Complement in urochordates: cloning and characterization of two C3-like genes in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis

Immunogenetics
Rita MarinoMaria Rosaria Pinto

Abstract

The recent identification of complement components in deuterostome invertebrates has indicated the presence of a complement system operating via an alternative pathway in echinoderms and tunicates and via a MBL-mediated pathway thus far identified only in tunicates. Here, we report the isolation of two C3-like genes, CiC3-1 and CiC3-2, from blood cell total RNA of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. The deduced amino acid sequences of both Ciona C3-like proteins exhibit a canonical processing site for alpha and beta chains, a thioester site with an associated catalytic histidine and a convertase cleavage site, thus showing an overall similarity to the other C3 molecules already characterized. Southern blotting analysis indicated that each gene is present as a single copy per haploid genome. In situ hybridization experiments showed that both CiC3-1 and CiC3-2 are expressed in one type of blood cell, the compartment cells. Two polyclonal antibodies, raised against two deduced peptide sequences in the alpha chain of CiC3-1 and CiC3-2, allowed the identification by Western blot of a single band in the blood serum, of about M(r)150,000. A phylogenetic tree, based on the alignment of CiC3-1 and CiC3-2 with molecules of the alpha(2)-macr...Continue Reading

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