Heavy metals content in Paraphilometroides nemipteri from South China Sea may influence level of glutathione and P38 protein expression

Numerous studies have shown that parasites potentially become bio-accumulators for heavy metals. The heavy metals content in parasite-infected fish was reported to be lower compared to the parasite non-infected fish. Evaluation of heavy metal content in Nemipterus peronii and Paraphilometroides nemi...

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Main Authors: Nurul Huda Abd Kadir, Mohd Fauzi Mahmud, Mohamad Khairi Mohd Zainol, Mastura Abd Malek, Faizah Shaharom Harrison
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spelling ukm-121542018-10-08T13:43:57Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12154/ Heavy metals content in Paraphilometroides nemipteri from South China Sea may influence level of glutathione and P38 protein expression Nurul Huda Abd Kadir, Mohd Fauzi Mahmud, Mohamad Khairi Mohd Zainol, Mastura Abd Malek, Faizah Shaharom Harrison, Numerous studies have shown that parasites potentially become bio-accumulators for heavy metals. The heavy metals content in parasite-infected fish was reported to be lower compared to the parasite non-infected fish. Evaluation of heavy metal content in Nemipterus peronii and Paraphilometroides nemipteri was performed using ICP-OES. Our result has shown that arsenic was the most abundance heavy metal content in muscle N. peronii and P. nemipteri, suggesting that the parasite has the ability to accumulate heavy metals. Heavy metals were reported to induce oxidative stress where glutathione and p38 protein may be involved. Thus, expression of the p38 protein was determined using western blot technique and glutathione content was measured fluorometrically. The p38 expression in P. nemipteri of Pulau Kambing was higher compared to P. nemipteri of Besut has shown that the parasite may exposed to stress. Glutathione content showed no significant changes due to detoxification mechanism occurred in the parasite. In this study, we could conclude that P. nemipteri could be a bio-accumulator, whereas p38 protein and glutathione as indicator of stress level in the parasite that exposed to the heavy metals. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12154/1/06%20Nurul%20Huda%20Abd%20Kadir.pdf Nurul Huda Abd Kadir, and Mohd Fauzi Mahmud, and Mohamad Khairi Mohd Zainol, and Mastura Abd Malek, and Faizah Shaharom Harrison, (2018) Heavy metals content in Paraphilometroides nemipteri from South China Sea may influence level of glutathione and P38 protein expression. Sains Malaysiana, 47 (7). pp. 1393-1400. ISSN 0126-6039 http://www.ukm.my/jsm/english_journals/vol47num7_2018/contentsVol47num7_2018.html
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description Numerous studies have shown that parasites potentially become bio-accumulators for heavy metals. The heavy metals content in parasite-infected fish was reported to be lower compared to the parasite non-infected fish. Evaluation of heavy metal content in Nemipterus peronii and Paraphilometroides nemipteri was performed using ICP-OES. Our result has shown that arsenic was the most abundance heavy metal content in muscle N. peronii and P. nemipteri, suggesting that the parasite has the ability to accumulate heavy metals. Heavy metals were reported to induce oxidative stress where glutathione and p38 protein may be involved. Thus, expression of the p38 protein was determined using western blot technique and glutathione content was measured fluorometrically. The p38 expression in P. nemipteri of Pulau Kambing was higher compared to P. nemipteri of Besut has shown that the parasite may exposed to stress. Glutathione content showed no significant changes due to detoxification mechanism occurred in the parasite. In this study, we could conclude that P. nemipteri could be a bio-accumulator, whereas p38 protein and glutathione as indicator of stress level in the parasite that exposed to the heavy metals.
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author Nurul Huda Abd Kadir,
Mohd Fauzi Mahmud,
Mohamad Khairi Mohd Zainol,
Mastura Abd Malek,
Faizah Shaharom Harrison,
spellingShingle Nurul Huda Abd Kadir,
Mohd Fauzi Mahmud,
Mohamad Khairi Mohd Zainol,
Mastura Abd Malek,
Faizah Shaharom Harrison,
Heavy metals content in Paraphilometroides nemipteri from South China Sea may influence level of glutathione and P38 protein expression
author_facet Nurul Huda Abd Kadir,
Mohd Fauzi Mahmud,
Mohamad Khairi Mohd Zainol,
Mastura Abd Malek,
Faizah Shaharom Harrison,
author_sort Nurul Huda Abd Kadir,
title Heavy metals content in Paraphilometroides nemipteri from South China Sea may influence level of glutathione and P38 protein expression
title_short Heavy metals content in Paraphilometroides nemipteri from South China Sea may influence level of glutathione and P38 protein expression
title_full Heavy metals content in Paraphilometroides nemipteri from South China Sea may influence level of glutathione and P38 protein expression
title_fullStr Heavy metals content in Paraphilometroides nemipteri from South China Sea may influence level of glutathione and P38 protein expression
title_full_unstemmed Heavy metals content in Paraphilometroides nemipteri from South China Sea may influence level of glutathione and P38 protein expression
title_sort heavy metals content in paraphilometroides nemipteri from south china sea may influence level of glutathione and p38 protein expression
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2018
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12154/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12154/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12154/1/06%20Nurul%20Huda%20Abd%20Kadir.pdf
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