title: Investigating hsp gene expression in liver of Channa striatus under heat stress for understanding the upper thermal acclimation.
abstract: Changes in hsp gene expression profiles in murrel Channa striatus experimentally exposed to temperature stress (36°C) for 4, 15, and 30 days were investigated; fish collected from aquaculture ponds and maintained in laboratory at the pond temperature (25 ± 1°C) served as control. Channa collected from a hot spring runoff (36°C) was included in the study to examine the hsp profiles beyond 30 days of exposure. Gene expression analyses of a battery of hsps in liver tissues were carried out by quantitative RT-PCR and protein expressions were analyzed by immunoblotting. hsps could be grouped into three clusters based on similarity in response to heat stress: hsp70, hsp78, and hsp60, whose transcript level continued to increase with duration of exposure; hsp90 and hsp110 that increased to a much higher level and then decreased; hsp27 and hsp47 that did not significantly vary as compared to control. The results suggest that Hsp70, Hsp78, and Hsp60 are involved in thermal acclimation and long term survival at high temperature. Fish living in the hot spring runoff appears to continuously express hsps that can be approximated by long term induction of hsps in farmed fish if temperature of their environment is raised to 36°C.
authors.affiliation: School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India.
authors.forename: Gopal Krishna
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Purohit
authors.affiliation: Biochemistry Laboratory, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata 700120, India.
authors.forename: Arabinda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mahanty
authors.affiliation: School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India.
authors.forename: Mrutyunjay
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suar
authors.affiliation: Biochemistry Laboratory, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata 700120, India.
authors.forename: Anil Prakash
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Biochemistry Laboratory, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata 700120, India.
authors.forename: Bimal Prasanna
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Mohanty
authors.affiliation: School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India.
authors.forename: Sasmita
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-1378-3775
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohanty
mesh_terms: D000064:Acclimatization / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005399:Fishes / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D018869:Heat-Shock Response / Q000235:genetics*; D015151:Immunoblotting; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins