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Regulation of Il-2 on the expression of granzyme B- and perforin-like genes and its functional implication in grass carp peripheral blood neutrophils

  • Fish Shellfish Immunol. 2022 May;124:472-479. doi: 10.1016/j.fsi.2022.04.041.
Mengyuan Lv 1 Xingyang Qiu 1 Jiankang Wang 1 Yawen Wang 1 Qingqing Liu 1 Hong Zhou 1 Anying Zhang 1 Xinyan Wang 2
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  • 1 School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, PR China.
  • 2 School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, PR China. Electronic address: wangxyhku@uestc.edu.cn.
Abstract

Granzyme (Gzm) B and perforin, both as cytotoxic proteins, can collaborate to induce the death of target cells as well as the microbes. They were originally discovered in cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and natural killer (NK) cells and confer the cytotoxic activities of these cells. In the present study, the coding sequences of a granzyme b-like (gcgzmbl) and a perforin-like (gcprfl) genes were cloned from grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) and their specific Antibodies were subsequently prepared and validated. The mRNA and protein expression of these two cytotoxic proteins in grass carp peripheral blood neutrophils was demonstrated by quantitative PCR (qPCR) and immunofluorescence staining, respectively. In the same cell model, expression of gcGzmbl and gcPrfl was stimulated by grass carp interleukin (Il)-2 in a dose- and time-dependent manners and ERK, NF-κB and STAT5 pathways were found to be involved in the regulation of IL-2 on the genes' expression. Additionally, glycolysis was proved to play a role in the stimulation of IL-2 on gcGzmbl and gcPrfl expression in peripheral blood neutrophils. As combating the invading Microorganisms is one of the main functions of neutrophils, the roles of gcGzmbl and gcPrfl in the anti-bacterial activities of grass carp peripheral blood neutrophils were explored. Results showed that immunoneutralization of gcGzmbl or gcPrfl significantly attenuated the antimicrobial abilities of the neutrophils enhanced by IL-2. These findings shed a LIGHT on the expression, regulation and functions of granzyme B- and perforin-like proteins in fish peripheral blood neutrophils and enrich the understanding of IL-2 function in fish innate immunity.

Keywords

Granzyme b-like; Grass carp; Interleukin-2; Neutrophil; Perforin-like.

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