Journal of Marine Science: Research & Development
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Preliminary Study of the Identification of Proteins in Tissue Fluids of the Sea Mussel Isognomon alatus

¹Pathology and Microbiology Unit, Department of Para-Clinical Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

²Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, West Indies

³Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, West Indies

⁴School of Biology and Biochemistry, Medical Biology Centre, The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

⁵Physiology Section, Department of Pre-clinical Sciences, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

*Corresponding Author:

Angel Justiz Vaillant
Department of Para-Clinical Sciences
The University of the West Indies
St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies
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Received date: September 14, 2013; Accepted date: January 31, 2014; Published date: February 10, 2014

Citation: Vaillant AAJ, Farlane-Anderson M, Smikle M, Wisdom B, Mohammed W, et al. (2014) Preliminary Study of the Identification of Proteins in Tissue Fluids of the Sea Mussel Isognomon alatus. J Marine Sci Res Dev 4:147. doi:10.4172/2155-9910.1000147

Copyright: © 2014 Vaillant AAJ. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The aim of this preliminary study was to investigate the presence of proteins in the tissue fluids of the sea
mussel Isognomon alatus. Protein extraction was done by the chloroform-cold ethanol technique. Immunization for
production of antibody to be used as reagents in Western blotting, assessment of the protein concentration by the
Bradford method, protein characterization by native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) were also performed
as a part of the methodology of this study. The results showed a protein content of 65 mg/ml in tissue fluids and a
protein band approximately of 220 kDa in PAGE that was further confirmed by the Western blotting. Future work
should investigate the structure and function of the proteins separated from the tissue fluids and we considered it
as a limitation of this investigation. The sea bivalve literature is scanty. However the limitation of this work we still
can conclude that there are high molecular weight proteins in large concentrations in tissue fluids of the sea mussel
Isognomom alatus.

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