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Di Bella MA, Fedders H, De Leo G, et al. Localization of antimicrobial peptides in the tunic of Ciona intestinalis (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) and their involvement in local inflammatory-like reactions. Results Immunol. 2011;1(1):70-5doi: 10.1016/j.rinim.2011.09.001.
Di Bella, M. A., Fedders, H., De Leo, G., & Leippe, M. (2011). Localization of antimicrobial peptides in the tunic of Ciona intestinalis (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) and their involvement in local inflammatory-like reactions. Results in immunology, 1(1), 70-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinim.2011.09.001
Di Bella, M A, et al. "Localization of antimicrobial peptides in the tunic of Ciona intestinalis (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) and their involvement in local inflammatory-like reactions." Results in immunology vol. 1,1 (2011): 70-5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinim.2011.09.001
Di Bella MA, Fedders H, De Leo G, Leippe M. Localization of antimicrobial peptides in the tunic of Ciona intestinalis (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) and their involvement in local inflammatory-like reactions. Results Immunol. 2011 Sep 22;1(1):70-5. doi: 10.1016/j.rinim.2011.09.001. eCollection 2011. PMID: 24371555; PMCID: PMC3787856.
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Results Immunol. 2011 Sep 22;1(1):70-5. doi: 10.1016/j.rinim.2011.09.001. eCollection 2011.

Localization of antimicrobial peptides in the tunic of Ciona intestinalis (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) and their involvement in local inflammatory-like reactions.

Results in immunology

M A Di Bella, H Fedders, G De Leo, M Leippe

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biopatologia e Biotecnologie Mediche e Forensi, Sezione di Biologia e Genetica, University of Palermo, Via Divisi 83, 90133 Palermo, Italy.
  2. Department of Zoophysiology, Zoological Institute, University of Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany.

PMID: 24371555 PMCID: PMC3787856 DOI: 10.1016/j.rinim.2011.09.001

Abstract

Tunicates comprising a wide variety of different species synthesize antimicrobial peptides as important effector molecules of the innate immune system. Recently, two putative gene families coding for antimicrobial peptides were identified in the expressed sequence tag database of the tunicate Ciona intestinalis. Two synthetic peptides representing the cationic core region of one member of each of the families displayed potent antibacterial and antifungal activities. Moreover, the natural peptides were demonstrated to be synthesized and stored in distinct hemocyte types. Here, we investigated the presence of these natural peptides, namely Ci-MAM-A and Ci-PAP-A, in the tunic of C. intestinalis considering that the ascidian tunic is a body surface barrier exposed to constant microbial assault. Furthermore, as the tunic may represent a major route of entry for pathogen invasion after its damage we monitored the location of these peptides upon a local inflammatory-like reaction induced by injection of foreign cells. Using immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy both peptides were localized to the tunic and were massively present in granulocytes of inflamed tissue. Conclusively, antimicrobial peptides may constitute a chemical barrier within the tunic of urochordates.

Keywords: AMPs, antimicrobial peptides; Antimicrobial peptides; Ci-MAM, Ciona-molecule against microbes; Ci-PAP, Ciona-putative antimicrobial peptide; Ciona intestinalis; EST, expressed sequence tag; Innate immunity; KLH, keyhole limpet hemocyanin; Tunic; Tunicates

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