PMID- 33045298 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210408 LR - 20210408 IS - 1879-0003 (Electronic) IS - 0141-8130 (Linking) VI - 165 IP - Pt A DP - 2020 Dec 15 TI - Molecular characterization, expression and functional analysis of TGFbeta1-b in crucian carp (Carassius carassius). PG - 1392-1401 LID - S0141-8130(20)34645-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.10.024 [doi] AB - Transforming growth factor beta1 (TGFbeta1) is a polyfunctional cytokine with important roles in growth, differentiation and immune function in various animals. In this study, PCR, bioinformatics, real-time quantitative PCR, prokaryotic expression, protein purification and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-TOF-MS) were applied to investigate the structural features and function of TGFbeta1-b in crucian carp. The complete coding sequence (CDS) of TGFbeta1-b was 1134 bp in length and was submitted to GenBank (ID: MH473141). TGFbeta1-b encoded a putative protein of 377 amino acids and included a signal peptide consisting of 22 amino acids. TGFbeta1-b was relatively conservative in fish and distant from mammals in terms of evolutionary relationship. TGFbeta1-b was found to be expressed in various tissues, with the highest expression in the kidney. The expressions of TGFbeta1-b in muscle, heart and liver were increased with the addition of Rhodopseudomonas palustris, Bacillus subtilis and Enterococcus faecium at 30 days (p < 0.01). While, the expressions of SMAD2, SMAD3 and SMAD7 were also up-regulated with the addition of R. palustris at 20 days (p < 0.01). The expression of TGFbeta1-b could be affected by time and group factors (p < 0.05). Moreover, the expression vector TGFbeta1-b-pDE2 was successfully constructed. Prokaryotic expression indicated that a 43 kDa target protein was obtained after induction with 1.5 mM isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) for 3.5 h at 37 degrees C for 200 r/h. The activities of alkaline phosphatase and lysozyme in injection TGFbeta1-b protein group (ITg) and feeding broken bacterial liquid group (BTg) were significantly increased at 24 h (p < 0.01). And the activities of superoxide dismutase in ITg were significantly increased at 36 h (p < 0.01). Besides, the expressions of heat shock protein 30 and heat shock protein 47 in ITg and BTg were significantly increased (p < 0.01). Whereas, the expression of interleukin-11 was significantly reduced (p < 0.01). These results indicated that TGFbeta1-b protein might play a role in immunity of crucian carp. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Li, Chenyang AU - Li C AD - Key Laboratory of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Animal Genetic Resource Reservation and Utilization, Ministry of Education and Sichuan Province, Southwest Minzu University, Chendu 610041, PR China; Healthy Aquaculture Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chendu 610041, PR China. FAU - Wang, Li AU - Wang L AD - Key Laboratory of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Animal Genetic Resource Reservation and Utilization, Ministry of Education and Sichuan Province, Southwest Minzu University, Chendu 610041, PR China. Electronic address: qinxin916@aliyun.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20201010 PL - Netherlands TA - Int J Biol Macromol JT - International journal of biological macromolecules JID - 7909578 RN - 0 (Transforming Growth Factor beta1) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence/genetics MH - Animals MH - Carps/*genetics MH - Cloning, Molecular MH - Gene Expression Regulation/genetics MH - Immunity, Innate/genetics MH - *Phylogeny MH - Sequence Alignment MH - Transforming Growth Factor beta1/chemistry/*genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - Crucian carp OT - Expression OT - Immunity OT - Probiotics OT - TGFbeta1-b COIS- Declaration of competing interest No conflict of interest exits in the submission of this manuscript, and manuscript is approved by all authors for publication. EDAT- 2020/10/13 06:00 MHDA- 2021/04/10 06:00 CRDT- 2020/10/12 20:08 PHST- 2020/07/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/10/02 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/10/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/10/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/04/10 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/10/12 20:08 [entrez] AID - S0141-8130(20)34645-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.10.024 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Biol Macromol. 2020 Dec 15;165(Pt A):1392-1401. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.10.024. Epub 2020 Oct 10.