title: Molecular cloning and characterisation of cytosolic manganese superoxide dismutase (cytMn-SOD) from the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii.
abstract: A cytosolic manganese superoxide dismutase (cytMn-SOD) cDNA was cloned from the hepatopancreas of giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) by degenerate primers. Both 3'- and 5'-regions were isolated by rapid amplification of cDNA end RACE method. Analysis of nucleotide sequence revealed that the cytMn-SOD cDNA clone consists of 1339 bp with an open reading frame of 858 bp encoding a protein of 286 amino acids. The calculated molecular mass of the mature proteins (286 amino acids) is 31 kDa with an estimated pI of 5.52. Two putative N-glycosylation sites, NXT and NXS were observed in the cytMn-SOD. Four conserved amino acids responsible for binding manganese were observed (H110, H158, D243 and H247). Sequence comparison showed that the cytMn-SOD deduced amino acid sequence of M. rosenbergii has an overall similarity of 77% and 54% to that of blue crab Callinectes sapidus and tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon, respectively. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR analysis showed that cytMn-SOD transcript in hepatopancreas of M. rosenbergii decreased 3h after Lactococcus garvieae injection, but no significant change in cytMn-SOD transcript was observed in the haemocytes 3-24 h after L. garvieae injection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Aquaculture, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Winton
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Ying-Hsiu
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Tung
authors.forename: Chun-Hung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jiann-Chu
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003600:Cytosol / Q000201:enzymology*; D017931:DNA Primers; D040461:Gene Components; D015870:Gene Expression; D043143:Hepatopancreas / Q000201:enzymology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D033541:Palaemonidae / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase