Journal of Oceanology and Limnology   2022, Vol. 40 issue(2): 805-817     PDF       
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DING Zhili, ZHOU Dongsheng, ZHENG Jinxian, CHEN Xuefeng, KONG Youqin, QI Changle, LIU Yan, TANG Qiongying, YANG Guoliang, YE Jinyun
Replacing fishmeal with soybean meal affects survival, antioxidant capacity, intestinal microbiota, and mRNA expression of TOR and S6K1 in Macrobrachium rosenbergii
Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 40(2): 805-817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00343-021-0494-2

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Received Jan. 9, 2021
accepted in principle Mar. 30, 2021
accepted for publication May. 11, 2021
Replacing fishmeal with soybean meal affects survival, antioxidant capacity, intestinal microbiota, and mRNA expression of TOR and S6K1 in Macrobrachium rosenbergii
Zhili DING1, Dongsheng ZHOU1, Jinxian ZHENG1, Xuefeng CHEN2, Youqin KONG1, Changle QI1, Yan LIU1, Qiongying TANG1, Guoliang YANG1, Jinyun YE1     
1 Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Aquatic Resources Conservation and Development, College of Life Science, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000, China;
2 Agriculture Ministry Key Laboratory of Healthy Freshwater Aquaculture, Key Laboratory of Freshwater Aquaculture Genetic and Breeding of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Institute of Freshwater Fisheries, Huzhou 313001, China
Abstract: Using alternative plant-derived dietary protein to replace fishmeal, combined with practical evaluation indexes, is a recent focus for aquaculture practices. An 8-week feeding experiment with giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii post-larvae was conducted to determine the effects of replacing fishmeal (FM) with soybean meal in the feed, in terms of growth performance, antioxidant capacity, intestinal microbiota, and mRNA expression of target of rapamycin (TOR) and ribosomal protein S6 kinase B1 (S6K1). Four isonitrogenous diets with isocaloric value were prepared to contain 100%, 75%, 50%, or 25% FM as the protein source (dietary treatments FM100, FM75, FM50, and FM25, respectively). Each diet was fed to post-larval prawns (mean weight 0.045±0.002 g) twice a day in four replicates. No significant difference in weight gain was observed among all groups, but the survival rate of prawns fed the FM50 and FM25 diets was significantly lower than that of prawns fed the FM diet. The mRNA expression of both TOR and S6K1 were the lowest in hepatopancreas of prawns fed the FM25 diet. Superoxide dismutase activity of prawns fed the FM25 diet was significantly lower than that of prawns fed FM50. In contrast, the malondialdehyde content was significantly higher in prawns fed FM25 as compared with those fed FM75. The proportion of fishmeal in the diet did not affect the composition of core (phylum-level) intestinal microbiota, but greater fishmeal replacement with soybean meal had a potential risk to increase the relative abundance of opportunistic pathogens in the gut when considered at the genus level. These results suggest that fishmeal replacement with soybean meal should not exceed 50% in a diet for post-larval M. rosenbergii.
Keywords: animal protein    plant protein    replacement    protein synthesis    health    crustacean    
1 INTRODUCTION

Somatic growth and metabolism involve complex physiological processes, governed primarily by nutritional status and hormones (Fuentes et al., 2013). Proteins are of great nutritional value and are directly involved in the chemical processes essential for life. In aquaculture, fishmeal is used as a major protein source in aquaculture feeds owing to its high nutritional value and palatability (Ding et al., 2015; Anderson et al., 2016). However, increasing prices and a shortage of fishmeal supplies because of declines in wild fisheries populations are problematic (Hardy, 2010). Thus, plant-derived protein ingredients with wider availability and at competitive costs are sought as alternative sources for aquaculture feeds (Gatlin III et al., 2007; Hu et al., 2019).

