title: Cloning and expression of a transcription factor activator protein-1 (AP-1) member identified from manila clam Venerupis philippinarum.
abstract: The transcription factor activator protein-1 (AP-1) proteins are implicated to play a major role in the regulation of numerous genes involved in the function and development of the immune system, cell differentiation, proliferation, apoptosis, etc. It can bind to promoter of its target genes in a sequence-specific manner to transactivate or repress them. In this study, the full-length cDNA of an AP-1 was identified from Venerupis philippinarum (denoted as VpAP-1) by EST analysis and RACE approaches. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that VpAP-1 had higher evolutional conservation to invertebrate than vertebrate counterparts and should be a new member of the AP-1 protein family. Spatial expression analysis found that VpAP-1 transcript was most abundantly expressed in the hemocytes and hepatopancreas, weakly expressed in the tissues of the gills, mantle and muscle. After Vibrio anguillarum challenge, the expression of VpAP-1 transcript in overall hemocyte population was up-regulated in the first 6h, and then decreased to 1.5-fold of the control group at 12h. As time progressed, a second peak of VpAP-1 expression was detected at 24h post-infection, which was 5-fold compared with that of the control group (P<0.01). After that, the expression level was sharply decreased and dropped to 0.5-fold of the control at 96h. The above results indicated that VpAP-1 was perhaps involved in the immune responses against microbe infection and might be contributed to the clearance of bacterial pathogens.
authors.affiliation: School of Marine Science of Ningbo University, Zhejiang, Ningbo 315211, PR China; Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai 264003, PR China.
authors.forename: Luning
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai 264003, PR China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai 264003, PR China. Electronic address: jmzhao@yic.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Jianmin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Yantai Oceanic Environmental Monitoring Central Station, State Oceanic Administration, Yantai 264006, PR China.
authors.forename: Xuanxuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ning
authors.affiliation: School of Marine Science of Ningbo University, Zhejiang, Ningbo 315211, PR China.
authors.forename: Changkao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mu
authors.affiliation: School of Marine Science of Ningbo University, Zhejiang, Ningbo 315211, PR China. Electronic address: wangchunlin@nbu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Chunlin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D049872:Bivalvia / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1 / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D014733:Vibrio / Q000276:immunology; D014735:Vibrio Infections / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D018808:Transcription Factor AP-1
keywords: Bacterial challenge; Immune response; Transcription factor activator protein-1; Venerupis philippinarum