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Malintha GHT, Woo DW, Celino-Brady FT, Seale AP. Temperature modulates the osmosensitivity of tilapia prolactin cells. Sci Rep 2023; 13:20217. [PMID: 37980366 PMCID: PMC10657356 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47044-5] [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: 01/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/20/2023] Open
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In euryhaline fish, prolactin (Prl) plays an essential role in freshwater (FW) acclimation. In the euryhaline and eurythermal Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus, Prl cells are model osmoreceptors, recently described to be thermosensitive. To investigate the effects of temperature on osmoreception, we incubated Prl cells of tilapia acclimated to either FW or seawater (SW) in different combinations of temperatures (20, 26 and 32 °C) and osmolalities (280, 330 and 420 mOsm/kg) for 6 h. Release of both Prl isoforms, Prl188 and Prl177, increased in hyposmotic media and were further augmented with a rise in temperature. Hyposmotically-induced release of Prl188, but not Prl177, was suppressed at 20 °C. In SW fish, mRNA expression of prl188 increased with rising temperatures at lower osmolalities, while and prl177 decreased at 32 °C and higher osmolalities. In Prl cells of SW-acclimated tilapia incubated in hyperosmotic media, the expressions of Prl receptors, prlr1 and prlr2, and the stretch-activated Ca2+ channel, trpv4,decreased at 32 °C, suggesting the presence of a cellular mechanism to compensate for elevated Prl release. Transcription factors, pou1f1, pou2f1b, creb3l1, cebpb, stat3, stat1a and nfat1c, known to regulate prl188 and prl177, were also downregulated at 32 °C. Our findings provide evidence that osmoreception is modulated by temperature, and that both thermal and osmotic responses vary with acclimation salinity.
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- G H T Malintha
- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1955 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1955 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1955 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA
- Division of Genetics, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, OR, 97006, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1955 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA.
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Malintha GHT, Celino-Brady FT, Stoytcheva ZR, Seale AP. Osmosensitive transcription factors in the prolactin cell of a euryhaline teleost. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2023; 278:111356. [PMID: 36535574 PMCID: PMC9911408 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2022.111356] [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: 10/12/2022] [Revised: 12/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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In euryhaline fish, prolactin (Prl) plays a key role in freshwater acclimation. Prl release in the rostral pars distalis (RPD) of the pituitary is directly stimulated by a fall in extracellular osmolality. Recently, we identified several putative transcription factor modules (TFM) predicted to bind to the promoter regions of the two prl isoforms in Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus. We characterized the effects of extracellular osmolality on the activation of these TFMs from RPDs, in vivo and in vitro. OCT1_PIT1 01, CEBP_CEBP 01 and BRNF_RXRF 01 were significantly activated in freshwater (FW)- acclimated tilapia RPDs while SORY_PAX3 02 and SP1F_SP1F 06, SP1F_SP1F 09 were significantly activated in seawater (SW)- counterparts. Short-term incubation of SW- acclimated tilapia RPDs in hyposmotic media (280 mOsm/kg) resulted in activation of CAAT_AP1F 01, OCT1_CEBP 01, AP1F_SMAD 01, GATA_SP1F 01, SORY_PAX6 01 and CREB_EBOX 02, EBOX_AP2F 01, EBOX_MITF 01 while hyperosmotic media (420 mOsm/kg) activated SORY_PAX3 02 and AP1F_SMAD 01 in FW- tilapia. Short-term incubation of dispersed Prl cells from FW- acclimated fish exposed to hyperosmotic conditions decreased pou1f1, pou2f1b, stat3, stat1a and ap1b1 expression, while pou1f1, pou2f1b, and stat3 were inversely related to osmolality in their SW- counterparts. Further, in Prl cells of SW- tilapia, creb3l1 was suppressed in hyposmotic media. Collectively, our results indicate that multiple TFMs are involved in regulating prl transcription at different acclimation salinities and, together, they modulate responses of Prl cells to changes in extracellular osmolality. These responses reflect the complexity of osmosensitive molecular regulation of the osmoreceptive Prl cell of a euryhaline teleost.
