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Functional Characterization of Neuroendocrine Regulation of Branchial Carbonic Anhydrase Induction in the Euryhaline Crab Callinectes sapidus


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dc.contributorReed Mitchell, rzm0015@auburn.eduen_US
dc.creatorMitchell, Reed T.
dc.creatorHenry, Raymond P.
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-02T04:39:21Z
dc.date.available2020-04-02T04:39:21Z
dc.date.created2014
dc.identifier10.1086/BBLv227n3p285en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/BBLv227n3p285en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11200/49785
dc.description.abstractCarbonic anhydrase (CA) plays an essential role as a provider of counterions for Na+/H+ and Cl-/HCO3- exchange in branchial ionic uptake processes in euryhaline crustaceans. CA activity and gene expression are low in crabs acclimated to full-strength seawater, with transfer to low salinity resulting in large-scale inductions of mRNA and subsequent enzyme activity in the posterior ion-regulating gills (e.g., G7). In the green crab Carcinus maenas, CA has been shown to be under inhibitory neuroendocrine control by a putative hormone in the x-organsinus gland complex (XOSG), located in the eyestalk. This study characterizes the neuroendocrine regulation of CA induction in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus, a commonly used experimental organism for crustacean osmoregulation. In crabs acclimated to full-strength seawater, eyestalk ligation (ESL) triggered a 1.8- and 100-fold increase in CA activity and mRNA, respectively. Re-injection with eyestalk homogenates abolished increases in CA activity and fractionally reduced CA gene expression. ESL also enhanced CA induction by 33% after 96 h in crabs transferred to 15 ppt salinity. Injection of eyestalk homogenates into intact crabs transferred from 35 to 15 ppt diminished by 43% the CA induction stimulated by low salinity. These results point to the presence of a repressor hormone in the eyestalk. Separate injections of medullary tissue (MT) and sinus gland (SG), two components of the eyestalk, reduced salinity-stimulated CA activity by 22% and 49%, suggesting that the putative repressor is localized to the SG. Crabs injected with SG extract harvested from crabs acclimated to 5 ppt showed no decrease in CA activity, demonstrating that the hormone is down-regulated at low salinity. Our results show the presence in the XOSG of an inhibitory compound that regulates salinity-stimulated CA induction.en_US
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dc.relation.ispartofBiological Bulletinen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries0006-3185en_US
dc.rights©The Authors 2014. ©University of Chicago Press 2014. This is this the version of record co-published by the University of Chicago Press. It is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: Mitchell, R. T., & Henry, R. P. (2014). Functional characterization of neuroendocrine regulation of branchial carbonic anhydrase induction in the euryhaline crab Callinectes sapidus. The Biological Bulletin, 227(3), 285-299.en_US
dc.titleFunctional Characterization of Neuroendocrine Regulation of Branchial Carbonic Anhydrase Induction in the Euryhaline Crab Callinectes sapidusen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume227en_US
dc.citation.issue3en_US
dc.citation.spage285en_US
dc.citation.epage299en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US

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