Anaerobiosis in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 269-280

  Föll, Roman L ^a   Pleyers, Anne ^a   Lewandovski, Gerhard J ^a   Wermter, Carsten ^a   Hegemann, Volker ^a   Paul, Rüdiger J ^a  

^a Institut für Zoophysiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaerobiosis; Anoxia; Axenic; Caenorhabditis elegans; Carbohydrate; Energy metabolism; Escherichia coli; Mortality; Organic acids; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032720028     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(99)00130-3     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Barrett J, Butterworth PE. Acetaldehyde formation by mitochondria from the free-living nematode Panagrellus redivivus. Biochem J 1984;221:535-40.
2. Bergmeyer HU, Möllering H. Acetate. In: Bergmeyer HU, editor. Methods of enzymatic analysis, vol. 6. Weinheim: Verlag Chemie, 1984:628-39.
3. Beutler H-O. Ethanol. In: Bergmeyer HU, editor. Methods of enzymatic analysis, vol. 6. Weinheim: Verlag Chemie, 1984:598-606.
4. Bradford MM. A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye-binding. Anal Biochem 1974;72:248-54.
5. Brenner S. The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 1974;77:71-94.
6. Brooks A, Lithgow GJ, Johnson TE. Mortality rates in a genetically heterogenous population of Caenorhabditis elegans. Science 1994;263:668-71.
7. Bryant C, Behm CA. Biochemical adaptation in Parasites. London, New York: Chapman and Hall, 1989.
8. Butterworth PE, Barrett J. Anaerobic metabolism in the free-living nematode Panagrellus redivivus. Physiol Zool 1985;58:9-17.
9. Cooper AF, van Gundy SD. Ethanol production and utilisation by Aphelenchus avenae and Caenorhabditis sp.. J Nematol 1971;3:205-14.
10. de Cuyper C, Vanfleteren JR. Oxygen consumption during development and aging of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Comp Biochem Physiol 1982;73A(2):283-9.
11. Dümmler K, Müller S, Seitz HJ. Regulation of adenine nucleotide translocase and glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase expression by thyroid hormones in different rat tissues. Biochem J 1996;317:913-8.
12. Dusenberry DB, Andersen GL, Andersen EA. Thermal acclimation more extensive for behavioural parameters than for oxygen consumption in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Exp Zool 1978;206:191-8.
13. Engel PC, Jones JB. Causes and elimination of erratic blancs in enzymatic metabolite assays involving the use of NAD in alkaline hydrazine buffers: improved conditions for the assay of L-glutamate, L-lactate and other metabolites. Anal Biochem 1978;88:475-84.
14. Goldberg ND, Passonneau JV. L-Malate and fumarate, fluorimetric determination. In: Bergmeyer HU, editor. Methods of enzymatic analysis, vol. 3, 2nd edition. Weinheim: Verlag Chemie, 1974:1600-3.
15. Grieshaber MK, Hardewig I, Kreutzer U, Pörtner H-O. Physiological and metabolic responses to hypoxia in invertebrates. Rev Physiol Parmacol 1994;125:63-147.
16. Gutman I, Wahlefeld AW. L-(+)-Laktat: Bestimmung mit Laktatdehydrogenase und NAD. In: Bergmeyer HU, editor. Methoden der enzymatischen Analyse, vol. 2. Weinheim: Verlag Chemie, 1974:1510-4.
17. Hemmingsen AM. Energy metabolism as related to body size and respiratory surfaces, and its evolution. Rep Steno Mem Hosp (Copenhagen) 1960;9:1-110.
18. Hesslinger C, Fairhurst SA, Sawers G. Novel keto acid formate lyase and propionate kinase enzymes are components of an anaerobic pathway in Escherichia coli that degrades L-threonine to propionate. Mol Microbiol 1998;27(2):477-92.
19. Hochachka PW. Living without oxygen. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 1980.
20. Hochachka PW, Lutz PL, Sick T, Rosenthal M, van den Thillart G, editors. Surviving Hypoxia-mechanisms of control and adaptation. Boca Raton, FL; London; Tokyo: CRC Press, 1993.
