First Record of Marine Phytoplankton, Picochlorum Maculatum in the Southeastern Coast of India
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Indian Journal of Geo Marine Sciences Vol. 46 (04), April 2017, pp. 791-796 First record of marine phytoplankton, Picochlorum maculatum in the Southeastern coast of India Dinesh Kumar, S1. S. Ananth1, P. Santhanam1*, K. Kaleshkumar2 & R. Rajaram2 1Marine Planktonology & Aquaculture Lab., 2DNA Barcoding and Marine Genomics Lab., Department of Marine Science, School of Marine Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli- 620 024, Tamil Nadu, India. * [E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]] Received 20 October 2014 ; revised 02 January 2015 The marine phytoplankton Picochlorum maculatum (Chlorophyta:Trebouxiophyceae) is recorded for the first time in the Southeastern coast of India. In this study, marine phytoplankton were collected at Muthukkuda mangrove waters, Tamil Nadu, Southeast coast of India which was then isolated, purified and identified with rDNA sequencing. Recurrence component analysis of marine phytoplankton P. maculatum indicated that the peptides were composed of Beta structure, comprising alpha-helix, extended strand and random coil. The number of amino acids and chemical properties from the marine microalgae P. maculatum are calculated and having composition of Neutral (82.69%), Acidic (10.72%) and Basic (6.57%) amino acids. This species may be introduced by way of shipping and other transport mechanisms where organisms are inadvertently moved out of their home range, e.g., ballast water exchange. [Keywords: Microalgae, Picochlorum maculatum, Genetic Distance, Open Reading Frame, Poly A signals] Introduction The genus Picochlorum maculatum was in Indian coastal waters. There are five Picochlorum established by Henley et. al.1 based on Nannochloris were reported in species level from Japan maculta Butcher, 1952. The currently accepted name (Picochlorum atomus, Picochlorum eukaryotum, P. of the species is Picochlorum link type continued maculatum, Picochlorum oculatum) by Henley et al1. based on Nannochloris Butcher, 1952. The size of P. maculatum also reported in Japan between 2001 small cell is 1.5 to 3 microns diameter and making and 2003 by Yamamoto et al 2, 3. In the present paper tough to morphology identification. In the marine P.maculatum, reported for the first time from Indian habitat, there are 5 species (and intraspecific) names coastal waters. Also confirmed by molecular studies were deposited in the database at present, of which 3 viz., Open Reading Frames (ORFs), Polyadenylation have been flagged as currently accepted signals, Genetic distance analyses and found the gene taxonomically. Picochlorum is green algae or prediction. chlorophyta, already reported 16 species (Picochlorum atomus, Picochlorum eukaryotum, Materials and Methods Picochlorum maculatum, Picochlorum oculatum, Collection, isolation and purification of microalgae Picochlorum oklahomense, Picochlorum sp. The water sample was collected from the EGEMACC41, Picochlorum sp. HM1, Picochlorum Muthukuda region of Palk Bay (Latitude. 9o 51’ 48’’ sp. NIES-1270, Picochlorum sp. RCC1034, N; Longitude 79o 7’ 15’’ E), Tamil Nadu, Picochlorum sp. RCC115, Picochlorum sp. RCC289, Southeastern coast of India. The microalgae were Picochlorum sp. RCC944, Picochlorum sp. RCC945, isolated using agar plating and serial dilution Picochlorum sp. S1b, Picochlorum sp. UTEX 2378, techniques according to Robert4. The mixed cultures Picochlorum sp. UTEX 2491) under this genera in contained different species of microalgae were diluted worldwide but except India. No reports are available in 1/10 dilution series with sterile Walne medium5, on the occurrence of Picochlorum maculatum so far and prepared using filtered/sterilized seawater and 0.1 792 INDIAN J. MAR. SCI., VOL. 46, NO. 04, APRIL 2017 mL of appropriate dilutions was spread on Walne agar Basionym Nannochloris maculata R. W. Butcher medium plates. Homotypic Nannochloris maculata R. W. Butcher, synonym 1952 DNA extraction and amplification Current Picochlorum maculatum Henley et Genomic DNA isolation from green algae were status al., 2004 done according to Smoker and Barnum6 with slight modifications. PCR amplification was performed for the purified DNA by using ss5 (5'GGTTGATCCTGCCAGTAGTCATATGCTTG3') and ss3 (5' GATCCTTCCGCAGGTTCACCTACGG AAACC-3) primers. Sequencing was done with amplified samples with respective forward primers and sequence was submitted to GenBank via BankIt submission tool. Fig. 1—Microscopic photograph of Picochlorum maculatum Phylogenetic and sequence analyses The evolutionary distances of algae were computed 7 Cells are green, spherical or oval, with a diameter by the Maximum Composite Likelihood method and of 2.5 microns, ability to grow in moist soil or water, are in the units of the number of base substitutions