Journal of Oceanology and Limnology   2020, Vol. 38 issue(2): 427-437     PDF       
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ZHANG Bo, WU Yingying, WANG Xin, JIANG Wei, YIN Jianping, LIN Qiang
Comparative analysis of mitochondrial genome of a deepsea crab Chaceon granulates reveals positive selection and novel genetic features
Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 38(2): 427-437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00343-019-8364-x

Article History

Received Dec. 18, 2018
accepted in principle Apr. 4, 2019
accepted for publication Jun. 12, 2019
Comparative analysis of mitochondrial genome of a deepsea crab Chaceon granulates reveals positive selection and novel genetic features
ZHANG Bo1,2,3#, WU Yingying1,3,4#, WANG Xin1,2, JIANG Wei5, YIN Jianping1,2, LIN Qiang1,2     
1 Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510275, China;
2 Institution of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510275, China;
3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
4 Beijing Advanced Sciences and Innovation Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
5 Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
Abstract: Deep-sea organisms survive in an extremely harsh environment. There must be some genetic adaptation mechanisms for them. We systematically characterized and compared the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of a deep-sea crab (Chaceon granulates) with those of shallow crabs. The mitogenome of the crab was 16 126 bp in length, and encoded 37 genes as most of a metazoan mitogenome, including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, and 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. The gene arrangement and orientation was conserved in the crabs. However, a unique mitogenome element regulator, the origin of light-strand replication (OL), was firstly predicted in the present crab mitogenome. In addition, further positive selection analysis showed that two residues (33S in ND3 and 502I in ND5) in C. granulates mitogenome were positively selected, indicated the selective evolution of the deep-sea crab. Therefore, the mitogenome of deep-sea C. granulates showed a unique OL element and positive selection. These special features would influence the mitochondrial energy metabolism, and be involved in the adaptation of deepsea environment, such as oxygen deficits and low temperatures.
Keywords: deep-sea organisms    mitochondrial genome    adaptation    Chaceon granulates    
1 INTRODUCTION

The deep-sea is the most extensive ecosystem on earth (Rex, 1981). Unlike terrestrial and shallow organisms, deep-sea organisms survive in an extremely harsh environment, which including hundreds of bars of pressure, low oxygen, scarce food, constant darkness, and low temperatures (Sanders and Hessler, 1969). Because of the sparse animal life and technical difficulties in sampling the deep-sea benthos, most knowledge regarding deepsea organisms is restricted to marine microbes and morphological distinctions of a few animal species. There is little information regarding the adaptive genetic mechanisms in the large deep-sea organisms (Etter et al., 1999; Sogin et al., 2006; Jebbar et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2015; Coscia et al., 2018).

Mitochondria is one of the most essential organelle in eukaryotic cells (Bernt et al., 2013), and plays an important role in energy metabolism and various biosynthetic pathways (Green and Reed, 1998; Newmeyer and Ferguson-Miller, 2003). Mitochondrial DNA is more strongly influenced by evolutionary processes than nuclear DNA largely because it has a smaller effective population size and does not undergo recombination. The mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) has been widely used for study in genetic diversity, phylogeography, phylogenetic relationships, and adaptive mechanisms (Da et al., 2008; Hassanin et al., 2009; Yu et al., 2011; Jin et al., 2015; Liao et al., 2016). Recently, several mitochondrial genes have shown significantly adaptive evolution, including the cytochrome b gene of alpacas (Da et al., 2008), the cytochrome c oxidase gene of plateau pikas (Luo et al., 2008), the NADH dehydrogenase 6 gene of domestic horses (Ning et al., 2010), and the ATP synthase genes of Caprinae (Hassanin et al., 2009).

Crabs are typical benthic organisms and distribute all over the world. To adapt to different environments, they have evolved a broad range of phenotypes. Thus, it can be used as an index for the study of adaptive mechanisms to some local environment. The mitogenomes of crabs are typically closed circular molecules, with 14 kb to 18 kb in length. They encode the following 37 genes: 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA (tNRA) genes, 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, and a putative control region (CR) (Liu and Cui, 2010; Ma et al., 2013; Tang et al., 2017). However, the basic genetic information of crabs under different environments is far from enough, especially for extremely environment. To date, Chaceon granulates (NC_AB769383) was sequenced, but the genomic characteristics have not been illuminated in detail. In this study, the complete mitogenome of another deep-sea C. granulates was sequenced. Furthermore, in comparison with those of shallow water crabs, some unique genomic features were characterized. Interestingly, some novel genetic features that could be involved in the adaptation of deep-sea environment were identified. This work made up the data of crab genome, and should be useful for studies on crab evolution and adaptive mechanisms.

