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COMPARATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY

Enhanced protein synthetic capacity in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is associated with temperature-induced compensatory growth

Ocean Sciences Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Submitted 17 February 2004 ; accepted in final form 19 August 2004

Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) were held either at seasonal ambient temperatures (–0.3 to 11°C) or at a relatively constant control temperature (8–11°C) to investigate aspects of protein synthesis during a period of compensatory growth. Protein synthesis rate, total RNA, and RNA-specific protein synthesis rate were determined in white muscle and liver when ambient temperatures were –0.3, 4.5, and 11°C in February, June, and July, respectively. To allow for comparisons between treatment temperatures, fish were also acutely transferred to a comparable assay temperature in February and June. Over the transition from 4.5 to 11°C (June to July), the ambient-held cod had a significant increase in size and a substantially higher growth rate relative to control-held fish over the same period, consistent with cold-induced compensatory growth. During the onset of this enhanced growth, in June when ambient temperature was 4.5°C, ambient-held fish elevated their capacity for protein synthesis in the white muscle and liver via elevation of the RNA content. When ambient temperature reached the same point as for the control fish (11°C), the rate of white muscle protein synthesis remained higher in the ambient-held vs. that in the control-held fish, a process facilitated by elevated RNA content and greater RNA-specific rate of protein synthesis. In the liver, all measured characteristics of protein synthesis were the same for ambient and control fish in July. The latter suggests that compensatory growth may be in part explained by improved efficiency of protein synthesis.

efficiency of protein synthesis; cold adaptation; muscle; liver

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