per either saline or fresh. One nucleus, one mitochondrion site and it was computed in MEGA 6 software. The and one lateral chloroplast were present and of genetic distance and open reading frames were 7 8 pyrenoid and flagella are absent. Chloroplast predicted according to Tamura et al. and Chen et al . pigments included chlorophyll a and b. Reproduction The poly A signals were predicted by using standard 9 by autosporulation, leading to two or more daughter method described by Liu et al . The nucleotide cells; sexual reproduction is unknown. sequence of microalga translated in to protein sequences by using TranSeq and secondary structure The evolutionary history was inferred and was predicted by the method of Garnier et al10. Amino optimal tree with sum of branch length is shown acid predictions were carried out by using ExPASy in Figure 2. The P. maculatum sequences were web server11. initially compared with the nucleotide data base using BLASTn and matched with the nucleotide sequences Results of Prasinoderma sp., Nannochlorum sp., The genomic DNA of Picochlorum sp. PSDK01 Nannochloris maculata, Nannochloris atomus, was extracted and electro eluted in the agarose gel. Picochlorum sp., Picochlorum oklahomensis. The Approximately 917 bp of amplified locus of 18S mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences of P. rDNA was observed. All amplified fragments were maculatum consist of two open reading frames sequenced and analyzed against NCBI database. It (ORFs) as shown in Figure 3. was clearly observed that the sequences have a high percentage similarity which was approximately 98% with P. maculatum, complete genome (Accession No: KJ754560). Thus based on the analyses, it can be concluded that the isolated strain was identified as P. maculatum (Figure 1). The following are the systematics and characteristic features of the species. Empire EUKARYOTA Kingdom PLANTAE Phylum CHLOROPHYTA Class TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE Order CHLORELLALES Family CHLORELLALESINCERTAE SEDIS Genus NANNOCHLORIS Fig. 2—Evolutionary relationships of marine microalga Species MACULATA Picochlorum maculatum (KJ754560) DINESH KUMAR et al.: FIRST RECORD OF MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON, PICOCHLORUM MACULATUM 793 The identified functional coding regions occur in the -ce genetic relationship. The numbers of amino acids frame -1 and -3 (between the residues of 755-856, and chemical properties from the marine microalga P. 786-914). Polyadenylation signal from the P. maculatum are calculated (Table 3) and having maculatum are predicted and shown in the Table 1, composition of Neutral (82.69%), Acidic (10.72%) which play a major role in the gene expressions. Poly and Basic (6.57%) amino acids. The theoretical pI A signals in the position of 750, 585, 752, 770, 600, determined that the in particular pH the protein 739 and 554 (AATACA, TCGTAG, TACATT, sequences have not the electrical charges. Negatively CACGAT, GGGTGG, CCTACG, AGCTCC) were and positively charged residues may change the predicted for P. maculatum (Figure 4). transmembrane helices which depend upon the amount of charged particles present in the sequence. The secondary structure of P. maculatum consists 13.49% of A-helix, 29.41% of extended strand and 57.09% of random coil. Table 1—Polyadenylation signals (poly A) from the sequences of Picochlorum maculatum S. Sequence Start Sequence Score Prediction No. length position Fig. 3—The mt Cytochrome b sequences of marine microalga 1. 917 544 AGCTCC 0.01740 Positive Picochlorum maculatum: P. maculatum consists two open reading 2. 917 585 TCGTAG 0.85125 Positive frames (ORFs) 3. 917 600 GGGTGG 0.29131 Positive 4. 917 739 CCTACG 0.22563 Positive 5. 917 750 AATACA 0.32251 Positive 6. 917 752 TACATT 0.60990 Positive 7. 917 770 CACGAT 0.55106 Positive Discussion In the present investigation, the nucleotide sequences of marine phytoplankton P. maculatum are initially compared with nucleotide database in NCBI (BLASTn) website which resulted that the sequences are maximum identical of the comparison within the genus. Evolutionary relationships among multiple modes of cell division in the genus Nannochloris (chlorophyta) exposed by genome size, actin gene multiplicity and phylogeny (Yamamoto and Nozaki, 2001). Yamamota et al.3 have studied the relationship between the mother cell and their generations and found 98% of similarity with their parents and other similar cultures. Each sequence of the 18S rRNA genes is not completely the same for heterogeneity or contamination of the original culture. Misra et al.14 analyzed gene mining and metabolic pathway for maximum biofuel production from microalgae, during molecular evolution of lipid biosynthetic pathway in microalgae and confirm the close evolutionary proximity between the Streptophyte and Chlorophyte Fig. 4—The sequence of Picochlorum maculatum about