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Kostecka LG, Pienta KJ, Amend SR. Polyaneuploid Cancer Cell Dormancy: Lessons From Evolutionary Phyla. Front Ecol Evol 2021. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.660755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Dormancy is a key survival strategy in many organisms across the tree of life. Organisms that utilize some type of dormancy (hibernation, aestivation, brumation, diapause, and quiescence) are able to survive in habitats that would otherwise be uninhabitable. Induction into dormant states is typically caused by environmental stress. While organisms are dormant, their physical activity is minimal, and their metabolic rates are severely depressed (hypometabolism). These metabolic reductions allow for the conservation and distribution of energy while conditions in the environment are poor. When conditions are more favorable, the organisms are then able to come out of dormancy and reengage in their environment. Polyaneuploid cancer cells (PACCs), proposed mediators of cancer metastasis and resistance, access evolutionary programs and employ dormancy as a survival mechanism in response to stress. Quiescence, the type of dormancy observed in PACCs, allows these cells the ability to survive stressful conditions (e.g., hypoxia in the microenvironment, transiting the bloodstream during metastasis, and exposure to chemotherapy) by downregulating and altering metabolic function, but then increasing metabolic activities again once stress has passed. We can gain insights regarding the mechanisms underlying PACC dormancy by looking to the evolution of dormancy in different organisms.
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Chukwuka CO, Ejere VC. Physiological adjustment of the genus Limicolaria (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) during aestivation and activity in tropical agro-ecosystem. MOLLUSCAN RESEARCH 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/13235818.2018.1533398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Christian Onyeka Chukwuka
- Department of Biology/Microbiology/Biotechnology, Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Abakaliki, Nigeria
- Department of Zoology and Environmental Biology, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria
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- Department of Zoology and Environmental Biology, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria
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Staikou A, Kesidou E, Garefalaki ME, Michaelidis B. Laboratory studies on the thermal tolerance and response of enzymes of intermediate metabolism in different land snail species. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2016; 203:262-272. [PMID: 27746363 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2016] [Revised: 10/07/2016] [Accepted: 10/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Land snails species occur in a range of habitats from humid to semi-arid and arid ones and seasonal variations in their physiology and biochemical composition have been linked to annual cycles of photoperiod, temperature, humidity and water availability. In an effort to understand the thermal tolerance and the impact of temperature elevation on tissue metabolism of land snails we determined the mortality, heamolymph PO2 and the activities of enzymes of intermediary metabolism in three land snail species (Helix lucorum, Helix pomatia and Cornu aspersum) differing in their geographical distribution and inhabiting areas with different climatic characteristics. No mortality was observed in both population of Cornu aspersum, while Helix pomatia exhibited higher mortality than Helix lucorum. PO2 dropped within the first 10days of exposure to elevated temperature in all species, although in Cornu aspersum this decrease was significantly lower. No significant reduction in the enzymatic activities of all glycolytic enzymes studied, as well as of citrate synthase (CS) and 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (HOAD) was observed in the more thermal tolerant species C. aspersum from both populations studied. Significant reductions of enzymatic activity of the glycolytic enzymes phosphofructokinase (PFK), pyruvate kinase (PK) and d-Lactate dehydrogenase (d-LDH) was observed in Helix lucorum and Helix pomatia. The observed inter-specific differences seem to be in accordance with the life cycle characteristics of each species and may be attributed to climatic differences among habitats within their distribution range.
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- Alexandra Staikou
- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Many environmental conditions can constrain the ability of animals to obtain sufficient food energy, or transform that food energy into useful chemical forms. To survive extended periods under such conditions animals must suppress metabolic rate to conserve energy, water, or oxygen. Amongst small endotherms, this metabolic suppression is accompanied by and, in some cases, facilitated by a decrease in core body temperature-hibernation or daily torpor-though significant metabolic suppression can be achieved even with only modest cooling. Within some ectotherms, winter metabolic suppression exceeds the passive effects of cooling. During dry seasons, estivating ectotherms can reduce metabolism without changes in body temperature, conserving energy reserves, and reducing gas exchange and its inevitable loss of water vapor. This overview explores the similarities and differences of metabolic suppression among these states within adult animals (excluding developmental diapause), and integrates levels of organization from the whole animal to the genome, where possible. Several similarities among these states are highlighted, including patterns and regulation of metabolic balance, fuel use, and mitochondrial metabolism. Differences among models are also apparent, particularly in whether the metabolic suppression is intrinsic to the tissue or depends on the whole-animal response. While in these hypometabolic states, tissues from many animals are tolerant of hypoxia/anoxia, ischemia/reperfusion, and disuse. These natural models may, therefore, serve as valuable and instructive models for biomedical research.
