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Studying magnesium transport in the common goldfish (Carassius auratus) using molecular and potentiometric approaches: Role and characterization of the magnesium transporter solute carrier 41a1 (SLC41a1) Vladimir Ivaylov Kodzhahinchev A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science Graduate Program in Biology York University Toronto, Ontario December 2016 ©Vladimir Ivaylov Kodzhahinchev, 2016 Abstract This thesis examined how magnesium transporter solute carrier 41a1 (SLC41a1) is regulated at the transcriptional level in the stenohaline goldfish (Carassius auratus) in response to environmental (ion-poor water exposures and temperature variation) and dietary manipulations (feeding a low, regular and high magnesium content diet). SLC41a1 mRNA behaved contrary to my hypotheses that expression levels would be innversely proportional to magnesium availability in the diet and environment. This suggests SLC41a1 participates in magnesium secretion, rather than absorption as proposed in mammals. Finally, the scanning ion-selective electrode technique (SIET) was used as an alternative to radioisotope approaches in magnesium transport study. SIET found transport zonation along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract for magnesium, suggestive of mostly passive transport kinetics for magnesium at the 1st GI tract segment. Furthermore, a decrease in magnesium transport at the 1st and 8th GI tract segments was observed in response to 10-4M ouabain, but not 10-4M cobalt(III)hexamine-chloride. ii Acknowledgments The following thesis was completed solely by me with the exception of the following collaborations. The experiments shown in Figures 12 and 14 were completed with D. Kovacevic. I extracted all of the tissues used in both experiments, while we completed the cDNA synthesis together. Finally, D. ran the qPCR plates using my designed primers, while I troubleshot, ran the statistics and constructed the graphs. Figure 16 was completed with A. Biancolin. I sampled all of the tissues for segment 1, while the two of us worked together on the other 7 segments (I troubleshot and assisted A.). I ran the statistics and constructed the graph. Finally, Dr. Carol Bucking provided the entirety of Figure 17, including the data and statistical analysis. I am eternally grateful to my supervisor, Dr. Carol Bucking, for having taken me under her wing for the past 3.5 years. It is through her seemingly limitless patience, wisdom and kindness that I have been able to survive both an undergraduate thesis and (hopefully) a Master’s thesis. I would also like to thank my present and past lab mates, (in turns of appearance) Leah, Dom, Julie, Salma, Tehmeena, Melanie and Pranav, all of whom have been critical to maintaining my sanity throughout graduate school, either by offering a helping hand, a thoughtful comment, or a warm cup of coffee. I would especially like to thank Drago and Andrew, the two undergraduate thesis students I had the pleasure of collaborating with over the past year. Next, I would also like to thank Dr. Andrew Donini, for being a very kind and helpful advisor. Much of this thesis would not have been possible without him sharing knowledge (and access) of the SIET and ISME systems. I would also like to thank the members of the Donini lab, namely Lidiya, Gil, Andrea, Sima and Heath, for being wonderful people, every one of which has had to show me how to pull reference electrodes on multiple occasions. I would also like to thank Dr. Scott Kelly for agreeing to be a part of my defence committee, and much more importantly, inspiring my initial interest in animal physiology. I would like to extend this gratitude to Kelly lab members, Anna, Julia, Chun and Dennis, all of whom have helped me on numerous occasions (many of which involved me locking myself out of room 022). I would also like to thank Andreea of the Paluzzi lab for always being a good sport about sharing the SIET room over the past year and a half and not getting too mad at me for occasionally stealing her electrodes. I’d especially like to thank Carm for always brightening my day and making the past 4 months of writing this thesis bearable. Finally and most importantly, I would like to thank my family for their continuous support and love. Without the numerous sacrifices of my parents, Ivaylo and Margarita and the kindness of my sister, Marlena, I would not be the same person I am today. iii Table of contents Abstract….…………...…………………………………………….…………...………………..ii Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………………….…………iii Table of contents...……………………………………………………………….…………..…..iv List of tables..……………………………………………………………………..…………......vii List of figures..………………………………………………………..…………………….......viii List of abbreviations…………………………………………………………………………......ix Chapter 1: General background.………………………………………………….……………..1 1.1 Fish physiology and its importance……………………………...…………………………..1 1.2 General osmo- and ionregulation overview………………………..…………………………...1 1.3 The gills, GI tract and integument form a regulated biological barrier………...………………2 1.3.1 Paracellular movement………....………………..………………………………… ...2 1.3.2 Transcellular movement ……………………………………………………….…….4 1.3.2.1 Branchial ion transport…………………………………….………………..4 1.3.2.2 Gastrointestinal ion transport…..……………………………….....….……5 1.3.2.3 Renal ion transport and urine formation……….……………………….…..6 1.4 Magnesium function and transport……………………………………………………………..7 1.5 Objective……………………………………………………………………………………... 10 Chapter 2: Molecular characterization of SLC41a1 in C. auratus…………………………..13 Introduction………….…………..……..………...……………………………..…...………… 13 2.1 Apical entry into vertebrate cells is facilitated by TRPM6 and TRPM7…………...