Mytilus coruscus
Mussels can adhere to a wide variety of submerged surfaces using the byssus composed by dozens foot proteins that secreted from the foot. The exceptional adhesive and coating properties exhibited by the native foot proteins make them a promising material for moisture-resistant adhesion and anticorrosive. However, it is difficult to isolate and characterize those foot proteins due to their strong hydrophobic property and intermolecular cross-linking. For understanding the molecular diversity of foot proteins, illumina RNA sequencing was performed on foot organ from Mytilus coruscus and generated 79,997,776 paired-ends reads amounting to 6 Gb of sequence data, which was assembled de novo with Trinity software. A transcriptome was produced after filtering and quality checking yielding a final set of 88,825 high quality foot unigene for analysis.
isolate
mytilus coruscus
isolation_source
China
collection_date
2014-10-27
geo_loc_name
China
tissue
foot
BioSampleModel
Invertebrate