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- James F Staples
- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Rider MH. Role of AMP-activated protein kinase in metabolic depression in animals. J Comp Physiol B 2015; 186:1-16. [PMID: 26174210 DOI: 10.1007/s00360-015-0920-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2015] [Revised: 06/23/2015] [Accepted: 07/01/2015] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is a highly conserved eukaryotic protein serine/threonine kinase that controls cellular and whole body energy homoeostasis. AMPK is activated during energy stress by a rise in AMP:ATP ratio and maintains energy balance by phosphorylating targets to switch on catabolic ATP-generating pathways, while at the same time switching off anabolic ATP-consuming processes. Metabolic depression is a strategy used by many animals to survive environmental stress and has been extensively studied across phylogeny by comparative biochemists and physiologists, but the role of AMPK has only recently been addressed. This review first deals with the evolution of AMPK in eukaryotes (excluding plants and fungi) and its regulation. Changes in adenine nucleotides and AMPK activation are described in animals during environmental energy stress, before considering the involvement of AMPK in controlling β-oxidation, fatty acid synthesis, triacylglycerol mobilization and protein synthesis. Lastly, strategies are presented to validate the role of AMPK in mediating metabolic depression by phosphorylating downstream targets.
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- Mark H Rider
- de Duve Institute and Université Catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 75, 1200, Brussels, Belgium.
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Wu CW, Biggar KK, Storey KB. Dehydration mediated microRNA response in the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. Gene 2013; 529:269-75. [PMID: 23958654 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.07.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2013] [Revised: 07/11/2013] [Accepted: 07/17/2013] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Exposure to various environmental stresses induces metabolic rate depression in many animal species, an adaptation that conserves energy until the environment is again conducive to normal life. The African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, is periodically subjected to arid summers in South Africa, and utilizes entry into the hypometabolic state of estivation as a mechanism of long term survival. During estivation, frogs must typically deal with substantial dehydration as their ponds dry out and X. laevis can endure >30% loss of its body water. We hypothesize that microRNAs play a vital role in establishing a reversible hypometabolic state and responding to dehydration stress that is associated with amphibian estivation. The present study analyzes the effects of whole body dehydration on microRNA expression in three tissues of X. laevis. Compared to controls, levels of miR-1, miR-125b, and miR-16-1 decreased to 37±6, 64±8, and 80±4% of control levels during dehydration in liver. By contrast, miR-210, miR-34a and miR-21 were significantly elevated by 3.05±0.45, 2.11±0.08, and 1.36±0.05-fold, respectively, in the liver. In kidney tissue, miR-29b, miR-21, and miR-203 were elevated by 1.40±0.09, 1.31±0.05, and 2.17±0.31-fold, respectively, in response to dehydration whereas miR-203 and miR-34a were elevated in ventral skin by 1.35±0.05 and 1.74±0.12-fold, respectively. Bioinformatic analysis of the differentially expressed microRNAs suggests that these are mainly involved in two processes: (1) expression of solute carrier proteins, and (2) regulation of mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling. This study is the first report that shows a tissue specific mode of microRNA expression during amphibian dehydration, providing evidence for microRNAs as crucial regulators of metabolic depression.
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- Cheng-Wei Wu
- Institute of Biochemistry and Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
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LIGON DAYB, PETERSON CHARLESC, LOVERN MATTHEWB. Acute and Persistent Effects of Pre- and Posthatching Thermal Environments on Growth and Metabolism in the Red-Eared Slider Turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 317:227-35. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.1716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2011] [Revised: 10/14/2011] [Accepted: 11/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- DAY B. LIGON
- Department of Biology; Missouri State University; Springfield; Missouri
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- Department of Zoology; Oklahoma State University; Stillwater; Oklahoma
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Nowakowska A, Caputa M, Rogalska J. Defence against oxidative stress in two species of land snails (Helix pomatia and Helix aspersa) subjected to estivation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 315:593-601. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2011] [Revised: 07/08/2011] [Accepted: 08/24/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The Connection Between Oxidative Stress and Estivation in Gastropods and Anurans. AESTIVATION 2010; 49:47-61. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02421-4_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Nowakowska A, Swiderska-Kołacz G, Rogalska J, Caputa M. Antioxidants and oxidative stress in Helix pomatia snails during estivation. Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol 2009; 150:481-6. [PMID: 19632354 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2009.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2009] [Revised: 07/09/2009] [Accepted: 07/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Estivation enables land snails to survive a prolonged dryness but the return to active state imposes conditions of oxidative stress on internal organs due to a transient large increase in oxygen consumption, which augments mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species. Therefore, activities of antioxidant enzymes, concentrations of reduced glutathione (GSH) and TBARS as an index of lipid peroxidation, were evaluated in Helix pomatia snails (i) during summer activity, (ii) during estivation, which was induced experimentally, (iii) at the start of arousal from estivation, and (iv) being aroused for 24 h. Estivation induced significant decreases in activity of catalase in the kidney and hepatopancreas and glutathione peroxidase in the kidney. Activity of glutathione reductase was unaffected by estivation/arousal cycle. Summer-active and estivating snails maintained high activity of glutathione transferase. Concentration of GSH was organ-dependent and was positively affected by estivation. Lack of increase in TBARS concentration during estivation/arousal cycle suggests that antioxidant defence system of H. pomatia snails is highly efficacious. In conclusion, permanent maintenance of relatively high activities of the antioxidant enzymes and the high concentration of GSH in H. pomatia snails indicate that they have well-developed strategy of defence against oxidative injury.
