Temporal Expression Patern of Peptdes in the Regeneratng Caudal Fin of
Teleost Fish Poecilia latpinna With Special Emphasis on krt15 and myl-1
Hiral Murawala, Isha Ranadive, Sonam Patel and Suresh Balakrishnan
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Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Corresponding author: Suresh Balakrishnan, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara,
Gujarat, India, Tel: 2656592311; E-mail: suved9@hotmail.com
Received Date: July 05, 2017; Accepted Date: July 25, 2017; Published Date: August 15, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 Balakrishnan S, et al. This is an open-access artcle distributed under the terms of the Creatve Commons Atributon License,
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Citaton: Murawala H, Ranadive I, Patel S, Balakrishnan S (2017) Temporal Expression Patern of Peptdes in the Regeneratng Caudal Fin of Teleost
Fish Poecilia latpinna With Special Emphasis on krt15 and myl-1. Eur Exp Biol. Vol. 7 No. 4:21.
Abstract
Amongst several vertebrates, caudal fn of teleost fsh has
emerged as an excellent model to understand the
mechanism of regeneraton. By now it is well perceived that
proper coordinaton of diferent regulatory signals are
needed to facilitate the progression of successive stages of
regeneraton. Therefore, in the current study protein
expression profle for caudal fn regeneraton in Poecilia
latpnna was brought into the focus. The patern of protein
turnover and variaton in the expression level were
observed across the stages of regeneraton. Data from two-
dimensional gel electrophoresis revealed the diferental
expression of proteins for wound epithelium, blastema and
diferentaton stages when compared to restng stage.
Based on the computatonal analysis, of the peptde
expression profle and subsequent sequencing, two
peptdes namely Keratn type I cytoskeletal 15 and Myosin
light chain-1 were studied further at transcript level.
Keratn-15 was found to be up regulated at wound
epithelium stage while its expression waned signifcantly in
the blastema and diferentaton stages of regeneraton
indicatng its role in the formaton of a functonal wound
epithelium. Western blot analysis of Keratn-15 also
concurred with transcript levels of krt15. However, myl-1
transcript levels was observed to be dispensable for inital
phase of regeneraton whereas its elevated level in
diferentaton stage at both mRNA and protein level marks
its noteworthy role in achieving the structural integrity of a
regeneratng caudal fn. This is the frst observaton of the
involvement of Keratn-15 and Myosin light chain-1 in the
regulaton of regeneratve process in Poecilia latpinna.
Keywords: Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis; Caudal fn
regeneraton; Teleost fsh; P. latpinna; Krt15 and myl-1.
Introducton
Epimorphic regeneraton involves the de-diferentaton of
existng tssue and recruitment of proliferatve cells to form the
new structure to restore the lost appendage. Such type of
appendage regeneraton is observed in a number of vertebrates
including lizard tail, salamander limb and tail [1-4], and zebrafsh
caudal fn [5-7]. Amongst the models of vertebrate appendage
regeneraton, teleost caudal fn has emerged as an extensively
used model to study epimorphic regeneraton. Most of the
caudal fn regeneraton studies have been carried out in
zebrafsh due to its accessibility, its fast and robust regeneraton
and its simple architecture [8,9]. However, sailfn molly, Poecilia
latpnna (Lesueur, 1821) have been served as an alternatve to
zebrafsh, being more adaptve to the oriental laboratory
conditons as well as certain experimental advantages owing to
its relatvely large size.
Following amputaton of caudal fn in zebrafsh, an epithelial
layer covers the wound which gets thickened later on. Following
this, mesenchymal cells migrate near the amputaton plane
beneath the newly formed wound epithelium, accumulate and
proliferate to form the blastema and fnally diferentate to
replace the lost structures [5,9,10-14]. Wound healing or wound
epithelium formaton is achieved within 12-24 hours afer
amputaton and blastema formaton is achieved in 48-60 hours
post amputaton. Finally, the blastemal cells diferentate and
restore structures including blood vessels, bony rays, and
connectve tssue by 15-20 days post amputaton [6,9,12,15].
This tme course of caudal fn regeneraton in P. latpinna difers
to that of zebrafsh which has been reported in this study for the
frst tme. The aforementoned stages of epimorphic
regeneraton are governed by certain cellular events which are
ultmately regulated at molecular level. For each process to
occur in a spato-temporal manner, a large scale of protein
turnover takes place. During protein turnover, several peptdes
need to be synthesized newly as per the need of the tssue and
many to be downregulated.
There are reports on proteomic profle in regeneraton
models to unravel the conserved and diverse mechanisms
amongst them [16-19]. It includes the regeneraton in axololtl
[20,21], Xenopus laevis froglet limb-bud [22,23] and zebrafsh
caudal fn regeneraton [24]. Herein, in P. latpinna, two-
dimensional gel electrophoresis was used to fnd out the overall
expression patern of peptdes across the stages of epimorphic
regeneraton. This was followed by peptde sequencing of
Research Article
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DOI: 10.21767/2248-9215.100021
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