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Article

Genome-Wide Identification, Characterization and Expression Profiling of myosin Family Genes in Sebastes schlegelii

by
Chaofan Jin
1,
Mengya Wang
1,2,
Weihao Song
1,
Xiangfu Kong
1,
Fengyan Zhang
1,
Quanqi Zhang
1,2,3 and
Yan He
1,2,*
1
MOE Key Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Breeding, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
2
Laboratory of Tropical Marine Germplasm Resources and Breeding Engineering, Sanya Oceanographic Institution, Ocean University of China, Sanya 572000, China
3
Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266003, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Genes 2021, 12(6), 808; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12060808
Submission received: 14 April 2021 / Revised: 17 May 2021 / Accepted: 22 May 2021 / Published: 25 May 2021
(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Genetics and Genomics)
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Abstract

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Myosins are important eukaryotic motor proteins that bind actin and utilize the energy of ATP hydrolysis to perform a broad range of functions such as muscle contraction, cell migration, cytokinesis, and intracellular trafficking. However, the characterization and function of myosin is poorly studied in teleost fish. In this study, we identified 60 myosin family genes in a marine teleost, black rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii), and further characterized their expression patterns. myosin showed divergent expression patterns in adult tissues, indicating they are involved in different types and compositions of muscle fibers. Among 12 subfamilies, S. schlegelii myo2 subfamily was significantly expanded, which was driven by tandem duplication events. The up-regulation of five representative genes of myo2 in the skeletal muscle during fast-growth stages of juvenile and adult S. schlegelii revealed their active role in skeletal muscle fiber synthesis. Moreover, the expression regulation of myosin during the process of myoblast differentiation in vitro suggested that they contribute to skeletal muscle growth by involvement of both myoblast proliferation and differentiation. Taken together, our work characterized myosin genes systemically and demonstrated their diverse functions in a marine teleost species. This lays foundation for the further studies of muscle growth regulation and molecular mechanisms of indeterminate skeletal muscle growth of large teleost fishes.

1. Introduction

Myosins are a large family of cytoskeletal motor proteins that bind filamentous actin and utilize the energy of ATP hydrolysis to play an important part in divergent biological process, such as muscle contraction, cell motility and contractility, cytokinesis, and intracellular trafficking [1,2,3]. Myosin was firstly described in rabbits [4]. Subsequently, cardiac muscle and smooth muscle myosin was reported in studies conducted by Bailey and Cohen et al. [5,6]. Myosins are typically composed of three domains, a conserved head located in the N-terminal that binds to actin filaments, a short neck as a binding site for myosin light chain, and a tail located in the C-terminal generally binding to the motor “cargo” to determine the functions of the motor [7,8]. Eukaryotes contain up to 35 myosin subfamilies based on an analysis of 2269 Myosin motor domains from 328 organisms [9]. Generally, the myo2 subfamily, as known as myosin 2 (myosin heavy chain, MYH or MHC), is considered to be the conventional myosin, which is the main component of skeletal muscle whereas the other myosin subfamilies are considered to be unconventional myosin [10].
Myosin family genes have been widely identified to be functional in multiple biological process [2]. For conventional myosin, MYH2 and MYH7 have been shown to play an important role in the formation of muscle fibers and are stably expressed in different types of muscle fibers [11]. MYH11 is proven to be a useful marker to define myoid cells in mouse testis [12]. For unconventional myosin, myosin 3 plays a key role in regulating stereocilia lengths required for normal hearing [8]. myosin 5 is essential in intracellular transport of organelles, mRNA and other cargo [13]. Among the many functions of myosin genes, their role in the organization of muscle fibers is best characterized, as described in mammal, shrimp, and silkworm [14,15,16]. A recent study reported that knocking down of myosin heavy chain caused the inhibition of sarcomeric organization of thin filaments in larval musculature in oysters, suggesting the vital role of MYH in muscle development of aquatic economic species [17].
In the aquaculture industry, skeletal muscle growth is closely related to the growth trait of cultured fish, which will directly impact the economic benefit. Over the past decade, multiple strategies have been applied to improve the fish production, including genetic engineering breeding and interspecific hybridization [18]. Illustrating the molecular mechanism of skeletal muscle growth will contribute to making strategies to promote the growth of cultured fish. One early study was carried out to demonstrate the MYH classification, evolution, and expression in fish [19]. More recent studies focused on some specific members of myosin and characterized their expression and function in fish [20,21,22,23]. Despite the great process of characterization of myosin genes in teleost fish, the genome-wide phylogenetic identification and characterization of complete myosin family genes in teleost is still poorly conducted.
Black rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii), distributing in China, Japan, and Korea, is an economic important marine teleost species. The postnatal growth of S. schlegelii exhibit an indeterminate growth pattern, involving both the recruitment and hypertrophy of muscle fibers [24]. The availability of chromosome-level genome sequence [25] provides us the opportunity to analyze myosin genes in genome-wide scale. In this study, we identified and characterized 60 myosin genes in S. schlegelii and further characterized their expression patterns. Our work provides valuable information for further detailed functional analysis of myosin in the muscle growth of large teleost fish.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Ethics Statement

This study was approved by the College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee on 10 October 2018 (Project Identification Code: 20181010).

