The nuchal organ of the embryos and neonates of the cladoceran, Daphnia magna, has been shown to be a site of Na+ influx and H+, NH4+ and Cl efflux. This study combines the scanning ion-selective electrode technique with application of inhibitors of specific transporters to assess the mechanisms of Na+ transport across the nuchal organ. Na+ influx across the nuchal organ was inhibited both by inhibitors of the Na+/K+-ATPase (ouabain, bufalin) and by inhibitors of the vacuolar H+-ATPase (bafilomycin, N-ethylmaleimde, 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole, KM91104, S-nitrosoglutathione). Na+ influx was unaffected by the epithelial Na+ channel blocker benzamil, but was sensitive to ethylisopropyl amiloride and elevated external ammonium concentrations, consistent with roles for Na+/H+ and Na+/NH4+ exchangers in the apical membrane but not Na+ channels. Transport across the basolateral membrane into the haemolymph is proposed to involve the Na+/K+-ATPase and a thiazide-sensitive Na+/Cl cotransporter.

Many species of hyperregulating adult crustaceans in fresh or brackish water typically use the gills for ionoregulatory Na+ uptake (Freire et al., 2008; Kirschner, 2004). Another ionoregulatory structure, variously termed the dorsal organ, neck gland or nuchal organ, is found in a wide variety of larval and adult branchiopods, copepods and malacostracans (Martin and Laverack, 1992). The branchiopod nuchal organ contains mitochondria-rich ion transporting cells (Aladin and Potts, 1995) and has recently been shown to be the site of influx of Na+ and efflux of H+ and NH4+ in embryos and juveniles of the cladoceran Daphnia magna (Morris and O'Donnell, 2019). Unexpectedly, there was also a consistent efflux of Cl (from haemolymph to water) across the nuchal organ. The latter paper (Morris and O'Donnell, 2019) suggests that Cl efflux reflects displacement of extracellular Cl by a surplus of other anions, including HCO3, which accumulates to levels as high as 20.9 mmol l−1 in the related species Daphnia pulex (Weber and Pirow, 2009), and circulating amino acids, peptides and proteins, on which net negative charges are favoured by an extracellular pH of 8.33 in D. magna haemolymph.

The genus Daphnia is an established model for toxicology and studies of ionoregulatory mechanisms of the nuchal organ can provide the foundation for understanding the actions of environmental pollutants such as silver (Bianchini and Wood, 2003) in juveniles, which are known to be more sensitive to toxic metals (Hoang and Klaine, 2007). A study of 22Na uptake in juvenile and adult daphnids used pharmacological tools to characterize the mechanisms involved in Na+ uptake (Bianchini and Wood, 2008). Given that D. magna can survive in both fresh and brackish waters (Schuytema et al., 1997), the drugs tested in the earlier study (Bianchini and Wood, 2008) were chosen for the present study based on the mechanisms described for salt-transporting epithelia of hyperosmoregulating crustaceans (Kirschner, 2004; Freire et al., 2008). The concentrations of drugs tested in the present study of the nuchal organ and in the earlier whole-animal measurements (Bianchini and Wood, 2008) were selected based on concentrations that inhibit the target mechanisms in weak and strong hyperosmoregulator crustaceans, as summarized in several reviews (Freire et al., 2008; Kirschner, 2004; Onken and Riestenpatt, 1998; Pequeux, 1995).

Whole-animal studies do not distinguish between Na+ uptake by the gills versus the nuchal organ. The goal of the present study was to use inhibitors of specific ion transport mechanisms, in conjunction with the scanning ion-selective electrode technique (SIET), to assess the mechanisms of Na+ uptake across the nuchal organ in neonate D. magna.

Daphnia magna Straus were maintained at room temperature (23°C) in aerated 20 l tanks of dechlorinated Hamilton tap water (DHTW). The water was sourced from Lake Ontario, and contained (in mmol l−1): 1 Ca, 0.6 Na, 0.70 Cl, 0.3 Mg and 0.05 K, with a titration alkalinity of 2.1 mequiv l−1, hardness of ∼140 mg l−1 as CaCO3 equivalents, and pH ∼8.0 (Hollis et al., 2001; Leonard et al., 2014). Daphnia were fed a 2:2:1 mixture of Spirulina powder:Chlorella powder:yeast 3 times per week. Na+ flux across the nuchal organ was measured in neonates staged and handled as described in an earlier publication (Morris and O'Donnell, 2019).

