Decoding Octopus Skin Mucus: Impact of Aquarium-Maintenance and Senescence on the Proteome Profile of the Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris).

ABSTRACT: The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) is an excellent candidate for aquaculture diversification, due to its biological traits and high market demand. To ensure a high-quality product while maintaining welfare in captive environments, it is crucial to develop non-invasive methods for testing health biomarkers. Proteins found in skin mucus offer a non-invasive approach to monitoring octopus welfare. This study compares the protein profiles in the skin mucus of wild, aquarium-maintained, and senescent specimens to identify welfare biomarkers. A tandem mass tag (TMT) coupled with an Orbitrap Eclipse Tribrid mass spectrometer was used to create a reference dataset from octopus skin mucus, identifying 1496 non-redundant protein groups. Although similar profiles were observed, differences

SUBMITTER: Perez-Polo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11431876 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature