Variation in prostaglandin metabolism during growth of the diatom Thalassiosira rotula.

ABSTRACT: Prostaglandins (PGs) are hormone-like mediators in many physiological and pathological processes that are present in all vertebrates, in some terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates, and have also been identified in some macroalgae. They have recently been reported also in marine microalgae but their role as chemical mediators is largely unknown. Here we studied the expression pattern of the PG biosynthetic pathway during different growth phases of the centric diatom Thalassiosira rotula and assessed the release of PGs in the surrounding environment for the first time. We show that enzymes responsible for PGs formation such as cyclooxygenase, prostaglandin E synthase 2-like and prostaglandin F synthase are mainly expressed at the end of the exponential phase and that PGs are released especia

SUBMITTER: Di Dato V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7096440 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature