Biology (Jun 2023)

The Relationship between Lifespan of Marine Bivalves and Their Fatty Acids of Mitochondria Lipids

  • Aleksandra Anatolyevna Istomina,
  • Avianna Fayazovna Zhukovskaya,
  • Andrey Nikolaevich Mazeika,
  • Ekaterina Andreevna Barsova,
  • Victor Pavlovich Chelomin,
  • Marina Alexandrovna Mazur,
  • Olesya Alexandrovna Elovskaya,
  • Andrey Alexandrovich Mazur,
  • Nadezda Vladimirovna Dovzhenko,
  • Yuliya Vladimirovna Fedorets,
  • Alexander Alexandrovich Karpenko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12060837
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 6
p. 837

Abstract

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Marine bivalves belonging to the Mytilidae and Pectinidae Families were used in this research. The specific objectives of this study were: to determine the Fatty Acids (FAs) of mitochondrial gill membranes in bivalves with different lifespans, belonging to the same family, and to calculate their peroxidation index; to compare the levels of ROS generation, malondialdehyde (MDA), and protein carbonyls in the mitochondria of gills, in vitro, during the initiation of free-radical oxation; to investigate whether the FAs of mitochondria gill membranes affect the degree of their oxidative damage and the maximum lifespan of species (MLS). The qualitative membrane lipid composition was uniform in the studied marine bivalves, regardless of their MLS. In terms of the quantitative content of individual FAs, the mitochondrial lipids differed significantly. It is shown that lipid matrix membranes of the mitochondria of long-lived species are less sensitive to in vitro-initiated peroxidation compared with the medium and short-lived species. The differences in MLS are related to the peculiarities of FAs of mitochondrial membrane lipids.

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