Are you sure you want to leave this community? Leaving the community will revoke any permissions you have been granted in this community.
Interleukin 1b (IL-1b) is a member of the cytokine family that serves as major mediators for early pro-inflammatory responses. During artificial breeding of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus), outbreaks of NNV in the early development stages could lead to high mortality. Recent research reported that IL-1b participated in the host-virus interaction against NNV infection, however, no IL-1b gene has been identified from Pacific cod so far. In this study, we described the identification and characterization of a IL-1b from Pacific cod transcriptome at both transcript and protein level. Sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis were conducted to determine and confirm their evolutionary relationship. Expression analysis revealed that IL-1b was expressed in all tested tissues and the western blot analysis confirmed the same expression profiles using purified recombinant IL-1b protein. In addition, significant up-regulation was detected in IL-1b transcripts during early development stages at 30dph and 50dph. After challenged with poly I:C, IL-1b was significantly induced after 24 h. Taken together, these results strongly suggested that IL-1b might play an essential role in innate defense mechanism of Pacific cod.
Pubmed ID: 30048700
Publication data is provided by the National Library of Medicine ® and PubMed ®. Data is retrieved from PubMed ® on a weekly schedule. For terms and conditions see the National Library of Medicine Terms and Conditions.
Software for the automated evaluation of behavior in a range of pre-clinical and neuroscience applications in basic and clinical psychopharmacology. Applications include phenotype characterization and studying the behavioral effects of pharmacologic substances.
View all literature mentionsMultiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexity.Multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput. Data analysis service for multiple sequence comparison by log- expectation.
View all literature mentionsTool to search translated nucleotide databases using a protein query.
View all literature mentionsWeb application for prediction of the presence and location of signal peptide cleavage sites in amino acid sequences from different organisms. The method incorporates a prediction of cleavage sites and a signal peptide/non-signal peptide prediction based on a combination of several artificial neural networks.
View all literature mentions