Transcription profiling of rainbow trout cells following anoxia exposure
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ABSTRACT: The rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, is relatively sensitive to hypoxia and does not survive deep hypoxia or anoxia. Given this lack of hypoxia-tolerance in the whole animal, the aim of this experiment was to investigate the in vitro responses of cultured rainbow trout cells following anoxia exposure. Rainbow trout hypodermal fibroblast (RTHDF) cells were exposed to anoxia for 12 and 24 h, whilst control cells were held under normoxic conditions for 24 h. Differential gene expression as a consequence of the treatments was analysed using an oligoarray composed of approximately 21,500 BLAST-identified sequences fabricated on the Agilent microarray platform. 57 genes were found to display significant responses to oxygen deprivation and these genes were assigned Gene Ontology terms and IDs. Of the 57 differentially expressed genes, 6 genes associated with carbohydrate metabolism were up-regulated following anoxia, these included phosphoglucomutase (PGM) and glycogen phosphorylase, consistent with glycogen serving as an important energy source during anoxia. Other genes up-regulated in response to anoxia included a number of putative targets of hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF1A), namely phosphoglycerate kinase, triosephosphate isomerase and the glucose transporter, GLUT2. Egl9 homolog 3, the proline hydroxylase responsible for HIF1A regulation, was also induced. This analysis indicates that cultured trout cells have the capacity for adaptive gene responses when subjected to oxygen levels that are lethal to the whole organism.
ORGANISM(S): Oncorhynchus mykiss
SUBMITTER: unknown unknown
PROVIDER: E-MAXD-41 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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