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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-5-27
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Serine proteinase inhibitor plays an essential role in arthropods by restraining the activities of endogenic or exogenic serine proteinases. Four Kazal-type serine proteinase inhibitors, Fcspi-1-4, from the hepatopancreas of Chinese white shrimp, Fenneropenaeus chinensis, were cloned and identified. The open reading frames (ORFs) of Fcspis are 1389, 1236, 1080, and 939 base pairs, encode the pre-proteins of 462, 411, 359, and 312 amino acids and form the 9, 8, 7, and 6 typical Kazal domains, respectively. When analyzing the amino acid sequences of the four inhibitors, it was found that they might have been derived from the same transcript, which was subjected to alternative splicing, and none of the Kazal domains were identical within each inhibitor. Multiple alignments showed that the Kazal inhibitors were homologous with a conserved motif of Cx(3)Cx(6)VCGSDGxTYx(3)CxLx(5)Cx(5)ITx(6)GC. The results from RT-PCR indicated that the expression of Fcspis as a whole was upregulated by bacterial challenge, no obvious change was noticed after viral challenge, and Fcspi-1 had a similar expression pattern with that of Fcspis. Recombinant FcSPIs were successfully expressed in bacteria and purified for further study. Recombinant FcSPI-1 was sensitive to DTT and had thermal stability. The inhibitory kinetics assay suggested that rFcSPI-1 was a mixed-type fast tight binding inhibitor with inhibitory activities against subtilisin A at a molar ratio of 1:1, 1:2 against proteinase K, and 2:1 against elastase. It can firmly bound to two Gram-positive and one Gram-negative bacteria but without anti-bacterial ability. In addition, it inhibited the activities of both bacterial-secreted proteinases and natural chymotrypsin of Chinese white shrimp, suggesting that FcSPI-1 may participate in the immune defence response by inhibition of bacterial pathogen proteinases and possibly be involved in the regulation of shrimp proteinase activity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1095-9947
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
885-97
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Amino Acid Motifs, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Gram-Negative Bacteria, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Gram-Positive Bacteria, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Hepatopancreas, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Immunoblotting, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Penaeidae, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-RNA, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Serine Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:19379816-Serine Proteinase Inhibitors
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Characterization, kinetics, and possible function of Kazal-type proteinase inhibitors of Chinese white shrimp, Fenneropenaeus chinensis.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't