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A Proposal for the Evolution of Cathepsin and Silicatein in Sponges A Proposal for the Evolution of Cathepsin and Silicatein in Sponges Ana Riesgo, Manuel Maldonado, Susanna López-Legentil & Gonzalo Giribet Journal of Molecular Evolution ISSN 0022-2844 J Mol Evol DOI 10.1007/s00239-015-9682-z 1 23 Your article is protected by copyright and all rights are held exclusively by Springer Science +Business Media New York. This e-offprint is for personal use only and shall not be self- archived in electronic repositories. If you wish to self-archive your article, please use the accepted manuscript version for posting on your own website. You may further deposit the accepted manuscript version in any repository, provided it is only made publicly available 12 months after official publication or later and provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on Springer's website. The link must be accompanied by the following text: "The final publication is available at link.springer.com”. 1 23 Author's personal copy J Mol Evol DOI 10.1007/s00239-015-9682-z ORIGINAL ARTICLE A Proposal for the Evolution of Cathepsin and Silicatein in Sponges 1,2 3 4 5 Ana Riesgo • Manuel Maldonado • Susanna Lo´pez-Legentil • Gonzalo Giribet Received: 9 February 2015 / Accepted: 6 May 2015 Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 Abstract Cathepsins are enzymes capable of degrading phylogeny of cysteine protease cathepsins (excluding proteins intracellularly. They occur ubiquitously in opis- cathepsin D) revealed two major lineages: lineage B thokonts, but their potential to provide insight across the (cathepsins B and C) and lineage L (cathepsins F, H, L, O, evolutionary transition from protists to metazoans remains Z). In the latter lineage, a mutation at the active site of poorly investigated. Here, we explore the evolution of cathepsin L gave rise to silicatein, an enzyme exclusively cathepsins using comparative analyses of transcriptomic known to date from siliceous sponges and involved in the datasets, focusing on both, protists (closely related to production of their silica spicules. However, we found that metazoans), and early divergent animals (i.e., sponges). We several sponges with siliceous spicules did not express retrieved DNA sequences of nine cathepsin types (B, C, D, silicatein genes and that, in contrast, several aspiculate F, H, L, O, Z, and silicatein) in the surveyed taxa. In sponges did contain silicatein genes. Our results suggest choanoflagellates, only five types (B, C, L, O, Z) were that the ability to silicify may have evolved independently identified, all of them being also found in sponges, indi- within sponges, some of them losing this capacity secon- cating that while all cathepsins present in protists were darily. We also show that most phylogenies based on conserved across metazoan lineages, cathepsins F and cathepsin and silicatein genes (except for that of cathepsin H (and probably D) are metazoan acquisitions. The O) failed to recover the major lineages of sponges. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00239-015-9682-z) contains supplementary Keywords Porifera Á Molecular evolution Á Phylogeny Á material, which is available to authorized users. Next-generation sequencing Á Cysteine proteases & Ana Riesgo [email protected] Introduction 1 Department of Animal Biology, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain Cysteine protease enzymes, generically known as cathep- 2 Present Address: Department of Life Sciences, Natural sins, play an essential role in intracellular degradation of History Museum of London, Cromwell Road, proteins in many different organisms, ranging from viruses London SW7 5BD, UK to animals (Berti and Storer 1995). Cathepsins can be 3 Department of Marine Ecology, Center for Advanced Studies lysosomal (B, C, F, H, K, L, O, S, W, and Z) and be of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Acce´s a la Cala St. Francesc 14, activated by the acid pH of lysosomes (Turk et al. 2001)or 17300 Blanes, Girona, Spain non-lysosomal (M, J, Q, R, S, and K). So far, lysosomal 4 Department of Biology & Marine Biology, and Center for cathepsins have been largely studied (Bu¨hling et al. 2002) Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409, USA because of their implication in human disease (e.g., Sloane et al. 1981; Sloane and Honn 1984; Lutgens et al. 2007; 5 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Rodriguez-Franco et al. 2012), remaining largely unin- Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA vestigated in other phyla. In mammals, the function of 123 Author's personal copy J Mol Evol cathepsin B and L is often related to both extracellular to date in two of the three siliceous classes (Hexactinellida degradation of collagen type I in bone and processing of and Demospongiae; Fig. 1a) of the four recognized in the hormones and antigenic proteins (Inui et al. 1997; Mort and phylum (Shimizu et al. 1998; Cha et al. 1999; Krasko et al. Buttle 1997;So¨derstro¨m 1999; Horn et al. 2005). In other 2000, Funayama et al. 2005;Mu¨ller et al. 2007b, 2008a, b; eukaryotes, such as arthropods, cathepsin L is necessary for Kozhemyako et al. 2010; Kalyuzhnaya et al. 2011; Vere- successful molting (Liu et al. 2006), and also for degrading meichik et al. 2011 Wang et al. 2012b). It is not surprising insect cuticle by entomopathogenic fungi (Samuels and that the members of the class Calcarea, characterized by Paterson 1995). Cathepsins L and B have also been re- producing calcareous spicules, lack silicatein. However, it ported from a variety of sponges (Krasko et al. 1997; is puzzling that silicatein has not yet been found in mem- Mu¨ller et al. 2003, 2007a), but their roles remain poorly bers of the class Homoscleromorpha (Fig. 1a), which are investigated. Interestingly, a modification of cathepsin L also characterized by producing silica skeletons. From ul- seems to have led to a new functional enzyme group ex- trastructural studies of spicule sections and silicifying cells, clusive to sponges and known as silicateins (Shimizu et al. it was suggested that the homoscleromorphs might have 1998). acquired the ability to produce silica independently from In silicateins, the ancestral proteolytic activity of the two other siliceous lineages (Maldonado and Riesgo cathepsins has shifted into an anabolic activity, that is, the 2007). Homoscleromorphs possess spicules in which the ability to polycondensate enzymatically dissolved silicon concentric silica layers are separated by unusually thick to produce biogenic silica, which is the essential skeletal organic rings in a pattern clearly different from that of material characterizing many sponge groups (Shimizu et al. demosponges and it is the only sponge clade to date in 1998; Cha et al. 1999). It was initially thought that this which pinacocytes are able to produce silica spicules functional modification mainly derived from a change in (Maldonado and Riesgo 2007). Within the siliceous sponge the original catalytic triad of cathepsin L (i.e., cysteine, lineages that have been confirmed to encode for the en- histidine, and asparagine), with the cysteine being replaced zyme silicatein (i.e., classes Demospongiae and Hex- by a serine. Nevertheless, there is an emerging view that actinellida), the evolutionary pathway of the silicatein is additional amino acid changes must have also occurred to not straightforward either. For instance, several demo- explain the functional change observed (see ‘‘Discussion’’ sponge subclades that are known to lack siliceous skeletons section). (e.g., Dictyoceratida, Dendroceratida, and part of Three paralogous genes for silicatein (silicatein alpha, Verongimorpha) have members that express the gene for beta, and gamma; Wiens et al. 2006) have been identified silicatein (Kozhemyako et al. 2010). in sponges (Wang et al. 2012a) but not in the other various The molecular evolution of cathepsins B, H, and L has groups of livings organisms that are able to produce been explored in a handful of animals, predominantly skeletons of biogenic silica (e.g., diatoms, radiolarians, vertebrates (Uinuk-ool et al. 2003). However, few inver- choanoflagellates, silicoflagellates, chrysophyceans, the- tebrate taxa were represented in that study, hampering a camoebae, etc.; Gro¨ger et al. 2008). However, not all reliable inference of the relationships among the specific sponges appear to have silicatein, being reliably identified cathepsins from different animal phyla and, reciprocally, Fig. 1 a Phylogenetic scenario of sponge evolution modified from Nosenko et al. (2013) and appearance of silicatein (black dot). b, c Transmission electron micrographs of intracellular formation of sponge spicules showing a cross-section of sclerocytes (sc) forming spicules (s) around the axial filament (f). Note the collagen matrix (co) surrounding the sclerocytes in b. d–f Scanning electron micrographs of megasclere (me) spicules (d) and microsclere (mi) spicules (d–f) 123 Author's personal copy J Mol Evol making it difficult to assess the suitability of cathepsins for Samples were maintained alive within 1–5 h after collec- inferring invertebrate evolution. The relationships of tion, depending on the species, prior to preservation. Ex- sponge silicateins and cathepsins with the cathepsins of cised tissue fragments ranged approximately from 0.25 to other animals remain virtually unaddressed. Deciphering 0.5 cm3 in volume. Between 20 and 80 mg of each sponge those patterns may also help to improve the current un- was used, except for Petrosia ficiformis and Aphrocallistes derstanding of the relationships within Porifera, given that vastus, for which 200 mg were analyzed due to their high the standard phylogenetic markers (i.e., cytochrome c spicule/cell ratio (see Riesgo et al. 2012a). Samples were oxidase subunit I, 28S and 18S rRNA) are inconclusive either flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen and immediately (Ca´rdenas et al. 2012;Wo¨rheide et al. 2012; Nosenko et al.
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