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An Overview of Phoneutria Nigriventer Spider Venom Using Combined Transcriptomic and Proteomic Approaches RESEARCH ARTICLE An overview of Phoneutria nigriventer spider venom using combined transcriptomic and proteomic approaches Marcelo R. V. Diniz1☯, Ana L. B. Paiva1☯*, Clara Guerra-Duarte1☯, Milton Y. Nishiyama, Jr2, Mauricio A. Mudadu3, Ursula de Oliveira2, MaÂrcia H. Borges1, John R. Yates4, InaÂcio de L. Junqueira-de-Azevedo2 1 LaboratoÂrio de Toxinologia Molecular, Diretoria de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, FundacËão Ezequiel Dias, a1111111111 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2 LaboratoÂrio Especial de Toxinologia Aplicada, CeTICS, Instituto a1111111111 Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 3 Embrapa InformaÂtica AgropecuaÂria, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 4 Department a1111111111 of Chemical Physiology and Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, a1111111111 California, United States of America a1111111111 ☯ These authors contributed equally to this work. * [email protected], [email protected] OPEN ACCESS Abstract Citation: Diniz MRV, Paiva ALB, Guerra-Duarte C, Phoneutria nigriventer is one of the largest existing true spiders and one of the few consid- Nishiyama MY, Jr, Mudadu MA, Oliveira Ud, et al. ered medically relevant. Its venom contains several neurotoxic peptides that act on different (2018) An overview of Phoneutria nigriventer spider venom using combined transcriptomic and ion channels and chemical receptors of vertebrates and invertebrates. Some of these proteomic approaches. PLoS ONE 13(8): venom toxins have been shown as promising models for pharmaceutical or biotechnological e0200628. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. use. However, the large diversity and the predominance of low molecular weight toxins in pone.0200628 this venom have hampered the identification and deep investigation of the less abundant Editor: Israel Silman, Weizmann Institute of toxins and the proteins with high molecular weight. Here, we combined conventional and Science, ISRAEL next-generation cDNA sequencing with Multidimensional Protein Identification Technology Received: December 6, 2017 (MudPIT), to obtain an in-depth panorama of the composition of P. nigriventer spider Accepted: June 29, 2018 venom. The results from these three approaches showed that cysteine-rich peptide toxins Published: August 1, 2018 are the most abundant components in this venom and most of them contain the Inhibitor Cysteine Knot (ICK) structural motif. Ninety-eight sequences corresponding to cysteine-rich Copyright: © 2018 Diniz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the peptide toxins were identified by the three methodologies and many of them were consid- Creative Commons Attribution License, which ered as putative novel toxins, due to the low similarity to previously described toxins. Fur- permits unrestricted use, distribution, and thermore, using next-generation sequencing we identified families of several other classes reproduction in any medium, provided the original of toxins, including CAPs (Cysteine Rich Secretory ProteinÐCRiSP, antigen 5 and Patho- author and source are credited. genesis-Related 1ÐPR-1), serine proteinases, TCTPs (translationally controlled tumor pro- Data Availability Statement: Raw sequence reads teins), proteinase inhibitors, metalloproteinases and hyaluronidases, which have been from NGS transcriptome were deposited in the NCBI Short Read Archive SRR5929664 under poorly described for this venom. This study provides an overview of the molecular diversity Bioproject accession number PRJNA397584. of P. nigriventer venom, revealing several novel components and providing a better basis to Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly project has been understand its toxicity and pharmacological activities. deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession GFUY00000000. The version described in this paper is the first version, GFUY01000000. Data from CS transcriptome were deposited in the EST database (NCBI): dbEST JG016062- JG017285. Mass spectrometry proteomics data PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200628 August 1, 2018 1 / 29 An overview of Phoneutria nigriventer spider venom were deposited in the ProteomeXchange Introduction Consortium via the PRIDE partner repository with the dataset identifiers PXD008909 and 10.6019/ The wandering spider Phoneutria nigriventer is a member of the Ctenidae family, infraorder PXD008909. Araneomorphae (true spiders). Together with other Phoneutria species, P. nigriventer is one of the largest existing true spiders [1], relying on its strength and venom toxicity for defense and Funding: Funded by Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Toxinas (http://inct.cnpq.br/) grant prey capture. It belongs to the RTA (retrolateral tibial apophysis) clade, a