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Title:Metabolomic assessment of induced and activated chemical defence in the invasive red alga Gracilaria vermiculophylla
Author(s):Nylund GM; Weinberger F; Rempt M; Pohnert G;
Address:"Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Instrumental Analytics/Bioorganic Analytics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany. goran.nylund@marecol.gu.se"
Journal Title:PLoS One
Year:2011
Volume:20111221
Issue:12
Page Number:e29359 -
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029359
ISSN/ISBN:1932-6203 (Electronic) 1932-6203 (Linking)
Abstract:"In comparison with terrestrial plants the mechanistic knowledge of chemical defences is poor for marine macroalgae. This restricts our understanding in the chemically mediated interactions that take place between algae and other organisms. Technical advances such as metabolomics, however, enable new approaches towards the characterisation of the chemically mediated interactions of organisms with their environment. We address defence responses in the red alga Gracilaria vermiculophylla using mass spectrometry based metabolomics in combination with bioassays. Being invasive in the north Atlantic this alga is likely to possess chemical defences according to the prediction that well-defended exotics are most likely to become successful invaders in systems dominated by generalist grazers, such as marine macroalgal communities. We investigated the effect of intense herbivore feeding and simulated herbivory by mechanical wounding of the algae. Both processes led to similar changes in the metabolic profile. Feeding experiments with the generalist isopod grazer Idotea baltica showed that mechanical wounding caused a significant increase in grazer resistance. Structure elucidation of the metabolites of which some were up-regulated more than 100 times in the wounded tissue, revealed known and novel eicosanoids as major components. Among these were prostaglandins, hydroxylated fatty acids and arachidonic acid derived conjugated lactones. Bioassays with pure metabolites showed that these eicosanoids are part of the innate defence system of macroalgae, similarly to animal systems. In accordance with an induced defence mechanism application of extracts from wounded tissue caused a significant increase in grazer resistance and the up-regulation of other pathways than in the activated defence. Thus, this study suggests that G. vermiculophylla chemically deters herbivory by two lines of defence, a rapid wound-activated process followed by a slower inducible defence. By unravelling involved pathways using metabolomics this work contributes significantly to the understanding of activated and inducible defences for marine macroalgae"
Keywords:"Biological Assay Chromatography, Gas Chromatography, Liquid Mass Spectrometry *Metabolomics Rhodophyta/metabolism/*physiology Up-Regulation;"
Notes:"MedlineNylund, Goran M Weinberger, Florian Rempt, Martin Pohnert, Georg eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2012/01/05 PLoS One. 2011; 6(12):e29359. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029359. Epub 2011 Dec 21"

 
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