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BIOLOGY OPEN
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/bio.048926
Keywords
Chinese mitten crab; V-ATPase; Molting regulation; RNA interference; Epicuticle formation
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- Agriculture Research System of China [201904]
- Shanghai Agriculture Applied Technology Development Program [G2017-02-08-00-10-F00076]
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [16391905300]
- Leading Agricultural Talents in Shanghai Project [D-8004-16-0217]
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Vacuolar ATPase (V-ATPase) is a proton pump driven by ATP hydrolysis, and it plays an important role in numerous biological processes, such as protein degradation and synthesis, cell growth, and cell autophagy. The V-ATPase subunit B (VATB) is a conservative and regulatory subunit required for ATP hydrolysis during proton pumping. The VATB of Eriocheir sinensis (EsVATB), which includes an open reading frame (ORF) length of 1467 bp encoding 489 amino acids, was cloned to unveil the biological function of VATB during the molting process of crustaceans. Spatial and temporal expression profiles showed that EsVATB was highly expressed in the posterior gill accompanied with the highest osmotic pressure in the premolt (PrM) stage. Meanwhile, the highest expression level of EsVATB was identified in the hepatopancreas and heart during the postmolt stage and epidermis in the intermolt stage, indicating that EsVATB may perform diverse biological functions in different tissues during the molting process. The individual crabs in the interference group showed a high mortality rate (74%) and a low molting rate (26%) and failed to form a new epicuticle in the PrM stage. Meanwhile, a significant difference in osmotic pressure was identified between the interference and control groups. Our results indicate that EsVATB is an indispensable functional gene that may participate in osmoregulation and help with the new epicuticle formation during the molting process of E. sinensis.
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