title: Cloning and expression of arginine kinase from a swimming crab, Portunus trituberculatus.
abstract: Arginine kinase (AK) is an important phosphotransferase that plays a critical role in energy metabolism in invertebrates. In this paper, the cDNA of AK (designated as PtAK) was identified from the eyestalk cDNA library of swimming crab Portunus trituberculatus. The full-length cDNA was 1,479 bp, containing an open reading frame of 1,074 bp that coded for 357 amino acids. The estimated molecular mass of mature PtAK was 40.30 kDa and theoretical isoelectric point was 6.18. Amino acid sequence alignment showed that PtAK had very high similarity with other shrimp and crab AKs ranging from 0.876 to 0.983. The genomic DNA fragments of about 1,434 bp consisted of two exons interrupted by an intron. Totally 24 SNPs, including 17 in the coding region and seven in the non-coding region, were detected by direct sequencing of 19 genomic samples. In exon 1, the coding SNPs (cSNPs) were only found in the disease-resistant specimens. The fluorescent real-time PCR analysis revealed that the expression of PtAK was detected in all the examined tissues with the highest expression in the muscle and the lowest in the eyestalk. The expression of PtAK after Vibrio alginolyticus injection was tested in haemocytes, showing that two peak values were 5.01-fold (at 3 h) and 3.60-fold (at 24 h) compared with the control values, respectively. The results suggested that AK might play an important role in the immune response in crabs.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China.
authors.forename: Chengwen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Zhaoxia
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Qianqian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Shuangyan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001122:Arginine Kinase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D003386:Brachyura / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics; D006434:Hemocytes / Q000201:enzymology; D007267:Injections; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009711:Nucleotides / Q000235:genetics; D009928:Organ Specificity / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Q000235:genetics; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013550:Swimming / Q000502:physiology*; D044149:Vibrio alginolyticus / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D009711:Nucleotides; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D001122:Arginine Kinase
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