2.2. Identification of Myosin Family Genes in S. schlegelii

To identify myosin family genes in S. schlegelii, the genome and transcriptome database, which are available at CNSA (CNGB Nucleotide Sequence Archive) under the accession ID CNP0000222 were searched against the Myosin amino acid sequences from some representative species, including H. sapiens, M. musculus, O. latipes, O. niloticus, L. oculatus, and G. aculeatus. TBLASTN algorithm search was performed and sequences with the e-value below e-5 were collected. Then, the putative myosin sequences were used as query to blast 89 transcriptome assembly of S. schlegelii. Only the sequences got hits in at least one transcriptome was regarded as the candidate myosin genes. Candidate myosin family members were submitted to SMART [26] and NCBI-CDD (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/wrpsb.cgi) database to predict motor domain. The intracellular location of the proteins was predicted by WoLF PSORT (https://www.genscript.com/psort/wolf_psort.html, accessed on 7 January 2021). The chromosome position, coding strand of myosin genes was identified based on genome annotation file. Tandem duplication analysis was conducted according to two criteria: (a) the similarity of aligned sequences was > 70%; (b) two genes were located in the same chromosomal region within 100 kb [27,28].

2.3. Molecular Characters of S. schlegelii Myosin Genes

The physiochemical properties of identified myosin genes, including the molecular weight (Mw) and theoretical isoelectric point (pl), were calculated by the ExPasy site (https://web.expasy.org/protparam/, accessed on 7 January 2021) [29,30]. The exon-intron structure of myosin genes was determined by comparison of genome and transcriptome sequences following the GT-AG rule [31]. The schematic diagram of gene structure was displayed using GSDS 2.0 program (http://gsds.cbi.pku.edu.cn/, accessed on 30 January 2021). Protein motif analysis was carried out with Motif Elicitation (MEME) program (http://meme-suite.org/tools/meme, accessed on 30 January 2021).

2.4. Phylogenetic and Synteny Analysis

Multiple sequences alignments of Myosin proteins were conducted by Clustal W [32]. The Neighbor-Joining method was utilized to perform phylogenetic analysis by MEGA 7.0 [33] and visualized using iTOL website (http://itol.embl.de, accessed on 20 January 2021). The conserved synteny of myosins and their adjacent genes among spotted gar, teleost fish species, and mammals was analyzed based on the genomics website (http://www.genomicus.biologie.ens.fr/genomicus-82.01/cgi-bin/phyloview, accessed on 13 May 2021) and the schematic diagram was drawn by hand.

2.5. Expression Profiling of Myosin Genes at Early Ddevelopmental Stages, Different Tissues, and During in Vitro Myoblast Differentiation Process

In our previous studies, we built a large number of transcriptome database of S. schlegelii, including different tissues and early developmental stages [25]. In this study, a total of 89 transcriptomes, including 63 tissue libraries and 26 early developmental stages were utilized to characterize the expression profiles of S. schlegelii myosin genes (Table S1 and Table S2). We also successfully established a continuous skeletal muscle cell line from juvenile rockfish muscle in one of related study. The cell line consisted of a high ratio of myoblasts and could differentiate into myotubes upon differentiation medium treatment. The transcriptomes of muscle cells at different time points after differentiation medium induction were generated and processed (BioProject ID: PRJNA661185) (This data will be published in other study). TPM (Transcripts Per Million reads) value of myosin genes were extracted (Table S3). Heat maps were created by TBtools [34].

2.6. qRT-PCR Validation of Myosin Expression

Total RNA from all collected samples were isolated using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen, California, USA) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. After removing genomic DNA with DNase I (Takara, Dalian, China), cDNA synthesis was performed with Reverse Transcriptase M-MLV Kit (Takara, Dalian, China). The quantity and quality of cDNA were tested by spectrophotometry and agarose gel electrophoresis (Coolaber, Beijing, China), respectively. Specific primers for real-time PCR were designed using Integrated DNA Technologies (http://sg.idtdna.com/pages/home, accessed on 2 February 2021). qRT-PCR was performed on LightCycler480 (Roche, San Francisco, USA) using the NovoStart® SYBR qPCR SuperMix Plus (Novoprotein, Shanghai, China) in a condition with 95 °C for 5 min, 45 cycles (95 °C for 15 s) and 60 °C for 45 s. The EIF5A1 gene in S. schlegelii was used as a reference gene to normalize the expression of target genes. The relative expression levels of target genes were calculated based on 2-△△Ct comparative Ct method. Statistical analysis was conducted using one-way analysis of variance followed by the least significant difference test using SPSS2.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA), and differences with P < 0.05 were treated as significant. Each experiment was performed with triplicates.

