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The C1q protein, which contains the globular C1q (gC1q) domain, is involved in the innate immune response, and is found abundantly in the shell, and it participates in the shell formation. In this study, a novel gC1q domain-containing gene was identified from  Pinctada fucata martensii (P. f. martensii)  and designated as  PmC1qDC-1 . The full-length sequence of  PmC1qDC-1  was 902 bp with a 534 bp open reading frame (ORF), encoding a polypeptide of 177 amino acids. Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) result showed that  PmC1qDC-1  was widely expressed in all tested tissues, including shell formation-associated tissue and immune-related tissue.  PmC1qDC-1  expression was significantly high in the blastula and gastrula and especially among the juvenile stage, which is the most important stage of dissoconch shell formation.  PmC1qDC-1  expression was located in the outer epithelial cells of mantle pallial and mantle edge and irregular crystal tablets were observed in the nacre upon knockdown of  PmC1qDC-1  expression at mantle pallial. Moreover, the recombined protein PmC1qDC-1 increased the rate of calcium carbonate precipitation. Besides,  PmC1qDC-1  expression was significantly up-regulated in the mantle pallial at 6 h and was significantly up-regulated in the mantle edge at 12 h and 24 h after shell notching. The expression level of  PmC1qDC-1  in mantle edge was significantly up-regulated at 48 h after LPS stimulation and was significantly up-regulated at 12 h, 24 h and 48 h after poly I:C stimulation. Moreover,  PmC1qDC-1  expression was significantly up-regulated in hemocytes at 6 h after lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and poly I:C challenge. These findings suggest that  PmC1qDC-1  plays a crucial role both in the shell formation and the innate immune response in pearl oysters, providing new clues for understanding the shell formation and defense mechanism in mollusk.

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Novel globular C1q domain-containing protein (PmC1qDC-1) participates in shell formation and responses to pathogen-associated molecular patterns stimulation in Pinctada fucata martensii