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Bernardini I, Quagliariello A, Peruzza L, Martino ME, Dalla Rovere G, Iori S, Asnicar D, Ciscato M, Fabrello J, Corami F, Cecchetto M, Giubilato E, Carrer C, Bettiol C, Semenzin E, Marcomini A, Matozzo V, Bargelloni L, Milan M, Patarnello T. Contaminants from dredged sediments alter the transcriptome of Manila clam and induce shifts in microbiota composition. BMC Biol 2023; 21:234. [PMID: 37880625 PMCID: PMC10601118 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-023-01741-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The reuse of dredged sediments in ports and lagoons is a big issue as it should not affect the quality and the equilibrium of ecosystems. In the lagoon of Venice, sediment management is of crucial importance as sediments are often utilized to built-up structures necessary to limit erosion. However, the impact of sediment reuse on organisms inhabiting this delicate area is poorly known. The Manila clam is a filter-feeding species of high economic and ecological value for the Venice lagoon experiencing a drastic decline in the last decades. In order to define the molecular mechanisms behind sediment toxicity, we exposed clams to sediments sampled from different sites within one of the Venice lagoon navigable canals close to the industrial area. Moreover, we investigated the impacts of dredged sediments on clam's microbial communities. RESULTS Concentrations of the trace elements and organic chemicals showed increasing concentrations from the city of Venice to sites close to the industrial area of Porto Marghera, where PCDD/Fs and PCBs concentrations were up to 120 times higher than the southern lagoon. While bioaccumulation of organic contaminants of industrial origin reflected sediments' chemical concentrations, metal bioaccumulation was not consistent with metal concentrations measured in sediments probably due to the activation of ABC transporters. At the transcriptional level, we found a persistent activation of the mTORC1 signalling pathway, which is central in the coordination of cellular responses to chemical stress. Microbiota characterization showed the over-representation of potential opportunistic pathogens following exposure to the most contaminated sediments, leading to host immune response activation. Despite the limited acquisition of new microbial species from sediments, the latter play an important role in shaping Manila clam microbial communities. CONCLUSIONS Sediment management in the Venice lagoon will increase in the next years to maintain and create new canals as well as to allow the operation of the new mobile gates at the three Venice lagoon inlets. Our data reveal important transcriptional and microbial changes of Manila clams after exposure to sediments, therefore reuse of dredged sediments represents a potential risk for the conservation of this species and possibly for other organisms inhabiting the Venice lagoon.
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- Ilaria Bernardini
- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale Dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020, Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale Dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020, Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale Dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020, Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale Dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020, Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale Dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020, Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale Dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020, Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via U. Bassi 58/B, 35131, Padua, Italy
- Aquatic Bioscience, Huntsman Marine Science Centre, 1 Lower Campus Road, E5B 2L7, St Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via U. Bassi 58/B, 35131, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via U. Bassi 58/B, 35131, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino, 155, 30172, Venice-Mestre, Italy
- Institute of Polar Sciences, CNR-ISP, Foscari University of Venice, Campus Scientifico - CaVia Torino, 155, 30172, Venice-Mestre, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino, 155, 30172, Venice-Mestre, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino, 155, 30172, Venice-Mestre, Italy
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- Thetis S.P.a. C/o laboratorio del Provveditorato Interregionale Alle Opere Pubbliche Per Il Veneto, Il Trentino Alto Adige E Il Friuli Venezia Giulia, Venice-Mestre, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino, 155, 30172, Venice-Mestre, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino, 155, 30172, Venice-Mestre, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via Torino, 155, 30172, Venice-Mestre, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via U. Bassi 58/B, 35131, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale Dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020, Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale Dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020, Legnaro, PD, Italy.
- NFBC, National Future Biodiversity Center, Palermo, Italy.
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale Dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020, Legnaro, PD, Italy
- NFBC, National Future Biodiversity Center, Palermo, Italy
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Peruzza L, Tucci CF, Frizzo R, Riello T, Quagliariello A, Martino ME, Manuzzi A, Dalla Rovere G, Bonsembiante F, Gelain ME, Smits M, Borgheresi O, Camerani F, Panin M, Venier P, Mammi S, Hauton C, Patarnello T, Milan M, Bargelloni L. Impaired reproduction, energy reserves and dysbiosis: The overlooked consequences of heatwaves in a bivalve mollusc. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2023; 193:115192. [PMID: 37364338 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Revised: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Extreme events like Marine Heatwaves (MHWs) are becoming more intense, severe, and frequent, threatening benthic communities, specifically bivalves. However, the consequences of non-lethal MHWs on animals are still poorly understood. Here, we exposed the Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum to non-lethal MHW for 30 days and provided an integrative view of its effects. Our result indicated that albeit non-lethal, MHW reduced clam's energy reserves (by reducing their hepato-somatic index), triggered antioxidant defenses (particularly in males), impaired reproduction (via the production of smaller oocytes in females), triggered dysbiosis in the digestive gland microbiota and altered animals' behaviour (by impacting their burying capacity) and filtration rate. Such effects were seen also at RNA-seq (i.e. many down-regulated genes belonged to reproduction) and metabolome level. Interestingly, negative effects were more pronounced in males than in females. Our results show that MHWs influence animal physiology at multiple levels, likely impacting its fitness and its ecosystem services.
