Characterization of a highly inducible novel CC chemokine from differentiated rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) macrophages

Citation

MacKenzie S, Liarte CQ, Iliev DB, Planas JV, Tort L & Goetz FW (2004) Characterization of a highly inducible novel CC chemokine from differentiated rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) macrophages. Immunogenetics, 56 (8), pp. 611-615. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00251-004-0698-6

Abstract
A full-length cDNA clone encoding a novel trout CC chemokine was identified in expressed sequence tags generated from lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated in vitro differentiated macrophages isolated from the head kidney of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). The putative 101-amino-acid protein is 38% similar to Macaca mulatta CCL4 (macrophage inflammatory protein 1β) but is also similar to several other related mammalian CC chemokines, including human Act-2. Real-time PCR and conventional RT-PCR revealed significant up-regulation of transcript levels of the trout CCL4-like mRNA in LPS-stimulated in vitro differentiated macrophages. In unstimulated trout, CCL4-like mRNA expression was detected at different levels in all tissues tested, whereas in LPS-challenged animals (6mg/kg), CCL4-like mRNA increased in intestine, ovary and spleen at both 24h and 72h post-injection. In gills, CCL4-like mRNA expression was inhibited after LPS administration. Based on the highly regulated expression pattern exhibited by the trout CCL4-like mRNA, it is likely that this chemokine plays an important regulatory role in the immune response of trout.

Keywords
CCL4; Macrophage; Trout; Expression; CC chemokine

Journal
Immunogenetics: Volume 56, Issue 8