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- G H T Malintha
- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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Hewage TMG, Woo DW, Celino-Brady FT, Seale AP. Temperature modulates the osmosensitivity of tilapia prolactin cells. RESEARCH SQUARE 2023:rs.3.rs-2524830. [PMID: 36909603 PMCID: PMC10002831 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2524830/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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In euryhaline fish, prolactin (Prl) plays an essential role in freshwater (FW) acclimation. In the euryhaline and eurythermal Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus, Prl cells are model osmoreceptors, recently described to be thermosensitive. To investigate the effects of temperature on osmoreception, we incubated Prl cells of tilapia acclimated to either FW or seawater (SW) in different temperature (20, 26 and 32°C) and osmolality (280, 330 and 420 mOsm/kg) combinations for 6 h. Release of both Prl isoforms, Prl188 and Prl177, increased in hyposmotic media and were further augmented with a rise in temperature. Hyposmotically-induced release of Prl188 was inhibited at 20°C. In SW fish, mRNA expression of prl188 and prl177 showed direct and inverse relationships with temperature, respectively. In SW-acclimated tilapia Prl cells incubated in hyperosmotic media, Prl receptors, prlr1 and prlr2, and the stretch-activated Ca2+ channel, trpv4, were inhibited at 32°C, suggesting the presence of a cellular mechanism to compensate for elevated Prl release. Transcription factors, pou1f1, pou2f1b, creb3l1, cebpb, stat3, stat1a and nfat1c, known to regulate prl188 and prl177, were also downregulated at 32°C. Our findings provide evidence that osmoreception is modulated by temperature, and that both thermal and osmotic responses vary with acclimation salinity.
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Seale AP, Malintha GHT, Celino-Brady FT, Head T, Belcaid M, Yamaguchi Y, Lerner DT, Baltzegar DA, Borski RJ, Stoytcheva ZR, Breves JP. Transcriptional regulation of prolactin in a euryhaline teleost: Characterisation of gene promoters through in silico and transcriptome analyses. J Neuroendocrinol 2020; 32:e12905. [PMID: 32996203 PMCID: PMC8612711 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2020] [Revised: 07/31/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The sensitivity of prolactin (Prl) cells of the Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) pituitary to variations in extracellular osmolality enables investigations into how osmoreception underlies patterns of hormone secretion. Through the actions of their main secretory products, Prl cells play a key role in supporting hydromineral balance of fishes by controlling the major osmoregulatory organs (ie, gill, intestine and kidney). The release of Prl from isolated cells of the rostral pars distalis (RPD) occurs in direct response to physiologically relevant reductions in extracellular osmolality. Although the particular signal transduction pathways that link osmotic conditions to Prl secretion have been identified, the processes that underlie hyposmotic induction of prl gene expression remain unknown. In this short review, we describe two distinct tilapia gene loci that encode Prl177 and Prl188 . From our in silico analyses of prl177 and prl188 promoter regions (approximately 1000 bp) and a transcriptome analysis of RPDs from fresh water (FW)- and seawater (SW)-acclimated tilapia, we propose a working model for how multiple transcription factors link osmoreceptive processes with adaptive patterns of prl177 and prl188 gene expression. We confirmed via RNA-sequencing and a quantitative polymerase chain reaction that multiple transcription factors emerging as predicted regulators of prl gene expression are expressed in the RPD of tilapia. In particular, gene transcripts encoding pou1f1, stat3, creb3l1, pbxip1a and stat1a were highly expressed; creb3l1, pbxip1a and stat1a were elevated in fish acclimated to SW vs FW. Combined, our in silico and transcriptome analyses set a path for resolving how adaptive patterns of Prl secretion are achieved via the integration of osmoreceptive processes with the control of prl gene transcription.