2.7. Histological Examination

For histological examination, the samples of muscle from juvenile at different days post parturition (20 dpp, 35 dpp, 50 dpp, 75 dpp, and 90 dpp) and adult S. schlegelii at two different ages (1.5-year-old and 2.5-year-old) were collected and fixed in 4% paraformal-dehyde (PFA) overnight at room temperature. Then, the samples were transferred to methanol (30%, 50%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 2 h, respectively), and finally stored in 100% methanol. After dehydrating and embedding in paraffin, tissue blocks were sectioned at 6 μm, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin (Solarbio, Beijing, China).

3. Results

3.1. Identification of Myosin Genes in S. schlegelii

The Myosin amino acid sequences from some representative species, including H. sapiens, M. musculus, O. latipes, O. niloticus, L. oculatus, and G. aculeatus were used to search against S. schlegelii genome and transcriptome database. In total, 60 myosin genes in S. schlegelii were identified, including 27 conventional myosin genes and 33 unconventional myosin genes. S. schlegelii myosin genes varied largely in length and physicochemical properties. The length of coding sequences of myosin genes ranged from 2862 to 11,313 bp, with corresponding protein length ranged from 954 to 3771 amino acids. Based on primary protein sequences, the molecular weights and isoelectric points of Myosins were predicted. The molecular weight of Myosin proteins ranged from 109.70 to 435.08 kDa with the isoelectric point ranging from 5.42 to 9.43. The number of transcripts produced by each gene was also counted. We found that 29 myosins had more than one transcript. myo7b and myo9ab produced the highest number (seven) of transcripts. The detailed information of myosin genes was summarized in Table 1.

3.2. The Evolutionary Relationship of Myosin Genes

To understand the evolutionary relationship and classification of myosin, the phylogenetic analysis was conducted by Neighbor-Joining method. As shown in Figure 1A, 60 S. schlegelii myosin were classified into 12 subfamily clusters. Myo1 and Myo2 were the first two largest subfamilies in S. schlegelii, including 7 and 27 members, respectively. Compared to mammals and other teleost species, Myo2 subfamily in S. schlegelii were significantly expanded (p = 0.000003), which could be further divided into eight subfamilies. Among Myo2 subfamily in S. schlegelii, almost half of the genes were clustered with MYH2 genes from other species, suggesting the expansion of MYH2 contributed the expansion of S. schlegelii conventional myosin genes. The member and number of Myo2 genes in some representative teleost fish were concluded in Figure 1B.

3.3. Functional Domains and Gene Structure of Myosin Genes

The putative functional domains were identified using SMART and Pfam databases. As shown in Figure 2, all S. schlegelii myosin genes had a motor domain (myosin head), which located in the N-terminus. In addition to myosin head, all Myo2 genes had a Myosin-N domain, except Ss_10001285. Furthermore, the domain types and numbers of myosin genes were similar within the same subfamily members but divergent among different subfamilies.
To gain insights into structures of myosin genes, we conducted the exon-intron structure analysis based on genome and transcriptome data following the GT-AG rule (Figure 3, left panel). The genomic structure was divergent among different myosin subfamilies. The motif analysis of S. schlegelii myosin genes was further performed (Figure 3, right panel). Motif1, motif4, and motif7, locating in myosin head domain, were present in all myosin genes. The number and category of motifs were divergent in different subfamilies, but was relatively conserved within the same subfamily. For instance, most Myo2 subfamily genes shared the same motifs but differed from the motifs conserved in Myo1 subfamily genes (Figure 3, right panel).

