Hypoxia-induced metabolic and antioxidant enzymatic activities in the estuarine fish Leiostomus xanthurus
Hypoxia-induced metabolic and antioxidant enzymatic activities in the estuarine fish Leiostomus xanthurus
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DOI:
10.1016/s0022-0981(02)00329-5
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发表时间:
2002-11-06
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2
通讯作者:
West, TL
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作者:
Cooper, RU;Clough, LM;West, TL
The Tar-Pamlico River basin in North Carolina is regularly the site of summertime fish kills. One possible cause of fish kills is hypoxia-induced metabolic stress. To examine hypoxia-induced stress at both the organismal and enzymatic levels, we exposed the common estuarine fish Leiostomus xanthurus Lacepede (spot) to various oxygen tensions (10% saturation, 0.8 mg/l; 25%, 2.0 mg/l; 50%, 4.0 mg/l; 100%, 8.0 mg/l). After 12 h of exposure, samples of gill, liver, and muscle tissue were extracted and subsequently analyzed for metabolic (citrate synthase [CS] and lactate dehydrogenase [LDH]) and antioxidant (catalase [CAT] and superoxide dismutase [SOD]) enzyme activity as well as protein content. There was a significant increase in lactate dehydrogenase activity, an indicator of anaerobic metabolism, in the 10% treatment in gill tissue, while there was no significant change in citrate synthase activity, an indicator of aerobic metabolism. Antioxidant enzymes were shown to operate independently of one another, with significant increases in superoxide dismutase activity in gill and muscle tissue under 10% saturation but no significant change in catalase activity across oxygen treatments. In several cases, we also noted that interindividual variation of enzyme activities within oxygen treatments was in excess of the variation in means between treatments. Hypoxia appears to trigger superoxide dismustase activity in spot, but each individual's response seems to be highly variable, perhaps due to prior exposure to hypoxia. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.