Movatterモバイル変換


[0]ホーム

URL:


Skip to main content
Springer Nature Link
Log in

Characterisation and expression analysis of interleukin 2 (IL-2) and IL-21 homologues in the Japanese pufferfish,Fugu rubripes, following their discovery by synteny

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Immunogenetics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This investigation provides the first conclusive evidence for the existence of the interleukin 2 (IL-2) and IL-21 genes in bony fish. The IL-2 and IL-21 sequences have been determined inFugu rubripes by exploiting the conservation of synteny that is found between regions of the human andFugu genomes. The predicted 149-amino acid IL-2 homologue contains the IL-2 family signature, has a predicted secondary structure of three α helixes and has the two cysteines important in disulphide-bond formation. It shows low amino acid identities (24–34%) with other known IL-2 sequences. The predicted 155-amino acid IL-21 homologue has a predicted secondary structure of four α helixes and has the four cysteines important in disulphide-bond formation. It shows low amino acid identities (29–31%) with other known IL-21 sequences. The gene organisation ofFugu IL-2 and IL-21 and the level of synteny between the human andFugu genomes has been well conserved during evolution, with the order and orientation of the genes matching exactly to human Chromosome 4. Phytohaemagglutinin stimulation ofFugu kidney cells resulted in a large increase in theFugu IL-2 and IL-21 transcripts. In vivo stimulation ofFugu with LPS and poly I:C showed IL-21 expression to be localised within mucosal tissues. The discovery of IL-2 and IL-21 in fish will now allow more detailed investigations into T-helper cell responses.

This is a preview of subscription content,log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
¥17,985 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Price includes VAT (Japan)

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10
Fig. 11

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Altschul SF, Gish W, Miller W, Myers E, Lipman DJ (1990) Basic local alignment search tool. J Mol Biol 215:403–410

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Anderson DM, Johnson L, Glaccum MB, Copeland NG, Gilbert DJ, Jenkins NA, Valentine V, Kirstein MN, Shapiro DN, Morris SW, Grabstein K, Cosman D (1995) Chromosomal assignment and genomic structure of IL-15. Genomics 25:701–706

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Asano R, Kudo T, Makabe K, Tsumoto K, Kumagai I (2002) Antitumor activity of interleukin-21 prepared by novel refolding procedure from inclusion bodies expressed inEscherichia coli. FEBS Lett 528:70–76

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bazan JF (1990) Haemopoietic receptors and helical cytokines. Immunol Today 11:350–354

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bazan J, MacKay DB (1992) Unraveling the structure of IL-2. Science 257:410–413

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bird S, Zou J, Wang T, Munday B, Cunningham C, Secombes CJ (2002) Evolution of interleukin-1 beta. Cytokine Growth Factor Rev 13:483–502

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bird S, Zou J, Savan R, Kono T, Sakai M, Woo J, Secombes CJ (2004) Characterisation and expression analysis of an interleukin 6 homologue in the Japanese pufferfish, Fugu rubripes. Dev Comp Immunol (in press)

  • Birnboim HC (1983) A rapid alkaline extraction method for the isolation of plasmid DNA. Methods Enzymol 100:243–255

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blohm U, Siegl E, Kollner B (2003) Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) sIgM leucocytes secrete an interleukin-2 like growth factor after mitogenic stimulationin vitro. Fish Shellfish Immunol 14:449–465

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Breathnach R, Chambon P (1981) Organization and expression of eukaryotic split genes coding for proteins. Annu Rev Biochem 50:349–383

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Burge CB, Karlin S (1998) Finding the genes in genomic DNA. Curr Opin Struct Biol 8:346–354

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Buchli P, Ciardelli T (1993) Structural and biologic properties of a human aspartic acid-126 interleukin-2 analog. Arch Biochem Biophys 307:411–415

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Caput D, Beutler B, Hartog K, Thayer R, Brown-Shimer S, Cermi A (1986) Identification of a common nucleotide sequence in the 3′-untranslated region of mRNA molecules specifying inflammatory mediators. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 83:1670–1674

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Caspi RR, Avtalion RR (1984) Evidence for the existence of an IL-2-like lymphocyte growth promoting factor in a bony fish,Cyprinus carpio. Dev Comp Immunol 8:51–60