Methods for construction, calibration and use of Na+-selective microelectrodes with the SIET technique have been described in detail in an earlier publication (Morris and O'Donnell, 2019). Briefly, SIET measurements of Na+ flux were made at the centre of the nuchal organ and at locations 20 μm anterior and posterior to the centre. At each measurement site, the Na+-selective microelectrode was moved between an inner position within 3–5 μm of the nuchal organ and an outer position 30 or 50 μm further away along a line perpendicular to the tissue surface. Replicate measurements (3) were made at each site, and the mean voltage difference between the two limits of excursion was converted into a concentration difference using the Na+ microelectrode calibration curve. Na+ flux was estimated from the measured concentration gradients using Fick's law. Flux was measured before and after the addition of each transport inhibitor to the bathing solution. None of the compounds at the concentrations used in this study interfered with the Na+-selective microelectrodes, with the exception of benzamil and ethyl isopropyl amiloride (EIPA). For these last two compounds, we modified the protocol developed for analysis of Na+ uptake by the mosquito anal papilla (Del Duca et al., 2011). Benzamil (100 µmol l−1 in DHTW) or EIPA (20 µmol l−1 in 0.02% dimethyl sulfoxide, DMSO) was added to the bathing solution for 15 min, the bath was then replaced with DHTW 4 times and Na+ flux was then measured in DHTW. Pharmacological reagents were obtained from Millipore Sigma (Oakville, ON, Canada).

Data are presented as means±s.e.m. GraphPad Prism 9 (San Diego, CA, USA) was used for graphing and statistical analyses. Significance of differences (P<0.05) between control and experimental values was assessed with repeated measures one-way ANOVA, as described in the figure captions.

Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitors

Fig. 1 shows Na+ influx (means±s.e.m.) before and after exposure to transport inhibitors. Na+ influx at the nuchal organ was reduced 52% by exposure to ouabain (1 mmol l−1) for 12 min (Fig. 1A). We also assessed the effect of bufalin, a non-glycosylated bufadienolide, which is more hydrophobic than the glycosylated cardenolide ouabain and forms fewer hydrogen bonds when binding to the Na+/K+-ATPase. Its binding is also less sensitive than ouabain to the presence of high concentrations of K+ (Laursen et al., 2015). Na+ influx was reduced 37% by bufalin at 5 µmol l−1 in 0.01% DMSO (Fig. 1B) and reduced 59% by bufalin at 50 µmol l−1 in 0.1% DMSO (Fig. 1C). There was no effect of 1% DMSO on Na+ influx (Fig. S1A), and Na+ flux in the presence of DMSO was of similar magnitude to values recorded previously (Morris and O'Donnell, 2019) in DHTW alone (∼300 pmol cm−2 s−1).

Fig. 1.

Na+ influx (mean± s.e.m.) in response to transport inhibitors. (A–C) Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitors; (D–H) vacuolar H+-ATPase inhibitors (NEM, N-ethylmaleimide; NBD-Cl, 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole); (I–M) Na+ channel, exchanger and cotransporter inhibitors (EIPA, ethyl isopropyl amiloride); (N,O) anion transport inhibitors (DPC, diphenylamine-2-carboxylic acid). Open bars represent the control Na+ influx for Daphnia magna neonates bathed in dechlorinated Hamilton tap water. The indicated concentration of the inhibitor was then added at 3 min and flux was measured at 6, 9, 12 and 15 min. Data in A–E and G–M passed normality tests and were analysed using one-way repeated measures ANOVA and Dunnet's post hoc test. Data for F failed normality tests and were analysed using Friedman's non-parametric ANOVA and Dunn's post hoc multiple comparisons test. Asterisks denote significant (P<0.05) differences between control (t=3 min; open bars) and experimental (t=6–15 min; filled bars) values. Number of animals is indicated in parentheses in the control bar.

Fig. 1.

Na+ influx (mean± s.e.m.) in response to transport inhibitors. (A–C) Na+/K+-ATPase inhibitors; (D–H) vacuolar H+-ATPase inhibitors (NEM, N-ethylmaleimide; NBD-Cl, 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole); (I–M) Na+ channel, exchanger and cotransporter inhibitors (EIPA, ethyl isopropyl amiloride); (N,O) anion transport inhibitors (DPC, diphenylamine-2-carboxylic acid). Open bars represent the control Na+ influx for Daphnia magna neonates bathed in dechlorinated Hamilton tap water. The indicated concentration of the inhibitor was then added at 3 min and flux was measured at 6, 9, 12 and 15 min. Data in A–E and G–M passed normality tests and were analysed using one-way repeated measures ANOVA and Dunnet's post hoc test. Data for F failed normality tests and were analysed using Friedman's non-parametric ANOVA and Dunn's post hoc multiple comparisons test. Asterisks denote significant (P<0.05) differences between control (t=3 min; open bars) and experimental (t=6–15 min; filled bars) values. Number of animals is indicated in parentheses in the control bar.

Vacuolar H+-ATPase inhibitors

Bafilomycin (20 µmol l−1 in 0.5% DMSO) and N-ethylmaleimide (NEM, 50 μmol l−1 in DHTW) reduced Na+ influx by 48% (Fig. 1D) and 77% (Fig. 1E), respectively. NEM inhibits vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) by binding to the cysteinyl residue on the V1A subunit (Bowman and Bowman, 1986), whereas bafilomycin binds to the V0 subunit c (Bowman and Bowman, 2002). The inhibitor 7-chloro-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole (NBD-Cl) may also act as a sulfhydryl reagent with V-ATPase, rather than as a tyrosine reagent as in the eubacterial type H+-ATPases (Moriyama and Nelson, 1987). Na+ influx was reduced 92% by NBD-Cl (10 µmol l−1 in 0.1% DMSO; Fig. 1F). S-Nitrosoglutathione inhibits the V-ATPase through disulfide bond formation between cysteine residues at the catalytic site (Forgac, 1999). Na+ influx was reduced 48% by S-nitrosoglutathione (200 μmol l−1 in DHTW; Fig. 1G). KM91104, a benzohydrazide derivative, was discovered through screening inhibitors of the interactions of the a3 and B2 subunits of the osteoclast V-ATPase (Kartner and Manolson, 2014). Na+ influx was reduced 30% by KM91104 (100 µmol l−1 in 0.1% DMSO; Fig. 1H).

Inhibitors of Na+ channels, exchangers and cotransporters

We examined the effects of two amiloride derivatives which affect Na+ channels and Na+/H+ exchangers (NHEs) differentially. Benzamil, a potent inhibitor of epithelial Na+ channels (Canessa et al., 1994), had no significant effect on Na+ influx (100 μmol l−1 in DHTW; Fig. 1I). By contrast, Na+ influx was reduced 44% by EIPA (20 µmol l−1 in 0.2% DMSO; Fig. 1J), an effective inhibitor of NHEs (Masereel et al., 2003). Na+ influx was reduced 28% by bumetanide (500 μmol l−1 in DHTW; Fig. 1K), an effective inhibitor of Na+/K+/2Cl cotransport. The effects of hydrochlorothiazide, an inhibitor of the Na+/Cl cotransporter (de Jong et al., 2003) were tested because bumetanide, at the concentration used, can also block Na+/Cl cotransport (Dørup and Clausen, 1996). Na+ influx was reduced 45% by hydrochlorothiazide (1 mmol l−1 in 0.5% DMSO; Fig. 1L). Multiple studies have reported evidence for Na+/NH4+ exchangers in crustacean gills (Evans and Cameron, 1986) and Na+ influx at the nuchal organ is accompanied by NH4+ efflux (Morris and O'Donnell, 2019). We therefore assessed whether Na+ influx was affected by an elevated external NH4+ concentration that would tend to oppose Na+ influx through an apical Na+/NH4+ exchanger. Na+ influx was reduced 44% by the addition of 10 mmol l−1 NH4Cl to the water (Fig. 1M).

Effects of treatments altering anion transport

Na+ influx at the nuchal organ was reduced 73% by the Cl channel blocker diphenylamine-2-carboxylic acid, (DPC; 1 mmol l−1 in 0.5% ethanol; Fig. 1N). There was no effect of the vehicle ethanol (0.5%) on Na+ influx (Fig. S1B). We also examined the effects of the carbonic anhydrase (CA) inhibitor acetazolamide, as interference with HCO3 production might alter Na+ influx through transporters such as the Na+-dependent Cl/HCO3 exchanger, or through secondary effects following reduced supply of H+ for the V-ATPase. Na+ influx was reduced 58% by acetazolamide (1 mmol l−1 in 0.5% DMSO; Fig. 1O).

A model of Na+ transport

The results are summarized in a working model of Na+ transport across the nuchal organ (Fig. 2). We suggest that Na+ influx is driven by the actions of two ATPases. Inhibition of Na+ influx by ouabain and bufalin is consistent with the presence of a basolateral Na+/K+-ATPase. Our proposal of an apical V-ATPase is based on the effects of multiple inhibitors: bafilomycin, NEM, NBD-Cl, KM91104 and S-nitrosoglutathione. The previous study of 22Na uptake by whole neonates also proposed an apical location for the V-ATPase based on inhibition of Na+ uptake by 0.5 µmol l−1 bafilomycin (Bianchini and Wood, 2008). Our preliminary measurements indicated inconsistent effects of bafilomycin A1 at 5 µmol l−1 (data not shown), and we therefore assessed the effects of the drug at 20 µmol l−1. The difference in bafilomycin A1 sensitivity between the present and earlier study may reflect effects of the drug at the gill versus the nuchal organ. Differences in the thickness and/or composition of the cuticle overlying the nuchal organ may present a more significant diffusion barrier to bafilomycin A1 access to the nuchal organ relative to the gill. This difference in bafilomycin A1 sensitivity prompted us to measure the effects of the other V-ATPase inhibitors. NEM is typically used at a concentration of 1 mmol l−1 (Lin and Randall, 1993) but we found 77% inhibition of Na+ influx at a concentration of 50 µmol l−1. Similarly, NBD-Cl causes half-maximal inhibition of V-ATPase driven short circuit current in tobacco hornworm midgut at 100–200 µmol l−1 (Schirmanns and Zeiske, 1994), and we found 92% inhibition of Na+ influx at 10 µmol l−1 NBD-Cl. It is important to point out that precise comparisons in the effectiveness of different drugs in terms of their percentage inhibition are difficult in the absence of measured IC50 values for each compound. Our goal in this study was to use inhibitors to confirm the likely presence or absence of particular transporters in the nuchal organ, for which Na+ transport characteristics have not previously been determined.

Fig. 2.

Working model of ion transport across the nuchal organ of neonate D. magna. (A) Schematic diagram of a neonate, showing the location of the nuchal organ in relation to the other morphological features. (B) The nuchal organ is the site of influx of Na+ and efflux of H+, NH4+ and Cl. Inhibitors of specific transporters are noted.

Fig. 2.

Working model of ion transport across the nuchal organ of neonate D. magna. (A) Schematic diagram of a neonate, showing the location of the nuchal organ in relation to the other morphological features. (B) The nuchal organ is the site of influx of Na+ and efflux of H+, NH4+ and Cl. Inhibitors of specific transporters are noted.

