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JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages 4478-4504Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/pr200284e
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Daphnia pulex; crustacean; neuropeptide; protein hormone; preprohormone; genomics; transcriptomics; bioinformatics; MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry; RT-PCR
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- Carl Tryggers Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
- Faculty of Sciences, Stockholm University
- Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders, Belgium (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen)
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Danish Research Council for Nature and Universe
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
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We report 43 novel genes in the water flea Daphnia pulex encoding 73 predicted neuropeptide and protein hormones as partly confirmed by RT-PCR MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry identified 40 neuropeptides by mass matches and 30 neuropeptides by fragmentation sequencing. Single genes encode adipokinetic hormone, allatostatin-A, allatostatin-B, allatotropin, Ala(7)-CCAP, CCHamide, Arg(7)-corazonin, DENamides, CRF-like (DH52) and calcitonin-like (DH31) diuretic hormones, two ecdysis-triggering hormones, two FIRFamides, one insulin, two alternative splice forms of ion transport peptide (ITP), myosuppressin, neuroparsin, two neuropeptide-F splice forms, three periviscerolcinins (but no pyrokinins), pigment dispersing hormone, proctolin, Met(4)-proctolin, short neuropeptide-F, three RYamides, SIFamide, two sulfakinins, and three tachykinins. There are two genes for a preprohormone containing orcomyotropin-like peptides and orcokinins, two genes for N-terminally elongated ITPs, two genes (clustered) for eclosion hormones, two genes (clustered) for bursicons alpha, beta, and two genes (clustered) for glycoproteins GPA2, GPBS, three genes for different allatostatins-C (two of them clustered) and three genes for IGF-related peptides. Detailed comparisons of genes or their products with those from insects and decapod crustaceans revealed that the D. pulex peptides are often closer related to their insect than to their decapod crustacean homologues, confirming that branchiopods, to which Daphnia belongs, are the ancestor group of insects.
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