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- Anna Nowakowska
- Department of Animal Physiology, Institute of General and Molecular Biology, N. Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
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Nowakowska A, Świderska-Kołacz G, Rogalska J, Caputa M. Effect of winter torpor upon antioxidative defence in Helix pomatia. CAN J ZOOL 2009. [DOI: 10.1139/z09-025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Arousal of land snails from torpor is inseparably connected with an increase in oxygen consumption leading to oxidative stress. Therefore, activity of antioxidant defence system (antioxidant enzymes and reduced glutathione) and degree of oxidative damage (concentration of malondialdehyde as an index of lipid peroxidation) in the snail Helix pomatia L., 1758 were tested to check whether torpid snails are able to activate their antioxidative defence against oxidative damage prior to arousal from winter torpor. Snails, which were collected from their natural habitats, were tested at the beginning, in the middle part, and at the end of winter torpor. Active snails collected in autumn and spring were taken as control groups. Snails were immediately killed and their foot, hepatopancreas, and kidney were used for the biochemical assays. Winter torpor induced significant changes in activities of the crucial antioxidant substances. The lowest activities were observed at the beginning of torpor, whereas activity of some of these enzymes was significantly enhanced prior to spring arousal. Reduced glutathione concentration did not show time-dependent changes during winter torpor. MDA (1,3-propanedial) level was elevated in the kidney and foot but was unchanged in the hepatopancreas. In conclusion, the snail H. pomatia is able to maintain REDOX balance necessary to prevent oxidative injury during arousal.
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- Anna Nowakowska
- N. Copernicus University, Institute of General and Molecular Biology, Gagarina Street 9, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
- Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Animal Physiology, Swiętokrzyska Street 15, 25-406 Kielce, Poland
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- N. Copernicus University, Institute of General and Molecular Biology, Gagarina Street 9, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
- Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Animal Physiology, Swiętokrzyska Street 15, 25-406 Kielce, Poland
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- N. Copernicus University, Institute of General and Molecular Biology, Gagarina Street 9, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
- Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Animal Physiology, Swiętokrzyska Street 15, 25-406 Kielce, Poland
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- N. Copernicus University, Institute of General and Molecular Biology, Gagarina Street 9, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
- Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Animal Physiology, Swiętokrzyska Street 15, 25-406 Kielce, Poland
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Artacho P, Nespolo R. Intrapopulation Variation in the Standard Metabolism of a Terrestrial Mollusc: Repeatability of the CO2Production in the Land SnailHelix aspersa. Physiol Biochem Zool 2009; 82:181-9. [DOI: 10.1086/590222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Matching cellular metabolic supply and demand in energy-stressed animals. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2009; 153:95-105. [PMID: 19535026 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2008] [Revised: 01/30/2009] [Accepted: 02/02/2009] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Certain environmental stressors can impair cellular ATP production to the point of harming or even killing an animal. Some exceptional animals employ strategies that maintain the balance between ATP production and consumption, allowing them to tolerate prolonged exposure to stressors such as hypoxia and anoxia. Anoxia- and hypoxia-tolerant animals reduce ATP consumption by ion-motive ATPases while concomitant reductions in passive ion flux reduce the demand for ion pumping and maintain transmembrane ion gradients. Reductions in gene transcription and protein turnover decrease ATP demand in hibernating and hypoxia-tolerant animals. Proton leak uncouples mitochondrial substrate oxidation from ATP synthesis and accounts for a considerable proportion of cellular energy demand, but there is little evidence that the proton permeability of inner mitochondrial membranes decreases in animals that tolerate energy stress. Indeed in some cases proton leak increases, possibly reducing reactive oxygen species production. Because substrate oxidation is important to the control of cellular metabolism, the downregulation of ATP supply pathways contributes significantly to metabolic suppression under energy stress. Mechanisms that coordinate the downregulation of both ATP supply and demand pathways include AMP kinase and ATP-sensitive ion channels. Strategies employed by animals tolerant to one energy stress often convey "cross-tolerance" to completely different stresses.
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Michaelidis B, Kyriakopoulou-Sklavounou P, Staikou A, Papathanasiou I, Konstantinou K. Glycolytic adjustments in tissues of frog Rana ridibunda and land snail Helix lucorum during seasonal hibernation. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2008; 151:582-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2008] [Revised: 07/13/2008] [Accepted: 07/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Frick NT, Bystriansky JS, Ip YK, Chew SF, Ballantyne JS. Lipid, ketone body and oxidative metabolism in the African lungfish, Protopterus dolloi following 60 days of fasting and aestivation. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2008; 151:93-101. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2008] [Revised: 06/03/2008] [Accepted: 06/04/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Reuner A, Brümmer F, Schill RO. Heat shock proteins (Hsp70) and water content in the estivating Mediterranean Grunt Snail (Cantareus apertus). Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2008; 151:28-31. [PMID: 18579425 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2008.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2008] [Revised: 05/08/2008] [Accepted: 05/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Pulmonate land snails often are able to estivate to survive dry hot seasons were water and food are scarce. The aperture of the shell is closed with an epiphragm, and metabolism is depressed to approximately one fourth of basal metabolism. We investigated a molecular aspect of estivation focussing on the heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) stress response during estivation in the Mediterranean Grunt Snail Cantareus apertus. Sequences of a new inducible hsp70 and of actin are presented and expression of the hsp70 gene as well as Hsp70 protein content was measured in estivating animals. Both Hsp70 protein and mRNA do not show a significant change from the control, although there is a trend that hsp70 mRNA is less abundant in estivating specimens. After heat shock, the expression of hsp70 increased and a higher Hsp70 protein content was detected. Water relations were also investigated. After a period of 6 months in the dormant state, the snails contained 14% less water than active ones, implying a constricted protection against desiccation, compared to the desert snail Sphincterochila zonata, and a Mediterranean-type water economy.
