Schwarzenberger, Anke, Kuster, Christian J. and Elert, Ericvon (2012). Molecular mechanisms of tolerance to cyanobacterial protease inhibitors revealed by clonal differences in Daphnia magna. Mol. Ecol., 21 (19). S. 4898 - 4912. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1365-294X

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Abstract

Protease inhibitors of primary producers are a major food quality constraint for herbivores. In nutrient-rich freshwater ecosystems, the interaction between primary producers and herbivores is mainly represented by Daphnia and cyanobacteria. Protease inhibitors have been found in many cyanobacterial blooms. These inhibitors have been shown (both in vitro and in situ) to inhibit the most important group of digestive proteases in the daphnid's gut, that is, trypsins and chymotrypsins. In this study, we fed four different Daphnia magna genotypes with the trypsin-inhibitor-containing cyanobacterial strain Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806 Mut. Upon exposure to dietary trypsin inhibitors, all D. magna genotypes showed increased gene expression of digestive trypsins and chymotrypsins. Exposure to dietary trypsin inhibitors resulted in increased activity of chymotrypsins and reduced activity of trypsin. Strong intraspecific differences in tolerance of the four D. magna genotypes to the dietary trypsin inhibitors were found. The degree of tolerance depended on the D. magna genotype. The genotypes' tolerance was positively correlated with the residual trypsin activity and the different IC50 values of the trypsins. On the genetic level, the different trypsin loci varied between the D. magna genotypes. The two tolerant Daphnia genotypes that both originate from the same lake, which frequently produces cyanobacterial blooms, clustered in a neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree based on the three trypsin loci. This suggests that the genetic variability of trypsin loci was an important cause for the observed intraspecific variability in tolerance to cyanobacterial trypsin inhibitors. Based on these findings, it is reasonable to assume that such genetic variability can also be found in natural populations and thus constitutes the basis for local adaptation of natural populations to dietary protease inhibitors.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Schwarzenberger, AnkeUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Kuster, Christian J.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Elert, EricvonUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-482548
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05753.x
Journal or Publication Title: Mol. Ecol.
Volume: 21
Number: 19
Page Range: S. 4898 - 4912
Date: 2012
Publisher: WILEY
Place of Publication: HOBOKEN
ISSN: 1365-294X
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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MICROCYSTIS-AERUGINOSA; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PROTEINASE-INHIBITORS; LIFE-HISTORY; SECONDARY METABOLITES; TOXIC CYANOBACTERIA; AGROTIS-IPSILON; HELICOVERPA-ZEA; RED-QUEEN; TRYPSINMultiple languages
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Ecology; Evolutionary BiologyMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/48254

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