Journal of Tianjin Agricultural University ›› 2019, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (2): 51-56.doi: 10.19640/j.cnki.jtau.2019.02.012

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Cloning and sequence analysis of mucin MUC5AC gene from the half-smooth tongue sole, Cynoglossus semilaevis

TAN Jing, HU Xiu-cai, LÜ Ai-jun, SUN Jing-feng, LIU Xiao-xue, LIAN Zheng-yi   

  1. Tianjin Key Lab of Aqua-Ecology and Aquaculture, College of Fisheries, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin 300384, China
  • Received:2019-01-27 Online:2019-06-20 Published:2019-09-19

Abstract: As the main component of fish mucus, mucin plays an important role in protecting from pathogen infection. The MUC5AC gene of Cynoglossus semilaevis, namely CsMUC5AC gene was cloned by RT-PCR method and protein structure was predicted by bioinformatics analysis. Results showed that the length of the CsMUC5AC gene fragment was 2 771 bp, encoding 917 amino acids(aa), and 5 antigenic epitopes were predicted to be mainly located within 314-321, 507-516, 578-589, 748-762 and 811-826 aa sites. The 3 domains including C8(164-238, 624-698 aa), VWD(1-128, 430-588 aa)and VWC(303-365, 768-836 aa)were observed. Analysis of secondary structure showed that the C8 motif was α-helix, the VWD domain was β-sheet, and the tertiary structure was two subunits profiles(VWD-C8-VWC). The phylogenetic tree analysis showed that CsMUC5AC was closely related to that of Scophthalmus maximus, Anabas testudineus and Oreochromis niloticus, and naturally clustered into one group with the secretory mucins. These results provide a scientific reference for the further study of MUC5AC gene function in tongue sole.

Key words: Cynoglossus semilaevis, MUC5AC, gene cloning, structure prediction

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