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Evolutionary radiation of cytotoxic effects in bivalve and gastropod haemolymph

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A comparative immunological survey of cytotoxic properties of whole and cell-free haemolymph (plasma) was performed on four species of marine molluscs. Diverse target cells were used: auto- and heterologous mollusc haemocytes, starfish Asterias rubens coelomocytes, trematode Himasthla elongata rediae, and human erythrocytes. While all the four mollusc species were found to contain cytotoxic factors in their plasma, functional features of these molecules in bivalve and gastropod species are essentially different. Cell-free haemolymph of two clams, Mya arenaria and Mytilus edulis, contains pre-synthetized cytolytic complexes capable of immediate and generalized activation, leading to destruction of a broad range of target cells. On the contrary, two gastropod species, Buccinum undatum and Littorina littorea, possess haemolytic factors which display high specificity of recognition of receptor molecules on the target cells and slow cytolytic reaction. Overall, molecular strategies of cytolytic cascade activation in Bivalvia and Gastropoda can be described as low- and highly selective, respectively.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Klimovich, A.M. Gorbushin, 2017, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2017, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 416—424.

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Klimovich, A.V., Gorbushin, A.M. Evolutionary radiation of cytotoxic effects in bivalve and gastropod haemolymph. J Evol Biochem Phys 53, 470–479 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093017060047

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