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Choi KD, Lillehoj HS, Song KD, Han JY (1999) Molecular and functional characterization of chicken IL-15. Dev Comp Immunol 23:165–177

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Clark MS, Smith SF, Elgar G (2001) Use of the Japanese pufferfish (Fugu rubripes) in comparative genomics. Marine Biotechnol 3:S130–S140

    Article CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cosman D, Cerretti DP, Larsen A, Park L, March C, Dower S, Gillis S, Urdal D (1984) Cloning, sequence and expression of human interleukin-2 receptor. Nature 312:768–771

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Degrave W, Tavernier J, Duerinck F, Plaetinck G, Devos R, Fiers W (1983) Cloning and structure of the human interleukin 2 chromosomal gene. EMBO J 2:2349–2353

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Eckenberg R, Rose T, Moreau JL, Weil R, Gesbert F, Dubois S, Tello D, Bossus M, Gras H, Tartar A, Bertoglio J, Chouaïb S, Goldberg M, Jacques Y, Alzari PM, Thèze J (2000) The first alpha helix of interleukin (IL)-2 folds as a homotetramer, acts as an agonist of the IL-2 Receptor beta chain, and induces lymphokine-activated killer cells. J Exp Med 191:529–540

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Elgar G (1996) Quality not quantity: the pufferfish genome. Hum Mol Genet 5:1437–1442

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • El Ridi R, Wahby AF, Saad AH (1986) Characterization of snake interleukin 2. Dev Comp Immunol 10:128

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • El Ridi R, Wahby AF, Saad AH, Soliman MA (1987) Concanavalin A responsiveness and interleukin 2 production in the snakeSpalerosophis diadema. Immunobiology 174:177–189

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Espinoza-Delgado I, Bosco MC, Musso T, Gusella GL, Longo DL, Varesio L (1995) Interleukin-2 and human monocyte activation. J Leukocyte Biol 57:13–19

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Falquet L, Pagni M, Bucher P, Hulo N, Sigrist CJ, Hofmann K, Bairoch A (2002) The PROSITE database, its status in 2002. Nucleic Acids Res 30:235–238

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ferrante A (1992) Activation of neutrophils by interleukins-1 and -2 and tumor necrosis factors. Immunol Ser 57:417–436

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Fitch WM (1971) Toward defining the course of evolution: minimum change for a specified tree topology. Systematic Zool 20:406–416

    Google Scholar 

  • Flemming C, Russell S, Collins M (1993) Mutation of Asp20 of human interleukin-2 reveals a dual role of the p55 alpha chain of the interleukin-2 receptor. Eur J Immunol 23:917–921

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Fujita T, Takaoka C, Matsui H, Taniguchi T (1983) Structure of the human interleukin 2 gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 80:7437–7441

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Fuse A, Fujita T, Yasumitsu H, Kashima N, Hasegawa K, Taniguchi T (1984) Organization and structure of the mouse interleukin-2 gene. Nucleic Acids Res 12:9323–9331

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Gaffen SL, Goldsmith MA, Greene WC (1998) Interleukin-2 and the interleukin-2 receptor. In: Thomson A (ed) The cytokine handbook 3rd edn. Academic, London, pp 73–103

    Google Scholar 

  • Giri JG, Kumaki S, Ahdieh M, Friend DJ, Loomis A, Shanebeck K, DuBose R, Cosman D, Park LS, Anderson DM (1995) Identification and cloning of a novel IL-15 binding protein that is structurally related to the alpha chain of the IL-2 receptor. EMBO J 14:3654–3663

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Grabstein K, Dower S, Gillis S, Urdal D, Larsen A (1986) Expression of interleukin 2, interferon-gamma, and the IL-2 receptor by human peripheral blood lymphocytes. J Immunol 136:4503–4508

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Grondel JL, Harmsen EG (1984) Phylogeny of interleukins: growth factors produced by leucocytes of the cyprinid fish,Cyprinus carpio L. Immunology 52:477–482

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Harrison G, Wedlock D (2000) Marsupial cytokines: structure, function and evolution. Dev Comp Immunol 24:473–484

