Mass Spectrometry Based Proteomic Profiling of Three Feeding Categories
of Bats in Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, South India
Abstract
A comparative protein profile of bat wing-tissue samples for three
feeding categories of bats such as Insectivorous, Hipposiderous speoris;
Carnivorous Megaderma lyra - and Frugivorous Cynopterus sphinx was
studied. All the samples were analyzed using two-dimensional
electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry. Totally, 38 protein
spots were paired across all the three categories of samples and 5
differentially expressed proteins were identified. In the present study,
it is reported that proteomics-based analysis for three feeding
categories reveal the presence of five candidate proteins namely 1)
Hemoglobin subunit beta; 2) V(D)J Recombination activating protein 1; 3)
Olfactory receptor; 4) Lysozyme and 5) Brain-derived neurotrophic factor
were identified. Among them, 3 proteins such as Olfactory receptor;
Lysozyme and Brain-derived neurotrophic factor were up- regulated in M.
lyra and C. sphinx compared to H. speoris. Gene ontology analysis
reveals three different functional properties of the identified protein
such as biological process, cellular component, and molecular function.
The present study will shed more light on the importance of chiropteran
fauna in proteomics and long- term conservation planning of bat
populations of the study area. KEYWORDS : protein profile, three feeding
categories, mass spectrometry, Gene ontology