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Chapter 4<br />

with the ability of shrimp to survive from viral infections have been widely<br />

reported. Crayfish ALF was shown to inhibit WSSV replication both in vivo<br />

<strong>and</strong> in vitro (Liu et al., 2006). The mechanism of this inhibition still needs<br />

further investigations.<br />

A Lipopolysaccharide <strong>and</strong> β-1, 3-glucan binding protein (LGBP) gene<br />

was up-regulated in WSSV infected shrimp suggesting that shrimp LGBP is<br />

an inducible acute-phase protein that may play a critical role in shrimp-<br />

WSSV interaction (Roux et al., 2002). PmAV was found in virus resistant<br />

shrimp which has a C-type lectin-like domain (CTLD). Recombinant PmAV<br />

protein displayed a strong antiviral activity in inhibiting virus-induced<br />

cytopathic effect in fish cells invitro. Further experiments showed that PmAV<br />

did not bind to the WSSV implying that the antiviral mechanism of this<br />

protein was not due to inhibition of the attachment of virus to target host cell<br />

(Luo et al., 2003). A β-integrin was found to interact with a WSSV envelope<br />

protein VP187 containing the RGD motif. Soluble integrin, integrin-specific<br />

antibody <strong>and</strong> an RGD containing peptide could block the WSSV infection<br />

invivo <strong>and</strong> invitro. Silencing of β-integrin efficiently inhibited the virus<br />

infection. These data suggest that this β-integrin may function as a cellular<br />

receptor for WSSV infection (Li et al., 2007). A syntenin <strong>and</strong> its protein<br />

partner α-2-macroglobulin co-precipitated with each other <strong>and</strong> both of them<br />

were up-regulated in the acutephase of a WSSV infection (Tonganunt et al.,<br />

2005). A chitin-binding protein (PmCBP) interacted with a WSSV067C<br />

protein <strong>and</strong> showed up-regulation at the late stage of WSSV infection (Chen<br />

et al. 2007). Actin microfilaments were shown to interact with VP26 in<br />

shrimp (Xie <strong>and</strong> Yang 2005). VP28 of WSSV was suggested to bind to shrimp<br />

cells as an attachment protein <strong>and</strong> could help the virus to enter into the<br />

cytoplasm (Yi et al., 2004). Moreover, haemocyanin, the respiratory protein<br />

of arthropods <strong>and</strong> molluscs, was found to delay the infection of WSSV invivo<br />

in P. japonicus (Lei et al., 2008). Another C-type-lectin (LvLT) was decreased<br />

<strong>Molecular</strong> <strong>Characterization</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Gene</strong> <strong>Expression</strong> <strong>Profiling</strong> of Antimicrobial Peptides in Penaeid Shrimps<br />

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