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First Morphological and Molecular Evidence of the Negative Impact of Diatom-Derived Hydroxyacids on the Sea Urchin Paracentrotus lividus.

Varello, S., Romano, G., Ruocco, N., Ianora, A., Bentley, M.G. and Constantini, M., 2016. First Morphological and Molecular Evidence of the Negative Impact of Diatom-Derived Hydroxyacids on the Sea Urchin Paracentrotus lividus. Toxicological Sciences, 151 (2), 419-433.

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DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfw053

Abstract

Oxylipins (including polyunsaturated aldehydes PUAs, hydoxyacids and epoxyalcohols) are the end-products of a lipoxygenase/hydroperoxide lyase metabolic pathway in diatoms. To date very little information is available on oxylipins other than PUAs, even though they represent the most common oxylipins produced by diatoms. Here, we report, for the first time, on the effects of two hydroxyacids, 5-and 15-HEPE, which have never been tested before, using the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus as a model organism. We show that HEPEs do induce developmental malformations but at concentrations higher when compared to PUAs. Interestingly, HEPEs also induced a marked developmental delay in sea urchin embryos, which has not hitherto been reported for PUAs. Recovery experiments revealed that embryos do not recover following treatment with HEPEs. Finally, we report the expression levels of 35 genes (involved in stress, development, differentiation, skeletogenesis and detoxification processes) to identify the molecular targets affected by HEPEs. We show that the two HEPEs have very few common molecular targets, specifically affecting different classes of genes and at different times of development. In particular, 15-HEPE switched on fewer genes than 5-HEPE, up-regulating mainly stress-related genes at a later pluteus stage of development. 5-HEPE was stronger than 15-HEPE, targeting twenty-four genes, mainly at the earliest stages of embryo development (at the blastula and swimming blastula stages). These findings highlight the differences between HEPEs and PUAs and also have important ecological implications because many diatom species do not produce PUAs but rather these other chemicals derived from the oxidation of fatty acids.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1096-6080
Uncontrolled Keywords:diatoms; hydroxyacids; sea urchin; development; genes
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:23409
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:14 Apr 2016 12:21
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:55

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