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- Andy Reuner
- Biological Institute, Zoology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
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Relictual physiological ecology in the threatened land snail Codringtonia helenae: A cause for decline in a changing environment? ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2007.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Symonds BL, James RS, Franklin CE. Getting the jump on skeletal muscle disuse atrophy: preservation of contractile performance in aestivatingCyclorana alboguttata(Günther 1867). J Exp Biol 2007; 210:825-35. [PMID: 17297142 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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SUMMARYProlonged immobilisation or unloading of skeletal muscle causes muscle disuse atrophy, which is characterised by a reduction in muscle cross-sectional area and compromised locomotory function. Animals that enter seasonal dormancy, such as hibernators and aestivators, provide an interesting model for investigating atrophy associated with disuse. Previous research on the amphibian aestivator Cyclorana alboguttata (Günther 1867)demonstrated an absence of muscle disuse atrophy after 3 months of aestivation, as measured by gastrocnemius muscle contractile properties and locomotor performance. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of aestivation on iliofibularis and sartorius muscle morphology and contractile function of C. alboguttata over a longer, more ecologically relevant time-frame of 9 months. We found that whole muscle mass, muscle cross-sectional area, fibre number and proportions of fibre types remained unchanged after prolonged disuse. There was a significant reduction in iliofibularis fibre cross-sectional area (declined by 36% for oxidative fibre area and 39% for glycolytic fibre area) and sartorius fibre density (declined by 44%). Prolonged aestivation had little effect on the isometric properties of the skeletal muscle of C. alboguttata. There was a significant reduction in the isometric contraction times of the relatively slow-twitch iliofibularis muscle, suggesting that the muscle was becoming slower after 9 months of aestivation (time to peak twitch increased by 25%, time from peak twitch to half relaxation increased by 34% and time from last stimulus to half tetanus relation increased by 20%). However, the results of the work-loop analysis clearly demonstrate that, despite changes to muscle morphology and isometric kinetics, the overall contractile performance and power output levels of muscles from 9-month aestivating C. alboguttata are maintained at control levels.
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- Beth L Symonds
- School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
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GUPPY MICHAEL, WITHERS PHILIP. Metabolic depression in animals: physiological perspectives and biochemical generalizations. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185x.1999.tb00180.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Michaelidis B, Vavoulidou D, Rousou J, Pörtner HO. The Potential Role of CO2in Initiation and Maintenance of Estivation in the Land SnailHelix lucorum. Physiol Biochem Zool 2007; 80:113-24. [PMID: 17160884 DOI: 10.1086/509210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/11/2006] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Elevated CO(2) levels are hypothesized to play a role in the initiation and maintenance of estivation in snails through disturbances of acid-base status. The aim of our study was to identify the ambient CO(2) threshold that induces disturbances in acid-base status in the air-breathing land snail Helix lucorum. Acid-base parameters were determined in the hemolymph of snails acclimated to 0.5%, 1%, 2%, 4%, and 8% CO(2) in air for 20 d. In addition, we evaluated the effects of long-term acclimation on metabolic rate and on levels of D-lactate dehydrogenase activity (D-LDH) and of D-lactate in snails after 20 d of exposure to increased CO(2) levels. Helix lucorum proved to be unable to compensate for a decrease in extracellular pH (pH(e)) when acclimated to levels higher than 1% CO(2) in air. The rate of oxygen consumption started to decrease when snails were acclimated to 0.5% CO(2) in air. However, there was no correlation between the drops in pH(e) and in metabolic rate. Long-term acclimation to elevated CO(2) levels induced an increase in the activity of D-LDH with a concomitant accumulation of D-lactate in tissues. This indicates that long-term acclimation to elevated ambient CO(2) levels could reduce the aerobic capacity of land snails and trigger expression of anaerobic pathways of ATP turnover. The threshold levels of ambient CO(2) that induce changes in acid-base status and elicit metabolic depression in adult land snails H. lucorum are higher than the future atmospheric levels that are expected to result from human use of fossil energy resources.
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- Basile Michaelidis
- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, School of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki GR-54124, Greece.