In the classic frog skin model of Na+ uptake across a tight epithelium, the role of the apical V-ATPase is to drive Na+ uptake from low concentrations in the water through Na+ channels in response to the inside-negative apical membrane potential generated by the V-ATPase (Harvey, 1992). We found no effect of the epithelial Na+ channel blocker benzamil on Na+ influx across the nuchal organ, whereas 22Na+ uptake by whole neonates is reduced by the related compound phenamil (Bianchini and Wood, 2008). This may reflect a more significant role for Na+ channels in the neonate gill, whereas Na+/H+ exchange inhibitable by EIPA is more important at the nuchal organ. Na+ uptake through the latter transport pathway would be sensitive to reduced activity of the electrogenic V-ATPase if the exchanger stoichiometry is also electrogenic (2Na+/1H+), as reported in previous studies of Na+ transport in adult Daphnia (Glover and Wood, 2005) and other crustaceans (e.g. Ahearn et al., 2001). It is important to note that the neonates were pre-exposed to benzamil and EIPA in our study and the flux recorded after the drugs were washed off, because of interference of benzamil and EIPA with Na+-selective microelectrodes. Rapid reversal of channel blockade by benzamil could thus explain our results, although such rapid reversal was not seen with EIPA in this study, nor with phenamil, a compound related to benzamil, in a previous study of Na+ transport across the anal papillae of freshwater chironomids (Del Duca et al., 2011).

Na+ influx across the nuchal organ is reduced by elevation of [NH4+] in the water, consistent with the presence of a Na+/NH4+ exchange mechanism (Fig. 2B). Such exchangers have been reported in many crustaceans (Evans and Cameron, 1986). An alternative explanation is diffusion of NH3 outward across the gill followed by diffusion trapping with H+ supplied by the V-ATPase (Weihrauch and O'Donnell, 2015). Both diffusion trapping and Na+/NH4+ exchange would be opposed by high concentrations of NH4+ in the external boundary layer at the nuchal organ.

Inhibition of Na+ influx across the nuchal organ by hydrochlorothiazide and bumetanide is consistent with the earlier study of 22Na+ uptake by whole neonates (Bianchini and Wood, 2008). Our model proposes a basolateral location for a Na+/Cl cotransporter (Fig. 2B), as does the previous study.

Our finding that acetazolamide inhibits Na+ influx across the nuchal organ is consistent with inhibition of net uptake of 22Na+ in whole neonates and adults by acetazolamide (Bianchini and Wood, 2008). Interference with production of H+ by CA presumably reduces transport across both V-ATPase and the proposed 2Na+/H+ exchanger. There is a substantive difference between our model of nuchal organ Na+ transport and the Na+ uptake model presented by the earlier whole-animal study (Bianchini and Wood, 2008) with regards to Cl transport. The earlier model proposed Cl uptake by whole animals, whereas our study of the nuchal organ of embryos and neonates revealed a consistent efflux of Cl (Morris and O'Donnell, 2019). We have therefore proposed a basolateral Cl/HCO3 exchanger that transports Cl from haemolymph to cytoplasm of the nuchal organ cells in exchange from CA-generated HCO3. Export of HCO3 into the haemolymph is consistent with the high concentrations of HCO3 in the haemolymph in the related species D. pulex (Weber and Pirow, 2009). We suggest that an apical Cl channel sensitive to DPC mediates transfer of Cl from cell to water, and that the inhibitory effects of DPC on Na+ influx are thus indirect. Accumulation of Cl in the cells of the nuchal organ in response to DPC will tend to suppress HCO3 transfer to the haemolymph, with resulting end-product inhibition of the generation of HCO3 and H+ by CA and a consequent reduction in V-ATPase activity.

Early life stages of many aquatic organisms including crustaceans such as D. magna are well known to be more sensitive than adults to toxicants (Mohammed, 2013). The nuchal organ is the primary means for pH and ionoregulation before development of the gills, gut and renal organs, and further studies of this tissue may aid identification of the effects of toxicants on specific ion transport pathways in a single transporting epithelium in this important bioindicator species.

Author contributions

Conceptualization: C.M., M.J.O.; Methodology: M.J.O.; Formal analysis: C.M., M.J.O.; Investigation: C.M., M.J.O.; Data curation: M.J.O.; Writing - original draft: C.M., M.J.O.; Writing - review & editing: C.M., M.J.O.; Supervision: M.J.O.; Project administration: M.J.O.; Funding acquisition: M.J.O.

Funding

This study was supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants to M.J.O. (RGPIN-2015-05359).

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