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Affiliation(s)
- Andre P. Seale
- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Kaneohe, HI, USA
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- Institute of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Academic Assembly, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan
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- University of Hawai’i Sea Grant College Program, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Genomic Sciences Laboratory, Office of Research and Innovation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Biology, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
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Wong MKS, Ozaki H, Suzuki Y, Iwasaki W, Takei Y. Discovery of osmotic sensitive transcription factors in fish intestine via a transcriptomic approach. BMC Genomics 2014; 15:1134. [PMID: 25520040 PMCID: PMC4377849 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2014] [Accepted: 12/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Teleost intestine is crucial for seawater acclimation by sensing osmolality of imbibed seawater and regulating drinking and water/ion absorption. Regulatory genes for transforming intestinal function have not been identified. A transcriptomic approach was used to search for such genes in the intestine of euryhaline medaka. Results Quantitative RNA-seq by Illumina Hi-Seq Sequencing method was performed to analyze intestinal gene expression 0 h, 1 h, 3 h, 1 d, and 7 d after seawater transfer. Gene ontology (GO) enrichment results showed that cell adhesion, signal transduction, and protein phosphorylation gene categories were augmented soon after transfer, indicating a rapid reorganization of cellular components and functions. Among >50 transiently up-regulated transcription factors selected via co-expression correlation and GO selection, five transcription factors, including CEBPB and CEBPD, were confirmed by quantitative PCR to be specific to hyperosmotic stress, while others were also up-regulated after freshwater control transfer, including some well-known osmotic-stress transcription factors such as SGK1 and TSC22D3/Ostf1. Protein interaction networks suggest a high degree of overlapping among the signaling of transcription factors that respond to osmotic and general stresses, which sheds light on the interpretation of their roles during hyperosmotic stress and emergency. Conclusions Since cortisol is an important hormone for seawater acclimation as well as for general stress in teleosts, emergency and osmotic challenges could have been evolved in parallel and resulted in the overlapped signaling networks. Our results revealed important interactions among transcription factors and offer a multifactorial perspective of genes involved in seawater acclimation. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-1134) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Seale AP, Yamaguchi Y, Johnstone WM, Borski RJ, Lerner DT, Grau EG. Endocrine regulation of prolactin cell function and modulation of osmoreception in the Mozambique tilapia. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2013; 192:191-203. [PMID: 23722201 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2013] [Revised: 05/11/2013] [Accepted: 05/14/2013] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Prolactin (PRL) cells of the Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus, are osmoreceptors by virtue of their intrinsic osmosensitivity coupled with their ability to directly regulate hydromineral homeostasis through the actions of PRL. Layered upon this fundamental osmotic reflex is an array of endocrine control of PRL synthesis and secretion. Consistent with its role in fresh water (FW) osmoregulation, PRL release in tilapia increases as extracellular osmolality decreases. The hyposmotically-induced release of PRL can be enhanced or attenuated by a variety of hormones. Prolactin release has been shown to be stimulated by gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), 17-β-estradiol (E2), testosterone (T), thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), brain-natriuretic peptide (BNP), C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP), ventricular natriuretic peptide (VNP), PRL-releasing peptide (PrRP), angiotensin II (ANG II), leptin, insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), ghrelin, and inhibited by somatostatin (SS), urotensin-II (U-II), dopamine, cortisol, ouabain and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). This review is aimed at providing an overview of the hypothalamic and extra-hypothalamic hormones that regulate PRL release in euryhaline Mozambique tilapia, particularly in the context on how they may modulate osmoreception, and mediate the multifunctional actions of PRL. Also considered are the signal transduction pathways through which these secretagogues regulate PRL cell function.
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- A P Seale
- Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA.
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Organisms exposed to altered salinity must be able to perceive osmolality change because metabolism has evolved to function optimally at specific intracellular ionic strength and composition. Such osmosensing comprises a complex physiological process involving many elements at organismal and cellular levels of organization. Input from numerous osmosensors is integrated to encode magnitude, direction, and ionic basis of osmolality change. This combinatorial nature of osmosensing is discussed with emphasis on fishes.
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- Dietmar Kültz
- Department of Animal Science, Physiological Genomics Group, University of California, Davis, Davis, California
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Seale AP, Watanabe S, Breves JP, Lerner DT, Kaneko T, Gordon Grau E. Differential regulation of TRPV4 mRNA levels by acclimation salinity and extracellular osmolality in euryhaline tilapia. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2012; 178:123-30. [PMID: 22569116 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2012] [Revised: 04/20/2012] [Accepted: 04/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Prolactin (PRL) cells of the euryhaline Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus, are osmoreceptors. Hyposmotically-induced PRL release is mediated by the inward movement of extracellular Ca(2+) through a stretch-activated Ca(2+) channel, which has been recently identified as the transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4). In the present study, changes in plasma PRL, as well as PRL and TRPV4 mRNA expression from the rostral pars distalis (RPD), were measured in fish transferred from seawater (SW) to fresh water (FW) and in fish transferred from FW to SW. The in vitro effects of osmolality on PRL release and on PRL and TRPV4 mRNA expression in dispersed PRL cells were compared between fish adapted to SW and FW. Both the release and expression of PRL fell when fish were transferred to SW and rose when fish were transferred to FW. By contrast, TRPV4 expression increased by 48h after fish were transferred from FW to SW and declined as early as 6h after transfer from SW to FW. A similar pattern was observed in vitro where TRPV4 expression responded positively to an increase in medium osmolality while PRL expression declined. Incubation with the Ca(2+) ionophore, A23187, and the phosphodiesterase inhibitor, IBMX, stimulated PRL release. While both IBMX and A23187 inhibited TRPV4 expression, only A23187 reduced PRL expression. Together, these findings indicate that the expression of TRPV4 mRNA is osmosensitive, increasing as extracellular osmolality rises. Furthermore, these data suggest that TRPV4 expression may be regulated through the same second messenger pathways involved in hyposmotically-induced PRL release.
