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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 5:1274-1285, 2006.
© 2006 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Identification of Proteomic Signatures of Exposure to Marine Pollutants in Mussels (Mytilus edulis)^*,S

Itxaso Apraiz, Jia Mi and Susana Cristobal^,¶

From the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Box 596, Uppsala University, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden

Bivalves and especially mussels are very good indicators of marine and estuarine pollution, and so they have been widely used in biomonitoring programs all around the world. However, traditional single parameter biomarkers face the problem of high sensitivity to biotic and abiotic factors. In our study, digestive gland peroxisome-enriched fractions of Mytilus edulis (L., 1758) were analyzed by DIGE and MS. We identified several proteomic signatures associated with the exposure to several marine pollutants (diallyl phthalate, PBDE-47, and bisphenol-A). Animals collected from North Atlantic Sea were exposed to the contaminants independently under controlled laboratory conditions. One hundred and eleven spots showed a significant increase or decrease in protein abundance in the two-dimensional electrophoresis maps from the groups exposed to pollutants. We obtained a unique protein expression signature of exposure to each of those chemical compounds. Moreover a set of proteins composed a proteomic signature in common to the three independent exposures. It is remarkable that the principal component analysis of these spots showed a discernible separation between groups, and so did the hierarchical clustering into four classes. The 14 proteins identified by MS participate in - and ß-oxidation pathways, xenobiotic and amino acid metabolism, cell signaling, oxyradical metabolism, peroxisomal assembly, respiration, and the cytoskeleton. Our results suggest that proteomic signatures could become a valuable tool to monitor the presence of pollutants in field experiments where a mixture of pollutants is often present. Further studies on the identified proteins could provide crucial information to understand possible mechanisms of toxicity of single xenobiotics or mixtures of them in marine ecosystems.

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