Figure 1

Gene expression mapping of the Aplysia Allatostatin C precursor. (A) A genome sequence from NCBI (NW-004798659.1) expresses 5 genes: LOC101859220; LOC101859459 (product: enolase); LOC101860306 (product: phosphatidylinositol); LOC101859837 (product: glyoxylate reductase/hydroxypyruvate reductase); LOC101860069 (product: glyoxylate reductase/hydroxypyruvate reductase). The first gene (LOC101859220) corresponds to a mRNA (XM_005112737.3, with an intron between 8955 to 20,579 bp), which produces an uncharacterized protein (XP-005112794.1). This protein is similar to Allatostatin C from other molluscs. (B) A mRNA from NCBI (GU973882), named Aplysia californica allatostatin C mRNA, complete CDS, was submitted by Moroz et al.⁵⁵. It produces a protein, Allatostatin C (ADX20596.1), which is identical to XP-005112794.1 in (A), but its untranslated regions at 5' and 3' ends are different from those of (XM_005112737.3) in (A). (C) DNA contig-1403 (Note that the nucleotide number on top starts from the right) from Aplysia gene nucleotide databases (the AplysiaTools) expresses the same mRNA as in (A) (XM_005112737.3) and the protein generated from this mRNA is the same as those in (A,B). Note that the numbers for the proteins refer to base pairs of corresponding mRNAs, not amino acids.