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- Title
Thrombin-deficient mutant of medaka, a model fish, displays serious retardation in blood coagulation.
- Authors
Watanabe, Yuko; Oguri, Rina; Suzuki, Risa; Meng, Qi; Ishikawa, Yuta; Tatsukawa, Hideki; Hashimoto, Hisashi; Hitomi, Kiyotaka
- Abstract
At the last stage of the blood coagulation cascade, thrombin plays a central role in the processing of fibrinogen for the polymerization and in the additional activation of Factor XIII for the stable cross-linking of fibrin. In addition, thrombin carries out possible multiple roles via processing or interaction with various functional proteins. Several studies conducted in order to elucidate additional physiological significance are ongoing. To clarify further significance of thrombin and to establish an associated disease model, we characterized the orthologue gene for medaka (Oryzias latipes), a research model fish. Tissue distribution of medaka prothrombin has been immunotechnically analyzed. Furthermore, thrombin-deficient medaka mutants were viably established by utilizing a genome-editing method. The established gene-deficient mutants exhibited retarded blood coagulation even in the heterozygous fish. Taking advantage of their ease of handling, this specific model is useful for further investigation in medical research areas on human coagulation diseases.
- Subjects
BLOOD coagulation; ORYZIAS latipes; THROMBIN; PROTHROMBIN; FIBRIN; MEDICAL research
- Publication
Bioscience, Biotechnology & Biochemistry, 2021, Vol 85, Issue 4, p824
- ISSN
0916-8451
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bbb/zbaa098