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Daphnia magna Ecotoxicogenomics Provides Mechanistic Insights into Metal Toxicity

机译:大型蚤(Daphnia magna)生态毒理基因组学提供了对金属毒性的机械观察

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Toxicogenomics has provided innovative approaches to chemical screening, risk assessment, and predictive toxicology. If applied to ecotoxicology, genomics tools could greatly enhance the ability to understand the modes of toxicity in environmentally relevant organisms. Daphnia magna, a small aquatic crustacean, is considered a "keystone" species in ecological food webs and is an indicator species for toxicant exposure. Our objective was to demonstrate the potential utility of gene expression profiling in ecotoxicology by identifying novel biomarkers and uncovering potential modes of action in D. magna. Using a custom D. magna cDNA microarray, we identified distinct expression profiles in response to sublethal copper, cadmium, and zinc exposures and discovered specific biomarkers of exposure including two probable metallothioneins, and a ferritin mRNA with a functional IRE. The gene expression patterns support known mechanisms of metal toxicity and reveal novel modes of action including zinc inhibition of chitinase activity. By integrating gene expression profiling into an environmentally important organism, this study provides experimental support for the utility of ecotoxicogenomics.
机译:毒物基因组学为化学筛选,风险评估和预测毒理学提供了创新的方法。如果将其应用于生态毒理学,则基因组学工具可以极大地增强了解与环境有关的生物体内毒害模式的能力。大型水生甲壳动物水蚤(Daphnia magna)被认为是生态食物网中的“基石”物种,并且是有毒物质暴露的指示物种。我们的目标是通过鉴定新颖的生物标志物并揭示大果蝇中的潜在作用方式,来证明基因表达谱在生态毒理学中的潜在用途。使用定制的D. magna cDNA微阵列,我们确定了对亚致死铜,镉和锌暴露的响应不同的表达谱,并发现了特定的生物标志物暴露,包括两种可能的金属硫蛋白和具有功能性IRE的铁蛋白mRNA。基因表达模式支持已知的金属毒性机制,并揭示了新的作用方式,包括锌对几丁质酶活性的抑制作用。通过将基因表达谱整合到对环境重要的生物中,这项研究为生态毒理基因组学的实用性提供了实验支持。

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