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  • Chronic exposure to low dos...
    Perez-Gelvez, Yeni Natalia C.; Unger, Shem; Kurz, Simone; Rosenbalm, Katelyn; Wright, William Matthew; Rhodes, Olin E.; Tiemeyer, Michael; Bergmann, Carl W.

    International journal of radiation biology, 03/2021, Letnik: 97, Številka: 3
    Journal Article

    Ionizing radiation is found naturally in the environment. Low doses of IR may have beneficial applications, yet there is also potential for detrimental long-term health effects. Impacts following exposure to low levels of IR have been refractory to identification and quantification. Glycoprotein glycosylation is vital to cell-cell communication and organismal function, and sensitive to changes in an organism's macro- and cellular environment. We investigated whether accumulated low doses of IR (LoDIR) affect the N-linked glycoprotein glycans using Medaka fish (Oryzias latipes). State-of-the-art methods in radiation exposure and glycan analysis were applied to study N-glycan changes after 190 day exposure at three different rates of gamma irradiation (2.25, 21.01, and 204.3 mGy/day) in wild-type adult Medaka. Tissue N-glycans were analyzed following enzymatic release from extracted proteins. N-linked glycan profiles are dominated by complex type N-glycans modified with terminal sialic acid and core fucose. Fucosylation and sialylation of N-linked glycoprotein glycans are affected by LoDIR and a subset of N-glycans are involved in the organismal radio-response. This is the first indication that the glycome can be interrogated for biomarkers that report the impact of chronic exposure to environmental stressors, such as low-level IR.