Journal
COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY D-GENOMICS & PROTEOMICS
Volume 17, Issue -, Pages 26-40Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2015.11.003
Keywords
Blast2GO; Crustacea; Decapoda; Ecdysteroid; Gecarcinus; Molting; mTOR; Transforming growth factor beta; Transcriptome; Y-organ; Signal transduction; Molt-inhibiting hormone
Funding
- Oklahoma State University High Performance Computing Center (National Science Foundation) [OCI-1126330]
- National Science Foundation [IOS-1257732]
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1257732] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In decapod crustaceans, arthropod steroid hormones or ecdysteroids regulate molting. These hormones are synthesized and released from a pair of molting glands called the Y-organs (YO). Cyclic nucleotide, mTOR, and TGF beta/Smad signaling pathways mediate molt cycle-dependent phase transitions in the YO. To further identify the genes involved in the regulation of molting, a YO transcriptome was generated from three biological replicates of intermolt blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis. Illumina sequencing of cDNA libraries generated 227,811,829 100-base pair (bp) paired-end reads; following trimming, 90% of the reads were used for further analyses. The trimmed reads were assembled de novo using Trinity software to generate 288,673 contigs with a mean length of 872 bp and a median length of 1842 bp. Redundancy among contig sequences was reduced by CD-HIT-EST, and the output constituted the baseline transcriptome database. Using Bowtie2, 92% to 93% of the reads were mapped back to the transcriptome. Individual contigs were annotated using BIAST, HMMER, TMHMM, SignalP, and Trinotate, resulting in assignments of 20% of the contigs. Functional and pathway annotations were carried out via gene ontology (GO) and ICEGG orthology (1(0) analyses; 58% and 44% of the contigs with BLASTx hits were assigned to GO and KO terms, respectively. The gene expression profile was similar to a crayfish YO transcriptome database, and the relative abundance of each contig was highly correlated among the three G. lateralis replicates. Signal transduction pathway orthologs were well represented, including those in the mTOR, TGF beta, cyclic nucleotide, MAP kinase, calcium, VEGF, phosphatidylinositol, ErbB, Wnt, Hedgehog, Jak-SEAT, and Notch pathways. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc All rights reserved.
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