title: Characterization and expression analysis of Paralichthys olivaceus voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) gene in response to virus infection.
abstract: Voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC, also known as mitochondrial porin) is acknowledged to play an important role in stress-induced mammalian apoptosis. In this study, Paralichthys olivaceus VDAC (PoVDAC) gene was identified as a virally induced gene from Scophthalmus Maximus Rhabdovirus (SMRV)-infected flounder embryonic cells (FEC). The full length of PoVDAC cDNA is 1380 bp with an open reading frame of 852 bp encoding a 283 amino acid protein. The deduced PoVDAC contains one alpha-helix, 13 transmembrane beta-strands and one eukaryotic mitochondrial porin signature motif. Constitutive expression of PoVDAC was confirmed in all tested tissues by real-time PCR. Further expression analysis revealed PoVDAC mRNA was upregulated by viral infection. We prepared fish antiserum against recombinant VDAC proteins and detected the PoVDAC in heart lysates from flounder as a 32 kDa band on western blot. Overexpression of PoVDAC in fish cells induced apoptosis. Immunofluoresence localization indicated that the significant distribution changes of PoVDAC have occurred in virus-induced apoptotic cells. This is the first report on the inductive expression of VDAC by viral infection, suggesting that PoVDAC might be mediated flounder antiviral immune response through induction of apoptosis.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
authors.forename: Ai-Jun
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lü
authors.forename: Cai-Wen
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Chang-Sheng
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Qi-Ya
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005393:Fish Diseases / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000821:virology; D005432:Flounder / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000821:virology; D015870:Gene Expression; D007106:Immune Sera / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012209:Rhabdoviridae / Q000502:physiology; D018353:Rhabdoviridae Infections / Q000662:veterinary*; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000662:veterinary; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015854:Up-Regulation; D050994:Voltage-Dependent Anion Channels / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D007106:Immune Sera; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D050994:Voltage-Dependent Anion Channels