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Journal Article
Differential toxicity and venom gland gene expression in Centruroides vittatus
2017
Overview
Variation in venom toxicity and composition exists in many species. In this study, venom potency and venom gland gene expression was evaluated in Centruroides vittatus, size class I-II (immature) and size class IV (adults/penultimate instars) size classes. Venom toxicity was evaluated by probit analysis and returned ED50 values of 50.1 μg/g for class IV compared to 134.2 μg/g for class I-II 24 hours post injection, suggesting size class IV was 2.7 fold more potent. Next generation sequencing (NGS and qPCR were used to characterize venom gland gene expression. NGS data was assembled into 36,795 contigs, and annotated using BLASTx with UNIPROT. EdgeR analysis of the sequences showed statistically significant differential expression in transcripts associated with sodium and potassium channel modulation. Sodium channel modulator expression generally favored size class IV; in contrast, potassium channel modulators were favored in size class I-II expression. Real-time quantitative PCR of 14 venom toxin transcripts detected relative expression ratios that paralleled NGS data and identified potential family members or splice variants for several sodium channel modulators. Our data suggests ontogenetic differences in venom potency and venom related genes expression exist between size classes I-II and IV.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Animals
/ Conus
/ Diet
/ Ecology
/ Ecology and Environmental Sciences
/ Genomics
/ High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
/ Instars
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Ontogeny
/ Peptides
/ Potassium Channels - drug effects
/ Proteins
/ Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
/ Scorpions - anatomy & histology
/ Sodium
/ Sodium Channels - drug effects
/ Studies
/ Tityus
/ Toxicity
/ Toxins
/ Venom
