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. 2023 Apr;79(4):1420-1430.
doi: 10.1002/ps.7311. Epub 2022 Dec 22.

Proteomic analysis of digestive tract peptidases and lipases from the invasive gastropod Pomacea canaliculata

Sophia Escobar-Correas  1   2   3 , Omar Mendoza-Porras  3 , Alfredo Castro-Vazquez  1   2   4 , Israel A Vega  1   2   4 , Michelle L Colgrave  3
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Proteomic analysis of digestive tract peptidases and lipases from the invasive gastropod Pomacea canaliculata

Sophia Escobar-Correas et al. Pest Manag Sci. 2023 Apr.

Abstract

Background: The invasive gastropod Pomacea canaliculata has received great attention in the last decades as a result of its negative impact on crops agriculture, yet knowledge of their digestive physiology remains incomplete, particularly the enzymatic breakdown of macromolecules such as proteins and lipids.

Results: Discovery proteomics revealed aspartic peptidases, cysteine peptidases, serine peptidases, metallopeptidases and threonine peptidases, as well as acid and neutral lipases and phospholipases along the digestive tract of P. canaliculata. Peptides specific to peptidases (139) and lipases (14) were quantified by targeted mass spectrometry. Digestion begins in the mouth via diverse salivary peptidases (nine serine peptidases; seven cysteine peptidases, one aspartic peptidase and 22 metallopeptidases) and then continues in the oesophagus (crop) via three luminal metallopeptidases (Family M12) and six serine peptidases (Family S1). Downstream, the digestive gland provides a battery of enzymes composed of aspartic peptidase (one), cysteine peptidases (nine), serine peptidases (12) and metallopeptidases (24), including aminopeptidases, carboxypeptidases and dipeptidases). The coiled gut has M1 metallopeptidases that complete the digestion of small peptides. Lipid extracellular digestion is completed by triglyceride lipases.

Conclusion: From an integrative physiological and anatomical perspective, P. canaliculata shows an unexpected abundance and diversity of peptidases, which participate mainly in extracellular digestion. Moreover, the previously unknown occurrence of luminal lipases from the digestive gland is reported for the first time. Salivary and digestive glands were the main tissues involved in the synthesis and secretion of these enzymes, but plausibly the few luminally exclusive peptidases are secreted by ventrolateral pouches or epithelial unicellular glands. © 2022 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.

Keywords: aminopeptidases; apple snails; digestive enzymes; digestive gland; lipases; liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry; metallopeptidase; salivary glands; serine peptidases.

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