Pentachlorophenol impairs the antimicrobic capability of blood clam via undermining humoral immunity and disrupting humoral-cellular crosstalk.

Autor: Zhang W; College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China., Tang Y; College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China., Han Y; School of Life and Environmental, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 311121, China., Tian D; College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China., Yu Y; College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China., Yu Y; College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China., Li W; College of Marine Sciences, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Biodiversity Conservation, Beibu Gulf University, Qinzhou, 535011, China., Shi W; College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China., Liu G; College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China. Electronic address: guangxu_liu@zju.edu.cn.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Chemosphere [Chemosphere] 2024 Sep; Vol. 364, pp. 143230. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 31.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.143230
Abstrakt: Due to past massive usage and persistent nature, pentachlorophenol (PCP) residues are prevalent in environments, posing a potential threat to various organisms such as sessile filter-feeding bivalves. Although humoral immunity and its crosstalk with cellular one are crucial for the maintaining of robust antimicrobic capability, little is known about the impacts of PCP on these critical processes in bivalve mollusks. In this study, pathogenic bacterial challenge and plasma antimicrobic capability assays were carried out to assess the toxic effects of PCP on the immunity of a common bivalve species, blood clam (Tegillarca granosa). Moreover, the impacts of PCP-exposure on the capabilities of pathogen recognition, hemocyte recruitment, and pathogen degradation were analyzed as well. Furthermore, the activation status of downstream immune-related signalling pathways upon PCP exposure was also assessed. Data obtained illustrated that 28-day treatment with environmentally realistic levels of PCP resulted in evident declines in the survival rates of blood clam upon Vibrio challenge along with markedly weakened plasma antimicrobic capability. Additionally, the levels of lectin and peptidoglycan-recognition proteins (PGRPs) in plasma as well as the expression of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) in hemocytes were found to be significantly inhibited by PCP-exposure. Moreover, along with the downregulation of immune-related signalling pathway, markedly fewer chemokines (interleukin 8 (IL-8), IL-17, and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α)) in plasma and significantly suppressed chemotactic activity of hemocytes were also observed in PCP-exposed blood clams. Furthermore, compared to that of the control, blood clams treated with PCP had markedly lower levels of antimicrobic active substances, lysozyme (LZM) and antimicrobial peptides (AMP), in their plasma. In general, the results of this study suggest that PCP exposure could significantly impair the antimicrobic capability of blood clam via undermining humoral immunity and disrupting humoral-cellular crosstalk.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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