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MAKARIEVA AM, GORSHKOV VG, LI BL, CHOWN SL. Size- and temperature-independence of minimum life-supporting metabolic rates. Funct Ecol 2006. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01070.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Stuart JA, Brown MF. Energy, quiescence and the cellular basis of animal life spans. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2006; 143:12-23. [PMID: 16377223 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2005] [Revised: 11/02/2005] [Accepted: 11/03/2005] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Animals are routinely faced with harsh environmental conditions in which insufficient energy is available to grow and reproduce. Many animals adapt to this challenge by entering a dormant, or quiescent state. In some animals, such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, quiescence is coincident with increased stress resistance and longevity. Here we review evidence that the rules of life span extension established in C. elegans may be generally true of most animals. That is, that the rate of animal aging correlates inversely with cellular resistance to physiological stress, particularly oxidative stress, and that stress resistance is co-regulated with the quiescence adaptation (where the latter occurs). We discuss evidence for highly conserved intracellular signalling pathways involved in energy sensing that are sensitive to aspects of mitochondrial energy transduction and can be modulated in response to energetic flux. We provide a broad overview of the current knowledge of the relationships between energy, metabolism and life span.
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- Jeffrey A Stuart
- Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1.
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Storey KB, Storey JM. Metabolic rate depression in animals: transcriptional and translational controls. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2004; 79:207-33. [PMID: 15005178 DOI: 10.1017/s1464793103006195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 424] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Metabolic rate depression is an important survival strategy for many animal species and a common element of hibernation, torpor, aestivation, anaerobiosis, diapause, and anhydrobiosis. Studies of the biochemical mechanisms that regulate reversible transitions to and from hypometabolic states are identifying principles of regulatory control that are conserved across phylogenetic lines and that are broadly applied to the control of multiple cell functions. One such mechanism is reversible protein phosphorylation which is now known to contribute to the regulation of fuel metabolism, to ion channel arrest, and to the suppression of protein synthesis during hypometabolism. The present review focuses on two new areas of research in hypometabolism: (1) the role of differential gene expression in supplying protein products that adjust metabolism or protect cell functions for long-term survival, and (2) the mechanisms of protein life extension in hypometabolism involving inhibitory controls of transcription, translation and protein degradation. Control of translation examines reversible phosphorylation regulation of ribosomal initiation and elongation factors, the dissociation of polysomes and storage of mRNA transcripts during hypometabolism, and control over the translation of different mRNA types by differential sequestering of mRNA into polysome versus monosome fractions. The analysis draws primarily from current research on two animal models, hibernating mammals and anoxia-tolerant molluscs, with selected examples from multiple other sources.
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- Kenneth B Storey
- College of Natural Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6.
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Staples JF, Webber DM, Boutilier RG. Environmental hypoxia does not constrain the diurnal depth distribution of free-swimming Nautilus pompilius. Physiol Biochem Zool 2004; 76:644-51. [PMID: 14671712 DOI: 10.1086/376428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/24/2003] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The behaviour of Nautilus pompilius swimming freely in a controlled mesocosm (tower tank, 4 m diameter x 10.5 m deep) was monitored using ultrasonic depth telemetry. Initially depths were monitored in water equilibrated with air. Then the bottom 3.5 m were rendered hypoxic (Po(2) <20 mmHg) and depths monitored again. A thermocline at 7-m depth (17 degrees C below, 20 degrees C above) prevented mixing with the top, normoxic water. Mean depth was significantly greater during the light phase (8.9 m) of the 12L : 12D photoperiod than the dark phase (5.6 m), but this was not affected by hypoxia. During the light phase animals preferred the bottom 2.5 m of the tank but showed no specific preference for any depth range during the dark phase. Hypoxia did not alter these patterns of depth preference, though one animal made regular excursions toward normoxic water during the light phase. Vertical swimming activity was almost twofold greater during the dark phase and was not affected by hypoxia. These data suggest that, at least over the short term, Nautilus are not constrained from entering areas with low dissolved oxygen. This hypoxia tolerance may be attributed to the large onboard oxygen stores and suppressed metabolism during hypoxia.
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- James F Staples
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, England.
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Pakay JL, Hobbs AA, Kimball SR, Guppy M. The role of eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha during the metabolic depression associated with estivation. J Exp Biol 2003; 206:2363-71. [PMID: 12796453 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We have investigated the role of eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha (eIF2alpha) in two estivating organisms previously shown to downregulate protein synthesis during metabolic depression, the land snail Helix aspersa Müller and the desert frog Neobatrachus sutor Main 1957. We have developed a method using a single antibody (which binds specifically to the phosphorylated, conserved phosphorylation region) by which the total levels of eIF2alpha and the ratio of phosphorylated eIF2alpha [eIF2alpha(P)] to total (phosphorylated and unphosphorylated) eIF2alpha can be determined. In H. aspersa, we have shown that the level of eIF2alpha mRNA expression is unchanged between the awake and estivating states. The amount of total eIF2alpha is the same in the estivating and awake states, and eIF2alpha(P) is undetectable and must represent < or =10% of total eIF2alpha in both states. Conversely, in N. sutor during estivation, the level of total eIF2alpha increases approximately 1.6-fold and the ratio of eIF2alpha(P)/eIF2alpha increases from 0.22+/-0.11 to 0.52+/-0.08, implicating eIF2alpha phosphorylation in the downregulation of protein synthesis during estivation in this animal. The differences in the amounts of eIF2alpha and the level of its phosphorylation between these two species also suggest possible differences either in the mechanism by which protein synthesis is downregulated during estivation or in the sensitivity of the initiation of translation to eIF2alpha(P) levels.