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hatakeyama M, Tsudo M, Minamoto S, Kono T, Doi T, Miyata T, Miyasaka M, Taniguchi T (1989) Interleukin-2 receptor beta chain gene: generation of three receptor forms by cloned human alpha and beta chain cDNAs. Science 244:551–556

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hatakeyama M, Taniguchi T (1990) Interleukin-2. In: Sporn MB, Roberts AB (eds) Peptide growth factors and their receptors I. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 523

    Google Scholar 

  • Haynes L, Harding FA, Koniski AD, Cohen N (1992) Immune system activation associated with a naturally occurring infection inXenopus laevis. Dev Comp Immunol 16:453–462

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Holbrook NJ, Smith KA, Fornace AJ, Comeau CM, Wiskocil RL, Crabtree GR (1984) T-cell growth factor: complete nucleotide sequence and organization of the gene in normal and malignant cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 81:1634–1638

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Huang X (1994) On global sequence alignment. Comput Appl Biosci 10:227–235

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hughes AL, Ota T, Nei M (1990) Positive Darwinian selection promotes charge profile diversity in the antigen-binding cleft of class I major-histocompatibility-complex molecules. Mol Biol Evol 7:515–524

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hurst L, Smith N (1999) Do essential genes evolve slowly? Curr Biol 9:747–750

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ju G, Collins L, Kaffka KL, Tsien WH, Chizzonite R, Crowl R, Bhatt R, Kilian PL (1987) Structure-function analysis of human interleukin-2. Identification of amino acid residues required for biological activity. J Biol Chem 262:5723–5731

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kaiser P, Mariani P (1999) Promoter sequence, exon: intron structure, and synteny of genetic location show that a chicken cytokine with T-cell proliferative activity is IL2 and not IL15. Immunogenetics 49:26–35

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kaiser P, Rothwell L, Avery S, Balu S (2004) Evolution of the interleukins. Dev Comp Immunol 28:375–394

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kolodsick JE, Stepaniak JA, Hu W, Sundick RS (2001) Mutational analysis of chicken interleukin 2. Cytokine 13:317–324

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Koniski A, Cohen N (1994) Mitogen-activated axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) produce a cytokine that promotes growth of homologous lymphoblasts. Dev Comp Immunol 18:239–250

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Krause H, Jandrig B, Wernicke C, Bulfone-Paus S, Pohl T, Diamantstein T (1996) Genomic structure and chromosomal localization of the human interleukin 15 gene (IL-15). Cytokine 8:667–674

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kumar S, Tamura K, Jakobsen IB, Nei M (2001) MEGA2: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis software. Bioinformatics 17:1244–1245

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Kusuda R, Xia C (1992) Lymphocyte growth promoting factor(s) produced by the leukocytes of eel,Anguilla japonica. Nippon Suisan Gakkai 58:1667–1671

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Laing KJ, Secombes CJ (2004) Chemokines. Dev Comp Immunol 28:443–460

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lawson S, Rothwell L, Kaiser P (2000) Turkey and chicken interleukin-2 cross-react in in vitro proliferation assays despite limited amino acid sequence identity. J Interferon Cyt Res 20:161–170

    Article CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Leonard WJ, Depper JM, Crabtree GR, Rudikoff S, Pumphrey J, Robb RJ, Kronke M, Svetlik PB, Peffer NJ, Waldmann TA, Greene WC (1984) Molecular cloning and expression of cDNAs for the human interleukin-2 receptor. Nature 311:626–631

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Leonard WJ (1994) The defective gene in X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency encodes a shared interleukin receptor subunit: implications for cytokine pleiotropy and redundancy. Curr Opin Immunol 6:631–635

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lillehoj HS, Min W, Choi KD, Babu US, Burnside J, Miyamoto T, Rosenthal BM, Lillehoj EP (2001) Molecular, cellular, and functional characterization of chicken cytokines homologous to mammalian IL-15 and IL-2. Vet Immunol Immunopath 82:229–244

    Article CAS  Google Scholar 

  • McFadden G, Lalani A, Everett H, Nash P, Xu X (1998) Virus encoded receptors for cytokines and chemokines. Semin Cell Dev Biol 9:359–368