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- Luca Peruzza
- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy.
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy; Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health, University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy
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- School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way Southampton, UK
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy; NFBC, National Future Biodiversity Center, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy; NFBC, National Future Biodiversity Center, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università, 35020 Legnaro, Italy; NFBC, National Future Biodiversity Center, Palermo, Italy
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Colin Y, Arcanjo C, Da Costa C, Vivant AL, Trémolet G, Giusti-Petrucciani N, Duflot A, Forget-Leray J, Berthe T, Boulangé-Lecomte C. Decoupled responses of the copepod Eurytemora affinis transcriptome and its microbiota to dissolved copper exposure. AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2023; 259:106546. [PMID: 37120957 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2023.106546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
Abstract
Chemical contamination is a common threat to biota thriving in estuarine and coastal ecosystems. Of particular importance is that trace metals tend to accumulate and exert deleterious effects on small invertebrates such as zooplankton, which are essential trophic links between phytoplankton and higher-level consumers in aquatic food webs. Beyond the direct effects of the contamination, we hypothesized that metal exposure could also affect the zooplankton microbiota, which in turn might further impair host fitness. To assess this assumption, copepods (Eurytemora affinis) were sampled in the oligo-mesohaline zone of the Seine estuary and exposed to dissolved copper (25 µg.L-1) over a 72-hour time period. The copepod response to copper treatment was assessed by determining transcriptomic changes in E. affinis and the alteration of its microbiota. Unexpectedly, very few genes were differentially expressed in the copper-treated copepods compared to the controls for both male and female samples, while a clear dichotomy between sex was highlighted with 80% of the genes showing sex-biased expression. In contrast, copper increased the taxonomic diversity of the microbiota and resulted in substantial compositional changes at both the phyla and genus levels. Phylogenetic reconstruction of the microbiota further suggested that copper mitigated the phylogenetic relatedness of taxa at the basal tree structure of the phylogeny, whereas it strengthened it at the terminal branches. Increased terminal phylogenetic clustering in the copper-treated copepods coincided with higher proportions of bacterial genera previously identified as copper resistant (e.g., Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Alkanindiges, Colwellia) and a higher relative abundance of the copAox gene encoding a periplasmic inducible multi-copper oxidase. The enrichment in micro-organisms likely to perform copper sequestration and/or enzymatic transformation processes, underlines the need to consider the microbial component during evaluation of the vulnerability of zooplankton to metallic stress.
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- Yannick Colin
- Univ Rouen Normandie, UNICAEN, CNRS, M2C UMR 6143, F-76000 Rouen, France; Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, UMR METIS, F-75005, Paris, France.
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- Université Le Havre Normandie, Normandie Univ, FR CNRS 3730 SCALE, UMR-I 02 SEBIO, Le Havre, F-76600 Le Havre, France
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, UNICAEN, CNRS, M2C UMR 6143, F-76000 Rouen, France
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, UNICAEN, CNRS, M2C UMR 6143, F-76000 Rouen, France
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- Université Le Havre Normandie, Normandie Univ, FR CNRS 3730 SCALE, UMR-I 02 SEBIO, Le Havre, F-76600 Le Havre, France
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- Université Le Havre Normandie, Normandie Univ, FR CNRS 3730 SCALE, UMR-I 02 SEBIO, Le Havre, F-76600 Le Havre, France
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- Université Le Havre Normandie, Normandie Univ, FR CNRS 3730 SCALE, UMR-I 02 SEBIO, Le Havre, F-76600 Le Havre, France
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- Université Le Havre Normandie, Normandie Univ, FR CNRS 3730 SCALE, UMR-I 02 SEBIO, Le Havre, F-76600 Le Havre, France
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, UNICAEN, CNRS, M2C UMR 6143, F-76000 Rouen, France; Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, UMR METIS, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Université Le Havre Normandie, Normandie Univ, FR CNRS 3730 SCALE, UMR-I 02 SEBIO, Le Havre, F-76600 Le Havre, France
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Milan M, Bernardini I, Bertolini C, Dalla Rovere G, Manuzzi A, Pastres R, Peruzza L, Smits M, Fabrello J, Breggion C, Sambo A, Boffo L, Gallocchio L, Carrer C, Sorrentino F, Bettiol C, Lodi GC, Semenzin E, Varagnolo M, Matozzo V, Bargelloni L, Patarnello T. Multidisciplinary long-term survey of Manila clam grown in farming sites subjected to different environmental conditions. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 863:160796. [PMID: 36528093 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
In recent years recurrent bivalve mass mortalities considerably increased around the world, causing the collapse of natural and farmed populations. Venice Lagoon has historically represented one of the major production areas of the Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum in Europe. However, in the last 20 years a 75 % decrease in the annual production has been experienced. While climate change and anthropogenic interventions may have played a key role in natural and farmed stocks reductions, no studies investigated at multiple levels the environmental stressors affecting farmed Manila clam to date. In this work we carried out a long-term monitoring campaign on Manila clam reared in four farming sites located at different distances from the southern Venice Lagoon inlet, integrating (meta)genomic approaches (i.e. RNA-seq; microbiota characterization), biometric measurements and chemical-physical parameters. Our study allowed to characterize the molecular mechanisms adopted by this species to cope with the different environmental conditions characterizing farming sites and to propose hypotheses to explain mortality events observed in recent years. Among the most important findings, the disruption of clam's immune response, the spread of Vibrio spp., and the up-regulation of molecular pathways involved in xenobiotic metabolism suggested major environmental stressors affecting clams farmed in sites placed close to Chioggia's inlet, where highest mortality was also observed. Overall, our study provides knowledge-based tools for managing Manila clam farming on-growing areas. In addition, the collected data is a snapshot of the time immediately before the commissioning of MoSE, a system of mobile barriers aimed at protecting Venice from high tides, and will represent a baseline for future studies on the effects of MoSE on clams farming and more in general on the ecology of the Venice Lagoon.