3.4. Chromosome Distribution and Synteny Analysis of Myosin Genes

The positions of myosin genes on the corresponding chromosomes of S. schlegelii were indicated in Figure 4. All myosin genes could be mapped onto 21 chromosomes of S. schlegelii. Chromosome 13 contained the highest number of myosin genes (9), whereas no myosin genes was located on chromosome 15, chromosome 23 and chromosome 24 (Figure 4). To understand the consequences of teleost genome duplication (TGD) on myosins evolution, we conducted synteny analysis of myosins and their adjacent genes among spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus), whose lineage diverged before TGD, four teleost fish species (Gasterosteus aculeatus, oryzias latipes, Orechromis niloticus and S. schlegelii) and mammals (Homo sapiens and Mus musculus). We found 14 myosins (myo1hl, myo1cl, myo6l, myo7ab, myo7bb, myo9ab, myo9bb, myo10l, myo15ab, myo18ab, MYH7bb, MYH9b, MYH10l, and MYH11) were generated by TGD whereas the expanded MYH2 genes specifically emerged in tandem duplication form in S. schlegelii (Figure S1). Fifteen myosin genes, including three MYH7 genes and 12 MYH2 genes were clustered into six tandem duplication event regions on chromosome 1 (one cluster), chromosome 7 (one cluster), chromosome 9 (two clusters), and chromosome 13 (two clusters) (Figure S1 and Table 2).

3.5. Expression Patterns of Myosin Genes in Adult Tissues and Early Developmental Stages

The expression levels of myosin genes in ten adult tissues (Heart, Liver, Spleen, Kidney, Brain, Gill, Muscle, Intestine, Testis, and Ovary) and six early developmental stages (1-cell, 32-cell, blastula, gastrula, somite, and pre-hatching) were evaluated by TPM (Transcripts per million) values from 89 transcriptome database (Figure 5A). In adult tissues, the expression patterns of myosin genes were divergent. For example, seven myo2 genes (Ss_10001285, Ss_10001286, Ss_10001287, Ss_10015614, Ss_10015615, Ss_10015508, and Ss_10002780) were highly expressed in muscles, whereas the rest of 20 myo2 genes were highly expressed in heart, brain, intestine, and gonads, respectively. In addition to conventional myosin genes, some unconventional myosin genes also showed tissue-specific expression patterns.
All S. schlegelii myosin genes could be detected with the dynamic expression patterns during the early developmental stages (Figure 5B). Most myosin genes showed the highest expression level at the pre-hatching stage, including all MYH2 genes and most other Myo2 subfamily genes. In addition, some Myo2 genes showed distinct expression patterns. For instance, the expression of MYH16 showed the highest level at gastrula, whereas the expression levels of MYH7b, MYH14, and MYH6 began to increase at somite stage, and Ss_10015508 expressed incredibly high at blastula stage.

3.6. Myo2 Genes Participate in the Muscle Growth in Juvenile and Adult S. schlegelii

We firstly performed the histological observation of muscle from juvenile S. schlegelii at different days post parturition (20 dpp, 35 dpp, 50 dpp, 75 dpp, and 90 dpp). As shown in Figure 6A, the sarcomere gradually widened and muscle fibers gradually became longer and thicker with the growth of S. schegelli.
To further explore the roles of myosin genes in the growth process of S. schlegelii, we selected several muscle-highly-expressed and significantly expanded Myo2 genes (Ss_10001286, Ss_10021429, Ss_10015615, 10002780 of MYH2 and Ss_10008027of MYH7), and measured their expression levels in the muscle of juvenile fish. Ss_10001286, Ss_10002780 and Ss_10021429 were significantly up-regulated from 75 dph to 90 dpp, while the expression levels of Ss_10015615 and Ss_10008027 increased since 35 dpp (Figure 6B).
In adult S. schlegelii, the diameter and cross-sectional area of muscle fibers increased rapidly from 1.5 to 2.5 years old (Figure 6C). Except for Ss_10002780, the other four selected genes showed an extremely significant increase of expression in 2.5-year-old fish (Figure 6D).

3.7. Myosin Genes Involved in Myoblast Differentiation

To further investigate the roles of myosin genes in the muscle development, we concluded the expression patterns of myosin genes during the process of myoblasts differentiation. As shown in Figure 7, myosin genes were differently regulated during this process. Myo1e, Myo3a, Myo5b, and Ss_10013951 exhibited the earlies response to differentiation treatment, showing the highest expression level at 24 h. Later on, Myo15ab, Myo1f, Myo1c, and Myo6a were up-regulated at 48 h, and then decreased. Most Myo2 genes showed the highest expression level at 72 h after differentiation induction. However, a large number of myosin genes were significantly down-regulated during differentiation process. In addition, the expression levels of Myo7aa and Myo1hl did not change, suggesting that they are not involved in myoblasts differentiation.

4. Discussion

Skeletal muscle development and growth contribute to the size and weight of cultured animals. With the development of aquaculture industry, many strategies have been applied to promoting the muscle growth, and the genetic studies on muscle growth got more and more attention [35,36,37]. Myosin are a large and conserved family of cytoskeletal motor proteins that bind actin and participate in a broad range of biological processes [1,38]. However, little is known about myosin genes in teleost. In this study, we isolated and characterized 60 myosin family genes in S. schlegelii based on genome and transcriptome datasets, and initially elucidated the involvement of myosin genes in myoblasts differentiation and muscle growth of S. schlegelii.

