PUBLICATION
Bioenergetic profiling of zebrafish embryonic development
- Authors
- Stackley, K.D., Beeson, C.C., Rahn, J.J., and Chan, S.S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-111025-5
- Date
- 2011
- Source
- PLoS One 6(9): e25652 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Chan, Sherine, Rahn, Jennifer, Stackley, Krista
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism
- Animals
- Cell Respiration/drug effects
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/cytology
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/drug effects
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism*
- Energy Metabolism*/drug effects
- Extracellular Space/drug effects
- Extracellular Space/metabolism
- Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
- Linear Models
- Microarray Analysis/methods*
- Mitochondria/drug effects
- Mitochondria/metabolism
- Protons
- Reproducibility of Results
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- PubMed
- 21980518 Full text @ PLoS One
Citation
Stackley, K.D., Beeson, C.C., Rahn, J.J., and Chan, S.S. (2011) Bioenergetic profiling of zebrafish embryonic development. PLoS One. 6(9):e25652.
Abstract
Many debilitating conditions are linked to bioenergetic defects. Developing screens to probe the genetic and/or chemical basis for such links has proved intractable. Furthermore, there is a need for a physiologically relevant assay of bioenergetics in whole organisms, especially for early stages in life where perturbations could increase disease susceptibility with aging. Thus, we asked whether we could screen bioenergetics and mitochondrial function in the developing zebrafish embryo. We present a multiplexed method to assay bioenergetics in zebrafish embryos from the blastula period (3 hours post-fertilization, hpf) through to hatching (48 hpf). In proof of principle experiments, we measured respiration and acid extrusion of developing zebrafish embryos. We quantified respiratory coupling to various bioenergetic functions by using specific pharmacological inhibitors of bioenergetic pathways. We demonstrate that changes in the coupling to ATP turnover and proton leak are correlated with developmental stage. The multiwell format of this assay enables the user to screen for the effects of drugs and environmental agents on bioenergetics in the zebrafish embryo with high sensitivity and reproducibility.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping