1. Comparisons of liver proteomes in the European flounder Platichthys flesus from three contrasted estuaries
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Michel Auffret, Vianney Pichereau, Louis Quiniou, Claire Galland, Cécile Dupuy, Carole Capitaine, Jean Laroche, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) (LEMAR), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Sentinel species ,Platichthys flesus ,Vitelline membrane ,Liver Proteomics ,010501 environmental sciences ,Aquatic Science ,Biology ,Oceanography ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Juvenile ,14. Life underwater ,EUROPEAN FLOUNDER ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030304 developmental biology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,0303 health sciences ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Ecology ,Estuary ,Biomarker ,biology.organism_classification ,Pollution ,Platichthys ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,Proteome - Abstract
International audience; Estuaries are important areas highly susceptible to anthropogenic degradations like pollution. Estuarine species have thus to cope with many types of constraints depending on the estuaries' characteristics. The European flounder Platichthys flesus is considered as a sentinel species for the monitoring of estuarine water quality. In this study, juvenile flounders (0+ group) were sampled from three contrasted Channel estuaries, i.e. the Seine, the Canche and the Tamar, and we characterized their liver proteomes by using a two-dimensional electrophoresis based proteomic approach. We showed that 27 protein spots differentially accumulated between the 3 populations. Six of these proteins were identified by MALDI TOF-TOF mass spectrometry. Flounders from the Seine and from the Tamar, two highly polluted estuaries, displayed common differences, i.e. an increase of the energetic- and the glutathione-metabolism. The most accumulated protein in the Seine's samples (6.7-fold) was a Vitelline Membrane Outer layer protein 1 homolog, suggesting oogenesis deregulation in these juvenile (sexually immature) flounders. Future works applying this kind of proteomic approach on flounders experimentally exposed to conditions that mimic environmental constraints will help to better understand the significance of these environmental proteomic signatures.
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- 2013
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