DRP004958
Fingerprinting of Proteins that Mediate Quagga Mussel Adhesion using a De Novo Assembled Foot Transcriptome
The European freshwater mollusk Dreissena bugensis (quagga mussel), an invasive species to North America, adheres to surfaces underwater via the byssus, a non-living protein anchor. Next-generation RNA sequencing and de novo assembly was used to construct a cDNA library of the quagga mussel foot transcriptome. We present the sequences of fourteen novel quagga mussel byssal proteins, named Dreissena bugensis foot proteins 4 to 17 (Dbfp4 - Dbfp17), and new sequence data for two previously observed byssal proteins Dbfp1 and Dbfp2.