Performance of Immunochip 1.0 with hemolymph samples collected at 3 and 48 hours from Vibrio-challenged mussels. Mytilus galloprovincialis

We aimed to exemplify early and late transcriptional response of M. galloprovincialis to live Vibrio cells. Hemolymph was collected at 3 and 48 hours after the injection of 10 to 7 cells Vibrio splendidus LGP32 into the posterior adductor muscle. Hemolymph samples were similarly collected from paired control mussels injected with PBS-NaCl. The purified RNAs were successfully amplified, labelled and competitively hybridized to the new mussel oligoarray Immunochip 1.0. Overall design: After acclimatization, groups of 40 farmed mussels from the Venice lagoon (Italy) were injected either with 10 to 7 cells of Vibrio splendidus LGP32 or with NaCl-enriched PBS. One ml of hemolymph was withdrawn at 3 h and 48 h post-injection from each control or treated mussel. Two RNA pools (N=10) per time point were composed from the treated mussels, processed and competitively hybridized in dye-swap combination (Cy3 / Cy5 aRNAs) on the same Immunochip slide against time-paired control RNA pools (N=40). Since each Immunochip array contains 4 replicates per probe, the dye-swap testing yielded a total of 16 expression values per probe per time-point.