Adaptive and acclimatory responses of fish to salinity stress are based on efficient mechanisms of osmosensing and osmotic stress signaling.. The osmosensory signal transduction network in
Trang 1Physiological Genomics Group, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Physiological significance of osmotic
stress for fishes
Fishes represent the most ancient of five vertebrate
classes They originated more than 500 million years
ago and have diverged into three major taxa: (a)
hag-fishes and lampreys (Agnatha); (b) cartilagenous hag-fishes
(Chondrichthyii); and (c) ray-finned fishes
(Actino-pterygii) These three taxa employ different strategies
of systemic osmoregulation with only ray-finned fishes
being strong osmoregulators Nevertheless, at the
cellu-lar level, all fish taxa (like other organisms)
ionoregu-late to maintain K+ and other intracellular inorganic ion concentrations within a tightly regulated range, which is essential to support cell metabolism
Like other aquatic (or semiaquatic) vertebrates (e.g amphibians, alligators), fish are in direct contact with environmental water Most fishes depend on stable water salinity to be able to osmoregulate and maintain constant osmolality in their body fluids (internal milieu) These are stenohaline species that can only live
in either freshwater or seawater Nonetheless, there are also numerous fish species that tolerate and even thrive
in water characterized by greatly fluctuating salinity
Keywords
euryhaline fishes; osmoregulation;
osmosensing; osmotic stress; salinity
adaptation; stress signaling
Correspondence
D Ku¨ltz, Comparative Physiological
Genomics Group, Department of Animal
Science, One Shields Avenue, Meyer Hall,
University of California, Davis, CA 95616,
USA
Fax: +1 530 752 0175
Tel: +1 530 752 2991
E-mail: dkueltz@ucdavis.edu
(Received 2 July 2007, accepted
7 September 2007)
doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06099.x
In their aqueous habitats, fish are exposed to a wide range of osmotic con-ditions and differ in their abilities to respond adaptively to these variations
in salinity Fish species that inhabit environments characterized by signifi-cant salinity fluctuation (intertidal zone, estuaries, salt lakes, etc.) are eury-haline and able to adapt to osmotic stress Adaptive and acclimatory responses of fish to salinity stress are based on efficient mechanisms of osmosensing and osmotic stress signaling Multiple osmosensors, including calcium sensing receptor likely act in concert to convey information about osmolality changes to downstream signaling and effector mechanisms The osmosensory signal transduction network in fishes is complex and includes calcium, mitogen-activated protein kinase, 14-3-3 and macromolecular damage activated signaling pathways This network controls, among other targets, osmosensitive transcription factors such as tonicity response ele-ment binding protein and osmotic stress transcription factor 1, which, in turn, regulate the expression of genes involved in osmotic stress acclima-tion In addition to intracellular signaling mechanisms, the systemic response to osmotic stress in euryhaline fish is coordinated via hormone-and paracrine factor-mediated extracellular signaling Overall, current insight into osmosensing and osmotic stress-induced signal transduction in fishes is limited However, euryhaline fish species represent excellent models for answering critical emerging questions in this field and for elucidating the underlying molecular mechanisms of osmosensory signal transduction
Abbreviations
CaSR, calcium sensing receptor; IEG, immediate early gene; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; Ostf1, osmotic stress transcription factor 1; TonEBP, tonicity response element binding protein; TRP, transient receptor potential.