4.1. Diverse Functions of Myosin Genes in S. schlegelii

The gene expression patterns provide insight to the function and biological activity of target genes. Our results showed myosin genes were ubiquitously expressed in different tissues with diverse expression levels but with subfamily-specific pattern. Previous studies concluded that muscle function was determined by its structure and fiber type composition [39], so we speculated the divergent expression patterns of S. schlegelii myosin genes might be related to different types and compositions of muscle fibers in different tissues. Interestingly, we found the tandem duplicated MYH2 genes of S. schlegelii were extremely highly expressed in skeletal muscle, suggesting their potential roles in skeletal muscle development and growth which directly determine the size of fish body. In addition, other representative MYHs showed conserved expression patterns between fish and mammals. For example, MYH6 tend to be expressed in atrial muscle and MYH7 is abundant in ventricular muscle in mammals, the mutation of MYH6 or MYH7 will lead to the lesions of heart [40,41,42,43]. In S. schlegelii, we also identified the highest expression level of MYH7b and MYH6 in the heart, suggesting their potential conserved function between teleost and mammals. In addition, MYH11b was detected to be abundant in S. schlegelii intestines, which contain a lot of smooth muscle. This is consistent with the previous report that MYH11 functions in smooth muscle in human [44]. For unconventional myosin, quite a few number of genes were detected the highest levels in brain and gonad of S. schlegelii, suggesting their potential roles in neuron and reproductive systems, as described in previous studies [45]. Taken together, the myosin subfamily genes may conduct conserved functions between human and teleost. Most myosin genes started to be highly expressed at pre-hatching stage, suggesting the muscle fibers synthesis was significantly active during this period.

4.2. Expansion of Myo2 Subfamily and Their Involvement in Skeletal Muscle Growth in S. schlegelii

Teleost had undergone the TGD during the evolution, resulted in two or more copies of genes existing in teleost genome [46]. Generally, gene expansion results in strengthened phenotype and drives the evolutionary process of adaption [47]. In S. schlegelii, we identified and characterized 60 myosin genes, containing 27 conventional myosin genes, which belong to Myo2 subfamily. Compared to other teleost species, S. schlegelii Myo2 subfamily showed significant expansion (Figure 1), which was driven by the tandem duplication events (Figure 4). Previous studies have shown massive expansion of gene family in teleost might be related to the vital roles of family members in certain biological processes. For example, the expansion of NLR family suggest that NLRs have a more substantial role in the innate immunity in haddock [48]. The expansion of tdrd family may be related to their important function in germline in Japanese flounder [49]. Members of Myo2 subfamily have been identified to play an important role in muscle development in teleost but in different regulatory ways. For example, in torafugu, MYHM86-1 and MYH86-2 were reported to have markedly different expression patterns in muscle [20]. Three embryonic MYHs were located in the same or different cranial muscles of common carp larvae [50]. In S. schlegelii, some of MYH2 genes generated by tandem duplication showed distinct expression patterns. As the marker of mature skeletal muscle differentiation, most MYH2 genes expressed highly in skeletal muscle whereas several MYH2 genes such as Ss_10002778 and Ss_10002779 expressed highly in testis, Ss_10021428 highly in gill, Ss_10013951 and Ss_10013952 highly in brain, suggesting the expanded MYH2 genes might gain the neo-function in smooth muscle and gland cells instead of the traditional role in skeletal muscle. This result provides the evidence that gene duplication is the important source for the emergence of evolutionary novelties and neofunctionalization of gene families. Taken together, we speculate that the expansion of Myo2 subfamily genes contribute to development and growth of both skeletal muscle and some other important organs in S. schlegelii. The specific roles for each member need further observation.
We selected five skeletal muscle-highly-expressed MYH genes and analyzed their expression levels in the fast-growth stages of juvenile and adult S. schlegelii. Our current results showed the expression levels of MYHs were significantly up-regulated from 50 dpp or 75 dpp, corresponding to the timepoints of significant increase of number and size of muscle fibers. In juvenile torafugu, MYHs was confirmed to be involved in mosaic hyperplasia and stratified hyperplasia, which contributed to the juvenile skeletal muscle growth [20], the similar conclusion was also obtained in some other species, such as shrimp, carp, and Atlantic cod [15,51,52]. In adult S. schlegelii, the selected genes showed significantly higher expression in 2.5-year-old than in 1.5-year-old fish, suggesting more active synthesis of muscle fibers in 2.5-year-old. This is in accordance with our recent finding that 2.5-year-old fish grows faster than 1.5-year-old fish (the details of growth pattern will be reported separately). To sum up, Myo2 genes are involved in skeletal muscle fibers development and contribute to the skeletal muscle growth of juvenile and adult S. schlegelii.

