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American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology
2026
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| Online Access: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42166648/ |
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- Isotocin receptor-adenylyl cyclase signaling mediates pH compensation in marine fish exposed to CO-induced acidification. Liu, Tzu-Yen Guh, Ying-Jey Chen, Yi-An Shih, Shang-Wu Chou, Pei-Hsuan Tsou, Yi-Lin Lee, Yi-Chun Chen, Ruo-Dong Chou, Ming-Yi Lee, Jae-Seong Hwang, Pung-Pung Hu, Marian Y Tseng, Yung-Che Animals Hydrogen-Ion Concentration Adenylyl Cyclases Signal Transduction Ocean Acidification Oxytocin Carbon Dioxide Fish Proteins Receptors, Peptide Gills Marine fish survival is threatened by ocean acidification, but the hormonal mechanisms for pH compensation are not well understood, limiting mechanistic understanding of stress responses in marine fish. We examined isotocin signaling in marine medaka () exposed to year-2100 ocean acidification conditions (Pco ∼0.14 kPa, pH 7.6). Our analysis demonstrated that isotocin receptor b (ITRb) was selectively upregulated at 6 h postexposure in adult gills, though it showed only a nonsignificant trend at 5 days postfertilization (dpf) embryos, whereas adenylyl cyclase 5 (ADCY5) showed hypercapnia responsiveness primarily at hatching. Using immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy, we found that both ITRb and ADCY5 proteins localize to the basolateral membrane of Na-K-ATPase-positive ionocytes, partially separated from apical H-secretion machinery. Knockdown experiments showed that ITRb-ADCY5 coupling is crucial for pH compensation, with individual knockdown moderately reducing H secretion and combined knockdown causing severe impairment (>70% reduction) and decreasing transcription of acid-secretion genes (, , and ) by 44%-60%. Paradoxically, double knockdown triggered a twofold cAMP increase that failed to restore function, whereas wild-type embryos maintained stable cAMP levels across pH conditions, consistent with the hypothesis that ITRb-ADCY5 coupling may organize cAMP production within specific basolateral microdomains, though direct subcellular imaging would be required to validate this compartmentalization model. The developmental asynchrony between ITRb (5 dpf) and ADCY5 (hatching) responses indicates life-stage-specific vulnerabilities. Our findings reveal that basolateral ITRb-ADCY5 coupling represents a critical control point for pH compensation capacity. Isotocin signaling, through ITRb-ADCY5 coupling, enables marine fish to compensate for ocean acidification via compartmentalized rather than global cAMP production. Paradoxically, disrupting this pathway doubles cAMP levels yet abolishes H secretion, revealing that signal localization determines function. The developmental asynchrony between ITRb and ADCY5 responses suggests that pH-stress vulnerabilities are specific to each life stage and require further investigation.