Trang 2Some of these euryhaline fish (e.g tilapia) are able to
live in freshwater as well as in water with salinities up
to four times that of seawater Thus, euryhaline fishes
are able to inhabit environments characterized by
severe osmotic stress, such as desert lakes, tidepools
and estuaries
Euryhaline fishes have evolved physiological
mecha-nisms that allow them to compensate the osmotic
stress associated with fluctuating environmental
salin-ity An integral part of such physiological mechanisms
is the ability to sense and quantify changes in
environ-mental salinity and to activate appropriate
compensa-tory responses Thus, euryhaline fishes represent
excellent models to identify and understand elements
and mechanisms controlling the physiological and
behavioral changes that occur in response to osmotic
stress The three major groups of players involved in
this response are osmosensors, signal transducers and
effectors Osmosensors control signal transduction
net-works that, in turn, regulate effector mechanisms
responsible for acclimation to changes in
environmen-tal salinity (Fig 1) Many effector mechanisms
involved in osmotic acclimation of euryhaline fishes
have been identified and characterized in detail but
little is known about the proximal osmosensors and
signal transduction pathways that control these
effec-tor mechanisms In what follows, we will briefly review
our current knowledge about osmosensory signal
transduction in euryhaline fishes and compare it with
knowledge available for some other animals
Osmotic stress sensing in fishes
General considerations about molecular
osmosensors
Our knowledge of molecular osmosensors that monitor
and quantify environmental and extracellular
osmolal-ity in fishes is minimal As is true for other cells, it is not clear how fish cells quantify osmolality to mount a compensatory adaptive response of proper magnitude
or, alternatively, induce programmed cell death when their tolerance limit is exceeded Many different types
of molecular osmosensors can be envisioned because osmotic stress impacts essentially all cellular structures, processes and macromolecules Potential osmosensors include membrane proteins that are regulated by ion concentration or membrane stretching and compac-tion, molecular chaperones that monitor the degree of protein unfolding, DNA damage sensors, proteins associated with cytoskeletal organization, and enzymes whose activity is stringently correlated with intracellu-lar electrolyte concentration
It is likely that multiple molecular osmosensors act
in concert to control osmosensory signal transduction networks and that some of them are activated more over a range of mild osmotic stress whereas others are activated more over a range of severe osmotic stress
In addition, many proximal events perceived by poten-tial osmosensors (cell volume changes, changes in cytoskeletal organization, membrane stretching or compaction, molecular crowding) are only prevalent during more severe and acute osmotic stress Such events result from osmosis across semipermeable mem-branes of animal cells but osmosis may not occur when osmolality changes happen gradually over an extended period of time Under these conditions, it is most likely intracellular ionic strength that serves as the initial signal triggering molecular osmosensors Equilibration of intracellular ionic strength during gradual osmolality changes can be achieved without osmosis if the capacity of ion transport proteins in cell membranes is sufficient for moving ions across mem-branes at a rate that offsets water movement across membranes This is only possible for small and slow osmolality changes and it depends on cell type-specific
Fig 1 Major elements of the osmosensory
signal transduction network in fishes
Multi-ple osmosensors (see text) recognize
osmolality ⁄ salinity changes and activate a
signaling network that integrates the
infor-mation received from different
osmosen-sors, amplifies this information, and turns
on ⁄ off a large number of appropriate
effec-tor mechanisms (i.e mechanisms of
physio-logical acclimation).
Trang 3teins, aquaporins and membrane lipids Thus, different
cell types within the same organism may be able to
sense different ranges of osmolality changes This
abil-ity is critical for euryhaline fishes and other aquatic
vertebrates because some of their cells (e.g gill cells)
are exposed directly to the aquatic environment and
experience very wide ranges of osmolality whereas
most other cells are bathed in a more homeostatic
environment as a result of systemic osmoregulation
Changes in extracellular fluid osmolality (i.e plasma
osmolality) in aquatic vertebrates such as fishes are
also sensed via perception of concomitant fluid volume
and⁄ or blood pressure changes Systemic osmosensors
and baroreceptors are responsible for monitoring
plasma osmolality and they are conserved in all
verte-brates Peripheral systemic osmosensors of fishes
appear to be located primarily in the gills [1] and
pitui-tary gland [2] Once triggered, molecular and systemic
osmosensors activate a signaling network that, in turn,
controls effector mechanisms mediating physiological
acclimation to osmotic stress
Putative molecular osmosensors in fish cells
Molecular osmosensors of fish cells are not well