4.3. Myosin Genes Participate in Myoblast Differentiation of S. schlegelii

Myosin genes of S. schlegelii were identified to be involved in muscle fiber growth in our studies; however, the mechanisms by which step myosin is involved in muscle development is unclear. As described in previous studies, myoblast proliferation and differentiation promotes the formation of muscle fibers, and then contributes to the growth of skeletal muscles in cultured animals [53]. The culture and differentiation induction of S. schlegelii myoblast in vitro, and the availability of transcriptome data at different timepoints during myoblast differentiation give us a chance to analyze the involvement of myosin genes during myoblast differentiation. As our results showed, myosin genes displayed quite different response in the process of myoblast differentiation. Most Myo2 subfamily genes were upregulated in this process, especially the MYH2 genes cluster, which was identified significantly expanded and highly expressed in the skeletal muscle in S. schlegelii. As the late differentiation marker [54], it is easy to understand the up-regulation of MYH2 with the differentiation process of myoblast cells in S. schlegelii, which has also been widely demonstrated in other species [55,56,57].
However, quite a few of myosin genes, containing both conventional and unconventional myosin, were down-regulated during cell differentiation. For muscle fiber development and growth, except for the contribution of increased protein synthesis and increased cell size due to cell differentiation, the formation of new myoblast by cell proliferation also plays a vital role [58]. It has been widely identified that myosin could be involved in cell proliferation. For example, knockdown of myosin 6 inhibits proliferation of hepatocellular carcinoma cells and oral squamous cell carcinoma cells [59,60]. myosin 16, an unconventional member, is proved to have a role in regulation of cell cycle and cell proliferation [61]. In Drosophila, on-muscle myosin 2 is required for cell proliferation during wing morphogenesis [62]. In our study, the down-regulation of myosin during cell differentiation suggest their potential roles in cell proliferation in S. schlegelii. Taken together, S. schlegelii myosin family genes participate in skeletal muscle growth by involvement both in myoblast proliferation and differentiation.

5. Conclusions

We identified and characterized 60 myosin family genes in S. schlegelii and demonstrated the expansion of myo2 subfamily in this species. The expression profiling of myosin provides the evidence that they are involved in different types and compositions of muscle fibers in different tissues. Moreover, the expanded myo2 genes actively participate in the skeletal muscle growth both in juvenile and adult S. schlegelii. During myoblast differentiation, myosin responded differently, revealing their divergent functions in myoblast proliferation and differentiation. Taken together, our work characterized myosin genes systemically and demonstrated their diverse functions in a marine teleost species. This lays foundation for the further studies of muscle growth regulation and molecular mechanisms of indeterminate skeletal muscle growth of large teleost fishes.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/genes12060808/s1, Figure S1. Synteny analysis of myosins and adjacent genes among spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus), medaka (oryzias latipes), threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), human (Homo sapiens) and mouse (Mus musculus). Orthologs of each gene were shown in the same color. Gene orientation is indicated by the direction of the arrows. Table S1: The TPM values of Sebastes Schlegelii myosins in different tissues. Table S2: The TPM values of Sebastes Schlegelii myosins during different developmental stages. Table S3: The TPM values of Sebastes Schlegelii myosins during myoblast differentiation in vitro.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization and methodology, C.J. and Y.H.; investigation, C.J., M.W., and W.S.; resources, Q.Z.; software, X.K. and F.Z.; writing—original draft preparation, C.J.; writing—review and editing, Y.H. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This study was funded by the National Key R & D Program of China (2018YFD0900101).

Institutional Review Board Statement

This study was approved by the College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee on 10 October 2018 (Project Identification Code: 20181010).

