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Journal Article
Thermal acclimation mitigates cold-induced paracellular leak from the Drosophila gut
2017
Overview
Chill susceptible insects suffer tissue damage and die at low temperatures. The mechanisms that cause chilling injury are not well understood but a growing body of evidence suggests that a cold-induced loss of ion and water homeostasis leads to hemolymph hyperkalemia that depolarizes cells, leading to cell death. The apparent root of this cascade is the net leak of osmolytes down their concentration gradients in the cold. Many insects, however, are capable of adjusting their thermal physiology, and cold-acclimated
Drosophila
can maintain homeostasis and avoid injury better than warm-acclimated flies. Here, we test whether chilling causes a loss of epithelial barrier function in female adult
Drosophila
, and provide the first evidence of cold-induced epithelial barrier failure in an invertebrate. Flies had increased rates of paracellular leak through the gut epithelia at 0 °C, but cold acclimation reduced paracellular permeability and improved cold tolerance. Improved barrier function was associated with changes in the abundance of select septate junction proteins and the appearance of a tortuous ultrastructure in subapical intercellular regions of contact between adjacent midgut epithelial cells. Thus, cold causes paracellular leak in a chill susceptible insect and cold acclimation can mitigate this effect through changes in the composition and structure of transepithelial barriers.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ 14/28
/ 14/34
/ 64/24
/ 82/1
/ Animals
/ Chilling
/ Cold
/ Dextrans
/ Female
/ Gastrointestinal Tract - metabolism
/ Gastrointestinal Tract - pathology
/ Gastrointestinal Tract - ultrastructure
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Insects
/ Intercellular Junctions - metabolism
/ Intercellular Junctions - ultrastructure
/ Midgut
/ Science
