Abstract

In the present study, the zinc finger aspartate-histidine-histidine-cysteine (DHHC)-type containing 1 (ZDHHC1) gene was identified in a commercial fish, the Chinese perch Siniperca chuatsi. The ZDHHC1 has five putative transmembrane motifs and conserved DHHC domain, showing high amino-acid identity with other teleost fish, and vertebrate ZDHHC1 loci are conserved from fish to human. In vivo expression analysis indicated that ZDHHC1 gene was constitutively transcribed in all the examined organs/tissues, and was induced following infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) infection. It is further observed that ZDHHC1 interacts with MITA and the overexpression of ZDHHC1 in cells resulted in the upregulated expression of ISGs, such as Mx, RSAD2, IRF3 and type I IFNs such as IFNh and IFNc, exhibiting its antiviral function in fish as reported in mammals.

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