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • McLysaght A, Enright A, Skrabanek L, Wolfe K (2000) Estimation of synteny conservation and genome compaction between pufferfish (Fugu) and human. Yeast 17:22–36

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Min W, Lillehoj HS, Fetterer RH (2002) Identification of an alternatively spliced isoform of the common cytokine receptor γ chain in chickens. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 299:321–327

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mingari MC, Gerosa F, Carra G, Accolla RS, Moretta A, Zubler RH, Waldmann TA, Moretta L (1984) Human interleukin-2 promotes proliferation of activated B cells via surface receptors similar to those of activated T cells. Nature 312:641–643

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Montpetit A, Wilson M, Chevrette M, Koop B, Sinnett D (2003) Analysis of the conservation of synteny betweenFugu and human chromosome 12. BMC Genomics 4:30

    Article PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Morgan DA, Ruscetti FW, Gallo R (1976) Selective in vitro growth of T lymphocytes from normal human bone marrows. Science 193:1007–1008

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Muneta Y, Kikuma R, Yoshihara K, Mori Y (2003) Cloning, expression, and tissue distribution of bovine interleukin-21. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 95:73–80

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Murphy P (2001) Viral exploitation and subversion of the immune system through chemokine mimicry. Nat Immunol 2:116–122

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Needleman SB, Wunsch CD (1970) A general method applicable to the search for similarities in the amino acid sequence of two proteins. J Mol Biol 48:443–453

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Nelson BH, Willerford DM (1998) Biology of the interleukin-2 receptor. Adv Immunol 70:1–81

    Google Scholar 

  • Nicola N (1994) Guidebook to cytokines and their receptors. Sambrook and Tooze guidebook series, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 1–7

    Google Scholar 

  • Nielsen H, Engelbrecht J, Brunak S, von Heijne G (1997) Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites. Protein Eng 10:1–6

    Article CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Nikaido T, Shimizu A, Ishida N, Sabe H, Teshigawara K, Maeda M, Uchiyama T, Yodoi J, Honjo T (1984) Molecular cloning of cDNA encoding human interleukin-2 receptor. Nature 311:631–635

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ozaki K, Spolski R, Feng CG, Qi CF, Cheng J, Sher A, Morse HC, Liu C, Schwartzberg PL, Leonard WJ (2002) A critical role for IL-21 in regulating immunoglobulin production. Science 298:1630–1634

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Parrish-Novak J, Dillon SR, Nelson A, Hammond A, Sprecher C, Gross JA, Johnston J, Madden K, Xu W, West J, Schrader S, Burkhead S, Heipel M, Brandt C, Kuijper JL, Kramer J, Conklin D, Presnell SR, Berry J, Shiota F, Bort S, Hambly K, Mudri S, Clegg C, Moore M, Grant FJ, Lofton-Day C, Gilbert T, Rayond F, Ching A, Yao L, Smith D, Webster P, Whitmore T, Maurer M, Kaushansky K, Holly RD, Foster D (2000) Interleukin 21 and its receptor are involved in NK cell expansion and regulation of lymphocyte function. Nature 408:57–63

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Parrish-Novak J, Foster DC, Holly RD, Clegg C (2002) Interleukin-21 and the IL-21 receptor: novel effectors of NK and T cell responses. J Leuk Biol 72:856–863

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pearson WR, Lipman DI (1988) Improved tools for biological sequence comparison. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 85:2444–2448

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Pease J, Murphy P (1998) Microbial corruption of the chemokine system: an expanding paradigm. Semin Immunol 10:169–178

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Postlethwait JH, Woods IG, Ngo-Hazelett P, Yan YL, Kelly DP, Chu F, Huang H, Hill-Force A, Talbot WS (2000) Zebrafish comparative genomics and the origins of vertebrate chromosomes. Genome Res 10:1890–1902

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rzhetsky A, Nei M (1992) A simple method for estimating and testing minimum-evolution trees. Mol Biol Evol 9:945–967

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Robb RJ, Greene WC (1987) Internalization of interleukin 2 is mediated by the beta chain of the high-affinity interleukin 2 receptor. J Exp Med 165:1201–1206

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Robertson MJ, Ritz J (1990) Biology and clinical relevance of human natural killer cells. Blood 76:2421–2438

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rombout JHWM, Joosten PHM, Engelsma MY, Vos AP, Taverne N, Taverne-Thiele JJ (1998) Indications for a distinct putative T cell population in mucosal tissue of carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). Dev Comp Immunol 22:63–77

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rose T, Moreau JL, Eckenberg R, Theze J (2003) Structural analysis and modeling of a synthetic interleukin-2 mimetic and its interleukin-2Rbeta2 receptor. J Biol Chem 278:22868–22876

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rost B (1996) PHD: predicting one-dimensional protein structure by profile-based neural networks. Methods Enzymol 266:525–539

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Rost B, Sander C (1994) Combining evolutionary information and neural networks to predict protein secondary structure. Proteins 19:55–72

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sachs AB (1993) Messenger RNA degradation in eukaryotes. Cell 74:413–421

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Saitou N, Nei M (1987) The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol 4:406–425

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Scapigliati G, Romano N, Abelli L, Meloni S, Ficca AG, Buonocore F, Bird S, Secombes CJ (2000) Immunopurification of T-cells from sea bassDicentrarchus labrax (L.). Fish Shellfish Immunol 10:329–341

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Serres PF (2001) AIDS: an immune response against the immune system. Role of a precise tridimensional molecular mimicry. J Autoimmun 16:287–291

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Smith KA (1980) T-cell growth factor. Immunol Rev 51:337–357

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Smith KA (1988) Interleukin-2: inception, impact, and implications. Science 240:1169–1176

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Smith S, Snell P, Gruetzner F, Bench A, Haaf T, Metcalfe J, Green A, Elgar G (2002) Analyses of the extent of shared synteny and conserved gene orders between the genome ofFugu rubripes and human 20q. Genome Res 12:776–784

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sprang SR, Bazan JF (1993) Cytokine structural taxonomy and mechanism of receptor engagement. Curr Opin Struct Biol 3:815–827

    Article CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sauvé K, Nachman M, Spence C, Bailon P, Campbell E, Tsien WH, Kondas JA, Hakimi J, Ju G (1991) Localization in human interleukin 2 of the binding site to the alpha chain (p55) of the interleukin 2 receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 88:4636–4640

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Strengell M, Sareneva T, Foster D, Julkunen I, Matikainen S (2002) IL-21 up-regulates the expression of genes associated with innate immunity and Th1 response. J Immunol 169:3600–3605

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sundick RS, Gill-Dixon C (1996) A cloned chicken lymphokine homologous to both mammalian IL-2 and IL-15. J Immunol 159:720–725

    Google Scholar 

  • Swain SL (1991) Lymphokines and the immune response: The central role of IL-2. Current Opin Immunol 3:304–310

    Article CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Takeshita T, Asao H, Ohtani K, Ishii N, Kumaki S, Tanaka N, Munakata H, Nakamura M, Sugamura K (1992) Cloning of the gamma chain of the human IL-2 receptor. Science 257:379–382

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Tanaka T, Nei M (1989) Positive Darwinian selection observed at the variable-region genes of immunoglobulins. Mol Biol Evol 6:447–459

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Thompson JD, Higgins DG, Gibson TJ (1994) CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res 22:4673–4680

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Voss SD, Leary TP, Sondel PM, Robb RJ (1993) Identification of a direct interaction between interleukin 2 and the p64 interleukin 2 receptor γ chain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 90:2428–2432

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Vilcek J (1998) The cytokines: an overview. In: Thomsom A (eds) The cytokine handbook, 3rd edn. Academic, London, pp 1–20

    Google Scholar 

  • Waldmann TA, Goldman CK, Robb RJ, Depper JM, Leonard WJ, Sharrow SO, Bongiovanni KF, Korsmeyer SJ, Greene WC (1984) Expression of interleukin 2 receptors on activated human B cells. J Exp Med 160:1450–1466

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Waldmann TA, Dubois S, Tagaya Y (2001) Contrasting roles of IL-2 and IL-15 in the life and death of lymphocytes: implications for immunotherapy. Immunity 14:105–110

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wang A, Lu SD, Mark DF (1984) Site-specific mutagenesis of the human interleukin-2 gene: structure-function analysis of the cysteine residues. Science 224:1431–1433

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wang T, Secombes CJ (2001) Cloning and expression of a putative common cytokine receptor gamma chain (γC) gene in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Fish Shellfish Immunol 11:233–244

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Watkins D, Cohen N (1987) Mitogen activatedXenopus laevis lymphocytes produce a T cell growth factor. Immunology 62:119–125

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Weir MP, Chaplin MA, Wallace DM, Dykes CW, Hobden AN (1988) Structure-activity relationships of recombinant human interleukin 2. Biochemistry 27:6883–6892

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Yoshiura Y, Kiryu I, Fujiwara A, Suetake H, Suzuki Y, Nakanishi T, Ototake M (2003) Identification and characterization ofFugu orthologues of mammalian interleukin-12 subunits. Immunogenetics 55:296–306

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zelus D, Robinson-Rechavi M, Delacre M, Auriault C Laudet V (2000) Fast evolution of interleukin-2 in mammals and positive selection in ruminants. J Mol Evol 51:234–244

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang J, Nei M (2000) Positive selection in the evolution of mammalian interleukin-2 genes. Mol Biol Evol 17:1413–1416

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zou J, Wang T, Hirono I, Aoki T, Inagawa H, Honda T, Soma GI, Ototake M, Nakanishi T, Ellis AE, Secombes CJ (2002) Differential expression of two tumor necrosis factor genes in rainbow trout,Oncorhynchus mykiss. Dev Comp Immunol 26:161–172

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zou J, Yoshiura Y, Dijkstra JM, Sakai M, Ototake M, Secombes CJ (2003a) Identifcation of an interferon gamma homologue in the Japanese pufferfish,Takifugu rubripes. EMBL acession no. AJ616216

  • Zou J, Clark MS, Secombes CJ (2003b) Characterisation, expression and promoter analysis of an interleukin 10 homologue in the puffer fish,Fugu rubripes. Immunogenetics 55:325–35

    Article CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zou J, Bird S, Secombes C (2004) Fish cytokine gene discovery and linkage using genomic approaches. Marine Biotech (in press)

  • Zurawski SM, Zurawski G (1992) Receptor antagonist and selective agonist derivatives of mouse interleukin-2. EMBO J 11:3905–3910

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zurawski SM, Imler JL, Zurawski G (1990) Partial agonist/antagonist mouse interleukin-2 proteins indicate that a third component of the receptor complex functions in signal transduction. EMBO J 9:3899–3905

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zurawski SM, Vega Jr F, Doyle EL, Huyghe B, Flaherty K, McKay DB, Zurawski G (1993) Definition and spatial location of mouse interleukin-2 residues that interact with its heterotrimeric receptor. EMBO J 12:5113–5119

    CAS PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (UK), the Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution (Japan) and a research contract from Novartis Aquahealth (UK).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Scottish Fish Immunology Research Centre (SFIRC), School of Biological Sciences, Zoology Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ, UK

    Steve Bird, Jun Zou & Chris Secombes

  2. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Gakuen kibanadai nishi 1-1, Miyazaki, 889-2192, Japan

    Tomoya Kono & Masahiro Sakai

  3. Inland Station, National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Tamaki, Mie-ken, 519-0423, Japan

    Johannes Martinus Dijkstra

Authors
  1. Steve Bird

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jun Zou

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

  3. Tomoya Kono

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

  4. Masahiro Sakai

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

  5. Johannes Martinus Dijkstra

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

  6. Chris Secombes

    You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence toChris Secombes.

Rights and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Bird, S., Zou, J., Kono, T.et al. Characterisation and expression analysis of interleukin 2 (IL-2) and IL-21 homologues in the Japanese pufferfish,Fugu rubripes, following their discovery by synteny.Immunogenetics56, 909–923 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00251-004-0741-7

Download citation

Keywords

Access this article

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
¥17,985 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Price includes VAT (Japan)

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Advertisement


[8]ページ先頭

©2009-2025 Movatter.jp