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TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 115, 期 2, 页码 369-378出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfq004
关键词
metabolism; physiology; genetic algorithm; predictive toxicology; ecotoxicogenomics; oxidative stress
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资金
- Natural Environment Research Council [NER/J/S/2002/00618]
- Natural Environment Research Council and Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- NERC [pml010003] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NER/J/S/2002/00618, pml010003] Funding Source: researchfish
Toxicological studies in sentinel organisms frequently use biomarkers to assess biological effect. Development of omic technologies has enhanced biomarker discovery at the molecular level, providing signatures unique to toxicant mode-of-action (MOA). However, these signatures often lack relevance to organismal responses, such as growth or reproduction, limiting their value for environmental monitoring. Our primary objective was to discover metabolic signatures in chemically exposed organisms that can predict physiological toxicity. Marine mussels (Mytilus edulis) were exposed for 7 days to 12 and 50 mu g/l copper and 50 and 350 mu g/l pentachlorophenol (PCP), toxicants with unique MOAs. Physiological responses comprised an established measure of organism energetic fitness, scope for growth (SFG). Metabolic fingerprints were measured in the same individuals using nuclear magnetic resonance-based metabolomics. Metabolic signatures predictive of SFG were sought using optimal variable selection strategies and multivariate regression and then tested upon independently field-sampled mussels from rural and industrialized sites. Copper and PCP induced rational metabolic and physiological changes. Measured and predicted SFG were highly correlated for copper (r(2) = 0.55, P = 2.82 x 10(-7)) and PCP (r(2) = 0.66, P = 3.20 x 10(-6)). Predictive metabolites included methionine and arginine/phosphoarginine for copper and allantoin, valine, and methionine for PCP. When tested on field-sampled animals, metabolic signatures predicted considerably reduced fitness of mussels from the contaminated (SFG = 6.0 J/h/g) versus rural (SFG = 15.2 J/h/g) site. We report the first successful discovery of metabolic signatures in chemically exposed environmental organisms that inform on molecular MOA and that can predict physiological toxicity. This could have far-reaching implications for monitoring impacts on environmental health.
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