Molecular cloning and sequencing of the silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma) interleukin-8 cDNA
Molecular cloning and sequencing of the silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma) interleukin-8 cDNA
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DOI:
10.1016/s1050-4648(02)00158-4
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发表时间:
2003-09-01
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Nakanishi, T
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作者:
Inoue, Y;Endo, M;Nakanishi, T
Recently, inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β have been cloned in the small spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)[12] and the banded dogfish (Triakis scyllia)(AB074142), and IL-8 was cloned in the banded dogfish [13]. IL-8 of the lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis)[14], the flounder [15] and the rainbow trout [16] have also been reported. The banded dogfish IL-8 contained four cysteine residues, which are characteristic of CXC subfamily cytokines and lacked on ELR motif, which is present in the lamprey, flounder and rainbow trout. To investigate whether the diversity of IL-8 is present in the entire class chondrichthyes, we analyzed an IL-8 gene of the silver chimaera (Chimaera phantasma) as compared with other vertebrate IL-8 genes.Live specimens of silver chimaera (C. phantasma) were obtained from the bay of Sagami (Kanagawa, Japan). Splenocytes were collected and washed twice with RPMI 1640 (NISSUI) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (EQUITECH-BIO), 3 mM-glutamine (WAKO), 350 mM urea (WAKO), 100 IU ml 1 penicillin (MEIJI), and 100 µg ml 1 streptomycin (MEIJI). Splenocytes were suspended in the above medium containing 100µgml 1 lipopolysaccharide (LPS: Escherichia coli 026: B6)(Sigma) and 300 ng ml 1 phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA)(Sigma), adjusted to 1107 cells ml 1 and then incubated in 24-well microplates for 4 h at 20 (C before RNA extraction. Total RNA was extracted from the splenocytes using Trizol reagent (Gibco BRL) according to the manufacturers’ instructions. cDNA was synthesized using a SMARTe PCR cDNA Synthesis Kit (Clontech) following the manufacturers’ protocol. The primers used to amplify the silver chimaera IL-8 gene were: 5#-AAC AAC GCA GAG TAC GCG GG-3#(5#-F) and 5#-TCA CCC AGG SGG CWT CAG G-3#(S= G or C; W= A or T)(IL-8-R) and expected to give an approximate 300-bp fragment, which included about 50% of the coding sequence of IL-8. The 5#-F primer was modified from the cDNA synthesizing primer and the IL-8-R primer was chosen from the highly conserved region of the coding sequences of the lamprey [14] and banded dogfish [13] IL-8 genes. The PCR products were separated by electrophoresis in a 1.5% agarose gel and then partially purified by gel extraction (Qiagen). To obtain the complete IL-8 sequence, 3#-RACE was performed using primers based on the partial IL-8 sequence determined above. The cDNA was amplified with PCR using the first IL-8 forward primer (IL-8-F) and modified cDNA synthesizing primer (3#-end-R) as 3#-end specific reverse primer 5#-TCA TTG CCA CGC TTA AAA GC-3# and 5#-AAC AAC GCA GAG TAC TTT TT-3#, respectively. With these primers, fragments of approximately 600 bp were amplified. The amplified fragments were subcloned into pGEM-T Easy vector (Promega) according to the manufacturers’ instructions. The selected clones were purified from transformed MOSBlue competent cells. The nucleotide sequence of the silver chimaera IL-8 was confirmed on both strands of several separate clones that were sequenced on an ABI PRISM 3100 genetic analyzer (Applied Biosystems) using T7 and SP6 primers and a BigDyee Terminator version 3.0 Cycle Sequencing Kit (Applied Biosystems) according to the manufacturers’ instructions. The predicted protein sequence and multiple alignments were carried out using the- version 5 (Genetic Information Processing Software) program in combination with the Genbank and SWISS-PROT databases for comparison with other known gene sequences. The phylogenetic tree was generated by the neighbor-joining method [17] and bootstrapped 1000 using …