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

The datasets of whole genome sequencing of S. schlegelii and RNA-seq of tissues and developmental stages were available in CNSA (CNGB Nucleotide sequence archive) with the accession ID CNP0000222. The RNA-seq dataset of S. schlegelii myoblasts differentiation was submitted to NCBI SRA (BioProject ID: PRJNA661185).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. The phylogenetic analysis and classification of myosin genes. (A) Phylogenetic tree of myosin genes was constructed with Neighbor-Joining method by MEGA7 (bootstrap = 1000). Twelve subfamilies were decorated by different colors. (B) Characterization of Myo2 subfamily in teleost fishes. The phylogenetic tree was conducted by MEGA 7.0 using CO1 sequences of these species. The dotted border represented gene loss in the species.
Figure 1. The phylogenetic analysis and classification of myosin genes. (A) Phylogenetic tree of myosin genes was constructed with Neighbor-Joining method by MEGA7 (bootstrap = 1000). Twelve subfamilies were decorated by different colors. (B) Characterization of Myo2 subfamily in teleost fishes. The phylogenetic tree was conducted by MEGA 7.0 using CO1 sequences of these species. The dotted border represented gene loss in the species.
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Figure 2. A schematic diagram of S. schlegelii myosin gene domains. The maximum likelihood method was used to construct the phylogenetic tree of myosin genes (left panel). The rectangle with different colors represented different domains (right panel). The scale bar indicated 500 amino acid residues.
Figure 2. A schematic diagram of S. schlegelii myosin gene domains. The maximum likelihood method was used to construct the phylogenetic tree of myosin genes (left panel). The rectangle with different colors represented different domains (right panel). The scale bar indicated 500 amino acid residues.
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Figure 3. Gene structure and motif analysis of myosin genes. The maximum likelihood method was used to conduct the phylogenetic analysis of myosin genes (left panel). The exons and UTRs were indicated by orange and blue boxes (the middle panel) respectively. Different putative motifs were indicated by boxes with different colors (right panel).
Figure 3. Gene structure and motif analysis of myosin genes. The maximum likelihood method was used to conduct the phylogenetic analysis of myosin genes (left panel). The exons and UTRs were indicated by orange and blue boxes (the middle panel) respectively. Different putative motifs were indicated by boxes with different colors (right panel).
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Figure 4. Chromosome location and synteny analysis of myosin genes. The boxes with different colors represented different chromosomes of S. schlegelii. The red lines represented the syntenic relationships of myosin genes in S. schlegelii.
Figure 4. Chromosome location and synteny analysis of myosin genes. The boxes with different colors represented different chromosomes of S. schlegelii. The red lines represented the syntenic relationships of myosin genes in S. schlegelii.
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Figure 5. Expression profiles of myosin genes in adult tissues (A) and early developmental stages (B). The color scale represented the TPM (Transcripts-per-million) value. The red and blue color represented the relatively higher and lower TPM (Transcripts-per-million) value, respectively.
Figure 5. Expression profiles of myosin genes in adult tissues (A) and early developmental stages (B). The color scale represented the TPM (Transcripts-per-million) value. The red and blue color represented the relatively higher and lower TPM (Transcripts-per-million) value, respectively.
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Figure 6. Myo2 genes participated in S. schlegelii muscle growth. (A, C) H&E staining showed the process of muscle growth in juvenile and adult S. schlegelii. (B) Relative expression of five Myo2 genes during different stages of muscle growth in juvenile fish. Data are shown as mean ± SEM (n = 3). Different letters indicated statistical significance (p < 0.05). (D) Relative expression of five Myo2 genes in adult (1.5 and 2.5-year-old) S. schlegelii. Data are shown as mean ± SEM (n = 3). Marks * and ** indicated statistical significance (p < 0.05 or p < 0.01).
Figure 6. Myo2 genes participated in S. schlegelii muscle growth. (A, C) H&E staining showed the process of muscle growth in juvenile and adult S. schlegelii. (B) Relative expression of five Myo2 genes during different stages of muscle growth in juvenile fish. Data are shown as mean ± SEM (n = 3). Different letters indicated statistical significance (p < 0.05). (D) Relative expression of five Myo2 genes in adult (1.5 and 2.5-year-old) S. schlegelii. Data are shown as mean ± SEM (n = 3). Marks * and ** indicated statistical significance (p < 0.05 or p < 0.01).
