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Bolitoglossa Ramosi) for Limb Regeneration Research Claudia M University of Kentucky UKnowledge Biology Faculty Publications Biology 9-25-2018 Using Transcriptomics to Enable a Plethodontid Salamander (Bolitoglossa ramosi) for Limb Regeneration Research Claudia M. Arenas Gómez Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia Ryan M. Woodcock University of Kentucky, [email protected] Jeramiah J. Smith University of Kentucky, [email protected] Randal S. Voss University of Kentucky, [email protected] Jean Paul Delgado Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits oy u. Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_facpub Part of the Biology Commons, and the Genetics and Genomics Commons Repository Citation Gómez, Claudia M. Arenas; Woodcock, Ryan M.; Smith, Jeramiah J.; Voss, Randal S.; and Delgado, Jean Paul, "Using Transcriptomics to Enable a Plethodontid Salamander (Bolitoglossa ramosi) for Limb Regeneration Research" (2018). Biology Faculty Publications. 165. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_facpub/165 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Biology at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in Biology Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Using Transcriptomics to Enable a Plethodontid Salamander (Bolitoglossa ramosi) for Limb Regeneration Research Notes/Citation Information Published in BMC Genomics, v. 19, 704, p. 1-12. © The Author(s). 2018 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The rC eative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-5076-0 This article is available at UKnowledge: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_facpub/165 Arenas Gómez et al. BMC Genomics (2018) 19:704 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-5076-0 RESEARCHARTICLE Open Access Using transcriptomics to enable a plethodontid salamander (Bolitoglossa ramosi) for limb regeneration research Claudia M. Arenas Gómez1, Ryan M. Woodcock2,4, Jeramiah J. Smith2, Randal S. Voss3 and Jean Paul Delgado1* Abstract Background: Tissue regeneration is widely distributed across the tree of life. Among vertebrates, salamanders possess an exceptional ability to regenerate amputated limbs and other complex structures. Thus far, molecular insights about limb regeneration have come from a relatively limited number of species from two closely related salamander families. To gain a broader perspective on the molecular basis of limb regeneration and enhance the molecular toolkit of an emerging plethodontid salamander (Bolitoglossa ramosi), we used RNA-Seq to generate a de novo reference transcriptome and identify differentially expressed genes during limb regeneration. Results: Using paired-end Illumina sequencing technology and Trinity assembly, a total of 433,809 transcripts were recovered and we obtained functional annotation for 142,926 non-redundant transcripts of the B. ramosi de novo reference transcriptome. Among the annotated transcripts, 602 genes were identified as differentially expressed during limb regeneration. This list was further processed to identify a core set of genes that exhibit conserved expression changes between B. ramosi and the Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), and presumably their common ancestor from approximately 180 million years ago. Conclusions: We identified genes from B. ramosi that are differentially expressed during limb regeneration, including multiple conserved protein-coding genes and possible putative species-specific genes. Comparative analyses reveal a subset of genes that show similar patterns of expression with ambystomatid species, which highlights the importance of developing comparative gene expression data for studies of limb regeneration among salamanders. Keywords: Axolotl, Bolitoglossa, Limb, Plethodontid, Regeneration, Transcriptomics, Urodele Background which regeneration is accomplished. For example, satel- Amphibians belonging to the order Caudata (Urodela) lite cells serve as the progenitors for reforming muscle have been studied for more than 100 years in develop- during regeneration in the Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mental biology and more specifically in the area of tissue mexicanum; Family Ambystomatidae) and larvae of the regeneration [1]. Studies of relatively few species suggest eastern red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens; that salamanders, in general, have a broad capacity to re- Family Salamandridae), whereas adult eastern generate different tissues and organs, including the red-spotted newts regenerate using progenitors that are heart, brain, jaws, tail and the complex structures of derived from dedifferentiation of functional muscle fi- complete limbs [2]. However, recent studies have re- bers [3, 4]. These and other examples [5, 6], which are vealed a surprising degree of interspecific variation in re- based on relatively few comparative data, suggest that at generative capacity and in the cellular mechanisms by least some mechanisms of regeneration have diverged during salamander evolution. Clearly, there is need to * Correspondence: [email protected] study additional species to resolve conserved/common 1Grupo de Genética, Regeneración y Cáncer, Universidad de Antioquia, Sede mechanisms and taxon-specific differences that have ac- de Investigación Universitaria, Torre 2, laboratorio 432. Calle 62 No. 52 – 59, Medellín, Colombia crued during salamander evolution. Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Arenas Gómez et al. BMC Genomics (2018) 19:704 Page 2 of 12 RNA-seq provides an efficient methodology to gener- species (Table 1), with the most transcript data gener- ate fundamental molecular information for enabling ana- ated for A. mexicanum [7, 8] and N. viridescens [9]. lyses that leverage new model species. To date, Transcriptomic data were recently generated for the transcriptional analyses of limb regeneration have been Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus; Family limited to just a few ambystomatid and salamandrid Cryptobranchidae) [10] and Chinese salamander Table 1 Previous studies and tools used to analyze the genes involved during tissue regeneration in salamanders Reference Goal Species Tissue Year Technique Smith J et al. [57] EST resource for A. mexicanum Multiple tissues 2004 Sanger sequencing Ambytomatidae salamanders A. tigrinum Monaghan JR et al. [58] Gene expression during A. mexicanum Spinal cord 2007 Microarray spinal cord regeneration Makarev E et al. [59] Gene expression during N. viridescens Eye 2007 Microarray lenses regeneration Monaghan JR et al. [45] Transcription during A. mexicanum Limb 2009 Microarrays and 454 platforms nerve-dependent limb regeneration Maki N et al. [60] Gene expression during N.viridescens, Cynops pyrrhogaster Eye 2010 Sanger sequencing lenses regeneration Campbell LJ et al. [61] Gene expression profile A. mexicanum Epithelium 2011 Microarray of the regeneration epithelium Holman EC et al. [62] microRNA expression A. mexicanum Limb 2012 Microarray during limb regeneration Monaghan JR et al. [42] Gene expression A. mexicanum Limb 2012 Microarray during limb regeneration Mercer S et al. [38] Multi-tissue regeneration N.viridescens Multiple tissues 2012 Microarray signature Sousounis K et al. [63] Gene expression during N. viridescens Eye 2013 Microarray lenses regeneration Looso M et al. [64] Tissue regeneration N. viridescens Multiple tissues 2013 Sanger sequencing, Illumina and 454 platforms Abdullayev I et al. [65] Reference transcriptome N. viridescens Multiple tissues 2013 Illumina and proteome during regeneration Stewart R et al. [36] Early gene expression A. mexicanum Limb 2013 Illumina in the blastema Wu Ch et al. [46] Differentially expressed A. mexicanum Limb 2013 Illumina genes during limb regeneration Nakamura K et al. [66] Early Processes of C. pyrrhogaster Eyes 2014 Illumina Retinal regeneration Voss SR et al. [26] Global analysis of A. mexicanum Limb 2015 Microarrays gene expression Of limb regeneration during 28 days Bryant DM et al. [7] Axolotl de Novo A. mexicanum Multiple tissues 2017 Illumina Transcriptome from multiple tissue to indentify regeneration factors Elewa A et al. [67] The genome and Pleurodeles body parts and 2017 Illumina reference transcriptome of waltl genome regenerative tissues Pleurodeles waltl Nowoshilow S et al. [68] The axolotl genome A. mexicanum Multiple tissues 2018 Different
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