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Antioxidant Efficiency of Platynereis Spp.(Annelida, Nereididae) Under Different Ph Conditions at a Vent's System Hindawi Journal of Marine Biology Volume 2019, Article ID 8415916, 9 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/8415916 Research Article Antioxidant Efficiency of Platynereis spp. (Annelida, Nereididae) under Different pH Conditions at a CO2 Vent’s System Giulia Valvassori ,1 Maura Benedetti,2 Francesco Regoli,2 and Maria Cristina Gambi1 1 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Napoli, Dept. of Integrative Marine Ecology, Villa Dohrn-Benthic Ecology Center, 80077 Ischia, Napoli, Italy 2UniversitaPolitecnicadelleMarche,Dept.DiSVA(DipartimentodiScienzedellaVitaedell’Ambiente),` Laboratory of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry, 60131 Ancona, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Giulia Valvassori; [email protected] Received 29 June 2018; Revised 19 December 2018; Accepted 2 January 2019; Published 20 January 2019 Academic Editor: Horst Felbeck Copyright © 2019 Giulia Valvassori et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Marine organisms are exposed to a pH decrease and to alteration of carbonate chemistry due to ocean acidifcation (OA) that can represent a source of oxidative stress which can signifcantly afect their antioxidant defence systems efciency. Te polychaetes Platynereis dumerilii and P. massiliensis (Nereididae) are key species of the benthic community to investigate the efect of OA due to their physiological and ecological characteristics that enable them to persist even in naturally acidifed CO2 vent systems. Previous studies have documented the ability of these species to adapt to OA afer short- and long-term translocation experiments, but no one has ever evaluated the basal antioxidant system efciency comparing populations permanently living in habitat characterized by diferent pH conditions (acidifed vs. control). Here, individuals of both Platynereis species, sampled from a natural CO2 vent system and from a nonventing “control” site in three diferent periods (April 2016, October 2016, and February 2017), were compared highlighting signals which suggested the ability of both species to acclimatize to high pCO2–low pH with slight seasonal variations of their antioxidant efciency and the absence of disturbances of the oxidative status of Platynereis spp. tissues. 1. Introduction (ROS) additional production. ROS, endogenous and highly reactive oxygen-bearing molecules, are commonly produced World climatic alterations are mainly driven by atmospheric at low concentrations during several natural cellular pathways CO2 partial pressure (pCO2) increase, as a consequence of the of aerobic metabolism, and under basal and stable conditions anthropogenic activity, which is predicted to reach 800 ppm their adverse efects are prevented by antioxidant defence by the end of the current century [1–5]. Tis change at the systems (i.e., low molecular weight scavengers and enzymes). atmospheric level also afects the ocean surface through the In stressful conditions, this balance may be altered leading phenomenon of ocean acidifcation (OA): an increase of the to uncontrolled ROS formation that translates into cellular dissolved CO2, alteration of seawater carbonate chemistry, oxidative damage against biological macromolecules includ- and the consequent reduction of the ocean pH. Ocean surface ing lipids, proteins, and DNA, impairing normal cellular pH has fallen by about 0.1 units since the beginning of the functions. Tis unbalance in favour of oxidants is termed industrial era and is expected to further decrease by 0.3-0.5 “oxidative stress”. In the last years, scientifc literature has units by the end of the current century [1, 4, 5]. Marine organ- provided evidence that global climate change, especially OA, isms are continuously exposed to a range of environmental afects antioxidant systems efciency of several marine organ- parameters, such as pH, salinity, and temperature, varying isms [6–20]. Te biological efects of low pH–high pCO2 have over temporal and spatial scales, which may represent a been investigated through not only laboratory/mesocosm source of oxidative stress that entails Reactive Oxygen Species experiments, but also studying natural volcanic CO2 vent 2 Journal of Marine Biology systems which occur in diferent parts of the world (e.g., experiments on both species also highlighted a diferenti- [21–28]). Such “natural laboratories” have so far provided ation on the expression of some target genes involved in environmentally realistic overviews of the conditions with the oxidative metabolism as a result of the exposure to which marine organisms will interface according to the near- diferent pH conditions [48, 49]. Specimens