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Ibbini Z, Spicer JI, Truebano M, Bishop J, Tills O. HeartCV: a tool for transferrable, automated measurement of heart rate and heart rate variability in transparent animals. J Exp Biol 2022; 225:276574. [PMID: 36073614 PMCID: PMC9659326 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.244729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Heart function is a key component of whole-organismal physiology. Bioimaging is commonly, but not exclusively, used for quantifying heart function in transparent individuals, including early developmental stages of aquatic animals, many of which are transparent. However, a central limitation of many imaging-related methods is the lack of transferability between species, life-history stages and experimental approaches. Furthermore, locating the heart in mobile individuals remains challenging. Here, we present HeartCV: an open-source Python package for automated measurement of heart rate and heart rate variability that integrates automated localization and is transferrable across a wide range of species. We demonstrate the efficacy of HeartCV by comparing its outputs with measurements made manually for a number of very different species with contrasting heart morphologies. Lastly, we demonstrate the applicability of the software to different experimental approaches and to different dataset types, such as those corresponding to longitudinal studies.
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- Ziad Ibbini
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
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- Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
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- Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
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- Marine Biological Association of the UK, Citadel Hill Laboratory, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UK
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- Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
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de Aranzamendi MC, Servetto N, Movilla J, Bettencourt R, Sahade R. Ocean acidification effects on the stress response in a calcifying antarctic coastal organism: The case of Nacella concinna ecotypes. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2021; 166:112218. [PMID: 33721687 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Revised: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Ocean acidification (OA) could become a serious threat for the Antarctic marine ecosystem over coming years, as the solubility of atmospheric CO2 and CaCO3 minerals increases at lower temperatures. We evaluated the effect of OA on the stress response of the limpet Nacella concinna by measuring gene expression levels. The experiment was performed with the two ecotypes (Littoral and Sublittoral) of the species during 54 days (IPCC, 2019 scenario RCP8.5; control, ~375 ppm; low-pH treatment, ~923 ppm). Exposure to low-pH treatment during 15 days triggered the down-regulation of two heat-shock protein genes (HSP70A, HSP70B) only in sublittoral individuals. Little variation in the relative expression values of all genes in both ecotypes was observed probably, due to a historical exposure to the substantial daily natural pH fluctuations recorded in the study area during the experiment. This study provides relevant baseline data for future OA experiments on coastal species in Antarctica.
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- M C de Aranzamendi
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299 (X5000JJC), Córdoba, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA), Ecosistemas Marinos Polares, Córdoba, Argentina.
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- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299 (X5000JJC), Córdoba, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA), Ecosistemas Marinos Polares, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares, Estación de Investigación Jaume Ferrer, La Mola s/n 07720 Menorca, Spain
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- OKEANOS Marine Research Center, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Azores, 9900-862 Horta, Portugal
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- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Av. Vélez Sarsfield 299 (X5000JJC), Córdoba, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA), Ecosistemas Marinos Polares, Córdoba, Argentina.
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Wei J, Zhang J, Lu Q, Ren P, Guo X, Wang J, Li X, Chang Y, Duan S, Wang S, Yu H, Zhang X, Yang X, Gao H, Dong B. Genomic basis of environmental adaptation in the leathery sea squirt (Styela clava). Mol Ecol Resour 2020; 20:1414-1431. [PMID: 32531855 PMCID: PMC7540406 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2019] [Revised: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Tunicates occupy the evolutionary position at the boundary of invertebrates and vertebrates. It exhibits adaptation to broad environmental conditions and is distributed globally. Despite hundreds of years of embryogenesis studies, the genetic basis of the invasive habits of ascidians remains largely unknown. The leathery sea squirt, Styela clava, is an important invasive species. We used the chromosomal-level genome and transcriptome of S. clava to explore its genomic- and molecular-network-based mechanisms of adaptation to environments. Compared with Ciona intestinalis type A (C. robusta), the size of the S. clava genome was expanded by 2-fold, although the gene number was comparable. An increase in transposon number and variation in dominant types were identified as potential expansion mechanisms. In the S. clava genome, the number of genes encoding the heat-shock protein 70 family and members of the complement system was expanded significantly, and cold-shock protein genes were transferred horizontally into the S. clava genome from bacteria. The expanded gene families potentially play roles in the adaptation of S. clava to its environments. The loss of key genes in the galactan synthesis pathway might explain the distinct tunic structure and hardness compared with the ascidian Ciona species. We demonstrated further that the integrated thyroid hormone pathway participated in the regulation of larval metamorphosis that provides S. clava with two opportunities for adapting to their environment. Thus, our report of the chromosomal-level leathery sea squirt genome provides a comprehensive genomic basis for the understanding of environmental adaptation in tunicates.
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- Jiankai Wei
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and BiotechnologyQingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and TechnologyQingdaoChina
- Institute of Evolution and Marine BiodiversityOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- College of Food Science and EngineeringOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
- Laboratory for Marine Drugs and BioproductsQingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and TechnologyQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and BiotechnologyQingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and TechnologyQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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- Technical Center of Inspection and QuarantineShandong Entry‐Exit Inspection and Quarantine BureauQingdaoChina
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and BreedingCollege of Marine Life SciencesOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and BiotechnologyQingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and TechnologyQingdaoChina
- Institute of Evolution and Marine BiodiversityOcean University of ChinaQingdaoChina
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Pound RJ, Miller LP, King FA, Burnaford JL. Temperature affects susceptibility of intertidal limpets to bird predation. J Exp Biol 2020; 223:jeb213595. [PMID: 32127381 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.213595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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High temperatures resulting in physiological stress and the reduced ability to resist predation can have life-or-death consequences for an organism. We investigated the effects of temperature on the susceptibility to predation for an ectothermic intertidal mollusc (the owl limpet, Lottia gigantea) and its predator (the black oystercatcher, Haematopus bachmani). The ability of L. gigantea to resist bird predation during low tide is determined by the tenacity of attachment to the rock. We developed a transducer to measure the force of predatory attacks on limpets by a captive black oystercatcher, and tested the hypothesis that exposure to warm temperatures during low tide emersion would affect the limpet's ability to resist dislodgement in trials with a morphometrically accurate beak mimic and a live bird. In beak mimic trials, four times as many limpets exposed to warm low tides were removed, as compared with limpets exposed to cool low tides or in 'no low tide' submerged conditions. Minimum time before limpet removal in captive bird trials was more than six times longer for limpets in cool low tide or no low tide treatments compared with limpets in the warm low tide treatment. We measured shear forces up to 36.63 N during predatory strikes. These direct measurements of the forces exerted by a living oystercatcher provide context for interactions with multiple prey species. Our data suggest that naturally occurring variation in body temperatures among individual prey items in the field could be an important driver of predator-prey interactions and subsequently community patterns.
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- Rachel J Pound
- Department of Biological Science, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834, USA
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- Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
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- Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834, USA
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Li A, Li L, Wang W, Zhang G. Acetylome Analysis Reveals Population Differentiation of the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas in Response to Heat Stress. MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2020; 22:233-245. [PMID: 31997089 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-020-09947-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Lysine acetylation of proteins is a highly conserved post-translational modification that plays an important regulatory role in almost every aspect of metabolic processes in both terrestrial and aquatic species. Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, a model marine species, is distributed worldwide and is economically and ecologically important. However, little is known about the role of acetylation in the adaptive response of oyster to heterogeneous intertidal environments. Here, we conducted the first-ever lysine acetylome analysis in two genetically and physiologically differentiated oyster populations, using a highly sensitive immune-affinity purification and high-resolution mass spectrometry. Overall, we identified 1054 lysine acetylation sites in 664 proteins, which account for 2.37% of the oyster proteome analysed in the current study. The modified proteins are involved in a wide range of biological processes and are localised in multiple cellular compartments. Motif analysis revealed that hydrophilic and polar amino acids histidine, lysine and arginine were the most enriched residues in the positions + 1 and + 2 of the acetylated sites. Further, the two oyster populations exhibited divergent acetylomic regulations of several biological pathways, particularly energy metabolism and glycine and serine amino acid metabolism, in response to thermal stress and differentiated acetylation patters of candidate heat-responsive proteins, e.g. molecular chaperone and myosin. These observations suggest that lysine acetylation plays a critical role in different thermal responses of these two oyster populations. These findings provide an important resource for in-depth exploration of the physiological role of lysine acetylation in adaptive evolution of marine invertebrates.
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- Ao Li
- CAS Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
- Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
- National & Local Joint Engineering Key Laboratory of Ecological Mariculture, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
- Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Science and Food Production Processes, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- National & Local Joint Engineering Key Laboratory of Ecological Mariculture, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
- Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- National & Local Joint Engineering Key Laboratory of Ecological Mariculture, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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Irvine SQ. Embryonic canalization and its limits-A view from temperature. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION 2020; 334:128-144. [PMID: 32011096 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Many animals are able to produce similar offspring over a range of environmental conditions. This property of the developmental process has been termed canalization-the channeling of developmental pathways to generate a stable outcome despite varying conditions. Temperature is one environmental parameter that has fundamental effects on cell physiology and biochemistry, yet developmental programs generally result in a stable phenotype under a range of temperatures. On the other hand, there are typically upper and lower temperature limits beyond which the developmental program is unable to produce normal offspring. This review summarizes data on how development is affected by temperature, particularly high temperature, in various animal species. It also brings together information on potential cell biological and developmental genetic factors that may be responsible for developmental stability in varying temperatures, and likely critical mechanisms that break down at high temperature. Also reviewed are possible means for studying temperature effects on embryogenesis and how to determine which factors are most critical at the high-temperature limits for normal development. Increased knowledge of these critical factors will point to the targets of selection under climate change, and more generally, how developmental robustness in varying environments is maintained.
