The effects of hypoxia and pH on phenoloxidase activity in the Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Christopher A TannerKaren G Burnett

Abstract

In its natural coastal and estuarine environments, the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, often encounters hypoxia, accompanied by hypercapnia (increased CO2) and an associated decrease in water pH. Previous studies have shown that exposure to hypercapnic hypoxia (HH) impairs the crab's ability to remove culturable bacteria from its hemolymph. In the present study we demonstrate that the activity of phenoloxidase (PO), an enzyme critical to antibacterial immune defense in crustaceans, is decreased at the low levels of hemolymph O2 and pH that occur in the tissues of blue crabs exposed to HH. Hemocyte PO activity was measured at tissue O2 levels that occur in normoxic (5% and 15% O2, approximate venous and arterial hemolymph, respectively) and hypoxic (1% O2) crabs and compared to PO activity in air-saturated conditions (21% O2). PO activity decreased by 33%, 49% and 70% of activity in air at 15%, 5% and 1% O2, respectively. When O2 was held at 21% and pH lowered within physiological limits, PO activity decreased with pH, showing a 16% reduction at pH 7.0 as compared with a normoxic pH of 7.8. These results suggest that decreased PO activity at low tissue O2 and pH compromises the ability of crustaceans in HH to defend themselves a...Continue Reading

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