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- Julian L Pakay
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
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Ramos-Vasconcelos GR, Hermes-Lima M. Hypometabolism, antioxidant defenses and free radical metabolism in the pulmonate land snail Helix aspersa. J Exp Biol 2003; 206:675-85. [PMID: 12517985 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of a cycle of estivation and awakening on free radical metabolism in selected organs of the land snail Helix aspersa. Estivation for 20 days induced a 4.9- and 1.8-fold increase in selenium-dependent glutathione peroxidase activity (Se-GPX) and in total glutathione levels (GSH-eq), respectively, in hepatopancreas when compared to activity in active animals 24 h after awakening. Foot muscle Se-GPX activity was also increased 3.9-fold during estivation, whereas GSH-eq did not vary. The activities of other antioxidant enzymes (catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione reductase and glutathione S-transferase) and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase were unchanged in both organs. After 15 min of awakening, the glutathione disulphide (GSSG)/GSH-eq ratio increased significantly by 55% in hepatopancreas, slowly returning to the levels observed during estivation. The higher GSSG/GSH-eq ratio may be caused by increased formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during awakening. The levels of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) decreased from 49 to 30.7 nmol g(-1) wet mass in hepatopancreas after 5 min arousal and, after 30 min, TBARS rose significantly to 39.6 nmol g(-1) wet mass, gradually declining thereafter. The levels of lipid hydroperoxides in hepatopancreas and of carbonyl protein in foot muscle both decreased during awakening. The higher levels of products of free radical damage during estivation may have resulted from low levels of ROS formation associated with decreased rates of lipid hydroperoxide detoxification and oxidized protein turnover caused by metabolic depression. The regulation of the antioxidant system during hypometabolism may constitute a mechanism to minimize oxidative stress during cycles of estivation and awakening.
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- Gabriella R Ramos-Vasconcelos
- Oxyradical Research Group, Departamento de Biologia Celular, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil
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Estivation is a state of aerobic hypometabolism used by organisms to endure seasonally arid conditions, often in desert environments. Estivating species are often active for only a few weeks each year to feed and breed and then retreat to estivate in sheltered sites, often underground. In general, estivation includes a strong reduction in metabolic rate, a primary reliance on lipid oxidation to fuel metabolism, and methods of water retention, both physical (e.g. cocoons) and metabolic (e.g. urea accumulation). The present review focuses on several aspects of metabolic adaptation during estivation including changes in the activities of enzymes of intermediary metabolism and antioxidant defenses, the effects of urea on estivator enzymes, enzyme regulation by reversible protein phosphorylation, protein kinases and phosphatases involved in signal transduction mechanisms, and the role of gene expression in estivation. The focus is on two species: the spadefoot toad, Scaphiopus couchii, from the Arizona desert; and the land snail, Otala lactea, a native of the Mediterranean region. The mechanisms of metabolic depression in estivators are similar to those seen in hibernation and anaerobiosis, and contribute to the development of a unified set of biochemical principles for the control of metabolic arrest in nature.
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- Kenneth B Storey
- Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6.
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Pakay JL, Withers PC, Hobbs AA, Guppy M. In vivo downregulation of protein synthesis in the snail Helix apersa during estivation. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2002; 283:R197-204. [PMID: 12069946 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00636.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Protein synthesis is downregulated during metabolic depression in a number of systems where the metabolic depression is effected by obvious extrinsic cues. The metabolic depression of the estivating land snail Helix apersa occurs in the absence of any obvious physiological stress and has an intrinsic component independent of temperature, pH, O(2) status, or osmolality. We show that this metabolic depression is accompanied by a downregulation of protein synthesis in vivo. The rate of protein synthesis decreases in two major tissues during estivation: to 23% and 53% of the awake rate in hepatopancreas and foot muscle, respectively. We show from calculations of the theoretical contribution of protein synthesis to total O(2) consumption that the depression of protein synthesis must be a significant, obligate, in vivo component of metabolic depression in H. aspersa.
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- Julian L Pakay
- Biochemistry Department, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
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Bishop T, Ocloo A, Brand MD. Structure and function of mitochondria in hepatopancreas cells from metabolically depressed snails. Physiol Biochem Zool 2002; 75:134-44. [PMID: 12024289 DOI: 10.1086/340852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/08/2002] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Mitochondria in cells isolated from the hepatopancreas of aestivating land snails (Helix aspersa) consume oxygen at 30% of the active control rate. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the lower respiration rate is caused by a decrease in the density of mitochondria or by intrinsic changes in the mitochondria. Mitochondria occupied 2% of cellular volume, and the mitochondrial inner membrane surface density was 17 microm(-1), in cells from active snails. These values were not different in cells from aestivating snails. The mitochondrial protein and mitochondrial phospholipid contents of cells were also similar. There was little difference in the phospholipid fatty acyl composition of mitochondria isolated from metabolically depressed or active snails, except for arachidonic acid, which was 18% higher in mitochondria from aestivating snails. However, the activities of citrate synthase and cytochrome c oxidase in mitochondria isolated from aestivating snails were 68% and 63% of control, respectively. Thus the lower mitochondrial respiration rate in hepatopancreas cells from aestivating snails was not caused by differences in mitochondrial volume or surface density but was associated with intrinsic changes in the mitochondria.