2 METERIAL AND METHOD 2.1 Specimens and DNA extraction

The C. granulates specimen was collected by deep-water research vessel on December 15, 2014, on the Yap seamount (137.46°E; 8.52°N) in the Pacific Ocean at 477 m depth. The specimen was not a member of an endangered or protected species, and no specific permits were required. The specimen was stored in 99% ethanol and kept at 4℃. DNA was extracted using a Genomic DNA Kit (Tiangen Co., Beijing, China) according to the manufacturer's instructions.

2.2 PCR and sequencing

The complete mitogenome was amplified by using overlapping long-PCR. Five pairs of primers were designed at conserved regions of crab mitogenome (Supplementary Table S1). All PCR reactions were performed in 50 μL volume, with 1 μL of template DNA (approximately 100 ng), 0.3 μmol/L of each primer, 5 μL of 10 × LA Taq buffer (Mg2+ plus), 5 μL of dNTP Mix (2.5 mmol/L), and 1 U of LA Taq (TaKaRa, Japan). The PCR amplifications were performed according to the following procedure: one cycle of denaturation for 5 min at 94℃, 30 cycles of 40 s at 94℃, 40 s at the primer-specific annealing temperature, 5 min at 72℃, and finally a 10-min extension at 72℃. After purification (TIANgel Midi Purification Kit DP209, Beijing), the PCR products were directly sequenced in both directions by using the PCR primers. Sequencing was performed by Thermo Fisher Scientific (Guangzhou, China).

2.3 Sequence assembly and annotation

The sequence alignments were conducted using Clustal X. The PCGs and rRNA genes were identified with BLAST and the NCBI database, and were compared with the mitogenome sequences of several other crab species (Supplementary Table S2). The tRNA genes and their secondary structures were predicted by using the web-based tRNAscan-SE 1.21 (Lowe and Eddy, 1997). The tRNASer, which was not found by using the software tools, was identified on the basis of sequence similarity to the published crab mitochondrial tRNASer (Ma et al., 2015; Miller et al., 2005). The skew in the nucleotide composition was calculated with AT-skew and GC-skew and measured according to the following formulae: AT-skew=(A–T)/ (A+T) and GC-skew=(G–C)/(G+C) (Perna and Kocher, 1995), where A, T, C, and G are the occurrences of the corresponding bases. The codon usage was calculated with the Codon Usage Database (http://www.kazusa.or.jp/codon/). The gene map of the complete mitogenome was illustrated using OGDRAW (http://ogdraw.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/).

2.4 Positive selection analysis

The selective pressure on the crab mitogenome was evaluated using CODEML in the PAML package. Two different tree-building methods were used because the CODEML likelihood analysis is sensitive to the tree-topology. The two-ratio and free-ratio model (M1 model) was used for the mitogenome analysis. The branch-site model was used to determine whether these genes have undergone positive selection on foreground branches. Bayes Empirical Bayes (BEB) analysis was used to calculate the Bayesian posterior probability of the positively selected sites.

2.5 Phylogenetic analysis

To illustrate the phylogenetic relationships among crabs, the complete mitogenomes of 23 Decapoda species were downloaded from the GenBank database (Supplementary Table S2). Harpiosquilla harpax (Stomatopoda) was selected as an outgroup. The concatenated nucleotide sequences of 13 energy pathway PCGs were aligned using Clustal X with the default settings. The maximum likelihood (ML) method was used to analyze the phylogenetic trees. The GTR+I+G model was selected as the best nucleotide substitution model by using ModelTest 3.7 (Posada and Crandall, 1998). The ML analysis was performed with MEGA 5.1 with 1 000 bootstrap replicates.

3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION 3.1 Genome organization

The mitochondrial DNA of the crab is a circular molecule, with 16 126 bp in length. The sequence alignment showed the most identical (98%) with another C. granulates (NC_AB769383) uploaded before. Like most other metazoan mitogenomes (Green and Reed, 1998; Boore, 1999; Bernt et al., 2013), the present crab mitogenome contains 13 PCGs, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and a control region (CR) (Table 1, Fig. 1). Of the 37 genes, 23 genes were encoded by the heavy strand (H-strand). The gene order and orientation were identical to other decapods (Yamauchi et al., 2003; Miller et al., 2005; Liu and Cui, 2010; Ma et al., 2013). Eight gene overlaps and eleven intergenic spacers were observed. Except for a 527-bp untranslated region between tRNAGlu and tRNAHis, the gene overlaps and intergenic spacers were similar to those in other sequenced Decapod crabs. The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence was deposited in the GenBank database under the accession number KU507298.

