Project description:Transcriptional profiling of rainbow trout muscle cells comparing muscle cells from small fish with muscle cells from large fish at two time periods.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of rainbow trout liver cells comparing liver cells from small fish with liver cells from large fish at two time periods.
Project description:The sea-run phenotype of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), like other anadromous salmonids, present a juvenile stage fully adapted to life in freshwater known as parr. Development in freshwater is followed by the smolt stage, where preadaptations needed for seawater life are developed making fish ready to migrate to the ocean, after which event they become post-smolts. While these three life stages have been studied using a variety of approaches, proteomics has never been used for such purpose. The present study characterised the blood plasma proteome of parr, smolt and post-smolt rainbow trout using a gel electrophoresis liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry approach alone or in combination with low-abundant protein enrichment technology (combinatorial peptide ligand library). In total, 1,822 proteins were quantified, 17.95% of them being detected only in plasma post enrichment. Across all life stages, the most abundant proteins were ankyrin-2, DNA primase large subunit, actin, serum albumin, apolipoproteins, hemoglobin subunits, hemopexin-like proteins and complement C3. When comparing the different life stages, 17 proteins involved in mechanisms to cope with hyperosmotic stress and retinal changes, as well as the downregulation of nonessential processes in smolts, were significantly different between parr and smolt samples. On the other hand, 11 proteins related to increased growth in post-smolts, and also related to coping with hyperosmotic stress and to retinal changes, were significantly different between smolt and post-smolt samples. Overall, this study presents a series of proteins with the potential to complement current seawater-readiness assessment tests in rainbow trout, which can be measured non-lethally in an easily accessible biofluid. Furthermore, this study represents a first in-depth characterisation of the rainbow trout blood plasma proteome, having considered three life stages of the fish and used both fractionation alone or in combination with enrichment methods to increase protein detection.
Project description:Sex steroids play a key role in triggering sec differentiation in fish and the use of exogenous hormone treatment leads to partial or complete sex reversal. This phenomenon has attracted attention since the discovery taht even low environmental doses of exogenous steroids can adversely affect gonad morphology (ovotestis development) and induce reproductive failure. Modern genomic-based technologies have enhanced opportunities to find mechanisms of action (MOA) and dentify biomarkers for the toxic action of a compound. The goal of this study are to improve the understanding of feminization in fish by analyzing gene expression patterns in the gonads of rainbow trout fry after a chronic exposure to several doses (0.01, 0.1, 1 and 10 ?g/L) of ethynylestradiol (EE2) and to offer target genes as potential biomarkers of ovotestis development. An all-male population of Rainbow trout fry was exposed during 76 days (from 60 to 136 days post-fertilization (dpf)) to five nominal concentrations of 17?-ethynylestradiol (0-solvent control-, 0.01, 0.1, 1 and 10 ?g EE2/L of water), using 3 tanks per condition. In total, 30 samples were analyzed independantly: 6 samples per concentration tested (two samples per tank, three tanks per concentration), each sample being a pool of 10 pairs of gonads.
Project description:The aim of present study is to identify and quantify proteins involved in the events of fertilization and early embryo development using a label-free protein quantification method in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) as an economically important fish species in aquaculture.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of rainbow trout liver and muscle cells comparing small fish with large fish within a population of neomale offspring.
Project description:Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a typical cold-water fish, the development of rainbow trout aquaculture was severely hampered via the high temperature in summer. Understanding the regulatory mechanism of rainbow trout response to chronic heat stress can provide a theoretical basis for formulating measures to relieve heat stress. In the study, changes in the biochemical parameters revealed that a strong stress response occurred in rainbow trout at 24 °C, the organisms stress defense system was activated, and the immune system was also affected. Proteome of rainbow trout liver tissues under heat stress (24 °C) and control conditions (18 °C) were performed using DIA/SWATH. A total of 390 DEPs were identified by strict threshold (q-value <0.05 and fold changes >1.5), among them 175 were up-regulated and 225 were down-regulated. Some proteins related to HSP, metabolism and immunity were identified. GO analysis showed that some proteins that were highly induced to express at high temperature were involved in the regulation of cell homeostasis, metabolism, adaptive stress and stimulation. KEGG analysis shows that some pathways play an important role in the regulation of heat stress, such as metabolic pathway, protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum pathway, PPAR signaling pathway and complement and coagulation cascades pathway, etc. PPI network analysis shows HSP90b1 and C3 maybe cooperative to protect the integrity of cell membrane function under heat stress. Our finding provide a comprehensive review of protein expression of rainbow trout liver under heat stress, which helps to formulate strategies for rainbow trout to relieve heat stress during high temperature in summer.
Project description:Gene expression in Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fry gonads after a chronic exposure to a range of 17α-ethynylestradiol concentrations