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- Steven Q Irvine
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
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González-Aravena M, Kenny NJ, Osorio M, Font A, Riesgo A, Cárdenas CA. Warm temperatures, cool sponges: the effect of increased temperatures on the Antarctic sponge Isodictya sp. PeerJ 2019; 7:e8088. [PMID: 31824760 PMCID: PMC6896943 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2019] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Although the cellular and molecular responses to exposure to relatively high temperatures (acute thermal stress or heat shock) have been studied previously, only sparse empirical evidence of how it affects cold-water species is available. As climate change becomes more pronounced in areas such as the Western Antarctic Peninsula, both long-term and occasional acute temperature rises will impact species found there, and it has become crucial to understand the capacity of these species to respond to such thermal stress. Here, we use the Antarctic sponge Isodictya sp. to investigate how sessile organisms (particularly Porifera) can adjust to acute short-term heat stress, by exposing this species to 3 and 5 °C for 4 h, corresponding to predicted temperatures under high-end 2080 IPCC-SRES scenarios. Assembling a de novo reference transcriptome (90,188 contigs, >93.7% metazoan BUSCO genes) we have begun to discern the molecular response employed by Isodictya to adjust to heat exposure. Our initial analyses suggest that TGF-β, ubiquitin and hedgehog cascades are involved, alongside other genes. However, the degree and type of response changed little from 3 to 5 °C in the time frame examined, suggesting that even moderate rises in temperature could cause stress at the limits of this organism’s capacity. Given the importance of sponges to Antarctic ecosystems, our findings are vital for discerning the consequences of short-term increases in Antarctic ocean temperature on these and other species.
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- Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, London, UK.,Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
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- Departamento Científico, Instituto Antártico Chileno, Puntas Arenas, Chile
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- Departamento Científico, Instituto Antártico Chileno, Puntas Arenas, Chile
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- Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, London, UK
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- Departamento Científico, Instituto Antártico Chileno, Puntas Arenas, Chile
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Irvine SQ, McNulty KB, Siler EM, Jacobson RE. High temperature limits on developmental canalization in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Mech Dev 2019; 157:10-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2019.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Revised: 04/03/2019] [Accepted: 04/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Ertl NG, O'Connor WA, Elizur A. Molecular effects of a variable environment on Sydney rock oysters, Saccostrea glomerata: Thermal and low salinity stress, and their synergistic effect. Mar Genomics 2019; 43:19-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2018.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2018] [Revised: 10/07/2018] [Accepted: 10/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Huang X, Li S, Gao Y, Zhan A. Genome-Wide Identification, Characterization and Expression Analyses of Heat Shock Protein-Related Genes in a Highly Invasive Ascidian Ciona savignyi. Front Physiol 2018; 9:1043. [PMID: 30108524 PMCID: PMC6079275 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Biological response to rapid changing environments is an outstanding research question in ecology and evolution. Biological invasions provide excellent "natural" experiments to study such a complex response process, as invaders often encounter rapidly changing environments during biological invasions. The regulation of heat shock proteins (Hsp) is a common pathway responsible for various environmental stresses; however, the comprehensive study on Hsp system across the whole genome and potential roles in determining invasion success are still largely unexplored. Here, we used a marine invasive model ascidian, Ciona savignyi, to investigate transcriptional response of Hsp-related genes to harsh environments. We identified 32 genes, including three Hsp20, six Hsp40, ten Hsp60, eight Hsp70, three Hsp90, one Hsp100, and one heat shock transcription factor (Hsf), across the whole genome of C. savignyi. We further characterized gene structure and protein motifs, and identified potential heat shock elements (HSEs) in promoters of Hsp genes. The expression analysis showed that most Hsp genes, but not all, were involved in transcriptional response to temperature and salinity challenges in a duration- and stress-specific pattern, and the maximum amplitude of induction occurred in Hsp70-4 after 1-h of high temperature treatment. However, the Hsf gene was scarcely induced and limited interactions were predicted between Hsp and Hsf genes. Our study provide the first systematic genome-wide analysis of Hsp and Hsf family in the marine invasive model ascidian, and our results are expected to dissect Hsp-based molecular mechanisms responsible for extreme environmental adaptation using Ciona as a model system.
