Molecular physiology of digestion in arachnida: functional and comparative-evolutionary approaches.

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Fuzita, Felipe Jun
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Aranha; Digestão; Digestion; Enzimologia; Enzymology; Escorpião; Proteoma; Proteome; Scorpion; Spider; Transcriptoma; Transcriptome
• Link de acesso: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/87/87131/tde-08122014-100929/

Spiders and scorpions are efficient predators arachnid (PA) consuming preys larger than themselves. Few studies reported, molecularly, the digestion in PA. This work describes a biochemical, transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of the midgut and midgut glands (MMG) and digestive juice (DJ) from Nephilengys cruentata and Tityus serrulatus MMG. Cathepsin L, B, D and F, legumain, trypsin, astacin, carbohydrases and lipases were identified by these approaches. Peptide isomerase and ctenitoxins, which are venom proteins were identified, showing a correlation among digestive and venom enzymes. Summarily, PA relies in multi peptidase system mainly constituted of astacins for extracellular prey liquefaction and cathepsin L for intracellular digestion, describing a molecular model for digestion. Probably, during evolution, gene duplication led a diversification of astacins in the derived groups of Arachnida, like spiders, distinctly from what is observed in basal groups like scorpions. These data on Arachnida digestion will allow detailed multi disciplinary studies.