char-acterized However, analysis of zebrafish and pufferfish
genomes shows that putative molecular osmosensors of
mammalian and invertebrate cells are highly conserved
in fish genomes (Fig 2) Such putative osmosensors
include adenyl cyclase [3], transient receptor potential
(TRP) channels [4], and aquaporin 4 [5] However,
functional evidence firmly establishing these proteins
as molecular osmosensors in euryhaline fishes is
lack-ing and this area needs to be experimentally addressed
in future research
A role of adenyl cyclase as an osmosensor in
eury-haline fishes is supported by its effects on chloride
secretion across the gill epithelium and osmoregulatory
hormone secretion from the pituitary gland Forskolin,
which stimulates adenyl cyclase activity, was shown to
enhance chloride secretion across opercular membranes
of euryhaline fishes [6], as well as prolactin and growth
hormone secretion from trout pituitary gland [7]
These secretory processes are also stimulated when
euryhaline fish face salinity increases Nevertheless, it
is not known whether activation of adenyl cyclase in
euryhaline fishes is directly mediated by osmolality
changes as would be required for a true osmosensor
protein
Osmosensory TRPV4 channels were localized in
Danio rerio and the expression of this channel protein
identified six copies of TRPV4 in the western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis), suggesting that diversification
of osmosensory TRPV4 may favor adaptation to both aquatic and terrestrial environments, which represent very different habitats regarding requirements for osmoregulation [9] However, as for adenyl cyclase, no direct evidence for an osmosensory function of TRP channels in fishes has been published
Aquaporin water channels have been studied in fishes, including their regulation during salinity stress Nevertheless, all studies to date have focused on the role of aquaporins as effector proteins of osmosensory signal transduction pathways and the potential role of these proteins in osmosensing of fish cells has yet to
be addressed As a result of recent studies on fish aqu-aporins, we know that changes in water permeability
in gills and intestine are mediated at least in part via regulation of aquaporin abundance in epithelial cell membranes [10] Thus, a role of aquaporins as impor-tant effector proteins of osmoregulation in fishes has been established It will be interesting to see whether water channels also function as systemic osmosensors
in the brain of fishes, as has been suggested for mammals [5]
Calcium sensing receptor The calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) has been identi-fied as an important osmosensor protein in fishes CaSR is a large glycoprotein belonging to the G tein-coupled receptor superfamily This membrane pro-tein is regulated directly by extracellular calcium (and
to some extent also other polyvalent cations) as ligand
in the millimolar range Fishes (e.g euryhaline marine species) utilize CaSR for sensing environmental salinity [11] In particular for marine fishes, the calcium con-centration in the external environment (seawater) is in the millimolar range that is accurately sensed by CaSR Thus, changes in environmental calcium con-centration are thought to be a surrogate measure for the ionic strength⁄ salinity of the marine environment
In agreement with this notion, CaSR is expressed in osmoregulatory tissues of fishes, including shark rectal gland [12] and teleost gill and opercular membrane [13] Full-length transcripts of CaSR have been cloned from gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) [13] and spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) [11] Using nucleotide probes, CaSR transcripts have been localized to bran-chial chloride cells of both aforementioned species, as well as winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) [11]
Trang 4Tilapia CaSR senses changes in external [Ca2+] and
activates phospholipase C and mitogen-activated
pro-tein kinase (MAPK) signaling [14] Moreover, changes
in plasma [Ca2+] and [Mg2+] that occur when fish move from freshwater to seawater, or vice versa, likely serve as salinity sensing cues for CaSR because plasma
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Fig 2 Evolutionary conservation of orthologs of the putative osmosensors TRPV4 and aquaporin 4 and the osmosensory signal transcription proteins TonEBP and TSC22D2 in vertebrates The human sequences of TRPV4 (871 amino acids, AAG28029.1), aquaporin 4 (323 amino acids, NP_001641.1), TonEBP (1531 amino acids, NP_006590.1), and the mouse sequence of TSC22D2-4 (116 amino acids, EU004151) were used as references and their conserved domains are indicated The highest homology hits for each D rerio, X tropicalis and Gallus gallus ge-nomes were analyzed for the presence of conserved domains in the Conserved Domain Database and Search Service, version 2.11 (NCBI,
17402 motifs) and the expectation values are indicated Percentages of amino acid sequence similarity and identity are shown RHD, Rel homology domain (pfam00554); IPT_NFAT, IPT domain of the NFAT family of transcription factors (cd01178); TSC22, TSC-22 ⁄ dip ⁄ bun family (pfam01166); MIP, major intrinsic protein (cd00333); ANK, ankyrin repeats (cd00204); ION_TRANS, ion transport protein (pfam00520).