The growth performance of aquatic animals is usually the first parameter to be considered after substituting fishmeal with a plant-derived protein in feedstuffs. However, the health of aquatic animals should not be ignored considering the potential for immune damage from amino acid profile imbalances or anti-nutritional factors that accompany many plantbased feeds. The intestine is an extremely complex ecosystem, with extensive interactions occurring among the gut microbiota, nutrients, and host cells (Bourlioux et al., 2003). Especially, bacterial imbalances in the gut can lead to disease (Bourlioux et al., 2003; Hooper and Macpherson, 2010), and several studies have found that plant-based diets could induce changes in intestinal microbiota (Green et al., 2013; Reveco et al., 2014; Li et al., 2020; Shen et al., 2020; Ye et al., 2020b). For example, in fish, feeding soybean protein concentrate caused intestinal disorders by altering the intestinal microbiome in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar (Green et al., 2013), Dietary conditions highly affected the intestinal bacterial population in Atlantic salmon, and inclusion of soybean meal could induce enteritis (Reveco et al., 2014). Adding soybean meal or fermented soybean meal modulated the intestinal microbiota in turbot Scophthalmus maximus (Li et al., 2020). Replacing fishmeal with peanut meal of up to 50% changed obviously the intestinal microbiota of juvenile hybrid grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus ♀ × Epinephelus lanceolatus ♂) (Ye et al., 2020a). Replacing fishmeal with cottonseed protein concentrate decreased the abundance and diversity of intestinal flora (Shen et al., 2020). However, in crustaceans, different levels of fermented soybean meal in the diet did not significantly influence the composition, diversity, and functions of the intestinal microbiota in white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Shao et al., 2019). Together, these results demonstrate different responses of the intestinal microbiota among aquatic animals fed plant-derived proteins.

The quality and quantity of protein and amino acids in feeds consumed by aquatic animals correlate closely with the amount of protein synthesis in the body (Dumas et al., 2007; Wu et al., 2017). The target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling is a vital pathway that can sense protein sources or protein levels (Jiang et al., 2017). In mammals, TOR is a serine/threonine protein kinase which has two distinct protein complexes, known as mTOR Complex 1 (mTORC1) and mTOR Complex 2 (mTORC2) (Blenis, 2017). mTORC1 includes TOR, mammalian lethal with SEC13 protein 8 (mLST8) and regulatory-associated protein of mTOR (Raptor) (Saxton and Sabatini, 2017). Once TOR is activated it regulates two downstream targets—eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-binding proteins (4E-BPs) and ribosomal protein S6 kinases (S6Ks)—and then controls mRNA translation initiation (Corradetti and Guan, 2006). Therefore, the mTORC1 signaling pathways can control protein synthesis.

The giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii is an economically important crustacean, cultured on a large scale worldwide, owing to its rapid growth, relatively large size, good meat quality, and delicious taste (Muralisankar et al., 2015). Several studies have considered substituting fishmeal with other protein sources in diets for this species (Tidwell et al., 1993; Zhu and Yang, 1995; Du and Niu, 2003; Anh et al., 2009; Bijoy et al., 2018). Among the alternative protein sources, soybean meal is considered to be a suitable ingredient for replacing fishmeal used in aquafeeds because of its high protein content, a balanced amino acid profile and relatively low cost (Gatlin III et al., 2007; Ding et al., 2015). Tidwell et al. (1993) demonstrated that fishmeal could be partly or completely replaced with soybean meal in a feed for prawns (initial weight 0.51 g) raised in temperate pond. Zhu and Yang (1995) found that prawns (initial weight 3.6 g) fed a diet with soybean meal as the sole protein source showed growth as good as when fed with fishmeal. Both studies examined the effects of substituting soybean meal with fishmeal as the dietary protein source only in terms of growth performance. Du and Niu (2003) indicated that soybean meal as a major protein source is not suitable in a prawn diet based on growth and metabolism. Thus, different evaluation indexes can affect conclusions about the use of soybean meal. However, the replacement of fishmeal by soybean meal on M. rosenbergii post-larvae have not been studied, and the current evaluation indexes have also not been involved in antioxidant capacity, intestinal microbiota, and TOR signaling pathways. Furthermore, it should be noted that soy antinutritional factors (ANFs) in soybean meal could limit replacement level of fishmeal by soybean in aquatic animals (Francis et al., 2001; Tibaldi et al., 2006). Therefore, we hypothesized that there might be a proper replacement level for fishmeal by soybean meal for M. nipponense post-larvae based on above systematic indexes. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the response of giant freshwater prawn M. rosenbergii, reared from post-larvae to juveniles, to different replacement ratios of fishmeal by soybean meal, according to the growth performance, antioxidant capacity, intestinal microbiota, and mRNA expression of TOR and S6K1.

