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Accumulation, detoxification, and toxicity of dibutyl phthalate in the swimming crab

Journal

CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 289, Issue -, Pages -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.133183

Keywords

Dibutyl phthalate; Swimming crab; Accumulation; Detoxification; Oxidative stress

Funding

  1. National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFD0900303]
  2. Marine Biotechnology and Marine Engineering Discipline Group in Ningbo University [422004582]
  3. China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA
  4. K. C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University

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The study found that DBP accumulates in swimming crabs in a concentration-dependent manner and is metabolized to monobutyl phthalate (MBP) and phthalic acid (PA) through de-esterification. Exposure to DBP induced different responses in cytochrome P450 members, antioxidant enzyme genes, and heat stress proteins, leading to malondialdehyde accumulation, decreased glutathione levels, and inhibited antioxidant enzyme activities. Survival, size, and weight of crabs were not significantly affected by DBP, but molting was delayed. Despite this, the study suggests that DBP triggers strong detoxification and antioxidative defense mechanisms in swimming crab juveniles.
Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) is one of the most commonly used and toxic phthalate esters and has a variety of harmful effects on aquatic animals. However, there is still a lack of knowledge on the accumulation, detoxification, and toxicity of DBP in aquatic animals. In this study, we chose the swimming crab Portunus trituberculatus, an ecologically and economically important species, as the model and investigated the metabolism of DBP and its effects on the detoxification, antioxidation, survival and growth of the crab juveniles to better understand DBPtriggered molecular response over different time courses. As a result, DBP could be accumulated in the swimming crab in a concentration-dependent manner and metabolized to monobutyl phthalate (MBP) and phthalic acid (PA) through de-esterification. DBP exposure induced the different responses of three cytochrome P450 members and antioxidant enzyme genes, enhanced gene transcript and protein levels of glutathione-S-transferase and two heat stress proteins and malondialdehyde accumulation, decreased glutathione level, and inhibited antioxidant enzyme activities. Further, no significant effect of DBP was observed in crab survival, size, and weight but there was molting retardation. Therefore, DBP induced strong detoxification and antioxidative defense mechanisms to overcome detrimental effects of DBP on the swimming crab juveniles despite a molting retardation as a trade-off in fitness costs. The prevalent coexistence of DBP with MBP and PA during the whole exposure period is raising concerns on the combined action and ecological risk to aquatic animals.

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