PUBLICATION
Comparative analysis of nonaspanin protein sequences and expression studies in zebrafish
- Authors
- Pruvot, B., Laurens, V., Salvadori, F., Solary, E., Pichon, L., and Chluba, J.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100910-38
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- Immunogenetics 62(10): 681-699 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- TM9SF, Genes, Expression, PAMPs, Evolution
- MeSH Terms
-
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Consensus Sequence
- Conserved Sequence
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate/genetics
- Invertebrates/genetics
- Mammals/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/genetics*
- Membrane Proteins/physiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Organ Specificity
- Phylogeny
- Plants/genetics
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Species Specificity
- Yeasts/genetics
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish/growth & development
- Zebrafish/immunology
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/physiology
- PubMed
- 20820770 Full text @ Immunogenetics
Citation
Pruvot, B., Laurens, V., Salvadori, F., Solary, E., Pichon, L., and Chluba, J. (2010) Comparative analysis of nonaspanin protein sequences and expression studies in zebrafish. Immunogenetics. 62(10):681-699.
Abstract
Nonaspanins constitute a family of proteins, also called TM9SF, characterized by a large non-cytoplasmic domain and nine putative transmembrane domains. This family is highly conserved through evolution and comprises three members in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Dictyostelium discoideum, and Drosophila melanogaster, and four members are reported in mammals (TM9SF1-TM9SF4). Genetic studies in Dictyostelium and Drosophila have shown that TM9SF members are required for adhesion and phagocytosis in innate immune response, furthermore, human TM9SF1 plays a role in the regulation of autophagy and human TM9SF4 in tumor cannibalism. Here we report that the zebrafish genome encodes five members of this family, TM9SF1-TM9SF5, which show high level of sequence conservation with the previously reported members. Expression analysis in zebrafish showed that all members are maternally expressed and continue to be present throughout embryogenesis to adults. Gene expression could not be regulated by pathogen-associated molecular patterns such as LPS, CpG, or Poly I:C. By bioinformatic analyses of 80 TM9SF protein sequences from yeast, plants, and animals, we confirmed a very conserved protein structure. An evolutionary conserved immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motif has been detected in the cytoplasmic domain between transmembrane domain (TM) 7 and TM8 in TM9SF1, TM9SF2, TM9SF4 and TM9SF5, and at the extreme C-terminal end of TM9SF4. Finally, a conserved TRAF2 binding domain could also be predicted in the cytoplasmic regions of TM9SF2, TM9SF3, TM9SF4, and TM9SF5. This confirms the hypothesis that TM9SF proteins may play a regulatory role in a specific and ancient cellular mechanism that is involved in innate immunity.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping