A glutamic acid decarboxylase (CgGAD) highly expressed in hemocytes of Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

Glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), a rate-limiting enzyme to catalyze the reaction converting the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate to inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), not only functions in nervous system, but also plays important roles in immunomodulation in vertebrat...

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Published in:Developmental & Comparative Immunology
Main Authors: Li, Meijia, Wang, Lingling, Qiu, Limei, Wang, Weilin, Xin, Lusheng, Xu, Jiachao, Wang, Hao, Song, Linsheng
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Crassostrea Gigas
Gaba Synthase
Immune Response
Hemocyte Specific
Pacific
Crassostrea gigas
Pacific oyster
Online Access:http://ir.qdio.ac.cn/handle/337002/130896
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dci.2016.05.010
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Summary:Glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), a rate-limiting enzyme to catalyze the reaction converting the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate to inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), not only functions in nervous system, but also plays important roles in immunomodulation in vertebrates. However, GAD has rarely been reported in invertebrates, and never in molluscs. In the present study, one GAD homologue (designed as CgGAD) was identified from Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas. The full length cDNA of CgGAD was 1689 bp encoding a polypeptide of 562 amino acids containing a conserved pyridoxal-dependent decarboxylase domain. CgGAD mRNA and protein could be detected in ganglion and hemocytes of oysters, and their abundance in hemocytes was unexpectedly much higher than those in ganglion. More importantly, CgGAD was mostly located in those granulocytes without phagocytic capacity in oysters, and could dynamically respond to LPS stimulation. Further, after being transfected into HEK293 cells, CgGAD could promote the production of GABA. Collectively, these findings suggested that CgGAD, as a GABA synthase and molecular marker of GABAergic system, was mainly distributed in hemocytes and ganglion and involved in neuroendocrine-immune regulation network in oysters, which also provided a novel insight to the co-evolution between nervous system and immune system. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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