Fig.1 Graphical map of the complete mitogenome of C. granulates Different genes were represented by differently colored boxes. tRNAs were displayed according in one-letter code. Genes encoded by the H-strand were showed outside the circle, and those encoded by the L-strand were showed inside the circle. The direction of the arrows showed the direction of transcription. The inner ring showed the GC content in the mitogenome.
Table 1 Gene structure of C. granulates mitogenome

The metazoan mitogenome usually has a strand specific bias in nucleotide composition (Hassanin et al., 2005). In the present study, the nucleotide composition had a bias toward A and T. The overall A+T content in the H-strand was 69.19% (Supplementary Table S3), which is within the range of the rates observed in other Decapods (Shen et al., 200). In C. granulates mitogenome, similarly to other crabs (Liu and Cui, 2010; Ma et al., 2013), the highest A+T content was detected in the CR (77.58%), and the lowest A+T content was found in the 13 PCGs (67.03%). The AT-skew and GC-skew showed a similar tendency in decapods (Liu and Cui, 2010; Ma et al., 2013). The AT-skew (-0.039) and the GC-skew (-0.205) in the H-strand were negative, thus indicating a preference for A and C in C. granulates mitogenome.

3.2 Protein-coding genes

In total, 13 PCGs were identified in the C. granulates mitogenome (Table 1). These genes spanned 11 204 bp and encoded 3 724 amino acids. The arrangements of PCGs in several Brachyura species were consistent (Fig. 2). In C. granulates mitogenome 9 PCGs were encoded by the H-strand (Fig. 1). Except for ND4, which was initiated by a rare initiation codon (GTG), the remaining genes started with the typical ATN codons (ATG or ATT). ATG was the most common initiation codon, which initiated 9 of the 13 PCGs (Table 1). Three kinds of termination codons (TAA, TAG, and an incomplete stop codon T) were observed. The most common termination codon was TAA. In the metazoan mitogenome, incomplete termination codons produce functional termination codons through polycistronic transcriptional cleavage (Ojala et al., 1981; Boore, 2001). In the present study, 4 PCGs were terminated by the truncated termination codon T, in which the missing nucleotides may be produced through post-transcriptional polyadenylation (Ojala et al., 1981).

Fig.2 Linearized schemes of the mitochondrial gene arrangements in Brachyura C. destructor (Astacidea as an outgroup) Gene lengths correspond to the relative lengths of the genomes. tRNAs were displayed according to the one-letter code. Species names and NCBI accession numbers were provided under each linearized scheme.

The codon usage in the 13 PCGs revealed that UUA (Leu), AUU (Ile), and UUU (Phe) were the three most frequently utilized codons in C. granulates mitogenome (Supplementary Table S4, Fig. 3a). The codon distribution patterns in 11 Brachyura and 1 Anomura species were highly conserved (Fig. 3b).

Fig.3 Codon usage in crabs a. codon distribution in C. granulates mitogenome; b. comparison of mitogenomic codon usage among 12 crabs.
3.3 Positive selection analysis

The selective pressures imposed on the crab mitogenomes were evaluated using CodeML in the PAML package (Table 2). The result showed that the mitochondrial sequences in the genus Chaceon experienced different selective pressures compared with shallow species, and significant evidence of positive selection was detected in two sites (33S in ND3 and 502I in ND5) of C. granulates (BEB value > 0.95).

