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Olsvik PA, Samuelsen OB, Agnalt AL, Lunestad BT. Transcriptional responses to teflubenzuron exposure in European lobster (Homarus gammarus). AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2015; 167:143-156. [PMID: 26318677 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2015.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Revised: 07/02/2015] [Accepted: 07/13/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Increasing use of pharmaceutical drugs to delouse farmed salmon raises environmental concerns. This study describes an experiment carried out to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of the antiparasitic drug teflubenzuron on a non-target species, the European lobster. Juvenile lobsters (10.3±0.9 mm carapace length) were fed two environmentally relevant doses of teflubenzuron, corresponding to 5 and 20% of a standard salmon medication (10 mg/kg day), termed low and high dose in this study. After 114 days of dietary exposure, whole-animal accumulation of teflubenzuron was determined. One claw from each animal was collected for transcriptional analysis. Overall, exposed animals showed low cumulative mortality. Six animals, two from the low dose treatment and four from the high dose, showed exoskeletal abnormalities (claw deformities or stiff walking legs). Residual levels of teflubenzuron in juvenile lobster were 2.7-fold higher in the high dose (282 ng/g) compared to the low dose treatment (103 ng/g). The transcriptional examination showed significant effects of teflubenzuron on 21 out of 39 studied genes. At the transcriptional level, environmentally relevant levels of the anti-salmon lice drug impacted genes linked to drug detoxification (cyp3a, cyp6a2, cyp302a, sult1b1, abcc4), cellular stress (hsp70, hsp90, chh), oxidative stress (cat, gpx3) and DNA damage (p53), as well as molting and exoskeleton regulation (chi3l1, ecr, jhl1, chs1, ctbs, gap65, jhel-ces1) in claw tissue (muscle and exoskeleton). In conclusion, teflubenzuron at sub-lethal levels can affect many molecular mechanisms in European lobster claws.
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- Pål A Olsvik
- National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Nordnesboder 1-2, N-5005 Bergen, Norway.
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- Institute of Marine Research, Fish Disease Group, Nordnes, 5817 Bergen, Norway
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- Institute of Marine Research, Fish Disease Group, Nordnes, 5817 Bergen, Norway
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- National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Nordnesboder 1-2, N-5005 Bergen, Norway
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Techa S, Chung JS. Ecdysone and retinoid-X receptors of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus: Cloning and their expression patterns in eyestalks and Y-organs during the molt cycle. Gene 2013; 527:139-53. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2012] [Revised: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 05/08/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Uddowla MH, Salma U, Kim HW. Molecular characterization of four actin cDNAs and effects of 20-hydroxyecdysone on their expression in swimming crab,Portunus trituberculatus(Miers, 1876). Anim Cells Syst (Seoul) 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/19768354.2013.799100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Chang ES, Mykles DL. Regulation of crustacean molting: a review and our perspectives. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2011; 172:323-30. [PMID: 21501612 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2011] [Revised: 03/30/2011] [Accepted: 04/04/2011] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Molting is a highly complex process that requires precise coordination to be successful. We describe the early classical endocrinological experiments that elucidated the hormones and glands responsible for this process. We then describe the more recent experiments that have provided information on the cellular and molecular aspects of molting. In addition to providing a review of the scientific literature, we have also included our perspectives.
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- Ernest S Chang
- Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California-Davis, Bodega Bay, CA 94923, USA.
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Medler S, Brown KJ, Chang ES, Mykles DL. Eyestalk ablation has little effect on actin and myosin heavy chain gene expression in adult lobster skeletal muscles. THE BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN 2005; 208:127-137. [PMID: 15837962 DOI: 10.2307/3593121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The organization of skeletal muscles in decapod crustaceans is significantly altered during molting and development. Prior to molting, the claw muscles atrophy dramatically, facilitating their removal from the base of the claw. During development, lobster claw muscles exhibit fiber switching over several molt cycles. Such processes may be influenced by the secretion of steroid molting hormones, known collectively as ecdysteroids. To assay the effects of these hormones, we used eyestalk ablation to trigger an elevation of circulating ecdysteroids and then quantified myofibrillar mRNA levels with real-time PCR and myofibrillar protein levels by SDS-PAGE. Levels of myosin heavy chain (MHC) and actin proteins and the mRNA encoding them were largely unaffected by eyestalk ablation, but in muscles from intact animals, myofibrillar gene expression was modestly elevated in premolt and postmolt animals. In contrast, polyubiquitin mRNA was significantly elevated (about 2-fold) in claw muscles from eyestalk-ablated animals with elevated circulating ecdysteroids. Moreover, patterns of MHC and actin gene expression are significantly different among slow and fast claw muscles. Consistent with these patterns, the three muscle types differed in the relative amounts of myosin heavy chain and actin proteins. All three muscles also co-expressed fast and slow myosin isoforms, even in fibers that are generally regarded as exclusively fast or slow. These results are consistent with other recent data demonstrating co-expression of myosin isoforms in lobster muscles.