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- T Bishop
- Medical Research Council, Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2XY, United Kingdom.
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Bishop T, St-Pierre J, Brand MD. Primary causes of decreased mitochondrial oxygen consumption during metabolic depression in snail cells. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2002; 282:R372-82. [PMID: 11792646 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00401.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cells isolated from the hepatopancreas of estivating snails (Helix aspersa) have strongly depressed mitochondrial respiration compared with controls. Mitochondrial respiration was divided into substrate oxidation (which produces the mitochondrial membrane potential) and ATP turnover and proton leak (which consume it). The activity of substrate oxidation (and probably ATP turnover) decreased, whereas the activity of proton leak remained constant in estivation. These primary changes resulted in a lower mitochondrial membrane potential in hepatopancreas cells from estivating compared with active snails, leading to secondary decreases in respiration to drive ATP turnover and proton leak. The respiration to drive ATP turnover and proton leak decreased in proportion to the overall decrease in mitochondrial respiration, so that the amount of ATP turned over per O2 consumed remained relatively constant and aerobic efficiency was maintained in this hypometabolic state. At least 75% of the total response of mitochondrial respiration to estivation was caused by primary changes in the kinetics of substrate oxidation, with only 25% or less of the response occurring through primary effects on ATP turnover.
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- Tammie Bishop
- Medical Research Council, Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge CB2 2XY, United Kingdom.
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Rizzatti AC, Romero SM. Heart rate and body weight alterations in juvenile specimens of the tropical land snail Megalobulimus sanctipauli during dormancy. Braz J Med Biol Res 2001; 34:959-67. [PMID: 11449314 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x2001000700015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The time course of heart rate and body weight alterations during the natural period of dormancy were determined in active feeding and dormant juvenile specimens of Megalobulimus sanctipauli. In both groups, heart rate markedly decreased during the first 40 days of dormancy, tending to stabilize thereafter. This time period coincided with the decrease in environmental temperature during autumn-winter. At the end of the dormancy period, surviving active feeding and dormant snails showed a significant decrease in heart rate which, however, was significantly greater in the latter group. Total body weight decreased concomitantly with heart rate in dormant snails but remained constant in active feeding snails. Body hydration induced significant increases in weight and heart rate in surviving dormant snails. Feeding following hydration promoted a new significant increase in heart rate but not in weight. These results indicate that the decrease in heart rate observed in juvenile specimens of M. sanctipauli during dormancy may be due to at least three factors: 1) decrease in environmental temperature during autumn-winter, 2) starvation which leads to the depletion of endogenous fuel reserves and to a probable decrease in hemolymph nutrient levels, and 3) dehydration which leads to a probable decrease in hemolymph volume and venous return and/or to an increase in hemolymph osmolarity.
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- A C Rizzatti
- Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil
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Staikou A, Stiakakis M, Michaelidis B. Effects of prolonged acclimation to cold on the extra--and intracellular acid-base status in the land snail Helix lucorum (L.). Physiol Biochem Zool 2001; 74:404-12. [PMID: 11331513 DOI: 10.1086/320422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/13/2000] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The aim of this study was to examine the effect of prolonged acclimation to cold on the acid-base status of extra- and intracellular fluids in the land snail Helix lucorum. For this purpose, acid-base parameters in the hemolymph and tissues were determined. In addition, the buffer values of hemolymph and tissues were determined in order to examine whether they change in the snails during acclimation to cold. According to the results presented, there is an inverse pH-temperature relationship in the hemolymph within the first day of acclimation, which is consistent with alphastat regulation. The Pco2 decreased, and pH in the hemolymph (pH(e)) increased by 0.32 U within the first day of acclimation to cold, which corresponds to a change of 0.013 U degrees C(-1). After the first day of acclimation, Pco2 increased in the hemolymph, resulting in a significant drop in pH(e) by 90 d of acclimation to cold. Acclimation of snails to low temperatures did not change the buffer value of the hemolymph. Also, intracellular pH (pH(i)) and intracellular buffer values remained stable during acclimation to cold for prolonged periods. The latter results in conjunction with those obtained by the in vitro determination of the passive component of intracellular fluids indicate an active regulation of pH(i) in H. lucorum during acclimation to cold.
