title: Salinity changes in the anadromous river pufferfish, Takifugu obscurus, mediate gene regulation.
abstract: This study aimed to better understand the hydromineral regulatory response of the anadromous river pufferfish, Takifugu obscurus, to salinity changes through real-time RT-PCR. After abrupt transfer from 30 or 5 psu to 5 or 30 psu, respectively, we analyzed the mRNA expression of Na⁺/K⁺ ATPase, prolactin receptor, and aquaporin from osmoregulatory organs of the river pufferfish such as gills, kidney, and intestine. Na⁺/K⁺ ATPase showed notable changes in the gills and kidney when salinity was increased. In the gills, the expression level of Na⁺/K⁺ ATPase suddenly increased within a day after abrupt transfer from 5 to 30 psu and then slightly declined within 2 days after exposure. In the kidney, Na⁺/K⁺ ATPase has shown consistently high mRNA expression after the increase in salinity. Expression levels of the prolactin receptor gene increased when environmental salinity decreased. In the intestine, gene expression of the prolactin receptor remained high, even when salinity decreased. To the contrary, there was a steady increase or decrease in mRNA expression in the kidney in response to salinity decrease or increase, respectively. As for aquaporins, aquaporin 1 was mainly expressed in the intestine and kidney, and aquaporin 3 was mainly expressed in the gills and intestine. In the gills, increased expression of aquaporin 3 was found after transfer to lower salinity and in the intestine and kidney, a decrease in salinity followed by an abrupt decrease in aquaporin 1 and aquaporin 3. Contrastingly, the expression of these genes increased in the intestine after transfer to 30 psu. Osmoregulatory genes were expressed in diverse organs, apparently to overcome an influx or exhaust of water or ions. A superior adaptation ability of the river pufferfish to a wide range of salinities is most reasonably due to active osmoregulatory processes mediated by the genes monitored here.
authors.affiliation: Department of Marine Science, College of Natural Sciences, Inha University, Incheon, 402-751, South Korea.
authors.forename: Su-Young
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Jeong
authors.forename: Jin-Hyoung
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Wan-Ok
authors.initials: WO
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hans-Uwe
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Dahms
authors.forename: Kyung-Nam
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Han
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020346:Aquaporins / Q000378:metabolism; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D064587:Osmoregulation; D011981:Receptors, Prolactin / Q000378:metabolism; D054712:Salinity; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase / Q000378:metabolism; D023721:Tetraodontiformes / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D020346:Aquaporins; D011981:Receptors, Prolactin; D000254:Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase
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