A different transcriptional landscape sheds light on Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii) mechanisms to cope with bacterial infection and chronic heat stress

PECES

BIBLIOGRAFIA NACIONAL QUIMICA

2022

turgeons are chondrostean fish of high economic value and critically endangered due to anthropogenic activ ities, which has led to sturgeon aquaculture development. Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), the second most important species reared for caviar, is successfully farmed in subtropical countries, including Uruguay. However, during the Uruguayan summer, sturgeons face intolerable warmer temperatures that weaken their defences and favour infections by opportunistic pathogens, increasing fish mortality and farm economic losses. Since innate immunity is paramount in fish, for which the liver plays a key role, we used deep RNA sequencing to analyse differentially expressed genes in the liver of Russian sturgeons exposed to chronic heat stress and challenged with Aeromonas hydrophila. We assembled 149.615 unigenes in the Russian sturgeon liver tran scriptome and found that metabolism and immune defence pathways are among the top five biological processes taking place in the liver. Chronic heat stress provoked profound effects on liver biological functions, up regulating genes related to protein folding, heat shock response and lipid and protein metabolism to meet en ergy demands for coping with heat stress. Besides, long-term exposure to heat stress led to cell damage triggering liver inflammation and diminishing liver ability to mount an innate response to A. hydrophila challenge. Accordingly, the reprogramming of liver metabolism over an extended period had detrimental effects on fish health, resulting in weight loss and mortality, with the latter increasing after A. hydrophila challenge. To our knowledge, this is the first transcriptomic study describing how chronic heat-stressed sturgeons respond to a bacterial challenge, suggesting that liver metabolism alterations have a negative impact on the innate anti bacterial response.

Fish and shell fish immunology, v. 128, 2022. -- pp. 505-522

Elsevier

2022

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10.1016/j.fsi.2022.08.022

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