………….13 2.2 SLC41a1 may facilitate basolateral extrusion…………………………………………..…….16 Materials and methods…………………………………………….…………..………………..22 3.1 General animal care……………………..………………………………………….………...22 3.2 Sequencing of C. auratus SLC41a1……………………………………………………….….22 3.3 RNA isolation…………………………………………………………………………….…..23 3.4 RNA precipitation……………………………………………………………………….… ...23 3.5 RNA resuspension…………………………………………………………………….……...24 3.6 cDNA synthesis.……………………………………………………………………….……..24 3.7 PCR amplification……………………………………………………………………………25 3.8 Cloning……………………………………………………………………………………….25 3.9 SLC41a1 phylogenetic analysis…………...………………………………………………….26 3.10 TRPM6 and TRPM7 phylogenetic analysis…………………………….…………………..27 3.11 Tissue expression …………………………………………………………………………...27 3.12 qPCR…………………………………………………………………..…….……………...30 3.13 Dietary manipulations, diet preparation and feeding………………………………………..31 3.13.1 Effect of feeding on SLC41a1 expression………………………..………………..32 iv 3.13.2 Effect of a high magnesium diet on SLC41a1 expression………..………………..32 3.13.3 Effect of a low magnesium diet on SLC41A1 expression…………..……………..32 3.14 Environmental manipulations……………………………………………………….………33 3.14.1 Effect of temperature on SLC41a1 expression……………………..……………...33 3.14.2 Effect of IPW exposure on SLC41a1 expression………………..………………...33 3.15 Determination of dietary magnesium concentration………………….……………………..34 3.16 Statistics…………………………………… ……………………………………………….34 Results……………………………………………………………..…………………………….36 4.1 Phylogenetic analysis of SLC41a1 and available TRPM6 and TRPM7 sequences...………...47 4.2 Tissue expression …………………………………………………………………………….48 4.3 Diet preparation………………………………………………………………………………48 4.4 Effect of time post feeding on SLC41a1 expression…… …………………………………….49 4.5 Effect of different diets on SLC41a1 expression……………………………….…………….49 4.6 Effect of temperature on SLC41a1 expression………………………….……………………50 4.7 Effect of IPW exposure on SLC41a1 expression……………….…………....………………50 Discussion………………..…………………………………………………...…………… ……52 5.1 Phylogenetic analysis………………………………………………………………………...52 5.2 SLC41a1, TRPM6 and TRPM7, and their role in Mg2+ transport in the GI tract, kidney and gill……………………………………..…………………………………………………………53 5.3 Dietary manipulation and feeding schedule………………………………………………….58 5.4 Environmental changes…………………………………………………… …………………60 5.5 Hypothesis for SLC41a1 function………...…………..……………………………..……….61 Chapter 3: Potentiometric study of magnesium transport in C. auratus……………………64 Introduction……….…………………………………………………………………………… 64 6.1 SIET as a tool for measuring ion transport……….…………………………………………..64 6.2 Hypothesis……………………………………………………………………………………66 Materials and methods...…………………………………………………………..……………69 7.1 Animal care, dissections and tissue preparations…………………………………………….69 7.2 Scanning ion-selective electrode technique (SIET)………………………….…………..…...70 7.3 Construction and salinization of electrodes…………………………………….…………….71 7.4 Assembly of ion-selective microelectrodes for Mg2+, Ca2+ and H+………….………….…...72 7.5 Effects of cobalt(III)-hexaammine chloride and ouabain on the SIET measured Mg2+, Ca2+ and H+ fluxes at the serosal and mucosal sides of the 1st and 8th GI segments, as well as at the gill……………………………………………………………………………….…………….…73 7.6 Concentration gradient and flux calculations………………………………………….……...73 7.7 Chyme magnesium concentration.…………………… ……………………………………...75 7.8 Gastrointestinal zonation of SLC41a1…………………..……………………………….…...75 7.9 Statistics…………………………………………………………… ………………………...75 Results………………………………………………………………………………...…….…...76 8.1 Gastrointestinal zonation..…………………………………… ……………………………...87 8.2 Mg2+, Ca2+ and H+ transport kinetics with increasing luminal magnesium concentration..…..88 v 8.3 Ion fluxes at non-everted 1st and 8th GI segments………..………………………………..…89 8.4 Ion fluxes at everted 1st GI segment………..……………….………..………………………90
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    Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. A, 42(3), pp. 133–141, August 22, 2016 Comments on Puffers of the Genus Takifugu from Russian Waters with the First Record of Yellowfin Puffer, Takifugu xanthopterus (Tetraodontiformes, Tetraodontidae) from Sakhalin Island Yury V. Dyldin1, Keiichi Matsuura2 and Sergey S. Makeev3 1 Tomsk State University, Lenin Avenue 36, Tomsk, 634050, Russia E-mail: [email protected] 2 National Museum of Nature and Science, 4–1–1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305–0005, Japan E-mail: [email protected] 3 FGBI Sakhalinrybvod, ul. Emelyanova, 43A, 693000 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia E-mail: [email protected] (Received 31 March 2016; accepted 22 June 2016) Abstract In August 2015 a single specimen of Takifugu xanthopterus was collected at the mouth of the Lyutoga River in Aniva Bay, southern Sakhalin Island in the southern Sea of Okhotsk. This is the first discovery of this species from Sakhalin Island, and represents the northernmost record for the species. Also we report eight species of Takifugu from Russia based on newly collected specimens, our survey of literature and the fish collection of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Key words : Puffers, Takifugu, taxonomy, Sakhalin, new record Introduction phyreus (Temminck and Schlegel, 1850) and T. rubripes (Temminck and Schlegel, 1850) have Sakhalin Island is the largest island of the Rus- been collected in this area (see Schmidt, 1904; sian Federation and surrounded by the Seas of Lindberg et al., 1997; Sokolovsky et al., 2011). Japan and Okhotsk (Fig. 1). The west coast of During the course of study on the fish fauna of Sakhalin is washed by the warm Tsushima Cur- Sakhalin Island by the first author, specimens of rent and the east coast by the cold East Sakhalin the genus Takifugu have become available for Current.