Rolff J. Insect immunity: an evolutionary ecology perspective. Advances in Insect Physiology 32 (2005) 1-48
2. Carton Y., Nappi A.J., and Poirie M. Genetics of anti-parasite resistance in invertebrates. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 29 1 (2005) 9-32
3. Ferrandon D., Imler J.-L., Hetru C., and Hoffmann J.A. The Drosophila systemic immune response: sensing and signalling during bacterial and fungal infections. Nature Reviews in Immunology 7 11 (2007) 862-874
4. Sackton T.B., Lazzaro B.P., Schlenke T.A., Evans J.D., Hultmark D., and Clark A.G. Dynamic evolution of the innate immune system in Drosophila. Nature Genetics 39 12 (2007) 1461-1468
5. Schmid-Hempel P. Natural insect host-parasite systems show immune priming and specificity: puzzles to be solved. Bioessays 27 10 (2005) 1026-1034
6. Cerenius L., and Söderhäll K. The prophenoloxidase-activating system in invertebrates. Immunological Reviews 198 1 (2004) 116-126
7. Liu H., Jiravanichpaisal P., Cerenius L., Lee B.L., Söderhäll I., and Söderhäll K. Phenoloxidase is an important component of the defense against Aeromonas hydrophila infection in a Crustacean, Pacifastacus leniusculus. Journal of Biological Chemistry 282 46 (2007) 33593-33598
8. Rajagopal R., Thamilarasi K., Venkatesh G.R., Srinivas P., and Bhatnagar R.K. Immune cascade of Spodoptera litura: cloning, expression, and characterization of inducible prophenol oxidase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 337 1 (2005) 394-400
9. Ko C.-F., Chiou T.-T., Vaseeharan B., Lu J.-K., and Chen J.-C. Cloning and characterisation of a prophenoloxidase from the haemocytes of mud crab Scylla serrata. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 31 1 (2007) 12-22
10. Gai Y., Zhao J., Song L., Li C., Zheng P., Qiu L., et al. A prophenoloxidase from the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis: gene cloning, expression and activity analysis. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 24 2 (2008) 156-167
11. Lu K.-Y., Huang Y.-T., Lee H.-H., and Sung H.-H. Cloning the prophenoloxidase cDNA and monitoring the expression of proPO mRNA in prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) stimulated in vivo by CpG oligodeoxynucleotides. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 20 3 (2006) 274-284
12. Cerenius L., Bangyeekhun E., Keyser P., Söderhäll I., and Söderhäll K. Host prophenoloxidase expression in freshwater crayfish is linked to increased resistance to the crayfish plague fungus, Aphanomyces astaci. Cellular Microbiology 5 5 (2003) 353-357
13. Ebert D. Host-parasite coevolution: insights from the Daphnia-parasite model system. Current Opinion in Microbiology 11 3 (2008) 290-301
14. Carius H.J., Little T.J., and Ebert D. Genetic variation in a host-parasite association: potential for coevolution and frequency-dependent selection. Evolution 55 6 (2001) 1136-1145
15. Little T.J., and Ebert D. The cause of parasitic infection in natural populations of Daphnia (Crustacea: Cladocera): the role of host genetics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 267 1457 (2000) 2037-2042
16. Mitchell S.E., and Read A.F. Poor maternal environment enhances offspring disease resistance in an invertebrate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272 1581 (2005) 2601-2607
17. Mitchell S.E., Rogers E.S., Little T.J., and Read A.F. Host-parasite and genotype-by-environment interactions: temperature modifies potential for selection by a sterilizing pathogen. Evolution 59 1 (2005) 70-80
18. Vale P.F., Stjernman M., and Little T.J. Temperature-dependent costs of parasitism and maintenance of polymorphism under genotype-by-environment interactions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21 5 (2008) 1418-1427
19. Mucklow P.T., and Ebert D. Physiology of immunity in the water flea Daphnia magna: environmental and genetic aspects of phenoloxidase activity. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76 6 (2003) 836-842
20. McTaggart SJ, Conlon C, Colbourne JK, Blaxter ML, Little TJ. The components of the Daphnia pulex immune system as revealed by complete genome sequencing. BMC Genomics; in press.
21. Ebert D. Ecology, epidemiology, and evolution of parasitism in Daphnia (2005), National Library of Medicine (US), National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda (MD)
22. Duncan A.B., and Little T.J. Parasite-driven genetic change in a natural population of Daphnia. Evolution 61 4 (2007) 796-803
23. Duncan A.B., Mitchell S.E., and Little T.J. Parasite-mediated selection and the role of sex and diapause in Daphnia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19 4 (2006) 1183-1189
24. Mitchell S.E., Read A.F., and Little T.J. The effect of a pathogen epidemic on the genetic structure and reproductive strategy of the crustacean Daphnia magna. Ecology Letters 7 9 (2004) 848-858
25. Decaestecker E., Gaba S., Raeymaekers J.A.M., Stoks R., Van Kerckhoven L., Ebert D., et al. Host-parasite 'Red Queen' dynamics archived in pond sediment. Nature 450 7171 (2007) 870-873
26. Corpet F. Multiple sequence alignment with hierarchical clustering. Nucleic Acids Research 16 (1988) 10881-10890
27. Thomopson J.D., Higgins D.G., and Gibson T.J. CLUSTALW. Nucleic Acids Research 22 (1994) 4673-4680
28. Klüttgen B., Dülmer U., Engels M., and Ratte H.T. ADaM, an artificial freshwater for the culture of zooplankton. Water Research 28 3 (1994) 743-746
29. Heckmann L.-H., Connon R., Hutchinson T., Maund S., Sibly R., and Callaghan A. Expression of target and reference genes in Daphnia magna exposed to ibuprofen. BMC Genomics 7 1 (2006) 175
30. Sritunyalucksana K., Cerenius L., and Söderhäll K. Molecular cloning and characterization of prophenoloxidase in the black tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodon. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 23 3 (1999) 179-186
31. Emanuelsson O., Brunak S., von Heijne G., and Nielsen H. Locating proteins in the cell using TargetP, SignalP and related tools. Nature Protocols 2 4 (2007) 953-971
32. Cerenius L., Lee B.L., and Söderhäll K. The proPO-system: pros and cons for its role in invertebrate immunity. Trends in Immunology 29 6 (2008) 263-271