Trang 5In the mammalian kidney, CaSR regulates the activity
of many other signaling pathways, including pathways
that are regulated by intracellular calcium
concentra-tion The evidence briefly summarized above suggests
that CaSR plays a significant role for osmosensing in
fishes
Osmosensory signal transduction
network in fishes
Studies on bacteria, yeast and model animals have
shown that osmosensors control an elaborate
intracel-lular signaling network The major role of this network
is to integrate signals from multiple osmosensors and
generate an amplified output-stimulus for controlling
appropriate effector mechanisms (Fig 1) We
hypothe-size that the mode of integration of signals generated
by multiple osmosensors with different sensitivity
ranges enables cells to determine the severity of
osmo-tic stress, quantify extracellular osmolality, and ensure
that an appropriate physiological response is mounted
Testing this hypothesis will require detailed knowledge
about the key elements involved in osmosensory signal
transduction Known elements of osmosensory signal
transduction in euryhaline fishes are calcium-dependent
pathways, MAPKs, 14-3-3 proteins, specific
transcrip-tion factors, hormones, and paracrine factors Their
role during osmotic stress is briefly reviewed below
Role of intracellular calcium
We have summarized above that environmental
cal-cium may be an important trigger of osmosensory
events by controlling CaSR activity In addition, many
effects of changes in environmental and plasma
cal-cium concentration on fish gill chloride cell
morphol-ogy and the function of important osmoregulatory
effector proteins have been documented [15] Since
cal-cium is a major second messenger in eukaryotic cells
and known to play significant roles in osmosensory
signal transduction of mammalian and even plant cells,
it is very likely that calcium-mediated signaling
con-tributes significantly to osmosensory signal
transduc-tion in fish cells The importance of intracellular
calcium for the activation of downstream signaling
events in fish exposed to osmotic stress has been
stud-ied in fish rostral pars distalis cells These cells are
excellent models because they represent a relatively
homogeneous (approximately 97%) population of
pro-lactin secreting cells and their propro-lactin secretion
depends on osmolality In tilapia, hyposmotic stress
intracellular calcium [16] Cortisol, a hormone associ-ated with hyperosmotic stress, inhibits prolactin secre-tion via reducsecre-tion of free intracellular calcium [17] In addition to its effect on intracellular calcium, cortisol also inhibits adenyl cyclase, a potential osmosensor mentioned above, suggesting that both major intra-cellular second messengers, calcium and cAMP, are involved in osmotic stress signaling [18] Another osmoregulatory hormone, angiotensin II, increases free intracellular calcium in fish tissues [19], confirming that the effects of osmoregulatory hormones are mediated
at least partly via intracellular calcium signaling An important role of intracellular calcium in fish osmotic stress signaling is also supported by a modeling approach yielding an osmosensory signal transduction network based on 20 immediate early genes that rap-idly respond to salinity stress in tilapia gill Intracellu-lar calcium is a major node in this network, which also contains several calcium-binding proteins such as an-nexins and S-100 proteins [20] Notably, anan-nexins and two other immediate early genes (IEGs) identified in this study (gelsolin, galectin 4) are known to regulate actin-based cytoskeleton remodeling in mammalian cells, suggesting that this process may be a major tar-get during osmotic stress acclimation in fish gill cells Consistent with this view, the actin-based cytoskeleton seems to play a role in osmotic regulation of
Na+⁄ K+⁄ 2Cl– (NKCC) cotransporter [21] and in the closing or opening of apical crypts of gill chloride cells [22] Furthermore, changes in ion transport during hyper- and hypotonic stress require intact F-actin and microtubules in eel intestinal epithelium [23]
MAPK MAPKs are a family of enzymes that are involved in osmosensory signal transduction in yeast, plant and animal cells They are key elements of protein phos-phorylation cascades that integrate and amplify signals from osmosensors to activate appropriate downstream targets mediating physiological acclimation Although MAPKs are highly evolutionarily conserved, their acti-vators and substrates can differ greatly, depending on taxon, physiological condition and developmental state For example, yeast exposed to osmotic stress activate the high osmolarity glycerol response (HOG1) MAPK cascade via the SLN1 osmosensor, which is a two-component histidine kinase, none of whose com-ponents are present in any sequenced animal genome This illustrates that osmotic stress signaling networks are modular Recent evidence suggests that MAPK
Trang 6cascades represent an important module of such
net-works in euryhaline fish We have shown that the
activity⁄ phosphorylation of all three major MAPKs is
