Ornithine-urea cycle and urea synthesis in African lungfishes, Protopterus aethiopicus and Protopterus annectens, exposed to terrestrial conditions for six days

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 303, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 354-365

  Ai, May Loong ^a   Kum, Chew Hiong ^a   Lee, Serene Min Lin ^a   Wai, Peng Wong ^a   Shit, Fun Chew ^b   Yuen, Kwong Ip ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPNOI; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; PROTOPTERIDAE; PROTOPTERUS AETHIOPICUS; PROTOPTERUS ANNECTENS; PROTOPTERUS DOLLOI; TAENIURA LYMMA; VERTEBRATA;

ARGINASE; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; ORNITHINE; UREA;

AIR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISH; LIVER; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AIR; ANIMALS; ARGINASE; CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (AMMONIA); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; LIVER; MITOCHONDRIA; ORNITHINE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UREA;

EID: 19644388172     PISSN: 15488969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.147     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Anderson PM. 1976. A glutamine- and N-acetyl-L-glutamate-dependent carbamoyl phosphate synthetase activity in the teleost Micropterus salmoides. Comp Biochem Physiol 54B:261-263.
2. Anderson PM, Little RM. 1986. Kinetic properties of cyanase. Biochemistry 25:1621-1626.
3. Anderson PM, Walsh PJ. 1995. Subcellular localization and biochemical properties of the enzyme carbamoyl phosphate synthetase and urea synthesis in the batrachoidid fishes, Opsanus beta, Opsanus tau and Porichthys notatus. J Exp Biol 198:755-766.
4. Anderson PM, Broderius MA, Fong KC, Tsui KNT, Chew SF, Ip YK. 2002. Glutamine synthetase expression in liver, muscle, stomach and intestine of Bostrichyths sinensis in response to exposure to a high exogenous ammonia concentration. J Exp Biol 205:2053-2065.
5. Bergmeyer HU, Beutler HO. 1985. Ammonia. In: Bergmeyer HU, Bergmeyer J, Graßl M. editors. Methods of Enzymatic Analysis, vol. VIII. New York City, NY: Academic Press. p 454-461.
6. Bradford MM. 1976. A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal Biochem 72:248-254.
7. Brien P. 1959. Ethologie du Protopterus dolloi (Boulenger) et de ses larves. Signification des sacs pulmonaires des Dipneustes. Ann Soc R Zool Belg 89:9-48.
8. Brusilow SW. 2002. Reviews in Molecular Medicine-Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy. Medicine 81:240-249.
9. Cao XY, Kemp JR, Anderson PM. 1991. Subcellular localization of two glutamine-dependent carbamoyl-phosphate synthetases and related enzymes in liver of Micropterus salmoides (largemouth bass) and properties of isolated liver mitochondria: comparative relationships with elasmobranchs. J Exp Zool 258:24-33.
10. Chang MM. 1991. "Rhipidistians," dipnoans, and tetrapods. In Schultze HP, Trueb L. editors. Origins of the higher groups of tetrapods: Controversy and consensus. New York: Cornell University Press. p. 3-28.
11. Chew SF, Ong TF, Ho L, Tam WL, Loong AM, Hiong KC, Wong WP, Ip YK. 2003. Urea synthesis in the African lungfish Protopterus dolloi: hepatic carbamoyl phosphate synthetase III and glutamine synthetase are up regulated by 6 days of aerial exposure. J Exp Biol 206:3615-3624.
12. Chew SF, Chan NKY, Tam WL, Loong AM, Hiong KC, Ip YK. 2004. Nitrogen metabolism in the African lungfish (Protopterus dolloi) aestivating in a mucus cocoon on land. J Exp Biol 207:777-786.
13. Chew SF, Wilson JM, Ip YK, Randall DJ. 2005. Nitrogenous excretion and defense against ammonia toxicity. In Val A, Almedia-Val V, Randall DJ. Editors. Fish Physiology Volume 23, The Physiology of Tropical Fishes. New York City, NY: Academic Press. In press.
14. Cooper JL, Plum F. 1987. Biochemistry and physiology of brain ammonia. Physiol Rev 67:440-519.
15. Felskie AK, Anderson PM, Wright PA. 1998. Expression and activity of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase III and ornithine urea cycle enzymes in various tissues of four fish species. Comp Biochem Physiol 119B:355-364.
16. Felipo V, Butterworth RF. 2002. Neurobiology of ammonia. Progr Neurobiol 67:259-279.
