Trehalose accumulation in the tardigrade Adorybiotus coronifer during anhydrobiosis
Trehalose accumulation in the tardigrade Adorybiotus coronifer during anhydrobiosis
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水熊虫在脱水过程中海藻糖的积累
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1991
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H. Ramløv
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P. Westh;H. Ramløv
Changes in the trehalose level in the tardigrade Adorybiotus coronifer were ob- served during induction of, and arousal from, anhydrobiosis. A trehalose accumulation surpassing 1.6% dry weight (d.w.) in anhydrobiotic animals collected dry on their biotope was rapidly reduced on rehydration, reaching the level of active animals (0.1-0.2% d.w.) after 6 hours. Tardigrades dried while embedded in sand in the laboratory accumulated trehalose from 0.1% to 2.3% d.w. within 5-7 hours. Induction of aerobic acidosis in arousing tardigrades by CO, perfusion reversibly arrested re- activation for at least 36 hours and induced a reduction in anabolic and catabolic activities, mea- sured as a significant reduction in trehalose degradation, and a sevenfold reduction in the rate of protein synthesis. These data support the hypotheis that trehalose generally serves a protective role in desiccation- tolerant Metazoa, but indicate that tardigrades require only a moderate level for efficient pro- tection. Trehalose accumulation A positive correlation between the survival of the cryptobiotic state and the accumulation of the disaccharide trehalose has been demonstrated for a number of anhydrobiotic organisms, and con- centrations as high as 13-18% dry weight have been reported in anhydrobiotic cysts of the crusta- cean Artemia salina' (Clegg, '64; '65) and in the nematode Aphelenchus avenae (Madin and Crowe, '75; Crowe et al., '77). Moreover, trehalose reduces damage, induced by freeze-drying, to iso- lated liposomes (Crowe et al., '861, microsomes from sarcoplasmatic reticulum (Crowe et al., '83), and the enzyme phosphofructokinase (Carpenter et al., '87; '88). Other data such as the physical properties of nearly dry Artemia salina cysts (Clegg et al., '82; Clegg, '86) and computerized modeling of molecular interactions between tre- halose and a phospholipid bilayer (Gaber et al., '86) indicate that trehalose is a likely candidate for the polyhydroxy compound that, according to the water replacement hypothesis (Webb, '65; Crowe, '711, replaces the structural water of the cellular compounds during desiccation. Anhydrobiosis is widespread in the phylum Tardigrada, but quantification of trehalose accu- mulation during the induction of anhydrobiosis has not yet been made in this phylum. Crowe ('75) reported that paper chromatography analysis of ethanol extracts of the tardigrade Macrobiotus