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Upregulation of polymeric immunoglobulin receptor expression in flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) gill cells by cytokine tumor necrosis factor-α via activating PI3K and NF-κB signaling pathways
- Source :
- Molecular immunology. 135
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (pIgR) transports secretory immunoglobulins across mucosal epithelial cells into external secretions, playing critical roles in mucosal surface defenses, but the regulation mechanism of pIgR expression is not clarified in teleost fish. In this study, the dynamic changes of flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) pIgR (fpIgR) and pro-inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) mRNA expression in mucosal tissues were first analyzed post inactivated Vibrio anguillarum immunization, and increased production of TNF-α was found to correlate with increased expression of fpIgR. To determine that cytokine TNF-α influenced fpIgR expression, following confirming that natural fpIgR expressed on flounder gill (FG) cells, FG cells were incubated with various concentrations of recombinant TNF-α for different time, the results showed that the expressions of fpIgR were significantly upregulated at gene and protein levels in a dose-dependent and time-dependent manner, and similar change trend was observed for free secretory component (SC) secreted by fpIgR into the culture supernatant. After FG cells were treated with TNF-α, specific phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor wortmannin, nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) inhibitor Bay11-7082, and the mixtures of TNF-α and wortmannin / Bay11-7082 respectively, the fpIgR protein and mRNA levels, together with SC secretion, obviously decreased in wortmannin- and Bay11-7082-treated cells compared with the untreated control, and cotreatment with wortmannin / Bay11-7082 plus TNF-α resulted in lower expression compared with that upon treatment with TNF-α alone, indicating that the inhibition of PI3K and NF-κB both blocked the ability of TNF-α to increase cellular fpIgR and SC levels. Furthermore, the gene expressions of PI3K and NF-κB were upregulated and present a tendency to increase first and then decrease after TNF-α treatment of FG cells; However, the expression of PI3K mRNA was inhibited significantly by wortmannin but not by Bay11-7082, and the expression of NF-κB mRNA was suppressed obviously by Bay11-7082 but not by wortmannin, suggesting that inhibition of PI3K or NF-κB had no influence on each other. All these results collectively revealed that TNF-α could transcriptionally upregulate fpIgR expression and SC production, and this TNF-α-induced pIgR expression was regulated by complex mechanisms that involved PI3K and NF-κB signaling pathways, which provided evidences for pro-inflammatory cytokine TNF-α acting as a regulator in pIgR expression and better understanding of regulation mechanism of pIgR expression in teleost fish.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Gills
Secretory component
medicine.medical_treatment
Immunology
Flounder
Wortmannin
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
0302 clinical medicine
Downregulation and upregulation
Nitriles
medicine
Animals
Secretion
RNA, Messenger
Sulfones
Molecular Biology
Cells, Cultured
Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors
Vibrio
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
NF-kappa B
Receptors, Polymeric Immunoglobulin
Molecular biology
Up-Regulation
030104 developmental biology
Cytokine
chemistry
Gene Expression Regulation
Tumor necrosis factor alpha
Immunization
Signal transduction
Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase
Polymeric immunoglobulin receptor
030215 immunology
Signal Transduction
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18729142
- Volume :
- 135
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Molecular immunology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....23bcfb28755a2ddcf228b5dec197bccd