Table 2 Selective pressure analyses of the mitochondrial genes of crabs

During the evolution, protein positive selection may act in very short episodes, and the effect may be only on a few sites along lineages in the phylogeny (Sun et al., 2018). The severe environmental conditions can affect the metabolism and direct selection of mitochondrial DNA (Ning et al., 2010). As the key components of energy metabolism and various biosynthetic pathways (Green and Reed, 1998; Newmeyer and Ferguson-Miller, 2003), the mutations in mitochondrial protein-coding genes may influence the electron transport chain and further influence the energy metabolism and other biosynthetic pathways (Sun et al., 2018). Many studies have recently shown evidence for positive selection acting on the mitochondrial genome, emphasizing its potential role in adaptive divergence and speciation (Jacobsen et al., 2016). Organisms living under extreme environmental conditions, there must be certain modifications in energy metabolism to adapt to environment (Zhang et al., 2017a, b; Sun et al., 2018). As a proton pump, the NADH dehydrogenase complex is the first and the largest enzyme complex in the respiratory chain. Thus, it plays an important role on the adaptive evolution in many species. In Alvinocarididae lineages, the residues with the highest number of positively selected sites are within nad1–5 (Sun et al., 2018), and is considered associated with deep sea hydrothermal vents adaptation. ND2 and ND6 were found to be under positive selection in mitogenome analysis of Chinese snub-nosed monkeys, it was known to be related to adaptive changes high altitude and cold weather stress (Yu et al., 2011). In Tibetan horses, ND6 was found to be under positive selection, which was associated with high altitude living adaptation (Ning et al., 2010). In whitefish (Coregonus spp.), ND2 showed a highly elevated dN/dS ratio, which was considered to drive the adaptive evolution (Jacobsen et al., 2016). The mitochondrial whole-genome comparison study in 40 Tibetan and 50 Han Chinese people provide clues for the existence of adaptive selection for the ND2 in Tibetans, which likely contributed to adaptation to their specific geographic environment, such as high altitude (Gu et al., 2012).

In this study, two sites of NADH dehydrogenase complex presented significant evidence of positive selection. The result supports the hypothesis of adaptive evolution in the mitogenome of deep-sea environment. The mutations in these subunits may influence the efficiency of the proton-pumping process. They may potentially have functional implications to the energy metabolism. Considering the living environment, the mutations in NADH dehydrogenase complex may contribute to the adaptation to deep-sea environment.

3.4 tRNA genes and rRNA genes

In total, 22 tRNAs were identified in C. granulates (Table 1), with sizes ranging from 62 to 72 bp. Of the 22 tRNA genes, 14 tRNA genes were located on the H-strand. Except for tRNASer(AGA), all 21 tRNAs folded into a cloverleaf secondary structure (Supplementary Fig.S1). The tRNASer(AGA) presented an unusual secondary structure lacking the stem-loop structure in the DHU arm, which is observed in other crabs (Liu and Cui, 2010). In addition, 4 unmatched base pairs were observed in the C. granulates mitogenome. The tRNACys contained an A-A mismatch on the DHU arm, but the remaining 3 mismatched tRNAs occurred in the amino acid acceptor arm. Such stem mismatches appear to be a common phenomenon in mitochondrial tRNAs in many species (Miller et al., 2005; Liao et al., 2010; Jiang et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2016) and are probably corrected through a post RNA-editing mechanism (Lavrov et al., 2000).

Like most metazoan mitogenomes, 2 rRNA genes (lrRNA and srRNA) were present in C. granulates (Table 1). In C. granulates mitogenome, the lrRNA and srRNA genes were located on the L-strand and contained 1 326 bp and 834 bp, respectively. The A+T contents were 74.53% and 73.50%. The lsRNA gene was located between the tRNALeu(CUA) and tRNAVal genes. The srRNA gene was located between the tRNAVal gene and the putative CR.

3.5 Non-coding regions

Thirteen non-coding regions were identified in the mitogenome of C. granulates (Table 1). The longest intergenic region was the putative CR. It is considered essential for mitochondrial genes transcription and replication in vertebrates (Fernández-Silva et al., 2003). It is usually considered the most variable portion of the mitogenome (Marshall and Baker, 1997). The nucleotide composition of the CR (H-strand) was 314 A (43.73%), 243 T (33.84%), 103 C (14.35%), and 58 G (8.08%). It showed a similar tendency in Brachyuran crabs. However, the nucleotide composition and length variations were evident among crabs. The nucleotide alignment of the CR in Brachyuran crabs showed low homology, which was also confirmed in Charybdis japonica (Liu and Cui, 2010). The length of the CRs in crabs were range from 514 bp to 1 435 bp (Supplementary Table S3). The result is consistent with the studies in other crustaceans (Valverde et al., 1994; Umetsu et al., 2002).