21. Hochachka PW, Buck LT, Doll CJ, Land SC. Unifying theory of hypoxia tolerance: molecular/metabolic defense and rescue mechanisms for surviving oxygen lack. Proc Natl Acad Sci 1996;93:9493-8.
22. Kunst A, Draeger B, Ziegenhorn J. D-Glucose. In: Bergmeyer HU, editor. Methods of enzymatic analysis, vol. 6. Weinheim: Verlag Chemie, 1984:163-72.
23. 2. FEBS Lett 1998;388:228-32.
24. Lee DL, Atkinson HJ. Physiology of nematodes, 2nd edition. London: Macmillan, 1976.
25. Liu F, Thatcher JD, Barral JM, Epstein HF. Bifunctional glyoxylate cycle protein of Caenorhabditis elegans: a developmentally regulated protein of intestine and muscle. Dev Biol 1995;169(2):399-414.
26. Murfitt RR, Vogel K, Sanadi DR. Characterization of the mitochondria of the free-living nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. Comp Biochem Physiol 1976;53B:423-30.
27. Netzker R, Hermfisse U, Wein HK, Brand K Expression of glycolytic isozymes in rat thymocytes during cell cycle progression. Bba-Mol Cell Res 1994;1224:371-6.
28. O' Riordan VB, Burnell AM. Intermediary metabolism in the dauer larva of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans-I. glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, oxidative phosphorylation and the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Comp Biochem Physiol 1989;92B:233-8.
29. O' Riordan VB, Burnell AM. Intermediary metabolism in the dauer larva of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans-II. The glyoxylate cycle and fatty acid oxidation. Comp Biochem Physiol 1990;95B:125-30.
30. Patience RL, Thomas JD, Sterry PR. Production and release of carboxylic acids during oxic and anoxic metabolism by the pulmonate snail Biomphalaria glabrata. Comp Biochem Physiol 1983;76B:253-62.
31. Pleyers A, Anaerober Stoffwechsel bei Caenorhabditis elegans - der Einfluß von Sauerstoffpartialdruck und Temperatur, Diploma Thesis, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 1996.
32. Pörtner H-O. Multicompartimental analyses of acid-base and metabolic homeostasis during anaerobiosis: invertebrate and lower vertebrate examples. In: Hochachka PW, Lutz PL, Sick T, Rosenthal M, van den Thillart G, editors. Surviving hyxpoxia: mechanisms of control and adaptations. Boca Raton, Ann Arbor, London, Tokyo: CRC Press, 1992.
33. Rioux A, Komuniecki R. 2-Methylvalerate formation in mitochondria of Ascaris suum and its relationship to anaerobic energy generation. J Comp Physiol 1984;B154:349-54.
34. Somero GN. Thermal modulation of pyruvate metabolism in the fish Gillichthys mirabilis: the role of lactate dehydrogenases. Comp Biochem Physiol 1973;44B:205-9.
35. Sulston JE, Brenner S. The DNA of Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 1974;77:95-104.
36. Sulston J, Hodgkin J. Methods. In: Wood WB, editor. The Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Cold Spring Harbour: Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Press, 1988:587-606.
37. Surholt B. Production of volatile fatty acids in the anaerobic carbohydrate catabolism of Arenicola marina. Comp Biochem Physiol 1977;58B:147-50.
38. The C. elegans Sequencing Consortium 1998. Genome sequence of the nematode C. elegans: A platform for investigating biology. Science 1998;282:2012-8.
39. Vanfleteren JR, de Vreese A. Rate of aerobic metabolism and superoxide production rate potential in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. J Exp Zool 1996;274:93-100.
40. Vanfleteren JR, Van Bun SM, de Baere I, Van Beeumen JJ. The primary structure of a minor isoform (H1.2) of Histone H1 from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Biochem J 1990;265:739-46.
41. Wadsworth WG, Riddle DL. Developmental regulation of energy metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Biol 1989;132:167-73.
42. Zebe E, Schiedeck D. The lugworm Arenicola marina: a model of physiological adaptation to life in intertidal sediments. Helgoländer Meeresunters 1996;50:37-68.