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タイトル: | Isolation of Ef silicatein and Ef lectin as molecular markers for sclerocytes and cells involved in innate immunity in the freshwater sponge Ephydatia fluviatilis |
著者: | Funayama, Noriko https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6253-9795 (unconfirmed) Nakatsukasa, Mikiko Kuraku, Shigehiro Takechi, Katsuaki Dohi, Mikako Iwabe, Naoyuki Miyata, Takashi Agata, Kiyokazu |
著者名の別形: | 岩部, 直之 阿形, 清和 |
キーワード: | porifera sclerocyte silicatein tachylectin innate immunity |
発行日: | Oct-2005 |
出版者: | Zoological Society of Japan |
誌名: | Zoological Science |
巻: | 22 |
号: | 10 |
開始ページ: | 1113 |
終了ページ: | 1122 |
抄録: | Sponges (phylum Porifera) have remarkable regenerative and reconstitutive abilities and represent evolutionarily the oldest metazoans. To investigate sponge stem cell differentiation, we have focused on the asexual reproductive system in the freshwater sponge Ephydatia fluviatilis. During germination, thousands of stem cells proliferate and differentiate to form a fully functional sponge. As an initial step of our investigation of stem cell (archeocyte) differentiation, we isolated molecular markers for two differentiated cell types: spicule-making sclerocyte cells, and cells involved in innate immunity. Sclerocyte lineage-specific Ef silicatein shares 45% to 62% identity with other sponge silicateins. As in situ hybridization of Ef silicatein specifically detects archeocytes possibly committed to sclerocytes, as well as sclerocytes with an immature or mature spicule, therefore covering all the developmental stages, we conclude that Ef silicatein is a suitable sclerocyte lineage marker. Ef lectin, a marker for the cell type involved in innate immunity, shares 59% to 65% identity with the marine sponge Suberites domuncula galactose-binding protein (Sd GBP) and horseshoe crab Tachypleus tridentatus tachylectin1/lectinL6. Since Scl GBP and tachylectin1 are known to bind to bacterial lipopolysaccharides and inhibit the growth of bacteria, Ef lectin may have a similar function and be expressed in a specialized type of cell involved in defense against invading bacteria. Ef lectin mRNA and protein are not expressed in early stages of development, but are detected in late stages. Therefore, Ef lectin may be specifically expressed in differentiating and/or differentiated cells. We suggest Ef lectin as a marker for cells that assume innate immunity in freshwater sponges. |
著作権等: | (c) 日本動物学会 / Zoological Society of Japan |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2433/57193 |
DOI(出版社版): | 10.2108/zsj.22.1113 |
出現コレクション: | Zoological Science |
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