In addition to the largest CR (718 bp) in the mitogenome of C. granulates, another non-coding sequence (527 bp) was detected, which is a unique insertion that just detected in Chaceon crabs. Moreover, the sequence analysis of the 527 bp noncoding sequence exhibited several typical "CR-like" characteristics. Firstly, similar to the defined CR, the non-coding sequence was much larger than the remaining 11 non-coding regions, which ranged from 1 bp to 50 bp. The result is identical to the CR observed in Pocillopora (Flot and Tillier, 2007). Secondly, both of the 718-bp CR (H-strand) and the 527-bp genetic fragment (L-strand) showed similar nucleotide composition. The nucleotide composition of the 527-bp non-coding region was 229 A (43.45%), 172 T (32.64%), 45 C (8.54%), and 81 G (15.37%). Both parts showed almost the same A+T content rate, which is higher than that in the other regions in the mitochondrial DNA. High rate of A+T is a common feature in all organisms except primates (Sbisa et al., 1997). Thirdly, although the CR in Brachyuran crabs showed low homology; several conserved motifs were identified in both parts and other several CRs of Brachyuran crab (Supplementary Fig.S2c). The "TACAT" motif, which is observed in some fish (Guo et al., 2003), was found in C. granulates (Supplementary Fig.S2a & b). The "G(A)nT" motif, which was present in the 3′ flanking sequences of mammalian, amphibian, and fish mitochondrial L-strand replication origins, and showed an universal conservation and functional importance related to replication origins (Zhang et al., 1995), was also detected in the 527-bp non-coding region (Supplementary Fig.S2a & b). Thus, we presumed that the 527-bp non-coding region could be a regulatory element in the present study.

Further structural analyses showed that the secondary structure of the 527-bp non-coding region presented several stem-loop structures (Supplementary Fig.S3), which is a characteristic feature of the origin of light-strand replication (OL) in vertebrates (Clayton, 1991). Moreover, the locus of the 527-bp non-coding region in mitogenome was identical to the OL in most vertebrates. In most vertebrates, the OL was located in a cluster of tRNA genes (between tRNAAsn and tRNACys), which known as the WANCY region (Kawaguchi et al., 2001; Jin et al., 2015). Therefore, we concluded the 527-bp non-coding region could be the OL of C. granulates. At present, among Brachyuran crabs, such non-coding region (OL) was detected in mitogenomes of deep-sea Chaceon crabs only (Fig. 2).

In the study of deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps Alvinocaris longirostris, seven putatively duplicated gene clusters of cytochrome P450s were expressed differentially, which is considered to contribute to the adaptation to harsh conditions (Hui et al., 2018). Considering the OL can influence the replication and transcription of mitochondrial genes, we speculated the OL could participate in the regulation of mitochondrial genes expression. Thus, it could be indirectly involved in adjusting mitochondrial energy metabolism to adapt to the deep-sea environment.

3.6 Phylogenetic analyses

We performed a phylogenetic analysis of the crabs based on the nucleotide datasets of 13 mitochondrial energy pathway PCGs (Fig. 4). The complete mitochondrial genome of C. granulates provides well resolved molecular phylogeny of the Decapoda. The phylogenetic tree supported the hypothesis that Decapoda was reorganized into the Pleocyemata and Dendrobranchiata suborders (Burkenroad, 1981), a result consistent with the decapod phylogeny based on other molecular data (Tsang et al., 2008). Together with 11 other species, C. granulates first formed a monophyletic group with a 100% bootstrapping value, which clustered in the Brachyura clade. Anomura, Achelata, Astacidea and Caridea composed the other clades in the Pleocyemata group. The Brachyura clade showed a close relationship with the Anomura clade, as has been shown in another study (Tsang et al., 2008; Liu and Cui, 2010; Ma et al., 2015).

Fig.4 Phylogenetic analysis Phylogenetic tree of species in Decapoda. Harpiosquilla harpax was selected as outgroup. Bootstrap support values were showed on the nodes.
4 CONCLUSION

The complete mitogenome of a deep-sea crab, C. granulates, was characterized and compared with other shallow decapods. The complete mitogenome of C. granulates is a typical circular molecule, with 16 126 bp in length. The genetic composition, order, and orientation are similar to those of closely related crabs, belonging to the Brachyura branch clade of Decapoda. Several genes showed strong evidence of positive selection, in genus Chaceon of the mitogenomic analysis, and ND3 and ND5 were determined to be under positive selection with a BEB value >95%, by using the branch-site model in CODEML. C. granulates mitogenome possesses a unique "OL" that is not present in shallow crabs. Therefore, given that the OL in mitogenomes is essential for mitochondrial genes expressional regulation, as well as positive selection genes, we speculated that two special gene features might play important roles in regulating the mitochondrial energy metabolism that could involve in the adaptation to the deep-sea conditions. The data presented in this study may shed a light on the knowledge of mitogenomic adaptation in the deep-sea environment.

5 DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

The authors declare that all data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article and its supplementary files.

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