diversified clade of 573790/2008-6. CoordenacËão de AperfeicËoamento modern spiders (~22,000 species) in which most members stopped using silk capture [2]. de Pessoal de NõÂvel Superior (www.capes.gov.br) P. nigriventer is one of the few spiders considered medically relevant for human health [3]. grant 063/10 - 23038.006280/2011-07. Conselho The symptoms following Phoneutria's bite (Phoneutrism) reveal the neurotoxic properties of Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientõÂfico e its venom. The most frequent symptom is immediate local pain, usually of high intensity. TecnoloÂgico (www.cnpq.br) grant 245558/2012-8. FundacËão de Amparo a Pesquisa de Minas Gerais Edema, erythema, sudoresis, paresthesia and muscle fasciculation may also occur at the bite (www.fapemig.br) grants CBB-APQ-01841-09 and site. In addition to local manifestations, tachycardia, hypertension, agitation, vomiting and sia- CBB- BIP-00080-14. FundacËão de Amparo a lorrhea are indications of systemic effects. In severe cases, which usually occur in children, Pesquisa de São Paulo (www.fapesp.br) grant profuse vomiting, priapism, diarrhea, bradycardia, hypotension, cardiac arrhythmia, acute 2013/07467-1. National Institute of Health (www. pulmonary edema and shock have been described [4]. nih.gov) grants: P41 GM103533, R01 MH067880, . venom is a complex mixture of enzymes, proteinaceous and non-proteina- R01 MH100175. UCLA/NHLBI Proteomics Centers P nigriventer (https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/science/proteomics- ceous neurotoxins [5], which act on ion channels (sodium, calcium and potassium) and chem- core) grant HHSN268201000035C. The funders ical receptors of vertebrate and invertebrate neuromuscular systems (review in:[6]). Several of had no role in study design, data collection and these venom toxins have been shown as promising models for pharmaceutical and biotechno- analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the logical applications, with specific effects, such as penile erection [7], neuronal protection, cell manuscript. death decrease after induced ischemia in hippocampal and retinal tissues [8,9], anti-arrhyth- Competing interests: The authors have declared mogenic effect on isolated heart and ventricular myocytes [10], antinociceptive effects in mice that no competing interests exist. and rats [11±14] and insecticidal action [15,16], among others. However, although much of the active proteinaceous components of P. nigriventer venom have already been characterized, there are still many other bioactive molecules that have not yet been explored and some remain undiscovered. Up to December 2017, UniProt database contained fifty- four molecules described for P. nigriventer venom, but this venom is speculated to comprise more than 150 proteinaceous molecules [17,18]. Most of the previous P. nigriventer venom characteriza- tion efforts have been driven and confined to studies on isolation and biological characterization of cysteine-rich peptide toxins with the Inhibitor Cysteine Knot (ICK) structural motif, first named as PnTxs (Phoneutria nigriventer toxins). The identification of high molecular weight proteins has been neglected, and only a few of them have been detected. Additionally, considering the large diversity and the predominance of PnTxs in this venom, including their isoforms, and considering that most of these toxins have similar molecular weight and isoeletric point, purification and ana- lytical methods may not be efficient in detecting less abundant toxins. High throughput methods for transcriptomic and proteomic analysis, combined with computational assembly and annotation of sequence data have allowed rapid characterization of protein components from spider venom glands [19±21]. In this work, we combined conven- tional and next-generation sequencing with Multidimensional protein identification technol- ogy (MudPIT) [22] proteomics to perform a large-scale omics investigation of P. nigriventer venom. Thus, this work presents the first overview of the molecular diversity of P. nigriventer venom, providing a better basis for understanding its toxicity and pharmacological activities. Material and methods Specimens Venom glands and crude venom samples were obtained from adult specimens of P. nigriventer spiders maintained at Ezequiel Dias Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (CGEN license # 010815/2015-5). PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200628 August 1, 2018 2 / 29 An overview of Phoneutria nigriventer spider venom Next-generation sequencing (NGS) transcriptome cDNA library preparation and sequencing. Venom glands from twenty adult female specimens of P. nigriventer were used to produce a cDNA library. Forty-eight hours after being milked by electrical stimulation, the venom glands were removed, dissected and immediately frozen at −80ÊC. Total RNA was extracted using TRIzol
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