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First Insights into the Repertoire of Secretory Lectins in Rotifers
Due to their high biodiversity and adaptation to a mutable and challenging environment, aquatic lophotrochozoan animals are regarded as a virtually unlimited source of bioactive molecules. Among these, lectins, i.e., proteins with remarkable carbohydrate-recognition properties involved in immunity,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8878817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35200659 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md20020130 |
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description | Due to their high biodiversity and adaptation to a mutable and challenging environment, aquatic lophotrochozoan animals are regarded as a virtually unlimited source of bioactive molecules. Among these, lectins, i.e., proteins with remarkable carbohydrate-recognition properties involved in immunity, reproduction, self/nonself recognition and several other biological processes, are particularly attractive targets for biotechnological research. To date, lectin research in the Lophotrochozoa has been restricted to the most widespread phyla, which are the usual targets of comparative immunology studies, such as Mollusca and Annelida. Here we provide the first overview of the repertoire of the secretory lectin-like molecules encoded by the genomes of six target rotifer species: Brachionus calyciflorus, Brachionus plicatilis, Proales similis (class Monogononta), Adineta ricciae, Didymodactylos carnosus and Rotaria sordida (class Bdelloidea). Overall, while rotifer secretory lectins display a high molecular diversity and belong to nine different structural classes, their total number is significantly lower than for other groups of lophotrochozoans, with no evidence of lineage-specific expansion events. Considering the high evolutionary divergence between rotifers and the other major sister phyla, their widespread distribution in aquatic environments and the ease of their collection and rearing in laboratory conditions, these organisms may represent interesting targets for glycobiological studies, which may allow the identification of novel carbohydrate-binding proteins with peculiar biological properties. |
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spelling | pubmed-88788172022-02-26 First Insights into the Repertoire of Secretory Lectins in Rotifers Gerdol, Marco Mar Drugs Article Due to their high biodiversity and adaptation to a mutable and challenging environment, aquatic lophotrochozoan animals are regarded as a virtually unlimited source of bioactive molecules. Among these, lectins, i.e., proteins with remarkable carbohydrate-recognition properties involved in immunity, reproduction, self/nonself recognition and several other biological processes, are particularly attractive targets for biotechnological research. To date, lectin research in the Lophotrochozoa has been restricted to the most widespread phyla, which are the usual targets of comparative immunology studies, such as Mollusca and Annelida. Here we provide the first overview of the repertoire of the secretory lectin-like molecules encoded by the genomes of six target rotifer species: Brachionus calyciflorus, Brachionus plicatilis, Proales similis (class Monogononta), Adineta ricciae, Didymodactylos carnosus and Rotaria sordida (class Bdelloidea). Overall, while rotifer secretory lectins display a high molecular diversity and belong to nine different structural classes, their total number is significantly lower than for other groups of lophotrochozoans, with no evidence of lineage-specific expansion events. Considering the high evolutionary divergence between rotifers and the other major sister phyla, their widespread distribution in aquatic environments and the ease of their collection and rearing in laboratory conditions, these organisms may represent interesting targets for glycobiological studies, which may allow the identification of novel carbohydrate-binding proteins with peculiar biological properties. MDPI 2022-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8878817/ /pubmed/35200659 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md20020130 Text en © 2022 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gerdol, Marco First Insights into the Repertoire of Secretory Lectins in Rotifers |
title | First Insights into the Repertoire of Secretory Lectins in Rotifers |
title_full | First Insights into the Repertoire of Secretory Lectins in Rotifers |
title_fullStr | First Insights into the Repertoire of Secretory Lectins in Rotifers |
title_full_unstemmed | First Insights into the Repertoire of Secretory Lectins in Rotifers |
title_short | First Insights into the Repertoire of Secretory Lectins in Rotifers |
title_sort | first insights into the repertoire of secretory lectins in rotifers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8878817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35200659 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md20020130 |
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