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Reproductive Toxicity of Furfural Acetone in Meloidogyne incognita and Caenorhabditis elegans
Furfural acetone (FAc) is a promising alternative to currently available nematicides, and it exhibits equivalent control efficiency on root-knot nematodes with avermectin in fields. However, its effect on the reproduction of root-knot nematode is poorly understood. In this study, the natural metabol...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8834415/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35159211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11030401 |
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author | Cheng, Wanli Yang, Xue Xue, Hua Huang, Dian Cai, Minmin Huang, Feng Zheng, Longyu Yu, Ziniu Zhang, Jibin |
author_facet | Cheng, Wanli Yang, Xue Xue, Hua Huang, Dian Cai, Minmin Huang, Feng Zheng, Longyu Yu, Ziniu Zhang, Jibin |
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description | Furfural acetone (FAc) is a promising alternative to currently available nematicides, and it exhibits equivalent control efficiency on root-knot nematodes with avermectin in fields. However, its effect on the reproduction of root-knot nematode is poorly understood. In this study, the natural metabolite FAc was found to exhibit reproductive toxicity on Meloidogyne incognita and Caenorhabditis elegans. The number of germ cells of C. elegans was observed to decrease after exposure to FAc, with a reduction of 59.9% at a dose of 200 mg/L. FAc in various concentrations induced the germ-cell apoptosis of C. elegans, with an increase over six-fold in the number of apoptotic germ cells at 200 mg/L. These findings suggested that FAc decreased the brood size of nematode by inducing germ-cell apoptosis. Moreover, FAc-induced germ-cell apoptosis was suppressed by the mutation of gene hus-1, clk-2, cep-1, egl-1, ced-3, ced-4, or ced-9. The expression of genes spo-11, cep-1, and egl-1 in C. elegans was increased significantly after FAc treatment. Taken together, these results indicate that nematode exposure to FAc might inflict DNA damage through protein SPO-11, activate CEP-1 and EGL-1, and induce the core apoptosis pathway to cause germ-cell apoptosis, resulting in decreased brood size of C. elegans. |
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spelling | pubmed-88344152022-02-12 Reproductive Toxicity of Furfural Acetone in Meloidogyne incognita and Caenorhabditis elegans Cheng, Wanli Yang, Xue Xue, Hua Huang, Dian Cai, Minmin Huang, Feng Zheng, Longyu Yu, Ziniu Zhang, Jibin Cells Article Furfural acetone (FAc) is a promising alternative to currently available nematicides, and it exhibits equivalent control efficiency on root-knot nematodes with avermectin in fields. However, its effect on the reproduction of root-knot nematode is poorly understood. In this study, the natural metabolite FAc was found to exhibit reproductive toxicity on Meloidogyne incognita and Caenorhabditis elegans. The number of germ cells of C. elegans was observed to decrease after exposure to FAc, with a reduction of 59.9% at a dose of 200 mg/L. FAc in various concentrations induced the germ-cell apoptosis of C. elegans, with an increase over six-fold in the number of apoptotic germ cells at 200 mg/L. These findings suggested that FAc decreased the brood size of nematode by inducing germ-cell apoptosis. Moreover, FAc-induced germ-cell apoptosis was suppressed by the mutation of gene hus-1, clk-2, cep-1, egl-1, ced-3, ced-4, or ced-9. The expression of genes spo-11, cep-1, and egl-1 in C. elegans was increased significantly after FAc treatment. Taken together, these results indicate that nematode exposure to FAc might inflict DNA damage through protein SPO-11, activate CEP-1 and EGL-1, and induce the core apoptosis pathway to cause germ-cell apoptosis, resulting in decreased brood size of C. elegans. MDPI 2022-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8834415/ /pubmed/35159211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11030401 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Cheng, Wanli Yang, Xue Xue, Hua Huang, Dian Cai, Minmin Huang, Feng Zheng, Longyu Yu, Ziniu Zhang, Jibin Reproductive Toxicity of Furfural Acetone in Meloidogyne incognita and Caenorhabditis elegans |
title | Reproductive Toxicity of Furfural Acetone in Meloidogyne incognita and Caenorhabditis elegans |
title_full | Reproductive Toxicity of Furfural Acetone in Meloidogyne incognita and Caenorhabditis elegans |
title_fullStr | Reproductive Toxicity of Furfural Acetone in Meloidogyne incognita and Caenorhabditis elegans |
title_full_unstemmed | Reproductive Toxicity of Furfural Acetone in Meloidogyne incognita and Caenorhabditis elegans |
title_short | Reproductive Toxicity of Furfural Acetone in Meloidogyne incognita and Caenorhabditis elegans |
title_sort | reproductive toxicity of furfural acetone in meloidogyne incognita and caenorhabditis elegans |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8834415/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35159211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11030401 |
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