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ArticlePloS one2015

Whole transcriptome analysis using next-generation sequencing of sterile-cultured Eisenia andrei for immune system research.

Yoshikazu Mikami, Atsushi Fukushima, Takao Kuwada-Kusunose, Tetsuya Sakurai, Taiichi Kitano, Yusuke Komiyama, Takashi Iwase, Kazuo Komiyama

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Environmental pollutants, pathogens and immune system in earthworms.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018
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  3. Article
  4. Understanding nutrition and immunity in disease management.Journal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yoshikazu MikamiDepartment of Pathology, Nihon University School of Dentistry, 1-8-13, Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8310, Japan.
Atsushi FukushimaRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22, Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan.
Takao Kuwada-KusunoseDepartment of Liberal Arts (Chemistry), Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo, 2-870-1, Sakaecho-Nishi, Matsudo, Chiba 271-8587, Japan.
Tetsuya SakuraiRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22, Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan.
Taiichi KitanoDepartment of Pathology, Nihon University School of Dentistry, 1-8-13, Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8310, Japan.
Yusuke KomiyamaIntensive Care Unit, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
Takashi IwaseDepartment of Pathology, Nihon University School of Dentistry, 1-8-13, Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8310, Japan.
Kazuo KomiyamaDepartment of Pathology, Nihon University School of Dentistry, 1-8-13, Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8310, Japan.
Nihon University · JPRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science · JPUniversity of Tokyo Hospital · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, earthworms have become a useful model for research into the immune system, and it is expected that results obtained using this model will shed light on the sophisticated vertebrate immune system and the evolution of the immune response, and additionally help identify new biomolecules with therapeutic applications. However, for earthworms to be used as a genetic model of the invertebrate immune system, basic molecular and genetic resources, such as an expressed sequence tag (EST) database, must be developed for this organism. Next-generation sequencing technologies have generated EST libraries by RNA-seq in many model species. In this study, we used Illumina RNA-sequence technology to perform a comprehensive transcriptome analysis using an RNA sample pooled from sterile-cultured Eisenia andrei. All clean reads were assembled de novo into 41,423 unigenes using the Trinity program. Using this transcriptome data, we performed BLAST analysis against the GenBank non-redundant (NR) database and obtained a total of 12,285 significant BLAST hits. Furthermore, gene ontology (GO) analysis assigned 78 unigenes to 24 immune class GO terms. In addition, we detected a unigene with high similarity to beta-1,3-glucuronyltransferase 1 (GlcAT-P), which mediates a glucuronyl transfer reaction during the biosynthesis of the carbohydrate epitope HNK-1 (human natural killer-1, also known as CD57), a marker of NK cells. The identified transcripts will be used to facilitate future research into the immune system using E. andrei.

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High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingTranscriptomeAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsExpressed Sequence TagsGerm-Free LifeHumansMolecular Sequence DataOligochaeta

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PMID25706644
PMCPMC4338202
OpenAlexW2318919945

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