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- Xuena Huang
- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Hawes NA, Tremblay LA, Pochon X, Dunphy B, Fidler AE, Smith KF. Effects of temperature and salinity stress on DNA methylation in a highly invasive marine invertebrate, the colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5003. [PMID: 29967721 PMCID: PMC6022722 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2018] [Accepted: 05/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Environmentally induced epigenetic changes may contribute to phenotypic plasticity, increase adaptive potential in changing environments, and play a key role in the establishment and spread of invasive species in new habitats. In this study, we used methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) to assess environmentally induced DNA methylation changes in a globally invasive clonal ascidian, Didemnum vexillum. We tested the effect of increasing temperature (19, 25 and 27 °C) and decreasing salinity (34, 32, 30, 28 and 26 practical salinity units (PSU)) on global DNA methylation, growth and survival rates. Exposure to 27 °C resulted in significant changes in DNA methylation over time. Growth also decreased in colonies exposed to high temperatures, suggesting they were under thermal stress. In contrast, no differences in growth nor DNA methylation patterns were observed in colonies exposed to a decreasing salinity gradient, potentially due to prior adaptation. The results of this study show that environmental stress can induce significant global DNA methylation changes in an invasive marine invertebrate on very rapid timescales, and that this response varies depending on the type, magnitude, and duration of the stressor. Changes in genomic DNA methylation and the rate of growth may act to ‘buy survival time’ under stressful conditions, expanding the distribution limits of this globally invasive species.
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- Nicola A Hawes
- Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.,Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand.,School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.,Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand
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- Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.,School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Bowman LL, Kondrateva ES, Timofeyev MA, Yampolsky LY. Temperature gradient affects differentiation of gene expression and SNP allele frequencies in the dominant Lake Baikal zooplankton species. Mol Ecol 2018; 27:2544-2559. [PMID: 29691934 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Revised: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity are main mechanisms of organisms' resilience in changing environments. Both are affected by gene flow and are expected to be weak in zooplankton populations inhabiting large continuous water bodies and strongly affected by currents. Lake Baikal, the deepest and one of the coldest lakes on Earth, experienced epilimnion temperature increase during the last 100 years, exposing Baikal's zooplankton to novel selective pressures. We obtained a partial transcriptome of Epischura baikalensis (Copepoda: Calanoida), the dominant component of Baikal's zooplankton, and estimated SNP allele frequencies and transcript abundances in samples from regions of Baikal that differ in multiyear average surface temperatures. The strongest signal in both SNP and transcript abundance differentiation is the SW-NE gradient along the 600+ km long axis of the lake, suggesting isolation by distance. SNP differentiation is stronger for nonsynonymous than synonymous SNPs and is paralleled by differential survival during a laboratory exposure to increased temperature, indicating directional selection operating on the temperature gradient. Transcript abundance, generally collinear with the SNP differentiation, shows samples from the warmest, less deep location clustering together with the southernmost samples. Differential expression is more frequent among transcripts orthologous to candidate thermal response genes previously identified in model arthropods, including genes encoding cytoskeleton proteins, heat-shock proteins, proteases, enzymes of central energy metabolism, lipid and antioxidant pathways. We conclude that the pivotal endemic zooplankton species in Lake Baikal exists under temperature-mediated selection and possesses both genetic variation and plasticity to respond to novel temperature-related environmental pressures.
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- Larry L Bowman
- Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
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- Institute of Biology, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia.,Baikal Research Centre, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
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Hawes NA, Fidler AE, Tremblay LA, Pochon X, Dunphy BJ, Smith KF. Understanding the role of DNA methylation in successful biological invasions: a review. Biol Invasions 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-018-1703-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Zhang C, Wang Z, Zhang D, Zhou J, Lu C, Su X, Ding D. Proteomics and 1H NMR-based metabolomics analysis of pathogenic Vibrio vulnificus aquacultures isolated from sewage drains. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2017; 24:23704-23713. [PMID: 28864971 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-0007-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Vibrio bacteria live in both marine and freshwater habitats and are associated with aquatic animals. Vibrio vulnificus is a pathogenic bacterium that infects people and livestock. It is usually found in offshore waters or within fish and shellfish. This study presents a comparative proteomic analysis of the outer membrane protein (OMP) changes in V. vulnificus proteins after stimulation with sewage from sewage drains. Using two-dimensional electrophoresis followed by MALDI-TOF MS/MS, 32 protein spots with significant differences in abundance were identified and characterized. These identified proteins were found to be involved in various functional categories, including catalysis, transport, membrane proteins progresses, receptor activity, energy metabolism, cytokine activity, and protein metabolism. The mRNA expression levels of 12 differential proteins were further assessed by qRT-PCR. Seven genes including carboxypeptidase, hemoglobin receptor, succinate dehydrogenase iron-sulfur subunit, ATP synthase subunit alpha, thioredoxin, succinyl-CoA synthetase subunit, and alanine dehydrogenase were downregulated upon stimulation, whereas the protein expression levels HupA receptor, type I secretion outer membrane protein, glutamine synthetase, superoxide dismutase, OmpU, and VuuA were upregulated. 1H NMR spectra showed 18 dysregulated metabolites from V. vulnificus after the sewage stimulation and the pathogenicity was enhanced after that.
