ISSN : 1225-3480
동양달팽이의 metallothionein 유전자는 염기서열 195개로 이루어져 있으며 65개의 아미노산으로 이루어져 있었다. 연체동물의 metallothionein 서열의 공식인 C-x-C-x (3) -C-T-G-x (3) -C-x-C-x (3) -C-x-C-K에 맞춰본 결과 알려진 공식과 일치하는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며 아미노산의 조성도 시스테인 (Cys) 이 30% 이상 함유하는 사실을 확인 할 수 있었다. BLAST 결과를 토대로 선정된 72개의 참고 서열 중 아미노산 레벨에서 가장 높은 스코어로 align 되는 서열은 Helix pomatia의 CD-MT 서열이었다. Clustalx를 통해 multiple align 한 후 Neighbor-Joining method 방법에 따라 phylodendrogram을 그려본 결과 Helix pomatia, Helix aspersa, Arianta arbustorum, Megathura crenulata 등과 같은 복족류 육산패들과 같은 그룹으로 묶여지는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다. Psipred 소프트웨어를 통해 2D 구조를 비교 분석 한 결과도 multiplealignment 및 phylodendrogram와 밀접한 관계가 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 결과를 통해 EST를 통해 밝혀진 동양달팽이의 MT서열은 근연종들과 매우 일치함을 알 수 있었으며 MT 서열이 분류에 사용 될 수 있음을 확인시켜 주었다.
Numerous morphological studies on N. samarangae have been well conducted over the last ten years. In this context, we have attemtped to do molecular phylogenetic analysis by using metallothionein (MT) gene from N. samarangae. To this end, we cloned the full length cDNA of MT from cDNA library of N. samarangae. The complete cDNA sequences were obtained from the expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing project of N. samarangae. The coding region of 195 bp gives an amino acid sequence of 65 residues including methionine. There are 5' (61 bp) and 3' (48 bp) untranslated region at both ends of the Ns-MT cDNA sequence. The combined results from BLAST analyses, multiple sequence alignment and molecular phylogenetic study of Ns-MT cDNA indicate that N. samarangae has similarity to land snails such as Helix pomatia, Helix aspersa and Arianta arbustorum.
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