TY - JOUR
T1 - Transcriptome analysis of hybrid tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) with Streptococcus agalactiae infection identifies Toll-like receptor pathway-mediated induction of NADPH oxidase complex and piscidins as primary immune-related responses
AU - Ken, Chuian Fu
AU - Chen, Chieh Ning
AU - Ting, Chen Hung
AU - Pan, Chieh Yu
AU - Chen, Jyh Yih
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was partially supported by funding ( 105-2321-B-001-032- , 103-2313-B-001-007-MY3 , 105-2811-B-001-056- ) from the Ministry of Science and Technology, R.O.C. to Mr. Jyh-Yih Chen (J.Y.C.). Research funding was also received from the Marine Research Station (Jiaushi, Ilan), Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan , to J.Y.C. We thank Dr. Marcus Calkins at the editorial office of the Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology for language editing.
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
N2 - Streptococcus agalactiae infection is one of the most significant bacterial diseases in tilapia aquaculture. Identification of immune-related genes associated with Streptococcus agalactiae infection may provide a basis for breeding selection or therapeutics to augment disease resistance. Therefore, we utilized transcriptome profiling to study the host response in tilapia following Streptococcus agalactiae infection. Based on GO and KEGG enrichment analyses, we found that differentially expressed genes are widely involved in immune-related pathways, including the induction of antimicrobial peptides. Moreover, the main components of two immune-related pathways (Toll-like receptor signaling and leukocyte transendothelial migration) and four environmental information processing pathways (TNF, PI3K-Akt, Jak-STAT and MAPK) were identified. Finally, a time-course expression profile for several of the identified transcripts including tilapia piscidin 3 (TP3), tilapia piscidin 4 (TP4), TLR2, TLR5, MyD88, TRAF6, p38, and interleukin components was performed by qRT-PCR. Collectively, these results provide a starting point to study molecular mechanisms of tilapia immune response to Streptococcus agalactiae infection and may be applied as a basis for developing disease resistant strains by breeding selection.
AB - Streptococcus agalactiae infection is one of the most significant bacterial diseases in tilapia aquaculture. Identification of immune-related genes associated with Streptococcus agalactiae infection may provide a basis for breeding selection or therapeutics to augment disease resistance. Therefore, we utilized transcriptome profiling to study the host response in tilapia following Streptococcus agalactiae infection. Based on GO and KEGG enrichment analyses, we found that differentially expressed genes are widely involved in immune-related pathways, including the induction of antimicrobial peptides. Moreover, the main components of two immune-related pathways (Toll-like receptor signaling and leukocyte transendothelial migration) and four environmental information processing pathways (TNF, PI3K-Akt, Jak-STAT and MAPK) were identified. Finally, a time-course expression profile for several of the identified transcripts including tilapia piscidin 3 (TP3), tilapia piscidin 4 (TP4), TLR2, TLR5, MyD88, TRAF6, p38, and interleukin components was performed by qRT-PCR. Collectively, these results provide a starting point to study molecular mechanisms of tilapia immune response to Streptococcus agalactiae infection and may be applied as a basis for developing disease resistant strains by breeding selection.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.fsi.2017.08.041
DO - 10.1016/j.fsi.2017.08.041
M3 - Article
C2 - 28870856
AN - SCOPUS:85028927316
VL - 70
SP - 106
EP - 120
JO - Fish and Shellfish Immunology
JF - Fish and Shellfish Immunology
SN - 1050-4648
ER -