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- Chundan Zhang
- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
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- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
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- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
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Lopez CE, Sheehan HC, Vierra DA, Azzinaro PA, Meedel TH, Howlett NG, Irvine SQ. Proteomic responses to elevated ocean temperature in ovaries of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Biol Open 2017; 6:943-955. [PMID: 28500033 PMCID: PMC5550911 DOI: 10.1242/bio.024786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2017] [Accepted: 05/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Ciona intestinalis, a common sea squirt, exhibits lower reproductive success at the upper extreme of the water temperatures it experiences in coastal New England. In order to understand the changes in protein expression associated with elevated temperatures, and possible response to global temperature change, we reared C. intestinalis from embryos to adults at 18°C (a temperature at which they reproduce normally at our collection site in Rhode Island) and 22°C (the upper end of the local temperature range). We then dissected ovaries from animals at each temperature, extracted protein, and measured proteomic levels using shotgun mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). 1532 proteins were detected at a 1% false discovery rate present in both temperature groups by our LC-MS/MS method. 62 of those proteins are considered up- or down-regulated according to our statistical criteria. Principal component analysis shows a clear distinction in protein expression pattern between the control (18°C) group and high temperature (22°C) group. Similar to previous studies, cytoskeletal and chaperone proteins are upregulated in the high temperature group. Unexpectedly, we find evidence that proteolysis is downregulated at the higher temperature. We propose a working model for the high temperature response in C. intestinalis ovaries whereby increased temperature induces upregulation of signal transduction pathways involving PTPN11 and CrkL, and activating coordinated changes in the proteome especially in large lipid transport proteins, cellular stress responses, cytoskeleton, and downregulation of energy metabolism.
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- Chelsea E Lopez
- Departments of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Departments of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Biology Department, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 02908, USA
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- Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Departments of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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Vasquez MC, Beam M, Blackwell S, Zuzow MJ, Tomanek L. Sirtuins regulate proteomic responses near thermal tolerance limits in the blue mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis and Mytilus trossulus. J Exp Biol 2017; 220:4515-4534. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.160325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 10/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The blue mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis and M. trossulus are competing species with biogeographical ranges set in part by environmental exposure to heat and hyposalinity. The underlying cellular mechanisms influencing interspecific differences in stress tolerance are unknown, but are believed to be under regulation by sirtuins, NAD-dependent deacylases that play a critical role in the cellular stress response. A comparison of the proteomic responses of M. galloprovincialis and M. trossulus to an acute heat shock in the presence and absence of the sirtuin inhibitor suramin (SIRT1, 2 and 5), showed that sirtuins affected molecular chaperones, oxidative stress proteins, metabolic enzymes, cytoskeletal and signaling proteins more in the heat-sensitive M. trossulus than in the heat-tolerant M. galloprovincialis. Interactions between sirtuin inhibition and changes in the abundance of proteins of β-oxidation and oxidative stress in M. trossulus suggest a greater role of sirtuins in shifting metabolism to reduce the production of reactive oxygen species near thermal limits. Furthermore, RNA-binding proteins initiating and inhibiting translation were affected by suramin in M. galloprovincialis and in M. trossulus, respectively. Western blot analysis showed that the levels of mitochondrial sirtuin 5 (SIRT5) were generally three times higher and increased with acute heat stress in response to sirtuin inhibition in M. trossulus but not in M. galloprovincialis, suggesting a possible feedback response in the former species and a greater reliance on SIRT5 for its stress response. Our findings suggest that SIRT5 plays an important role in setting interspecific differences in stress tolerance in Mytilus by affecting the stress proteome.
