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- An expressed sequence tag analysis of the intertidal brown seaweeds Fucus serratus (L.) and F. vesiculosus (L.) (Heterokontophyta, Phaeophyceae) in response to abiotic stressorsPublication . Pearson, G. A.; Hoarau, G.; Lago-Lestón, Asunción; Coyer, J. A.; Kube, M.; Reinhardt, Richard; Henckel, K.; Serrão, Ester; Corre, E.; Olsen, J. L.In order to aid gene discovery and uncover genes responding to abiotic stressors in stress-tolerant brown algae of the genus Fucus, expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were studied in two species, Fucus serratus and Fucus vesiculosus. Clustering of over 12,000 ESTs from three libraries for heat shock/recovery and desiccation/rehydration resulted in identification of 2,503, 1,290, and 2,409 unigenes from heat-shocked F. serratus, desiccated F. serratus, and desiccated F. vesiculosus, respectively. Low overall annotation rates (18–31%) were strongly associated with the presence of long 3′ untranslated regions in Fucus transcripts, as shown by analyses of predicted protein-coding sequence in annotated and nonannotated tentative consensus sequences. Posttranslational modification genes were overrepresented in the heat shock/recovery library, including many chaperones, the most abundant of which were a family of small heat shock protein transcripts, Hsp90 and Hsp70 members. Transcripts of LI818-like light-harvesting genes implicated in photoprotection were also expressed during heat shock in high light. The expression of several heat-shock-responsive genes was confirmed by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. However, candidate genes were notably absent from both desiccation/rehydration libraries, while the responses of the two species to desiccation were divergent, perhaps reflecting the species-specific physiological differences in stress tolerance previously established. Desiccation-tolerant F. vesiculosus overexpressed at least 17 ribosomal protein genes and two ubiquitinribosomal protein fusion genes, suggesting that ribosome function and/or biogenesis are important during cycles of rapid desiccation and rehydration in the intertidal zone and possibly indicate parallels with other poikilohydric organisms such as desiccation-tolerant bryophytes.
- Analysis of the goldfish Carassius auratus olfactory epithelium transcriptome reveals the presence of numerous non-olfactory GPCR and putative receptors for progestin pheromonesPublication . Kolmakov, Nikolai N.; Kube, M.; Reinhardt, Richard; Canario, Adelino V. M.The goldfish (Carassius auratus) uses steroids and prostaglandins as pheromone cues at different stages of the reproductive cycle to facilitate spawning synchronization. Steroid progestin pheromone binding has been detected in goldfish olfactory membranes but the receptors responsible for this specific binding remain unknown. In order to shed some light on the olfactory epithelium transcriptome and search for possible receptor candidates a large set of EST from this tissue were analysed and compared to and combined with a similar zebrafish (Danio rerio) resource.
- Expressed sequence tags from heat-shocked seagrass Zostera noltii (Hornemann) from its southern distribution rangePublication . Massa, S. I.; Pearson, G. A.; Aires, Tânia; Kube, M.; Olsen, J. L.; Reinhardt, Richard; Serrão, Ester; ARNAUD-HAOND, SophiePredicted global climate change threatens the distributional ranges of species worldwide. We identified genes expressed in the intertidal seagrass Zostera noltii during recovery from a simulated low tide heat-shock exposure. Five Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) libraries were compared, corresponding to four recovery times following sub-lethal temperature stress, and a non-stressed control. We sequenced and analyzed 7009 sequence reads from 30 min, 2 h, 4 h and 24 h after the beginning of the heat-shock (AHS), and 1585 from the control library, for a total of 8594 sequence reads. Among 51 Tentative UniGenes (TUGs) exhibiting significantly different expression between libraries, 19 (37.3%) were identified as ‘molecular chaperones’ and were over-expressed following heat-shock, while 12 (23.5%) were ‘photosynthesis TUGs’ generally under-expressed in heat-shocked plants. A time course analysis of expression showed a rapid increase in expression of the molecular chaperone class, most of which were heat-shock proteins; which increased from 2 sequence reads in the control library to almost 230 in the 30 min AHS library, followed by a slow decrease during further recovery. In contrast, ‘photosynthesis TUGs’ were under-expressed 30 min AHS compared with the control library, and declined progressively with recovery time in the stress libraries, with a total of 29 sequence reads 24 h AHS, compared with 125 in the control. A total of 4734 TUGs were screened for EST-Single Sequence Repeats (EST-SSRs) and 86 microsatellites were identified.► Response to heat stress is very fast but gene expression returns to normal after 24 h. ► Photosynthesis-related genes were under-expressed after heat-shock. ► Heat-shock caused a quick rise in heat shock proteins and molecular chaperone expression.
- Increasing genomic information in bivalves through new EST collections in four species: Development of new genetic markers for environmental studies and genome evolutionPublication . Tanguy, A.; Bierne, N.; Saavedra, Carlos; Pina, B.; Bachere, E.; Kube, M.; Bazin, E.; Bonhomme, F.; Boudry, P.; Boulo, V.; Boutet, I.; Cancela, Leonor; Dossat, C.; Favrel, P.; Huvet, A.; Jarque, S.; Jollivet, D.; Klages, Sven; Lapegue, S.; Leite, Ricardo; Moal, J.; Moraga, D.; Reinhardt, Richard; Samain, J. F.; Zouros, E.; Canario, Adelino V. M.The generation of EST information is an essential step in the genomic characterisation of species. In the context of the European Network Marine Genomics, a common goal was to significantly increase the amount of ESTs in commercial marine mollusk species and more specifically in the less studied but ecologically and commercially important groups, such as mussel and clam genera. Normalized cDNA libraries were constructed for four different relevant bivalves species (Crassostrea gigas, Mytilus edulis, Ruditapes decussatus and Bathymodiolus azoricus), using numerous tissues and physiological conditions. In this paper, we present the analysis of the 13,013 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) generated. Each EST library was independently assembled and 1300–3000 unique sequences were identified in each species. For the different species, functional categories could be assigned to only about 16 to 27% of ESTs using the GO annotation tool. All sequences have been incorporated into a publicly available database and form the basis for subsequent microarray design, SNP detection and polymorphism analysis, and the placement of novel markers on genetic linkage maps.