17. Forey PL. 1987. Relationships of lungfishes. J Morphol [suppl] 1:75-91.
18. Forey PL. 1988. Golden jubilee for the coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae. Nature 336:727-732.
19. Fritsch B. 1987. Inner ear of the coelacanth fish Latimeria has tetrapod affinities. Nature 327:153-154.
20. Graham JB. 1997. Air-breathing Fishes: Evolution, Diversity and Adaptation. London, England: Academic Press.
21. Hermenegildo C, Marcaida G., Montoliu C, Grisolia S, Minana M, Felipo V. 1996. NMDA receptor antagonists prevent acute ammonia toxicity in mice. Neurochem Res 21:1237-1244.
22. Ip YK, Chew SF, Randall DJ. 2001. Ammonia toxicity, tolerance and excretion. In Wright PA, Anderson PM. Editors. Fish Physiology vol. 19, Nitrogen Excretion. New York City, NY: Academic Press. p 109-148.
23. Ip YK, Chew SF, Randall DJ. 2004. Five tropical air-breathing fishes, six different strategies to defend against ammonia toxicity on land. Physiol Biochem Zool. In press.
24. Janssens PA. 1964. The metabolism of the aestivating African lungfish. Comp Biochem Physiol 11:105-117.
25. Janssens PA, Cohen PP. 1966. Ornithine-urea cycle enzymes in the African lungfish Protopterus aethiopicus. Science 152:358-359.
26. Janssens PA, Cohen PP. 1968a. Biosynthesis of urea in the estivating African lungfish and in Xenopus laevis under conditions of water shortage. comp Biochem Physiol 24:887-898.
27. Janssens PA, Cohen PP. 1968b. Nitrogen metabolism in the African lungfish. Comp Biochem Physiol 24:879-886.
28. Jow LY, Chew SF, Lim CB, Anderson PM, Ip YK. 1999. The marble goby Oxyeleotris marmoratus activates hepatic glutamine synthetase and detoxifies ammonia to glutamine during air exposure. J Exp Biol 202:237-245.
29. Miles R. 1975. The relationships of Dipnoi. Collq Int CNRS 218:133-148.
30. Miles R. 1977. Dipnoan (lungfish) skulls and the relationships of the group: a study based on new species from the Devonian of Australia. Zool J Linn Soc 61:1-328.
31. Mommsen TP, Walsh PJ. 1989. Evolution of urea synthesis in vertebrates: the piscine connection. Science 243:72-75.
32. Mommsen TP, Walsh PJ. 1991. Urea synthesis in fishes: evolutionary and biochemical perspectives. In Hochachka PW, Mommsen TP. editors. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Fishes, 1. Phylogenetic and Biochemical Perspectives. Amsterdam: Elsevier Press. p 137-164.
33. Northcutt RG. 1987. Lungfish neural characters and their bearing on sarcopterygian phylogeny. J Morpho [suppl] 1:277-297.
34. Poll M. 1961. Révision systématique et raciation géographique des Protopteridae de l'Afrique centrale. Ann Mus R Afr Centr série in-8° Sci Zool 103:3-50.
35. Rasmussen AS, Janke A, Arnason U. 1998. The mitochondrial DNA molecule of the hagfish (Myxine glutinosa) and vertebrate phylogeny. J Mol Evol 46:382-288.
36. rd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
37. Rosen DE, Forey PL, Gardiner BG, Patterson C. 1981. Lungfishes, tetrapods, paleontology and plesiomorphy. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 167:159-276.
38. Rose C. 2002. Increased extracellular brain glutamate in acute liver failure: Decreased uptake or increased release? Metab Brain Dis 17:251-261.
39. Schultze HP. 1987. Dipnoans as sarcopterygians. J Morphol [Suppl] 3:39-74.
40. Shankar RA, Anderson PM. 1985. Purification and properties of glutamine synthetase from the liver of Squalus acanthias. Arch Biochem Biophys 239:248-259.
41. Smith HW. 1935. The metabolism of the lungfish II. Effect of feeding meat on metabolic rate. J Cell Comp Physiol 6:335-349.
42. Tramell PR, Campbell JW. 1970. Carbamoyl phosphate synthesis in a land snail, Strophocheilus oblongus. J Biol Chem 245:6634-6641.
43. Xiong X, Anderson PM. 1989. Purification and properties of ornithine carbamoyl transferase from the liver of Squalus acanthias. Arch Biochem Biophys 270:198-207.
44. Yokobori S, Hasegawa M, Ueda T. 1994. Relationship among coelacanths, lungfishes, and tetrapods - A phylogenetic analysis based on mitochondrial cytochrome-oxidase-I gene-sequence. J Mol Evol 38:602-609.
45. Zardoya R, Meyer A. 1996. The complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the lungfish (Protopterus dolloi) supports its phylogenetic position as a close relative of land vertebrates. Genetics 142:1249-1263.