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- Andre P Seale
- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA.
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Seale AP, Watanabe S, Grau EG. Osmoreception: perspectives on signal transduction and environmental modulation. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2012; 176:354-60. [PMID: 22036842 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2011] [Revised: 10/05/2011] [Accepted: 10/12/2011] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Osmoregulation is essential to life in vertebrates and osmoreception is a fundamental element in osmoregulation. Progress in characterizing the mechanisms that mediate osmoreception has been made possible by using a uniquely accessible cell model, the prolactin (PRL) cell of the euryhaline tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus. In addition to a brief historical overview, we offer a summary of our recent progress on signal transduction and osmosensitivity in the tilapia PRL cell model. Prolactin is a central regulator of hydromineral balance in teleosts in freshwater (FW). Consistent with its essential role in FW osmoregulation, PRL release in tilapia is inversely related to extracellular osmolality, both in vivo and in vitro. Osmotically-driven changes in PRL cell volume control PRL release. A decrease in extracellular osmolality increases cell volume, leading to a rapid influx of Ca(2+) through stretch-activated channels followed by a sharp rise in PRL release. Our recent studies also suggest that cAMP is involved in the osmotic signal transduction, and that acclimation salinity can modulate PRL cell osmosensitivity. Prolactin cells from FW tilapia show a larger rise in PRL release after a reduction in medium osmolality than those from SW fish. Paradoxically, hyposmotically-induced increase in PRL mRNA was observed only in cells from SW fish. Our studies have revealed differences in the abundance of the water channel, aquaporin 3 (AQP3), and the stretch activated Ca(2+) channel, transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) in PRL cells of FW and SW fish that may explain their differing osmosensitivity and osmoreceptive output in differing acclimation salinities.
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- A P Seale
- Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA.
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Seale AP, Moorman BP, Stagg JJ, Breves JP, Lerner DT, Grau EG. Prolactin177, prolactin188 and prolactin receptor 2 in the pituitary of the euryhaline tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus, are differentially osmosensitive. J Endocrinol 2012; 213:89-98. [PMID: 22266961 DOI: 10.1530/joe-11-0384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Two forms of prolactin (Prl), prolactin 177 (Prl(177)) and prolactin 188 (Prl(188)), are produced in the rostral pars distalis (RPD) of the pituitary gland of euryhaline Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus. Consistent with their roles in fresh water (FW) osmoregulation, release of both Prls is rapidly stimulated by hyposmotic stimuli, both in vivo and in vitro. We examined the concurrent dynamics of Prl(177) and Prl(188) hormone release and mRNA expression from Prl cells in response to changes in environmental salinity in vivo and to changes in extracellular osmolality in vitro. In addition, mRNA levels of Prl receptors 1 and 2 (prlr1 and prlr2) and osmotic stress transcription factor 1 (ostf1) were measured. Following transfer from seawater (SW) to FW, plasma osmolality decreased, while plasma levels of Prl(177) and Prl(188) and RPD mRNA levels of prl(177) and prl(188) increased. The opposite pattern was observed when fish were transferred from FW to SW. Moreover, hyposmotically induced release of Prl(188) was greater in Prl cells isolated from FW-acclimated fish after 6 h of incubation, while the hyposmotically induced increase in prl(188) mRNA levels was only observed in SW-acclimated fish. In addition, prlr2 and ostf1 mRNA levels in Prl cells from both FW- and SW-acclimated fish increased in direct proportion to increases in extracellular osmolality both in vivo and in vitro. Taken together, these results indicate that the osmosensitivity of the tilapia RPD is modulated by environmental salinity with respect to hormone release and gene expression.
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- Andre P Seale
- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA.
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