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Proteins of Penial Mamilliform Glands in Closely Related Littorina Species BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS ZOOLOGY Proteins of penial mamilliform glands in closely related Littorina species (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda): variability and possible contribution to reproductive isolation Arseniy Lobov1,2, Irina Babkina1, Arina Maltseva1, Natalia Mikhailova3, and Andrey Granovitch1 1Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7–9, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation 2Laboratory of Regenerative Biomedicine, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tikhoretskiy pr., 4, Saint Petersburg, 194064, Russian Federation 3Cell Technologies Center, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tikhoretskiy pr., 4, Saint Petersburg, 194064, Russian Federation Address correspondence and requests for materials to Arseniy Lobov, [email protected] Abstract The forces driving reproductive isolation emergence during the process of sym- patric speciation are still intensely debated. Mechanisms of gametic isolation (which are known to form rapidly in several models) take the central place in these debates. Nevertheless, the approximative capacity of a few investigated models to other taxa could be questioned, generating demand for the adop- tion of additional model organisms to study sympatric speciation. The group of Citation: Lobov, A., Babkina, I., Maltseva, A., closely related species of the genus Littorina (subgenus Neritrema) sympatrically Mikhailova, N., and Granovitch, A. 2020. inhabiting seashores are promising. In this study, we performed comparative Proteins of penial mamilliform glands in closely related Littorina species (Mollusca, proteomic analysis of penial tissues of four Neritrema species to identify poten- Caenogastropoda): variability and possible tial effectors contributing to gametic isolation. Among 272 analyzed proteins, contribution to reproductive isolation. Bio. Comm. 65(2): 200–212. https://doi. 13 mamilliform gland-specific proteins (possibly transferred to the female dur- org/10.21638/spbu03.2020.206 ing copulation) were detected, as well as five proteins specifically expressed in Authors’ information: Arseniy Lobov, the epithelium of the penial basal part. Eight of these proteins were species- PhD student, Junior Researcher, orcid. org/0000-0002-0930-1171; Irina Babkina, specific and may be involved in the maintenance of reproductive barriers. student, orcid.org/0000-0002-0406-7021; Arina Maltseva, PhD, Associate Professor, Keywords: Littorina, proteomics, gamete recognition proteins, mamilliform orcid.org/0000-0003-1973-4728; Natalia gland, reproductive isolation, gametic isolation, Mollusca, 2D-DIGE. Mikhailova, Dr. of Sci. in Biology, Leading Researcher, orcid.org/0000-0003-1650-9330; Andrey Granovitch, Dr. of Sci. in Biology, Professor, orcid.org/0000-0002-5203-104X Introduction Manuscript Editor: Pavel Skutschas, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, Reproductive isolation is regarded as a key species criterion within the biological Saint Petersburg, Russia species concept (De Queiroz, 2007). When reproductive barriers emerge without Received: November 4, 2019; geographic separation, subpopulations appear under the sympatric (as opposed Revised: February 3, 2020; to allopatric) speciation model (Bolnick and Fitzpatrick, 2007; Butlin et al., 2008). Accepted: February 11, 2020. Although the mechanisms of sympatric speciation have been actively investigat- Copyright: © 2020 Lobov et al. This is an open-access article distributed under ed in the last 30 years, they remain vague in many aspects. One of the possible the terms of the License Agreement with mechanisms is post-copulatory prezygotic reproductive (gametic) isolation due Saint Petersburg State University, which permits to the authors unrestricted to incompatibility of molecules involved in fertilization (Swanson and Vacquier, distribution, and self-archiving free of charge. 2002; Matute, 2010; Lobov et al., 2019). Funding: The research was supported There are few model systems to study gametic isolation, mainly in species of by the Russian Foundation for Basic animals with external fertilization (Wilburn and Swanson, 2016). Model organisms Research grant number 18-34-00873 (PI Arseniy A. Lobov). The purchase with internal fertilization have until recently included only insects and mammals of basic laboratory equipment was financed by the St. Petersburg State (Vieira and Miller, 2006; Wilburn and Swanson, 2016). A group of cryptic species of University grant number 0.40.491.2017 genus Littorina (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) is a newly elaborated model system to (PI Andrey I. Granovitch). analyze gametes incompatibility among internal fertilizers. The subgenus