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- M. Christina Vasquez
- California Polytechnic State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences, Environmental Proteomics Laboratory, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0401, USA
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- California Polytechnic State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences, Environmental Proteomics Laboratory, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0401, USA
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- California Polytechnic State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences, Environmental Proteomics Laboratory, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0401, USA
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- California Polytechnic State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences, Environmental Proteomics Laboratory, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0401, USA
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- California Polytechnic State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences, Environmental Proteomics Laboratory, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0401, USA
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Peña JJ, Adema CM. The Planorbid Snail Biomphalaria glabrata Expresses a Hemocyanin-Like Sequence in the Albumen Gland. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0168665. [PMID: 28036345 PMCID: PMC5201427 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2016] [Accepted: 12/05/2016] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The parasitic flatworm Schistosoma mansoni, causative agent of human intestinal schistosomiasis in South America, relies importantly on the freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata as intermediate host to achieve development of cercariae that infect humans. The recommendation from the World Health Organization (WHO) to integrate snail control in efforts to counter schistosomiasis transmission provides impetus for in depth study of B. glabrata biology. Our analysis indicates that two distinct hemocyanin-like genes (hcl-1 and hcl-2) are present in B. glabrata, a snail that uses hemoglobin for oxygen transport. Characterization of BAC clones yielded the full length hcl-1 gene, which is comprised of three functional unit (FU) domains at the amino acid level. Database searches and in silico analyses identified the second hcl gene (hcl-2), composed of six FU domains. Both genes are unusual for lacking canonical residues and having fewer FU domains than typical molluscan hemocyanins that contain 7-8 FUs. Reverse transcription PCR demonstrated that Hcl-1 is expressed in a manner that correlates with reproductive maturity in the albumen gland (AG), an immune- and reproduction-relevant organ. Immune cross-reactivity with anti-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (α-KLH) antiserum and tandem-mass spectrometry validated the presence of Hcl-1 protein in the AG and egg mass fluid (EMF). The evolutionary conservation of hemocyanin-like sequences in B. glabrata in the presence of the oxygen carrier hemoglobin, combined with our results, suggest that the Hcl-1protein has a functional role in general and/or reproductive biology. Further investigations are needed to explore Hcl-1 as a potential target for snail control.
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- Janeth J. Peña
- Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, MSCO3 2020, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
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- Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, MSCO3 2020, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
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Fields PA, Burmester EM, Cox KM, Karch KR. Rapid proteomic responses to a near-lethal heat stress in the salt marsh mussel Geukensia demissa. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 219:2673-86. [PMID: 27335449 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.141176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2016] [Accepted: 06/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Acute heat stress perturbs cellular function on a variety of levels, leading to protein dysfunction and aggregation, oxidative stress and loss of metabolic homeostasis. If these challenges are not overcome quickly, the stressed organism can die. To better understand the earliest tissue-level responses to heat stress, we examined the proteomic response of gill from Geukensia demissa, an extremely eurythermal mussel from the temperate intertidal zone of eastern North America. We exposed 15°C-acclimated individuals to an acute near-lethal heat stress (45°C) for 1 h, and collected gill samples from 0 to 24 h of recovery. The changes in protein expression we found reveal a coordinated physiological response to acute heat stress: proteins associated with apoptotic processes were increased in abundance during the stress itself (i.e. at 0 h of recovery), while protein chaperones and foldases increased in abundance soon after (3 h). The greatest number of proteins changed abundance at 6 h; these included oxidative stress proteins and enzymes of energy metabolism. Proteins associated with the cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix also changed in abundance starting at 6 h, providing evidence of cell proliferation, migration and tissue remodeling. By 12 h, the response to acute heat stress was diminishing, with fewer stress and structural proteins changing in abundance. Finally, the proteins with altered abundances identified at 24 h suggest a return to the pre-stress anabolic state.
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- Peter A Fields
- Biology Department, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17603, USA
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- Biology Department, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17603, USA
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- Biology Department, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17603, USA
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Jayasundara N, Tomanek L, Dowd WW, Somero GN. Proteomic analysis of cardiac response to thermal acclimation in the eurythermal goby fish Gillichthys mirabilis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 218:1359-72. [PMID: 25954043 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.118760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Cardiac function is thought to play a central role in determining thermal optima and tolerance limits in teleost fishes. Investigating proteomic responses to temperature in cardiac tissues may provide insights into mechanisms supporting the thermal plasticity of cardiac function. Here, we utilized a global proteomic analysis to investigate changes in cardiac protein abundance in response to temperature acclimation (transfer from 13°C to 9, 19 and 26°C) in a eurythermal goby, Gillichthys mirabilis. Proteomic data revealed 122 differentially expressed proteins across acclimation groups, 37 of which were identified using tandem mass-spectrometry. These 37 proteins are involved in energy metabolism, mitochondrial regulation, iron homeostasis, cytoprotection against hypoxia, and cytoskeletal organization. Compared with the 9 and 26°C groups, proteins involved in energy metabolism increased in 19°C-acclimated fish, indicating an overall increase in the capacity for ATP production. Creatine kinase abundance increased in 9°C-acclimated fish, suggesting an important role for the phosphocreatine energy shuttle in cold-acclimated hearts. Both 9 and 26°C fish also increased abundance of hexosaminidase, a protein directly involved in post-hypoxia stress cytoprotection of cardiac tissues. Cytoskeletal restructuring appears to occur in all acclimation groups; however, the most prominent effect was detected in 26°C-acclimated fish, which exhibited significantly increased actin levels. Overall, proteomic analysis of cardiac tissue suggests that the capacity to adjust ATP-generating processes is crucial to the thermal plasticity of cardiac function. Furthermore, G. mirabilis may optimize cellular functions at temperatures near 19°C, which lies within the species' preferred temperature range.
