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ArticleScientific reports2020

Serum amyloid A is a positive acute phase protein in Russian sturgeon challenged with Aeromonas hydrophila.

Mauricio Castellano, Valeria Silva-Álvarez, Marcio Aversa-Marnai, María Lamas-Bervejillo, Ignacio Quartiani, Alejandro Perretta, Andrea Villarino, Ana María Ferreira

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mauricio CastellanoUnidad de Inmunología Asociada al Instituto de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias - Área de Inmunología, Departamento de Biociencias, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, CP 11600, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Valeria Silva-ÁlvarezUnidad de Inmunología Asociada al Instituto de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias - Área de Inmunología, Departamento de Biociencias, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, CP 11600, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Marcio Aversa-MarnaiUnidad de Inmunología Asociada al Instituto de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias - Área de Inmunología, Departamento de Biociencias, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, CP 11600, Montevideo, Uruguay.
María Lamas-BervejilloUnidad de Inmunología Asociada al Instituto de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias - Área de Inmunología, Departamento de Biociencias, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, CP 11600, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Ignacio QuartianiInstituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la República, CP 11300, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Alejandro PerrettaInstituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la República, CP 11300, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Andrea VillarinoSección Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, CP 11400, Montevideo, Uruguay. avillarino@fcien.edu.uy.
Ana María FerreiraUnidad de Inmunología Asociada al Instituto de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias - Área de Inmunología, Departamento de Biociencias, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, CP 11600, Montevideo, Uruguay. aferreira@fcien.edu.uy.
Universidad de la República · UY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immune system of sturgeons, one of the most ancient and economically valuable fish worldwide, is poorly understood. The lack of molecular tools and data about infection biomarkers hinders the possibility to monitor sturgeon health during farming and detect infection outbreaks. To tackle this issue, we mined publicly available transcriptomic datasets and identified putative positive acute-phase proteins (APPs) of Russian sturgeons that could be induced by a bacterial infection and monitored using non-invasive methods. Teleost literature compelled us to focus on five promising candidates: hepcidin, a warm acclimation associated hemopexin, intelectin, serum amyloid A protein (SAA) and serotransferrin. Among them, SAA was the most upregulated protein at the mRNA level in the liver of sturgeons challenged with heat-inactivated or live Aeromonas hydrophila. To assess whether this upregulation yielded increasing SAA levels in circulation, we developed an in-house ELISA to quantify SAA levels in sturgeon serum. Circulating SAA rose upon bacterial challenge and positively correlated with hepatic saa expression. This is the first time serum SAA has been quantified in an Actinopterygii fish. Since APPs vary across different fish species, our work sheds light on sturgeon acute-phase response, revealing that SAA is a positive APP with potential value as infection biomarker.

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Aeromonas hydrophilaAcute-Phase ProteinsAcute-Phase ReactionAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsEpitopes, B-LymphocyteFish DiseasesFishesGene Expression ProfilingHost-Pathogen InteractionsImmunity, InnateModels, MolecularProtein ConformationSerum Amyloid A ProteinStructure-Activity RelationshipTranscriptomeAcute-Phase ProteinsEpitopes, B-LymphocyteSerum Amyloid A Protein

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PMID33335147
PMCPMC7746741
OpenAlexW3111919675

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