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- A Staikou
- Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
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The cost of living can be measured as an animal's metabolic rate. Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is factorially related to other metabolic rates. Analysis of BMR variation suggests that metabolism is a series of linked processes varying in unison. Membrane processes, such as maintenance of ion gradients, are important costs and components of BMR. Membrane bilayers in metabolically active systems are more polyunsaturated and less monounsaturated than metabolically less-active systems. Such polyunsaturated membranes have been proposed to result in an increased molecular activity of membrane proteins, and in this manner the amount of membrane and its composition can act as a pacemaker for metabolism. The potential importance of membrane acyl composition in metabolic depression, hormonal control of metabolism, the evolution of endothermy, as well as its implications for lifespan and human health, are briefly discussed.
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- A J Hulbert
- Department of Biological Science, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
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Guppy M, Reeves DC, Bishop T, Withers P, Buckingham JA, Brand MD. Intrinsic metabolic depression in cells isolated from the hepatopancreas of estivating snails. FASEB J 2000; 14:999-1004. [PMID: 10783155 DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.14.7.999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Many animals across the phylogenetic scale are routinely capable of depressing their metabolic rate to 5-15% of that at rest, remaining in this state sometimes for years. However, despite its widespread occurrence, the biochemical processes associated with metabolic depression remain obscure. We demonstrate here the development of an isolated cell model for the study of metabolic depression. The isolated cells from the hepatopancreas (digestive gland) of the land snail (Helix aspersa) are oxygen conformers; i.e., their rate of respiration depends on pO(2). Cells isolated from estivating snails show a stable metabolic depression to 30% of control (despite the long and invasive process of cell isolation) when metabolic rate at the physiological pH and pO(2) of the hemolymph of estivating snails is compared with metabolic rate at the physiological pH and pO(2) of the hemolymph of control snails. When the extrinsic effects of pH and pO(2) are excluded, the intrinsic metabolic depression of the cells from estivating snails is still to below 50% of control snails. The in vitro effect of pO(2) on metabolic rate is independent of pH and state (awake or estivating), but the effects of pH and state significantly interact. This suggests that pH and state change affect metabolic depression by similar mechanisms but that the metabolic depression by hypoxia involves a separate mechanism.
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- M Guppy
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK.
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Wiggins PR, Frappell PB. The influence of haemoglobin on behavioural thermoregulation and oxygen consumption in Daphnia carinata. Physiol Biochem Zool 2000; 73:153-60. [PMID: 10801393 DOI: 10.1086/316739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/28/1999] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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When placed in a temperature gradient, most ectotherms have a strict thermal preference that is lowered on exposure to hypoxia. Branchiopods, small aquatic crustaceans, are known to synthesise haemoglobin (Hb) when exposed to hypoxia; hypoxia can occur diurnally and seasonally in ponds. The effect of Hb on behavioural thermoregulation in the branchiopod Daphnia carinata following exposure to both normoxia and hypoxia was examined. Control animals raised in normoxia (Po2=150 mmHg, [Hb]=0.026+/-0.007 mg g dry wt-1) and Hb-rich animals raised in hypoxia (Po2=70 mmHg, [Hb]=0.080+/-0.017 mg g dry wt-1) were placed (N=30) in a tube (length=500 mm, diameter=8 mm) filled with pond water. In the absence of a thermal gradient, control and Hb-rich animals in normoxic water were uniformly distributed along the tube. The presence of a thermal gradient (13 degrees -28 degrees C) elicited clustering at a preferred temperature, T approximately 23 degrees C for both groups. Exposure to hypoxic water in a thermal gradient resulted in a behavioural shift: T approximately 16 degrees C for controls and T approximately 19 degrees C for Hb-rich animals. Measurements of oxygen consumption (V&d2;o2) at fixed temperatures revealed that Hb is associated with a metabolic acclimation to hypoxia.
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- P R Wiggins
- Department of Zoology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3083, Australia
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Thompson MJ, Kennaugh LM, Casey TM, Arthur PG. The coupling of NAD(P)+-producing reactions to a semiautomated bioluminescent reaction. Anal Biochem 1999; 269:168-73. [PMID: 10094789 DOI: 10.1006/abio.1999.4009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Many cellular metabolites can be measured with high sensitivity using bioluminescent techniques. These metabolites are coupled to an appropriate enzyme to produce NAD(P)H, which can then be coupled to the bioluminescent reactions. The sensitivity of bioluminescence cannot be readily applied to methods in which cellular metabolites consume NAD(P)H because of the difficulty in measuring, with sufficient sensitivity, decreases in the concentration of NAD(P)H against a high background NAD(P)H concentration. We have overcome these technical difficulties by developing a bioluminescent reagent to measure the production of NAD(P)+. Assays for creatine/creatine phosphate, pyruvate, and succinate, as well as the kinetic measurement of lactate, are described for a range of biological material. The assays are highly sensitive, quantitative, and reproducible and show no sample-specific inhibition. The range of assays and the diverse biological material tested suggests that NAD(P)+ bioluminescence has a wide potential for application.
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- M J Thompson
- Animal Production, Centre of Mediterranean Agricultural Research, CSIRO, Floreat, Western Australia, 6014, Australia
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Stuart J, Ooi EL, Ballantyne J. Maximal activities of enzymes of intermediary metabolism in the estivating terrestrial snail Cepaea nemoralis. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0305-0491(98)10027-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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