Project description:We aimed to exemplify early and late transcriptional response of M. galloprovincialis to live Vibrio cells. Hemolymph was collected at 3 and 48 hours after the injection of 10 to 7 cells Vibrio splendidus LGP32 into the posterior adductor muscle. Hemolymph samples were similarly collected from paired control mussels injected with PBS-NaCl. The purified RNAs were successfully amplified, labelled and competitively hybridized to the new mussel oligoarray Immunochip 1.0. After acclimatization, groups of 40 farmed mussels from the Venice lagoon (Italy) were injected either with 10 to 7 cells of Vibrio splendidus LGP32 or with NaCl-enriched PBS. One ml of hemolymph was withdrawn at 3 h and 48 h post-injection from each control or treated mussel. Two RNA pools (N=10) per time point were composed from the treated mussels, processed and competitively hybridized in dye-swap combination (Cy3 / Cy5 aRNAs) on the same Immunochip slide against time-paired control RNA pools (N=40). Since each Immunochip array contains 4 replicates per probe, the dye-swap testing yielded a total of 16 expression values per probe per time-point.
Project description:We aimed to exemplify early and late transcriptional response of M. galloprovincialis to live Vibrio cells. Hemolymph was collected at 3 and 48 hours after the injection of 10 to 7 cells Vibrio splendidus LGP32 into the posterior adductor muscle. Hemolymph samples were similarly collected from paired control mussels injected with PBS-NaCl. The purified RNAs were successfully amplified, labelled and competitively hybridized to the new mussel oligoarray Immunochip 1.0.
Project description:The nacre color of shells has an effect on the pearl color in Hyriopsis cumingii, and is an important indicator for its value. However, little exosome and micro (mi)RNA information are available on nacre color formation in mussels. In this study, exosomes of mantles were extracted from white and purple mussels. High-throughput Illumina sequencing was performed on the white and purple mussel mantle exosomes.Moreover, miR-223 negatively regulated hcApo, which plays important roles in the absorption and transport of β-carotene in H. cumingii. These results improve our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of nacre color formation in H. cumingii.
Project description:We examined gene expression profiling of mussels treated with two chemical mixtures composed by heavy metals or organic compounds, both including genotoxic agents (cadmium, benzo[a]pyrene, 1-nitro/amino-pyrene) and other contaminants (cupper, mercury, fluoranthene, TCDD). For digestive gland one RNA sample from control mussels and one from each treatment group (7 mussels) were competitively hybridized on the MytArray 1.0. Total RNA was reverse-transcribed and labeled using a Cy3-dCTP and Cy5-dCTP direct incorporation. We carried out two separate hybridizations for each treatment conditions. Keywords = mussels Keywords = heavy metals Keywords = organic compaunds Keywords = gene expression profiling Keywords: ordered
Project description:A prototype oligonucleotide microarray was designed to detect and identify viable bacterial species with the potential to grow of common beer spoilage microorganisms from the genera Lactobacillus, Megasphaera, Pediococcus and Pectinatus. Probes targeted the intergenic spacer regions (ISR) between 16S and 23S rRNA, which were amplified in a combination of reverse transcriptase (RT) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) prior to hybridization. This method allows the detection and discrimination of single bacterial species in a complex sample. Furthermore, microarrays using oligonucleotide probes targeting the ISR allow the distinction between viable bacteria with the potential to grow and non-growing bacteria. The results demonstrate the feasibility of oligonucleotide microarrays as a contamination control in food industry for the detection and identification of spoilage microorganisms within mixed population. Keywords: microarray, oligonucleotide, species-specific, detection, beer spoilage bacteria
Project description:Colonization of deep-sea hydrothermal vents by invertebrates was made efficient through their adaptation to a symbiotic lifestyle with chemosynthetic bacteria, the primary producers of these ecosystems. Anatomical adaptations such as the establishment of specialized cells or organs have been evidenced in numerous deep-sea invertebrates. However, very few studies detailed global inter-dependencies between host and symbionts in these ecosystems. In this study, we proposed to describe, using a proteo-transcriptomic approach, the effects of symbionts on the deep-sea mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus’ molecular biology. We induced an in situ depletion of symbionts and compared the proteo-transcriptome of the gills of mussels in three conditions: symbiotic mussels (natural population), symbiont-depleted mussels and aposymbiotic mussels
Project description:Endogenously determined inter-individual differences in growth rate of bivalve molluscs have been widely analyzed at different organizational levels. Most studies have focused on the characterization of the physiological differences between fast (F) and slow (S) growing individuals. Although several genes have been described to be up regulated on fast growing individuals, the molecular basis underlying the mechanisms at the origin of growth variation is still poorly understood. In the present study we reared mussel spat of the species Mytilus galloprovincialis under diets below the pseudofaeces threshold (BP) and above the pseudofaeces threshold (AP). After 3 months, F and S mussels on each condition were selected, so that 4 experimental groups were obtained: FBP, SBP, FAP and SAP. We hypothesized that nurturing conditions during their growing period would modify the molecular basis of growth rate differences. However, results of feeding experiments showed that F mussels displayed higher clearance and ingestion rates and higher efficiencies of food selection prior to ingestion, as well as higher gill surface areas, irrespective of the rearing nutritional environment. To decipher molecular mechanism at the origin of growth variation, gills of the 4 mussel groups were dissected, and used for transcriptome analysis with a custom Agilent single channel microarray. Gene expression analysis revealed i) a low number (12) of genes differentially expressed associated to maintenance condition differences and ii) 117 genes differentially expressed when comparing fast and slow growing mussels (FBP + FAP vs. SBP + SAP). We further investigated this comparison: GO terms and KEGG pathway association of the differentially expressed genes allowed us to analyze the functions involved on the differentially expressed encoding. Transcriptomic differences between F and S mussels were mainly based on the up-regulation of response to stimulus, growth and cell activity Biological Process GO terms. Regarding the KEGG terms, carbohydrate metabolism and Krebs cycle were found to be up-regulated in F mussels whereas biosynthetic processes were up-regulated in S mussels. Among the differentially expressed genes that are annotated, the following ones were found to be up regulated in F mussels: i) Mucin, related to mucus secretion, known to be crucial in food acquisition and pre-ingestive selection processes in bivalves, ii) genes related to growth such as Myostatin or Insulin-like growth factor, iii) genes involved in feeding activity, such as Fibrocystin or Dynein and iv) genes involved in the energetic metabolism; Citrate synthase. S mussels mainly over-expressed genes related to immune system and defence (Leucine-rich repeat-containing protein, Metalloendopeptidase, Small heat shock protein 24, Multidrug resistance,…).The present results suggest that differences in feeding activity and in the allocation of metabolic energy between growth groups could account for the differences in growth rate in spat of Mytilus galloprovincialis. In accordance with their higher feeding rates and growth, fast growing mussels were found to mainly over-express genes involved in the development and maintenance of such activities, however, slow growing mussels needed to expend energy in immune and defence processes to ensure survival at the expense of growth rate.