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- Scott Medler
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
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Martynova MG. Proliferation and Differentiation Processes in the Heart Muscle Elements in Different Phylogenetic Groups. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 235:215-50. [PMID: 15219784 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(04)35005-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2023]
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This article reviews, discusses, and summarizes data about the generative behavior of muscle tissue cells, the mechanisms of its regulation, and the organization of the endocrine function of the heart in the main phylogenetic groups. With respect to the ratio of processes of proliferation and differentiation, cell organization, and growth mechanism, muscle tissues of propulsive organs can be divided into three types, each revealed in one of three main groups of animals, lophotrochozoans, ecdysozoans, and chordates. Ecdysterone is likely to play the key role in the regulation of proliferation and differentiation processes in the heart muscle of crustaceans, and, most probably, also of molluscs. In each of the three main phylogenetic groups the endocrine function of the heart consisting of secretion of natriuretic peptides has a peculiar organization. Vertebrate cardiomyocytes are known to combine contractile and endocrine differentiation. Such functional dualism is absent in heart muscle elements of Lophotrochozoa and Ecdysozoa; in the heart of lopfotrochozoans, secretion of natriuretic peptides is performed by endothelial cells and their derivatives. Homology of the heart muscle in the animal kingdom as well as possible mechanisms of genomic and epigenomic regulation of different types of cardiomyogenesis are discussed.
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- Marina G Martynova
- Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194064 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Spees JL, Chang SA, Mykles DL, Snyder MJ, Chang ES. Molt cycle–dependent molecular chaperone and polyubiquitin gene expression in lobster. Cell Stress Chaperones 2003; 8:258-64. [PMID: 14984059 PMCID: PMC514879 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2003)008<0258:mcmcap>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Lobster claw muscle undergoes atrophy in correlation with increasing ecdysteroid (steroid molting hormone) titers during premolt. In vivo molecular chaperone (constitutive heat shock protein 70 [Hsc70], heat shock protein 70 [Hsp70], and Hsp90) and polyubiquitin messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) levels were examined in claw and abdominal muscles from individual premolt or intermolt lobsters. Polyubiquitin gene expression was assayed as a marker for muscle atrophy. Both Hsc70 and Hsp90 mRNA levels were significantly induced in premolt relative to intermolt lobster claw muscle, whereas Hsp70 mRNA levels were not. Hsp90 gene expression was significantly higher in premolt claw muscle when compared with abdominal muscle. Polyubiquitin mRNA levels were elevated in premolt when compared with intermolt claw muscle and significantly elevated relative to premolt abdominal muscle.
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- Jeffrey L Spees
- Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, PO Box 247, Bodega Bay, CA 94923, USA
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Chung AC, Durica DS, Hopkins PM. Tissue-specific patterns and steady-state concentrations of ecdysteroid receptor and retinoid-X-receptor mRNA during the molt cycle of the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1998; 109:375-89. [PMID: 9480745 DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.7046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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In the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator, we have investigated the temporal expression of receptors in various tissues using probes that encode Uca ecdysteroid receptor (UpEcR) and retinoid-X-receptor (UpRXR) gene homologs. During molt stages C4 through D1-4, UpEcR and UpRXR transcripts are expressed in regenerating limb buds, gills, eyestalks, hypodermis, hepatopancreas, muscle from nonregenerating walking legs, and the large cheliped. Some of these tissues have not previously been recognized as ecdysteroid-target tissues. Levels of ecdysteroids in the hemolymph fluctuate significantly during the molt cycle of U. pugilator. The variation in steady-state concentrations of UpEcR transcripts in tissues from C4 to D1-4 implies molt cycle-related differences in the potential of these tissues to respond to changing titers of ecdysteroids in the hemolymph. In singly autotomized crabs, highest concentrations of UpEcR transcript in some tissues did not coincide with the highest levels of circulating ecdysteroids, suggesting that UpEcR expression in these tissues is not dependent on high ecdysteroid titers and may be induced by low or rising concentrations of ecdysteroids. UpEcR and UpRXR genes were expressed simultaneously in tissues, supporting the possibility of heterodimerization for EcR and RXR in vivo. In some tissues, however, levels of transcripts differed, suggesting other possible receptor interactions. Moreover, UpEcR expression in tissues from multiply autotomized crabs differed from the expression patterns in tissues from singly autotomized crabs.
