Abstract
In the present study, a cDNA for the hatching enzyme of a marine tropical fish, Chysiptera parasema, was cloned. This is the first demonstration of hatching enzyme cDNA from a marine tropical fish. The amino acid (aa) sequence deduced from the cDNA consisted of an 18-aa signal sequence, a 53-aa propeptide sequence and a 196-aa mature enzyme portion, having a consensus active site sequence for astacin family proteases. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the C. parasema enzyme was included in the clade of HCEs (high choriolytic enzymes), one of the hatching enzymes of freshwater fishes such as medaka (Oryzias latipes), masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou) and zebrafish (Danio rerio), but not in the group of LCEs (low choriolytic enzymes), another type of hatching enzymes identified in the medaka. The developmental expression patterns of the C. parasema HCE gene were highly similar to that of the medaka HCE gene. The results suggested that the hatching enzyme system is highly conserved between these marine and freshwater fish species.
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