Neritrema Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. comprises two groups of closely related species: “saxatilis” (L. saxatilis (Olivi 1792), BIOLOGICAL COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 65, issue 2, April–June, 2020 | https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu03.2020.206 201 L. arcana Hannaford Ellis 1978, L. compressa Jeffreys proteomic approach followed by mass-spectrometric 1865) and “obtusata” (L. obtusata (Linnaeus 1758), L. fab- analysis, we compared proteomes of mamilliform glands alis (Turton 1825)); all of these sympatrically inhabit the and basal fragments of penis from L. saxatilis, L. arcana, European North Atlantic sea shores (Yashenko and Gra- L. obtusata and L. fabalis. novitch, 2002; Granovitch et al., 2004). Physiological con- sequences of local ecological and evolutionary adaptation can be traced in particular species and subpopulations of Material and Methods these molluscs (Sokolova et al., 2000, 2001; Panova and Samples Males of L. saxatilis, L. arcana, L. obtusata and Johannesson, 2004; Rolán-Alvarez et al., 2015; Maltseva L. fabalis were collected from the sympatric Norwegian et al., 2016). This suggests the importance of ecological populations (70°17’00.0”N 30°58’40.9”E). The proce- sympatric speciation in the evolutionary history of this dure of species identification was described before (Gra- species group (Johannesson, 2003; Grahame et al., 2006; novitch et al., 2008). Penises were dissected and divided Rolán-Alvarez et al., 2007, 2015). into two parts: mamilliform glands and basal fragments All representatives of Neritrema demonstrate a (SM 1). Each piece of tissue was collected into lysis buf- species-specific pattern of mating, but there is evidence fer and homogenized (Maltseva et al., 2016). that L. saxatilis/L. arcana and L. obtusata/L. fabalis may 2D DIGE Samples were conjugated with Cy2, hybridize in nature (Mikhailova et al., 2009; Grano- Cy3 or Cy5 fluorophores (Luminoprobe). Three samples vitch et al., 2013; Costa et al., 2020), and that interspe- were separated in one gel. There were two biological cies copulations occur commonly in L. saxatilis/L. ar- replicates with at least two technical replicates including cana (Mikhailova et al., 2008; unpublished data). Such Cy-fluorophore-swap for each sample. Isoelectric focus- a case of incomplete reproductive isolation along with ing was carried out with IPG ReadyStrip (18 cm or 7 cm, certain features of Neritrema periwinkles (e.g., polyan- pH 3−10, Bio-Rad) in a Protean IEF Cell (Bio-Rad) fol- dry, sympatry, reinforcement and sexual conflict) serve lowing the manufacturer’s recommendations. The sec- as preconditions for gametic isolation between the spe- ond direction of electrophoresis was performed in 15 % cies (Zigler et al., 2005; Kvarnemo and Simmons, 2013; PAAG with a tris/glycine/SDS buffer system (BioRad; Lobov et al., 2019). Thus, postcopulatory prezygotic re- Laemmli, 1970). Electrophoregrams were visualized us- productive barriers may be expected to contribute to the ing Typhoon FLA 9500 (GE Healthcare). maintenance of species identities in this species group Statistical analysis Spot identification for 2D elec- in sympatry. trophoresis analysis was done in PDQuest (BioRad) In 2013 we launched the project devoted to the software. The final dataset was analyzed in R (R Core analysis of gamete interaction proteins involved in ga- Team, 2019; Maltseva et al., 2016). metic isolation between Littorina species. We assumed LC-MS/MS Differentially expressed proteins were that such proteins may have three possible origins in a excised from the Coomassie stained gels and identified male (Supplement, SM 1): testis and seminal vesicles by HPLC-tandem-mass-spectrometry (Agilent 6538, (mature eu- and paraspermatozoa), prostate gland Agilent Technologies) following the “bottom up” ap- (seminal fluid) and penial mamilliform glands. We have proach as described earlier (Maltseva et al., 2016). MS/ characterized the species-specific paraspermal protein MS search was done using Agilent Spectrum Mill MS LOSP (Lobov et al., 2015, 2018); the analysis of prostate Proteomics Workbench (Agilent Technologies; Rev proteomes is in progress; and here we describe the re- B. 04.00.127) against the L. obtusata (Marques et al., sults of interspecies proteomic comparison of mamilli- 2019), L. fabalis (Marques et al., 2019), L. saxatilis (Ma- form penial glands secretions. rie Westram et al., 2018), L. littorea (Gorbushin, 2018) The precise function of penial glands is unknown; transcriptomes and theTrEMBL database for Mol- it was suggested that they anchor the penis within the lusca [6447] database (2019; 396079 proteins; https:// bursa copulatrix during copulation (Buckland-Nicks www.uniprot.org/uniprot/?query=taxonomy:6447 %20 and Worthen, 1992). Each penial gland
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