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- Massimo Milan
- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy.
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via torino 155, 30170 Venezia, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via torino 155, 30170 Venezia, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Thetis s.p.a., c /o Provveditorato Interregionale OO.PP. - Ufficio Tecnico Antinquinamento Laboratorio CSMO, Via Asconio Pediano, 9, 35127 Padova, PD, Italy
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- Thetis s.p.a., c /o Provveditorato Interregionale OO.PP. - Ufficio Tecnico Antinquinamento Laboratorio CSMO, Via Asconio Pediano, 9, 35127 Padova, PD, Italy
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- Provveditorato Interregionale OO.PP. - Ufficio Tecnico Antinquinamento, San Polo 19, 30124 Venezia, Italy)
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via torino 155, 30170 Venezia, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via torino 155, 30170 Venezia, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Via torino 155, 30170 Venezia, Italy
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- Societa' Agricola Kappa S. S. di Varagnolo Maurizio E. C., Chioggia, VE, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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Bernardini I, Matozzo V, Valsecchi S, Peruzza L, Rovere GD, Polesello S, Iori S, Marin MG, Fabrello J, Ciscato M, Masiero L, Bonato M, Santovito G, Boffo L, Bargelloni L, Milan M, Patarnello T. The new PFAS C6O4 and its effects on marine invertebrates: First evidence of transcriptional and microbiota changes in the Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2021; 152:106484. [PMID: 33740673 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2020] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
There is growing concern for the wide use ofperfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) because of its toxic effects on the environment and on human health. A new compound - the so called C6O4 (perfluoro ([5-methoxy-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl]oxy) acetic acid) - was recently introduced as one of the alternative to traditional PFOA, however this was done without any scientific evidence of the effects of C6O4 when dispersed into the environment. Recently, the Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment of Veneto (Italy) detected high levels of C6O4 in groundwater and in the Po river, increasing the alarm for the potential effects of this chemical into the natural environment. The present study investigates for the first time the effects of C6O4 on the Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum exposed to environmental realistic concentrations of C6O4 (0.1 µg/L and 1 µg/L) for 7 and 21 days. Furthermore, in order to better understand if C6O4 is a valid and less hazardous alternative to its substitute, microbial and transcriptomic alterations were also investigated in clams exposed to 1 µg/L ofPFOA. Results indicate that C6O4 may cause significant perturbations to the digestive gland microbiota, likely determining the impairment of host physiological homeostasis. Despite chemical analyses suggest a 5 times lower accumulation potential of C604 as compared to PFOA in clam soft tissues, transcriptional analyses reveal several alterations of gene expression profile. A large part of the altered pathways, including immune response, apoptosis regulation, nervous system development, lipid metabolism and cell membrane is the same in C6O4 and PFOA exposed clams. In addition, clams exposed to C6O4 showed dose-dependent responses as well as possible narcotic or neurotoxic effects and reduced activation of genes involved in xenobiotic metabolism. Overall, the present study suggests that the potential risks for marine organism following environmental contamination are not reduced by replacing PFOA with C6O4. In addition, the detection of both C6O4 and PFOA into tissues of clams inhabiting the Lagoon of Venice - where there are no point sources of either compounds - recommends a similar capacity to spread throughout the environment. These results prompt the urgent need to re-evaluate the use of C6O4 as it may represent not only an environmental hazard but also a potential risk for human health.
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- Ilaria Bernardini
- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Water Research Institute, Italian National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Via Mulino 19, 20861 Brugherio, MB, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Water Research Institute, Italian National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), Via Mulino 19, 20861 Brugherio, MB, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy.
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
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