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- Nishad Jayasundara
- Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, 120 Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
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- Biological Sciences Department, 1 Grand Avenue, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA
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- Loyola Marymount University, Department of Biology, 1 LMU Drive, MS 8220, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA
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- Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, 120 Oceanview Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA
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Porcelli D, Butlin RK, Gaston KJ, Joly D, Snook RR. The environmental genomics of metazoan thermal adaptation. Heredity (Edinb) 2015; 114:502-14. [PMID: 25735594 PMCID: PMC4815515 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2014.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2014] [Revised: 11/06/2014] [Accepted: 11/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Continued and accelerating change in the thermal environment places an ever-greater priority on understanding how organisms are going to respond. The paradigm of ‘move, adapt or die', regarding ways in which organisms can respond to environmental stressors, stimulates intense efforts to predict the future of biodiversity. Assuming that extinction is an unpalatable outcome, researchers have focussed attention on how organisms can shift in their distribution to stay in the same thermal conditions or can stay in the same place by adapting to a changing thermal environment. How likely these respective outcomes might be depends on the answer to a fundamental evolutionary question, namely what genetic changes underpin adaptation to the thermal environment. The increasing access to and decreasing costs of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, which can be applied to both model and non-model systems, provide a much-needed tool for understanding thermal adaptation. Here we consider broadly what is already known from non-NGS studies about thermal adaptation, then discuss the benefits and challenges of different NGS methodologies to add to this knowledge base. We then review published NGS genomics and transcriptomics studies of thermal adaptation to heat stress in metazoans and compare these results with previous non-NGS patterns. We conclude by summarising emerging patterns of genetic response and discussing future directions using these increasingly common techniques.
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- D Porcelli
- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- 1] Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK [2] Sven Lovén Centre-Tjärnö, University of Gothenburg, Strömstad, Sweden
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK
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- 1] Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes et Spéciation, CNRS-UPR 9034, Gif sur Yvette, France [2] Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Hidalgo-Galiana A, Monge M, Biron DG, Canals F, Ribera I, Cieslak A. Reproducibility and consistency of proteomic experiments on natural populations of a non-model aquatic insect. PLoS One 2014; 9:e104734. [PMID: 25133588 PMCID: PMC4136769 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2013] [Accepted: 07/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Population proteomics has a great potential to address evolutionary and ecological questions, but its use in wild populations of non-model organisms is hampered by uncontrolled sources of variation. Here we compare the response to temperature extremes of two geographically distant populations of a diving beetle species (Agabus ramblae) using 2-D DIGE. After one week of acclimation in the laboratory under standard conditions, a third of the specimens of each population were placed at either 4 or 27°C for 12 h, with another third left as a control. We then compared the protein expression level of three replicated samples of 2-3 specimens for each treatment. Within each population, variation between replicated samples of the same treatment was always lower than variation between treatments, except for some control samples that retained a wider range of expression levels. The two populations had a similar response, without significant differences in the number of protein spots over- or under-expressed in the pairwise comparisons between treatments. We identified exemplary proteins among those differently expressed between treatments, which proved to be proteins known to be related to thermal response or stress. Overall, our results indicate that specimens collected in the wild are suitable for proteomic analyses, as the additional sources of variation were not enough to mask the consistency and reproducibility of the response to the temperature treatments.
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- Amparo Hidalgo-Galiana
- Animal Biodiversity and Evolution program, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
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- Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) Edifici Collserola, Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratoire “Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement”, UMR CNRS 6023, Equipe Interactions hôtes-parasites, Université Blaise Pascal, Aubière, France
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- Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) Edifici Collserola, Barcelona, Spain
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- Animal Biodiversity and Evolution program, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
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- Animal Biodiversity and Evolution program, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain
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Jeffery WR. Closing the wounds: one hundred and twenty five years of regenerative biology in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Genesis 2014; 53:48-65. [PMID: 24974948 DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2014] [Revised: 06/08/2014] [Accepted: 06/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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This year marks the 125th anniversary of the beginning of regeneration research in the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. A brief note was published in 1891, reporting the regeneration of the Ciona neural complex and siphons. This launched an active period of Ciona regeneration research culminating in the demonstration of partial body regeneration: the ability of proximal body parts to regenerate distal ones, but not vice versa. In a process resembling regeneration, wounds in the siphon tube were discovered to result in the formation of an ectopic siphon. Ciona regeneration research then lapsed into a period of relative inactivity after the purported demonstration of the inheritance of acquired characters using siphon regeneration as a model. Around the turn of the present century, Ciona regeneration research experienced a new blossoming. The current studies established the morphological and physiological integrity of the regeneration process and its resemblance to ontogeny. They also determined some of the cell types responsible for tissue and organ replacement and their sources in the body. Finally, they showed that regenerative capacity is reduced with age. Many other aspects of regeneration now can be studied at the mechanistic level because of the extensive molecular tools available in Ciona.
