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Metabonomic Analysis of Macrobrachium rosenbergii with Iron Prawn Syndrome (IPS)
Summary
Researchers performed metabonomic and RNA-seq analyses of freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) affected by Iron Prawn Syndrome, identifying hundreds of differentially expressed proteins and key metabolic pathway disruptions that shed light on the molecular basis of this disease.
We previously reported on the comparison of proteomic data between seven tissue types of a novel “iron prawn” species. However, no transcripts or metabolic information are available for this species. We therefore performed shotgun LC–MS/MS metabonomic and RNA-seq analyses of the total protein from “iron prawns”. KEGG analysis revealed that the largest group consisted of a total of 114 KEGG pathway proteins, comparing the “iron prawns” with the normal prawns. A total of 423 peptides, corresponding to metabolic pathways, ABC transporters, starch and sucrose metabolism, insulin resistance/secretion, fatty digestion and absorption, and lipid metabolism, were identified. The pathways of carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism decreased in female iron prawns, while organic acid and its derivatives increased. However, the pathway of organic acid and its derivatives decreased and lipid metabolism increased in the male iron prawns. The pathways of choline metabolism in cancer and glycerophospholipid/histidine/propanoate metabolism have been significantly affected in iron prawns. Our work provides insight into the understanding of the formation mechanism of the “iron prawn”.
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