Zoological Studies

Vol. 51 No. 8, 2012

Proteomic Studies of Various Organs and Tissues of the Frilled Shark Chlamydoselachus anguineus

Feico M.A.H. Schuurmans Stekhoven1,*, Tsung-Han Lee2, Pei-Jen Wang2, Nian-Hong Jang-Liaw3, Sho Tanaka4, and Andrew R. Bottrill5

1Department of Animal Ecology and Ecophysiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud  Univ. Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, AJ Nijmegen 6525, the Netherlands
2Department of Life Sciences, National Chung-Hsing Univ., Taichung 402, Taiwan
3Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean Univ., 2nd Pei-Ning Road,Keelung 202, Taiwan
4School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai Univ., 3-20-1 Orido, Shimizu, Shizuoka 424-8610, Japan
5Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Laboratory, Proteomics Facility, Univ. of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK

Feico M.A.H. Schuurmans Stekhoven, Tsung-Han Lee, Pei-Jen Wang, Nian-Hong Jang-Liaw, Sho Tanaka, and Andrew R. Bottrill (2012) In a search for the presence or absence of the Cl- channel phospholemman in 9 different tissues from organs of the most ancient shark on earth (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), we came to the conclusion that these did not contain the Cl- channel we sought.  On the other hand, a large variety of proteins involved in cellular signaling and transport regulation were detected (36.7% of all analyzed protein components), suggesting that in its long history, C. anguineus has developed proteins chemically and mechanistically similar to those of modern sharks.

Key words: Chlamydoselachus anguineus, Proteomics, Localization, Function.

*Correspondence: E-mail:F.Stekhoven@gmail.com