Transcriptomic changes in western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) liver following benzo[a]pyrene exposure
Transcriptomic changes in western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) liver following benzo[a]pyrene exposure
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苯并[a]芘暴露后西方蚊鱼(Gambusia affinis)肝脏的转录组变化
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-020-08571-0
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发表时间:
2020-04-13
影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
Xie,Shaolin
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作者:
Feng,Yongyong;Zhou,Aiguo;Xie,Shaolin
Widely distributed western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) has been used as a new model species for hazard assessment of environmental stressors such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). However, most of the PAH studies usingG. affinisrely on targeted biomarker-based analysis, and thus may not adequately address the complexity of the toxic mechanisms of the stressors. In the present study, the whole transcriptional sequencing ofG. affinisliver after exposure to a PAH model, benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) (100 μg/L), for 20 days was performed by using the HiSeq XTen sequencers. In total, 58,156,233 and 51,825,467 clean nucleotide reads were obtained in the control and BaP-exposed libraries, respectively, with average N50 lengths of 1419 bp. In addition, afterG. affiniswas exposed for 20 days, 169 genes were upregulated, and 176 genes were downregulated in liver. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analyses were applied to all the genes to determine the genes’ biological functions and processes. The results clearly showed that the differentially expressed genes were mainly related to immune pathways and metabolic correlation pathways. Interestingly, almost all the pathways related with the immunity were upregulated, while the metabolism pathways were downregulated. Lastly, quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) was performed to measure expressional levels of twelve genes confirmed through the DGE analysis. These results demonstrate that BaP damages immunity and enhances the consumption of all available energy storage to activate mechanisms of the detoxification inG. affinis. Up until now, the present study is the first time that a whole transcriptome sequencing analysis in the liver ofG. affinisexposed to BaP has been reported.