of Platynereis future OA predictions [5, 29] and represent an important tool dumerilii from a control site near the vents, Sant’Anna, to detect information about putatively tolerant species to OA showed signifcant lower levels of NADH dehydrogenase and their capability to modulate the antioxidant system in mRNA expression compared to P. cfr massiliensis from response to pH variations. Despite the growing interest of Castello acidifed sites confrming, as already stated by Calosi the scientifc community in this research feld, there is still et al. [24], that living under acidifed conditions entails a little knowledge about how the acidifcation processes afect higher energetic consumption and metabolic rate [48]. In antioxidant defence systems of the benthic biota. line with Calosi et al. [24], translocation experiment did not Within benthic community, polychaetes represent a key show signifcant efect for this gene expression in Platynereis group in marine habitat and are ofen used as bioindicators dumerilii but, in contrast, a signifcant downregulation of in monitoring programs for their high sensitivity to metal P. cfr massiliensis NADH dehydrogenase from low pH to exposure [30–33] and anthropogenic pressure [34, 35]. Due to control conditions was observed indicating a reduction in their physiological and ecological characteristics, polychaetes the oxidative metabolism of this species [48]. Diferently to are among the most abundant invertebrates under low pH what was previously asserted by Lucey et al. [46], recent conditions, such as along the naturally acidifed CO2 vent phylogenetic analysis carried out in the frame of a PhD system of the Castello at the Ischia Island [22, 36–39], and thesis on Platynereis spp.[50],samplescollectedinthesouth- various studies investigated the role of antioxidant systems acidifed areas of Castello Aragonese and the control zone of in response to low pH–high pCO2 [12, 16–18, 24, 40, 41]. Sant’Anna rocks highlighted a less evident spatial segregation Te polychaete Platynereis dumerilii (Audouin and Milne- of the two Platynereis species between the two sites. For this Edwards, 1834) (Nereididae) represents a key species: it reason, it was not possible to consider the Castello vent area showed high tolerance to environmental stress [42, 43], as an exclusive domain zone for P. massiliensis,aswellasthe including low pH [38], and for this reason it was employed as control area of Sant’Anna for P. dume r i lii . model organism in two recent in situ transplant experiments, Considering the preliminary results on antioxidant ef- carried out to evaluate the efects of OA on the oxidative ciency of putative P. dume r i lii and the presence of both species sensitivity of populations living inside and outside the vent in control and acidifed sites, the aim of this study was to area of Ischia [12, 24]. Te short-term translocation (only 5 provide new insights about the basal levels of the antioxidant days) displayed a true local adaptation to low pH conditions, system in Platynereis spp., comparing populations living at with an exclusive genotype apparently restricted to the diferent pH conditions (acidifed vs. control). Tis compar- acidifed areas of Castello Aragonese (Ischia) characterized ison between populations was carried out in three diferent by higher metabolic rate, measured as oxygen consumption periods: April 2016, October 2016, and February 2017, in [24]. Te genotype of the acidifed areas was later identifed relation to diferent temperature conditions. Te oxidative as the only known sibling species of Platynereis dumerilii, P. efects of diferent pH levels were evaluated thorough analysis massiliensis (Moquin-Tandon, 1869): morphologically indis- of single antioxidant activities, such as catalase (CAT), glu- tinguishable species in its adult (nonreproductive) stage, but tathione S-transferases (GST), glutathione reductase (GR), characterized by a completely diferent reproductive biology and Se-dependent and Se-independent glutathione peroxi- [44–46]. A recently published study that combined together dases (GPx), that can be very sensitive in revealing a prooxi- genetic and reproductive biology analyses revealed that dant condition [51] and thorough their integration with total both Platynereis species actually represented two diferent oxyradical scavenging capacity (TOSC), which quantify the complexes of siblings [47]. Based on preliminary genetic capability of Platynereis spp. to neutralize diferent forms ∙ results, the Castello vent site of Ischia appeared dominated of oxyradicals including peroxyl radicals (ROO ), hydroxyl ∙ by the brooding P. massiliensis sibling, while the control radicals (HO ), and peroxynitrite (HOONO) [52]. site by the broadcasting species P. dume r i lii [24, 46,
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