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- A C Chung
- Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman 73019, USA
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Spaziani E, DeSantis K, O'Rourke BD, Wang WL, Weld JD. The clearance in vivo and metabolism of ecdysone and 3-dehydroecdysone in tissues of the crabCancer antennarius. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-010x(19971215)279:6<609::aid-jez9>3.0.co;2-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Zou E, Fingerman M. Effects of estrogenic xenobiotics on molting of the water flea, Daphnia magna. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 1997; 38:281-5. [PMID: 9469881 DOI: 10.1006/eesa.1997.1589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The effects of five xenobiotics, 2,4,5-trichloribiphenyl (PCB29), the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) Aroclor 1242, diethyl phthalate, lindane, and 4-octylphenol, on molting of Daphnia magna were investigated. All except PCB29 are known to have unexpected estrogenicity in vertebrates. Daphnids exposed to PCB29, Aroclor 1242, and diethyl phthalate took significantly more time to complete four molts than did the controls. The inhibitory effects of these ortho-chlorinated PCBs suggest that certain structural features, most probably including ortho-chlorination, are related to the ability of a PCB to affect molting. Agents with multicyclic structures, such as PCBs, are more effective in inhibiting molting than are single-ringed xenobiotics, such as diethyl phthalate, which suggests that hydrophobicity may be a requirement for binding to the ecdysteroid receptor. These molt-inhibiting agents with multiple rings appear to bear more structural resemblance to the steroidal molting hormones of arthropods, the ecdysteroids, than do the single-ringed ones. While the possibility of alternative mechanisms, such as impairment of ecdysteroidogenesis exists, the results obtained herein support the hypothesis that some xenobiotics which disrupt endocrine processes in vertebrates can also interfere with the hormonally regulated molting process in arthropods through acting as antagonists of endogenous ecdysteroids by binding to and thereby blocking the ecdysteroid receptor.
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- E Zou
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5698, USA
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El Haj AJ, Tamone SL, Peake M, Sreenivasula Reddy P, Chang ES. An ecdysteroid-responsive gene in a lobster - a potential crustacean member of the steroid hormone receptor superfamily. Gene X 1997; 201:127-35. [PMID: 9409780 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00437-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The role of ecdysteroids in modulating exoskeletal growth during the moult cycle of Crustacea has been well described. However, little is known about the action of ecdysteroids at the level of gene transcription and regulation in Crustacea. This paper reports the cloning of an ecdysteroid responsive gene, HHR3, a potential Manduca sexta MHR3 homologue in the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Levels of HHR3 expression are up-regulated in response to in vivo injections of premoult concentrations (10(-6) M) of 20-hydroxyecdysone in the epidermal and muscle tissue of the lobster after 6 h. Maximal mRNA levels are observed after 21 h before returning to basal levels. In muscle tissue, elevated levels of HHR3 mRNA follow a time course similar to elevated actin mRNA expression in response to hormonal injection. In contrast, in eyestalk tissue, the HHR3 levels decline up to 21 h post-injection before rising to basal levels after 48 h. Eyestalk, epidermal and leg muscle tissue was extracted over the moult cycle to determine the levels of expression. In muscle, HHR3 is high during the premoult period that corresponds to the period of the moult cycle when the ecdysteroid titre is high. In the epidermis, HHR3 levels are also high during the premoult with elevated levels maintained into the postmoult period. In the eyestalk, mRNA levels of HHR3 show an opposite pattern of expression with low levels during premoult and postmoult and high levels found during the intermoult period. Our results provide novel evidence for an ecdysteroid responsive gene in a crustacean that has many similarities to MHR3 in Manduca and DHR3 in Drosophila melanogaster. This raises the question of whether a similar cascade of ecdysteroid responsive genes exist in other members of Arthropoda such as the Crustacea, as has been demonstrated in Drosophila. In addition, we provide further evidence for negative feedback regulation of ecdysteroids at the site of moult-inhibiting hormone (MIH) production in the lobster eyestalk.
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- A J El Haj
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
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Whiteley N, El Haj A. Regulation of Muscle Gene Expression Over the Moult in Crustacea. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0305-0491(97)00130-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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