rapidly altered in gill epithelium of killifish (Fundulus
heteroclitus) when these fish experience osmotic stress
in vivo [20] Osmotic regulation of p38 MAPK and
JNK (Jun-N-terminal kinase⁄ stress-activated protein
kinase) MAPK phosphorylation was also observed in
isolated opercular epithelium of killifish, where
chlo-ride secretion decreases after addition of a
pharmaco-logical p38 inhibitor [24] Furthermore, p38 MAPK is
required for regulatory volume decrease in isolated
hepatocytes from turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) [25]
We recently identified an upstream regulator of
MAPK cascades, mitogen-activated protein kinase
kinase kinase 7 interacting protein 2 (TAK 1 binding
protein 2¼ TAB 2), as an IEG during hyperosmotic
stress in tilapia gill epithelium [26] This gene is
transiently and very rapidly (within 2 h) induced by
hyperosmotic stress, indicating a role of this
mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 7 interacting
protein for osmosensory signal transduction in fish
14-3-3 proteins
14-3-3 proteins are evolutionarily highly conserved in
all eukaryotes They sequester other proteins that are
phosphorylated on serine (and sometimes threonine)
They operate as dimers with each monomer binding
one phosphoprotein Thus, 14-3-3 proteins can be
con-sidered nodes that bring together elements of
phos-phorylation-based signal transduction networks In
addition, they promote subcellular translocation of
phosphoproteins (e.g from nucleus into cytosol) and
thereby affect the function of phosphoproteins We
have cloned the first fish 14-3-3 protein from the
eury-haline killifish (F heteroclitus) and shown that its
abundance is regulated in gill epithelium by
environ-mental salinity [27] Surprisingly, osmotic 14-3-3
regu-lation is very slow in this fish (it takes many hours)
and we reason that regulation of 14-3-3 abundance
may represent a secondary response Rapid regulation
of 14-3-3 binding to phospho-proteins may be
medi-ated by post-translational modification or dimerization
but this remains to be investigated Of interest,
hetero-logous expression of F heteroclitus 14-3-3 in Xenopus
laevisoocytes protects the oocytes from osmotic stress,
which was attributed to its inhibition of an
endoge-nous oocyte chloride current [28] 14-3-3 proteins are
strategically positioned at points of cross-talk between
virtually all important cell signaling pathways
There-fore, identification of 14-3-3 binding partners during
salinity acclimation of fish should provide a new
window into osmosensory signal transduction mecha-nisms
Transcription factors Many physiological acclimations to environmental changes are mediated by alteration of gene expression and there are numerous studies thoroughly validating the critical importance of this mechanism for osmotic stress acclimation in euryhaline fish Thus, inducible transcription factors contributing to changes in gene expression during osmotic stress are of great interest
In mammals, the tonicity response element binding protein (TonEBP) transcription factor (NFAT5, ORE-BP) plays a major role in response to hypertonicity [29] Sequence similarity searches identified genes encoding orthologous proteins in the fishes D rerio, Takifugu rubripes and Tetraodon nigroviridis (Fig 2) The presence of TonEBP in fish genomes raises the possibility that it plays a role for osmotic stress signal-ing in fishes Indeed, a recent study on killifish (F het-eroclitus) provides experimental evidence that TonEBP participates in osmosensory signal transduction in fish cells [30]
Recently, we identified two putative transcriptional regulators, osmotic stress transcription factor 1 (Ostf1) and basal transcription factor IIB, as early hyper-osmoticaly up-regulated proteins in tilapia gills [31]
We demonstrated that Ostf1 up-regulation depends on RNA stabilization and transcriptional mechanisms and
on the presence of an osmotic gradient between the extracellular and intracellular fluid of tilapia gill cells [32] A role of Ostf1 in osmosensory signal transduc-tion is not limited to fishes, but also is evident in mam-malian cells We identified TSC22D2 as an Ostf1 ortholog of mammals and showed that it is activated and alternatively spliced in response to hypertonicity
in mouse and human kidney cells with very similar kinetics as in fish gill cells In addition, overexpression
of mammalian TSC22D2 confers increased osmo-tolerance to murine inner medullary collecting duct cells [33]
Macromolecular damage response pathways Damage to macromolecules such as DNA and proteins represents an important sensory element for cellular recognition of severe environmental stress, including osmotic stress [34] Thus, it is not surprising that among IEGs induced rapidly in response to hyper-osmotic stress in euryhaline tilapia are genes that rec-ognize macromolecular damage Ubiquitin E3 ligase and the mRNA stabilizer HuR are particularly
Trang 7hyperosmotic stress, a Rbx1 homolog in salmon [35]
and a Grail⁄ Goliath homolog in tilapia [26], suggesting
