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First published online December 1, 2006
Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 5017-5028 (2006)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2006
doi: 10.1242/jeb.02598

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DNA photorepair in echinoid embryos: effects of temperature on repair rate in Antarctic and non-Antarctic species

Miles D. Lamare^1,*, Mike F. Barker¹, Michael P. Lesser² and Craig Marshall³

¹ Department of Marine Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
² Department of Zoology and Center for Marine Biology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
³ Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

^* Author for correspondence (e-mail: miles.lamare{at}otago.ac.nz)

Accepted 16 October 2006

To determine if an Antarctic species repairs DNA at rates equivalent to warmer water equivalents, we examined repair of UV-damaged DNA in echinoid embryos and larvae. DNA repair by photoreactivation was compared in three species Sterechinus neumayeri (Antarctica), Evechinus chloroticus (New Zealand) and Diadema setosum (Tropical Australia) spanning a latitudinal gradient from polar (77.86°S) to tropical (19.25°S) environments. We compared rates of photoreactivation as a function of ambient and experimental temperature in all three species, and rates of photoreactivation as a function of embryonic developmental stage in Sterechinus. DNA damage was quantified from cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) concentrations and rates of abnormal embryonic development. This study established that in the three species and in three developmental stages of Sterechinus, photoreactivation was the primary means of removing CPDs, was effective in repairing all CPDs in less than 24 h, and promoted significantly higher rates of normal development in UV-exposed embryos. CPD photorepair rate constant (k) in echinoid embryos ranged from 0.33 to 1.25 h^-1, equating to a time to 50% repair of between 0.6 and 2.1 h and time to 90%repair between 3.6 and 13.6 h. We observed that experimental temperature influenced photoreactivation rate. In Diadema plutei, the photoreactivation rate constant increased from k=0.58 h^-1 to 1.25 h^-1, with a Q₁₀=2.15 between 22°C and 32°C. When compared among the three species across experimental temperatures (-1.9 to 32°C), photoreactivation rates vary with a Q₁₀=1.39. Photoreactivation rates were examined in three developmental stages of Sterechinus embryos, and while not significantly different, repair rates tended to be higher in the younger blastula and gastrula stages compared with later stage embryos. We concluded that photoreactivation is active in the Antarctic Sterechinus, but at a significantly slower (non-temperature compensated) rate. The low level of temperature compensation in photoreactivation may be one explanation for the relatively high sensitivity of Antarctic embryos to UV-R in comparison with non-Antarctic equivalents.

Key words: UV-R, photoreactivation, photorepair, photolyase, cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers, CPDs, Antarctica, echinoid, embryo, temperature compensation

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