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Título: | Oxidative stress in deep scattering layers: heat shock response and antioxidant enzymes activities of myctophid fishes thriving in oxygen minimum zones |
Autor: | Lopes, Ana Rita Trübenbach, Katja Teixeira, Tatiana Lopes, Vanessa M. Pires, Vanessa Baptista, Miguel Repolho, Tiago Calado, Ricardo Diniz, Mário Rosa, Rui |
Palavras-chave: | Antioxidant defense system Benthosema panamense Heat shock response Hypoxia Oxidative stress Oxygen minimum zones Triphoturus mexicanus |
Data: | 2013 |
Editora: | Elsevier |
Resumo: | Diel vertical migrators, such as myctophid fishes, are known to encounter oxygen minimum zones (OMZ) during daytime in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and, therefore, have to cope with temperature and oxidative stress that arise while ascending to warmer, normoxic surface waters at night-time. The aim of this study was to investigate the antioxidant defense strategies and heat shock response (HSR) in two myctophid species, namely Triphoturus mexicanus and Benthosema panamense, at shallow and warm surface waters (21. kPa, 20-25. °C) and at hypoxic, cold (≤1. kPa, 10. °C) mesopelagic depths. More specifically, we quantified (i) heat shock protein concentrations (HSP70/HSC70) (ii) antioxidant enzyme activities [including superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione-S-transferase (GST)], and (iii) lipid peroxidation [malondialdehyde (MDA) levels]. HSP70/HSC70 levels increased in both myctophid species at warmer, well-oxygenated surface waters probably to prevent cellular damage (oxidative stress) due to increased oxygen demand under elevated temperatures and reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation. On the other hand, CAT and GST activities were augmented under hypoxic conditions, probably as preparatory response to a burst of oxyradicals during the reoxygenation phase (while ascending). SOD activity decreased under hypoxia in B. panamense, but was kept unchanged in T. mexicanus. MDA levels in B. panamense did not change between the surface and deep-sea conditions, whereas T. mexicanus showed elevated MDA and HSP70/HSC70 concentrations at warmer surface waters. This indicated that T. mexicanus seems to be not so well tuned to temperature and oxidative stress associated to diel vertical migrations. The understanding of such physiological strategies that are linked to oxygen deprivation and reoxygenation phases may provide valuable information about how different species might respond to the impacts of environmental stressors (e.g. expanding mesopelagic hypoxia) coupled with global climate change. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/24303 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.dsr.2013.07.014 |
ISSN: | 0967-0637 |
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