The family of fibrinogen-related proteins (FREPs) is a group of proteins with fibrinogen-like (FBG) domains, which play important roles as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) in the innate immune responses. In the present study, a fibrinogen-like protein was identified from the oyster Crassostrea gigas (defined as CgFREP1). The open reading frame of CgFREP1 was of 966 bp that encoded a predicted polypeptide of 321 amino acids comprising a signal peptide and a fibrinogen-like domain. The mRNA expression of CgFREP1 was detected in all the examined tissues. The recombinant CgFREP1 (rCgFREP1) displayed binding activities to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), mannose (MAN), as well as Gram-positive bacteria (Micrococcus luteus and Staphylococcus aureus) and Gram-negative bacteria (Vibrio splendidus and Escherichia coli). The rCgFREP1 displayed the agglutinating activity towards M. luteus, V. splendidus and E. coli in the presence of Ca. rCgFREP1 was able to enhance the phagocytic activity of haemocytes towards V. splendidus, and exhibited binding activity to the CUB domain of CgMASPL-1. These results suggest that CgFREP1 not only serves as a PRR to recognize and agglutinate different bacteria but also mediates the haemocytes phagocytosis towards V. splendidus.
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