1. Immortalization of shrimp lymphoid cells by hybridizing with the continuous cell line Sf9 leading to the development of 'PmLyO-Sf9 '.
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Anoop BS, Puthumana J, Vazhappilly CG, Kombiyil S, Philip R, Abdulaziz A, and Bright Singh IS
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- Animals, Sf9 Cells, Spodoptera, Cell Line immunology, Lymphocytes immunology, Penaeidae immunology
- Abstract
Shrimp progressively gets more attention among marine invertebrates from researchers all over the world due to it being a healthy food as well as having economic importance. There were a lot of attempts to develop a continuous cell line from shrimp but none successful. In this context a novel hybrid cell line named 'PmLyO-Sf9' could be developed by fusing shrimp lymphoid organ cells with Sf9 cells after to metabolic blocking of Sf9 cells using puromycin and actinomycin D and effecting the fusion by way of PEG application. The cells are maintained and multiplied in a mixture of SCCM and TNM-FH having osmolality 550 mOsm kg
-1 and pH 6.8. Transmission electron microscopy of the hybrid cells revealed the presence of two nuclei during the initial stages and a single nucleus subsequently. The cell line is with shrimp and Sf9 genomic components and shrimp specific protein and is susceptible to WSSV. Shrimp elongation factor, Sf9 beta-actin, shrimp STAT and peroxinectin could be expresses through RT-PCR in the cell line. This is the first successful report of a hybrid cell line with shrimp genomic components and envisaged to be recognized a model system for multitudes of biomedical research in vitro. The cell line is in the National Cell Line Repository of ICAR - National Bureaue of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow, India., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)- Published
- 2021
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