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- William R Jeffery
- Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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Tomanek L. Proteomics to study adaptations in marine organisms to environmental stress. J Proteomics 2014; 105:92-106. [PMID: 24788067 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2014] [Revised: 03/25/2014] [Accepted: 04/07/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Comparisons of proteomic responses of closely related congeners and populations have shown which cellular processes are critical to adapt to environmental stress. For example, several proteomic species comparisons showed that increasing abundances of oxidative stress proteins indicate that reactive oxygen species (ROS) represent a ubiquitous signal and possible co-stressor of warm and cold temperature, acute hyposaline and low pH stress, possibly causing a shift from pro-oxidant NADH-producing to anti-oxidant NADPH-producing and -consuming metabolic pathways. Changes in cytoskeletal and actin-binding proteins in response to several stressors, including ROS, suggest that both are important structural and functional elements in responding to stress. Disruption of protein homeostasis, e.g., increased abundance of molecular chaperones, was severe in response to acute heat stress, inducing proteolysis, but was also observed in response to chronic heat and cold stress and was concentrated to the endoplasmic reticulum during hyposaline stress. Small GTPases affecting vesicle formation and transport, Ca(2+)-signaling and ion transport responded to salinity stress in species- and population-specific ways. Aerobic energy metabolism was in general down-regulated in response to temperature, hypoxia, hyposalinity and low pH stress, but other metabolic pathways were activated to respond to increased oxidative stress or to switch metabolic fuels. Thus, comparative proteomics is a powerful approach to identify functionally adaptive variation. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Proteomics of non-model organisms.
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- Lars Tomanek
- California Polytechnic State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Coastal Marine Sciences, Environmental Proteomics Laboratory, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0401, USA.
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Sun Z, Yang C, Wang L, Wang X, Wang J, Yue F, Liu R, Zhang H, Song L. The protein expression profile in hepatopancreas of scallop Chlamys farreri under heat stress and Vibrio anguillarum challenge. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2014; 36:252-260. [PMID: 24262301 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2013.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2013] [Revised: 11/04/2013] [Accepted: 11/10/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Heat stress and pathogen infection have been considered as the main causes for mass mortality of cultured scallops during summer. In the present study, the expression profiles of proteins in the hepatopancreas of scallop Chlamys farreri were examined to reveal the possible mechanisms of physiological responses of scallop beneath heat stress and bacterial infection. An earlier occurred and higher mortality was observed in the scallops from combination treated group (28 °C and an injection of Vibrio anguillarum) in comparison to those in heat stress (28 °C) and bacteria challenge (V. anguillarum injection only) group, as well as control (PBS) and blank (untreated) group. The proteins in the hepatopancreas from scallops post 6 h of treatment were analyzed by using 2-D PAGE and ImageMaster 2D Platinum. There were total 1003 spots detected in control group, 1193 spots in heat stress group, 1263 spots in bacteria challenge group, and 1241 spots in the combination group. Fifteen protein spots expressed differentially between the combination treatment group and the bacteria challenge group were successfully identified by mass spectrometry and they were mainly classified as binding and catalytic proteins, such as endoglucanase, methylmalonate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase, xylose isomerase, tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase, 40s ribosomal protein SA, glutathione S-transferase 4, and Mitochondrial transcription factor A, etc. These results indicated that the mortality of scallops suffered from the combination treatment was probably attributed to the impaired modulation of digestion and metabolism and ruined protein synthesis caused by heat stress together with bacteria infection. These data also provided valuable insights into the possible mechanisms of summer mortality occurrence of scallop at protein level.
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- Zhibin Sun
- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, Huaihai Institute of Technology, Lianyungang 222005, China
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- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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- Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China.
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Franco C, Soares R, Pires E, Koci K, Almeida AM, Santos R, Coelho AV. Understanding regeneration through proteomics. Proteomics 2013; 13:686-709. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201200397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2012] [Revised: 10/31/2012] [Accepted: 11/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Catarina Franco
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Oeiras Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Oeiras Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Oeiras Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Oeiras Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Oeiras Portugal
- Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical; Lisboa Portugal
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- Unidade de Investigação em Ciências Orais e Biomédicas, Faculdade de Medicina Dentária; Universidade de Lisboa; Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Oeiras Portugal
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