Characterization of Histone Genes from the Bivalve Lucina Pectinata

Ingrid M. Montes-Rodríguez, Yesenia Rodríguez-Pou, Ricardo R. González-Méndez, Juan Lopez-Garriga, Alexander J. Ropelewski and Carmen L. Cadilla
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Ingrid M. Montes-Rodríguez: Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Puerto Rico. P.O. BOX 363027, San Juan 00936-3027, Puerto Rico
Yesenia Rodríguez-Pou: Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, P.O. Box 365067, San Juan 00936-5067, Puerto Rico
Ricardo R. González-Méndez: Department of Radiological Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, P.O. Box 365067, San Juan 00936-5067, Puerto Rico
Juan Lopez-Garriga: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Puerto Rico—Mayagüez Campus, P.O. Box 9019, Mayagüez 00681-9019, Puerto Rico
Alexander J. Ropelewski: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 300 South Craig Street Pittsburgh PA 15213
Carmen L. Cadilla: Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus, P.O. Box 365067, San Juan 00936-5067, Puerto Rico

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 10, 1-18

Abstract: Lucina pectinata is a clam that lives in sulfide-rich environments and houses intracellular sulfide-oxidizing endosymbionts. To identify new Lucina pectinata proteins, we produced libraries for genome and transcriptome sequencing and assembled them de novo. We searched for histone-like sequences using the Lucina pectinata histone H3 partial nucleotide sequence against our previously described genome assembly to obtain the complete coding region and identify H3 coding sequences from mollusk sequences in Genbank. Solen marginatus histone nucleotide sequences were used as query sequences using the genome and transcriptome assemblies to identify the Lucina pectinata H1, H2A, H2B and H4 genes and mRNAs and obtained the complete coding regions of the five histone genes by RT-PCR combined with automated Sanger DNA sequencing. The amino acid sequence conservation between the Lucina pectinata and Solen marginatus histones was: 77%, 93%, 83%, 96% and 97% for H1, H2A, H2B, H3 and H4, respectively. As expected, the H3 and H4 proteins were the most conserved and the H1 proteins were most similar to H1′s from aquatic organisms like Crassostrea gigas, Aplysia californica, Mytilus trossulus and Biomphalaria glabrata . The Lucina pectinata draft genome and transcriptome assemblies, obtained by semiconductor sequencing, were adequate for identification of conserved proteins as evidenced by our results for the histone genes.

Keywords: histone gene; gene variants; mollusk; gene evolution; bioinformatics; next-generation sequencing; Sanger sequencing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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