Acute salinity tolerance and the control of two prolactins and their receptors in the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and Mozambique tilapia (O. mossambicus): A comparative study
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Acute salinity tolerance and the control of two prolactins and their receptors in the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) and Mozambique tilapia (O. mossambicus): A comparative study
Abstract
Osmoregulation in vertebrates is largely controlled by the neuroendocrine system. Prolactin (PRL) is critical for the survival of euryhaline teleosts in fresh water by promoting ion retention. In the euryhaline Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), pituitary PRL cells release two PRL isoforms, PRL188 and PRL177, in response to a fall in extracellular osmolality. Both PRLs function via two PRL receptors (PRLRs) denoted PRLR1 and PRLR2. We conducted a comparative study using the Nile tilapia (O. niloticus), a close relative of Mozambique tilapia that is less tolerant to increases in environmental salinity, to investigate the regulation of PRLs and PRLRs upon acute hyperosmotic challenges in vivo and in vitro. We hypothesized that differences in the regulation of PRLs and PRLRs underlie the variation in salinity tolerance of tilapias within the genus Oreochromis. When transferred from fresh water to brackish water (20‰), Nile tilapia increased plasma osmolality and decreased circulating PRLs, especially PRL177, to a greater extent than Mozambique tilapia. In dispersed PRL cell incubations, the release of both PRLs was less sensitive to variations in medium osmolality in Nile tilapia than in Mozambique tilapia. By contrast, increases in pituitary and branchial prlr2 gene expression in response to a rise in extracellular osmolality were more pronounced in Nile tilapia relative to its congener, both in vitro and in vivo. Together, these results support the conclusion that inter-specific differences in salinity tolerance between the two tilapia congeners are tied, at least in part, to the distinct responses of both PRLs and their receptors to osmotic stimuli.
Keywords: Osmoregulation; Osmosensitivity; Prolactin; Salinity tolerance; Tilapia.
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