that they are fundamentally important in the osmotic
stress response of fish Ubiquitin E3 ligase may sense
protein damage by quantifying the amount of
sub-strates that it tags with ubiquitin In most cases, such
protein substrates are terminally damaged and destined
for proteolytic degradation and removal The
under-lying molecular mechanisms by which ubiquitin E3
ligase keeps track of the amount of substrates it tags
with ubiquitin and relays this information to the
osmo-tic stress signaling network are not known However,
it is becoming increasingly clear that rapid and specific
protein degradation via the ubiquitin-proteasome
sys-tem is intrinsically linked to the regulation of adaptive
gene expression, the cell cycle and adaptive cell
differ-entiation Moreover, in mammalian kidneys, the
inter-action of Nedd4 E3 ubiquitin ligase with epithelial
sodium channels is controlled by osmolality,
vasopres-sin and 14-3-3 proteins [36]
Another potential ‘damage sensory’ protein that is
rapidly induced by hyperosmotic stress in tilapia gills
and stabilizes select mRNAs of adaptive value is HuR
[26] It is possible that HuR relays information about
mRNA stability during hyperosmolality to the
osmo-sensory signal transduction network HuR recognizes,
binds and, in most cases, stabilizes labile mRNAs
Thus, information about mRNA stability may
contrib-ute to osmosensory signal transduction Unfortunately,
we know nothing about the role of the DNA damage
sensing network for osmotic stress signaling in fish,
although it is likely that information about DNA
dam-age contributes to osmosensory signal transduction in
fishes, just as it does in mammals and organisms other
than vertebrates [34]
Systemic responses of fishes to
osmotic stress
Osmotic stress activates a systemic response, which is
mediated by hormones to a great extent Through their
concerted action, osmoregulatory hormones coordinate
adaptive responses in different tissues within an
organ-ism [37] Endocrine responses to osmotic stress seem to
occur in two phases, an acute-phase response and a
longterm response The acute-phase response takes
place in the order of minutes to hours and involves
many hormones, including arginine vasopressin,
angio-tensin II, natriuretic peptides, vasoactive intestinal
pep-tide, urotensin II, insulin and nongenomic actions of
corticosteroids [38] Major outcomes of the
acute-membrane insertion of nascent ion transport proteins and changes in activity of existing ion transport pro-teins
The second phase long-term response is regulated primarily by genomic actions of corticosteroids, pro-lactin, growth hormone, and insulin-like growth fac-tor I The effect of these hormones is fine-tuned at the cellular level via adjustment of expression and membrane insertion of the corresponding hormone receptors [39] Signaling pathways emanating from those receptors control primarily long-term changes in ion transport capacity via regulation of transport pro-tein expression and synthesis, cell proliferation and cell differentiation [38] Many excellent reviews, some
of which are referenced above, have been published that detail the systemic action of osmoregulatory hor-mones in fishes, which exceeds the scope of this mini-review
Additional systemic factors contribute to osmoregu-lation in fishes via paracrine signaling Such factors include endothelin, nitric oxide and prostanoids, which play a role in adaptive modulation of ion transport across the opercular epithelium of euryha-line killifish (F heteroclitus) [40] Nitric oxide, in par-ticular, may be a paracrine signal that contributes significantly to the regulation of chloride cell function
in fish gills in response to osmotic stress because nitric oxide synthase is highly expressed in epithelial cells that are located immediately adjacent to chloride cells [41]
In summary, we have provided a brief overview about recent progress on osmosensing and osmotic stress signaling in fishes Our current knowledge in this field is fragmentary at best and many interesting chal-lenges remain Fundamental questions in this area still require answers How do cells and organisms quantify osmotic stress to determine whether it exceeds their tolerance limits and adaptive capacity (e.g whether or not to activate apoptosis)? How do key proteins and molecular mechanisms cooperate to confer high toler-ance to osmotic stress? Is the physiological trait of euryhalinity always based on the same conserved set of proteins and signaling mechanisms or did nature evolve many solutions to a common problem? How are osmotic stress signaling pathways integrated into intracellular signaling networks that control other physiological processes? Euryhaline fishes represent an excellent model for addressing those and many other questions that are emerging in this field because the relevant underlying mechanisms have evolved to great perfection in these animals
Trang 8This work was supported by grants from the National
Science Foundation (IOB-0542755) and CALFED
(SPSP2006-1035)
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