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http://dx.doi.org/10.5657/fas.2011.14.1.031

Isolation of Novel Hepcidin Isoforms from the Rockbream Oplegnathus fasciatus (Perciformes)  

Lee, Sang-Yoon (Department of Marine Bio-Materials and Aquaculture, Pukyong National University)
Nam, Yoon-Kwon (Department of Marine Bio-Materials and Aquaculture, Pukyong National University)
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Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences / v.14, no.1, 2011 , pp. 31-42 More about this Journal
Abstract
Three novel hepcidin isoforms were isolated and characterized from the perciform fish species Oplegnathus fasciatus. These hepcidin isoforms (designated rbhepc5, rbhepc6 and rbhepc7) were found to share a conserved, tripartite gene structure and a considerable sequence homology one another. A comparison of their mature peptide sequences with those of other perciform hepcidin orthologs indicated that these three hepcidin isoforms as well as four other isoforms previously identified in this species, appear to belong to the HAMP2 group of hepcidin genes. Analysis of the 5'-upstream sequences showed that the proximal non-coding regions of rbhepc5~7 do not possess canonical TATA signals; instead, they harbor several binding motifs for transcription factors involved in immune modulation. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis demonstrated that the rbhepc5~7 are expressed predominantly in the liver, and that the transcription of rbhepc5~7 is rapidly induced in the liver, but not in other tissues, by experimental challenge with any of three different bacterial species. However, transcription of rbhepc6 appeared to be negligible under both basal and stimulated conditions, as judged by the redundancy count of randomly chosen reverse transcriptase-PCR clones.
Keywords
Gene structure; Hepcidin isoforms; mRNA expression; Rockbream (Oplegnathus fasciatus);
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