A crayfish Ras gene is involved in the defense against bacterial infection under high temperature

Publication date: March 2019Source: Fish & Shellfish Immunology, Volume 86Author(s): Ronghui Li, Suhua Bai, Decui Yang, Chaohua DongAbstractTemperature is an important environmental factor influencing crustacean resistance to pathogen infection. However, the mechanism underlying immune regulation by temperature remains unclear in crustacean. Here, we report a Ras gene of crayfish (designated as PcRAS1) which is involved in immune regulation of crayfish under high temperature. PcRAS1 is induced by both high temperature and bacterial infection and the induction by bacterial infection is associated with temperature. Significant changes of PcRAS1 expression was observed at 32 °C and 24 °C after infection with Aeromonas hydrophila, but relative moderate alternation was found at 16 °C a...

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