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Figure 7. The expression patterns of myosin genes in muscle cell lines at different time points after differentiation induction. The color scale represented the TPM (transcripts-per-million) value. The red and blue color represented the relatively higher and lower TPM (transcripts-per-million) value, respectively.
Figure 7. The expression patterns of myosin genes in muscle cell lines at different time points after differentiation induction. The color scale represented the TPM (transcripts-per-million) value. The red and blue color represented the relatively higher and lower TPM (transcripts-per-million) value, respectively.
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Table 1. The detailed information of myosin genes in S. schlegelii. Abbreviations for protein locations are: N, nucleus; M, mitochondria; C, cytoplasm; Es, extracellular space; Cs, cytoskeleton.
Table 1. The detailed information of myosin genes in S. schlegelii. Abbreviations for protein locations are: N, nucleus; M, mitochondria; C, cytoplasm; Es, extracellular space; Cs, cytoskeleton.
GeneChromosomeCDS (bp)Amino Acid (aa)Mw (Kda)PILocationNumber of Transcript
Myo1b Chr 2035131171135.529.43C, N, M, Cs 4
Myo1c Chr 42928976112.439.23C, N, M, Cs, Es 4
Myo1cl Chr 1232041068122.328.98C, N, Cs, Es 1
Myo1d Chr 1835281176134.199.3C, N, M 3
Myo1e Chr 232971099124.939.21Es, M 1
Myo1f Chr 632191073122.639.23C, N, M, Cs 3
Myo1g Chr 1130331011115.557.96C, N, M, Cs 1
Myo1h Chr 830901030118.748.6C, N, M 3
Myo1hl Chr 1731021034119.849.13C, N, M 1
Myo3a Chr 2151121704194.216.52C, N, M 2
Myo3b Chr 2040171339152.558.45C, N, M, Cs 2
Myo5a Chr 255771859214.278.84C, N, M 3
Myo5b Chr 646621554176.039.12C, N, M 1
Myo5c Chr 9100593353388.348.43C, N, M 1
Myo6 Chr 142862954109.78.59C, N, M, Cs 1
Myo6l Chr 2232731091125.218.47C, N, M 2
Myo7aa Chr 1163302110243.818.92C, N 3
Myo7ab Chr 459401980228.498.88C, N, M 1
Myo7b Chr 666962232256.078.88C, N 7
Myo7bb Chr 762522084237.818.16C, N 2
Myo9aa Chr 276892563291.958.45C, N 4
Myo9ab Chr 972242408274.348.58C, N 7
Myo9ba Chr 674642488282.917.63C, N 3
Myo9bb Chr 758621954223.18.6C, N, Cs 5
Myo10 Chr 2057631921220.935.57C, N 1
Myo10l Chr 1460302010227.96.8C, N 2
Myo10l1 Chr 757451915218.786.13C, N 2
Myo15a Chr 594173139352.119.02C, N, M 1
Myo15ab Chr 1310,9293643406.738.35C, N 1
Myo16 Chr 2057301910210.758.41C, N 2
Myo18aa Chr 481602720304.896.78C, N 6
Myo18ab Chr 1269032301259.716.82C, N 5
Myo19 Chr 42913971110.48.27C, N, M, Es 1
Ss MYH6 Chr 2258021934222.635.62C, N, Cs, Es 1
Ss MYH7ba Chr 1057121904219.76.19C, N, M, Cs 1
MYH7bb Chr 158501950224.955.95C, N, Cs 1
Ss MYH9a Chr 559041968228.585.26C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss MYH9b Chr 1359281976229.455.5C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss MYH10 Chr 559851995231.745.42C, N, M, Cs 2
Ss MYH10l Chr 1357931931223.775.46C, N, M, Cs 2
Ss MYH11a Chr 559161972227.025.43C, N, M, Cs 2
Ss MYH11b Chr 1358501950224.295.48C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss MYH14 Chr 1957631921220.935.57C, N, M 4
Ss MYH16 Chr 1357601920220.355.86C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss 10008025 Chr 711,3133771435.085.92C, N, Cs, Es 1
Ss 10008026 Chr 758771959225.075.78C, N, Cs, Es 1
Ss 10008027 Chr 758231941223.395.8C, N, Cs, Es 1
Ss 10001285 Chr 940201340154.385.57C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss 10001286 Chr 958171939221.865.8C, N, Cs, Es 1
Ss 10001287 Chr 956641888216.245.49C, N, Cs, Es 2
Ss 10002778 Chr 157511917219.675.58C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss 10002779 Chr 159371979227.435.86C, N, M, Cs 4
Ss 10002780 Chr 158111937222.695.75C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss 10013951 Chr 1357871929222.945.78C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss 10013952 Chr 1357361912220.145.66C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss 10015508 Chr 955711857212.535.66C, N, M, Cs 5
Ss10015614 Chr 958861962224.785.58C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss 10015615 Chr 958291943222.545.5C, N, M, Cs 1
Ss 10021428 Chr 1357781926220.785.76C, N, M, Cs 3
Ss 10021429 Chr 1358411947223.015.67C, N, M, Cs 1
Table
Table 2. The tandem duplication events of myosin genes identified in S. schlegelii.
Table 2. The tandem duplication events of myosin genes identified in S. schlegelii.
Cluster NumberGene IDChromosomeStart SiteEnd Site
1Ss_100214281395537049568469
Ss_100214291395896909601364
2Ss_1001561491137331411383630
Ss_1001561591138837911398341
3Ss_10013951131787260817905057
Ss_10013952131791115017926242
4Ss_1000802572969255329729078
Ss_1000802672973863729750296
Ss_1000802772975847129783643
5Ss_1000277813454436134556333
Ss_1000277913456461334580184
Ss_1000278013458986134601724
6Ss_1000128591143420311445087
Ss_1000128691144801811458669
Ss_1000128791146615511477014
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