Transcriptome Analysis Revealed Changes of Multiple Genes Involved in Haliotis discus hannai Innate Immunity during Vibrio parahemolyticus Infection

PLoS One. 2016 Apr 18;11(4):e0153474. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153474. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

Abalone (Haliotis discus hannai) is one of the most valuable marine aquatic species in Korea, Japan and China. Tremendous exposure to bacterial infection is common in aquaculture environment, especially by Vibrio sp. infections. It's therefore necessary and urgent to understand the mechanism of H. discus hannai host defense against Vibrio parahemolyticus infection. However studies on its immune system are hindered by the lack of genomic resources. In the present study, we sequenced the transcriptome of control and bacterial challenged H. discus hannai tissues. Totally, 138 MB of reference transcriptome were obtained from de novo assembly of 34 GB clean bases from ten different libraries and annotated with the biological terms (GO and KEGG). A total of 10,575 transcripts exhibiting the differentially expression at least one pair of comparison and the functional annotations highlight genes related to immune response, cell adhesion, immune regulators, redox molecules and mitochondrial coding genes. Mostly, these groups of genes were dominated in hemocytes compared to other tissues. This work is a prerequisite for the identification of those physiological traits controlling H. discus hannai ability to survive against Vibrio infection.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animal Diseases / microbiology
  • Animals
  • Gastropoda / genetics
  • Gastropoda / immunology*
  • Gastropoda / microbiology*
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • Genome, Mitochondrial
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions / genetics
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions / immunology
  • Immunity, Innate / genetics*
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Vibrio Infections / genetics
  • Vibrio Infections / immunology
  • Vibrio Infections / veterinary*

Grants and funding

This study was funded by a grant from the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (RP-2015-BT-013), Republic of Korea. Insilicogen Inc. provided support in the form of salaries for authors [MHJ, SS, SIY, KM, YHS, HJJ and JHP], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.