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The analysis of inducible family members in the water flea Daphnia magna led to the identification of an uncharacterized lineage of heat shock protein 70
Summary
Researchers cloned and characterized four heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) genes in Daphnia magna, a tiny water flea commonly used as a pollution indicator species, discovering a previously unknown lineage of this stress-response protein. Understanding how Daphnia responds to stress at the molecular level is valuable for studies that use this organism to assess the biological effects of microplastic exposure.
To explore the function and evolutionary relationships of inducible heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) in Daphnia magna, cDNAs of four Hsp70 family members (DmaHsp70, DmaHsp70-2, DmaHsp70-12, DmaHsp70-14) were cloned. While all DmaHsp70s possess three function domains, it is noteworthy that only DmaHsp70 ends with a "EEVD" motif. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the Hsp70-12 lineage is distanced from the rest, and therefore it is an uncharacterized lineage of Hsp70. The differences in isoelectric point and 3-dimensional (3D) conformation of the N-terminal nucleotide binding domain (NBD) of DmaHsp70s further support the theory. DmaHsp70s exhibit varied motif distribution patterns and the logo sequences of motifs have diverse signature characteristics, indicating that different mechanisms are involved in the regulation of ATP binding and hydrolysis for the DmaHsp70s. Protein-protein network together with the predicted subcellular locations of DmaHsp70s suggest that they likely fulfill distinct roles in cells. The transcription of four DmaHsp70s were changed during the recovery stage after thermal stress or oxidative stress. But the expression pattern of them were dissimilar. Collectively, these results collectively elucidated the identification of a previously uncharacterizedHsp70 lineage in animal and extended our understanding of the Hsp70 family.
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