2 MATERIAL AND METHOD 2.1 Experimental diet

A basal diet containing 54% fishmeal (FM, 68% crude protein) was used as the FM-based diet (no replacement). Soybean meal (46% crude protein) was used to replace fishmeal at 0%, 25%, 50%, and 75%. Thus, four isonitrogenous diets (~36.7% crude protein) with isocaloric value (~15 kJ/g) were formulated with 100%, 75%, 50%, and 25% FM as the protein source (dietary treatments FM100, FM75, FM50, and FM25, respectively; Table 1). The dietary protein and energy levels of the experimental diets were designed according to Habashy (2009) and Du and Niu (2003).

Table 1 Ingredients and nutrient composition (% dry matter) of the test diets (formulated with 100%, 75%, 50%, or 25% fishmeal (FM) as the protein source) for giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii post-larvae

All dry ingredients of each diet were passed through a 212-μm mesh and then were thoroughly mixed with 30% distilled water. This mixture was extruded through a 1.5-mm die with a pelleting machine (F-26, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China), dried in a forced-air oven at 40 ℃, to achieve about 10% moisture. In order to prevent oxidation of dietary lipids by high temperature in summer, the prepared diets were then stored at -20 ℃ in airtight plastic containers until use.

2.2 Experimental animals and feeding trials

Post-larvae of M. rosenbergii were purchased from a breeding base (Jiangsu, China). Before the feeding experiment, prawns were fed a commercial diet for 2 weeks to acclimate the experimental conditions. After acclimation, healthy prawns (initial weight 0.045±0.002 g) were randomly distributed in 16 tanks (4 groups), with 300 L in volume. Each group had 4 replicates and each tank had 50 prawns. Prawns were fed two times (08:00 and 16:30) every day to apparent satiation and the experiment period lasted for 8 weeks. A few nylon fishing nets were put in each tank, which can reduce animal cannibalization as an artificial shelter. The fishing nets were cleaned once per week. During the feeding trial, the water-quality parameters were monitored to maintain a temperature range of 25–28 ℃, dissolved oxygen at >6.5 mg/L, and ammonia and nitrate levels of < 0.1 mg/L under natural photoperiod conditions. One-third of the water in each tank was replaced daily and the unused food/ wastes were removed every day.

2.3 Sample collection

Feeding was stopped 24 h prior to sampling. The prawns in each tank were counted and weighed to determine survival rate, weight gain, and specific growth rate. The hepatopancreas were dissected from the cephalothorax and stored at -80 ℃ for subsequent analyses. To compare the gut microbial composition between treatment groups, the guts of 10 prawns from each tank (12 tanks in all, 3 parallel tanks from each treatment FM100, FM75, FM50, and FM25) were collected under sterile conditions. Owing to lower survival rate of FM25 group, only three parallels in every group were selected for gut microbial composition analysis.

2.4 Growth performance and biochemical measurement

Weight gain, specific growth rate, and survival rate were calculated as: weight gain (%)=100×(mean final weight–mean initial weight)/mean initial weight; specific growth rate (%)=100×[(ln (mean final weight)−ln(mean initial weight)]/days of the experiment; survival rate (%)=(final number of prawns/ initial number of prawns)×100. The final stocking density (inds./m3)=final number of prawns/water volume.

The moisture, crude lipid, and crude protein in feed were carried out in standard procedures (AOAC International and Horwitz, 2005). Ash content was determined after combustion in a muffle furnace at 550 ℃ for 6 h. Crude fiber content was measured by Filter Bag Technology using an automatic analyzer (ANKOM A200i, Ankom Technology, NY, USA). The nitrogen-free extract (NFE) was calculated by difference. The hepatopancreas samples (about 0.08 g) were homogenized in nine volumes of 0.86% (w/v) precooled sodium chloride (720 mL), and homogenates were centrifuged at 5 000×g at 4 ℃ for 20 min. The supernatants were employed for measurements of all enzyme activities. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and the malondialdehyde (MDA) content in the hepatopancreas were determined using commercially available kits (Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute, Nanjing, China). Alkaline phosphatase (AKP) activity in the hepatopancreas was likewise quantified using an assay kit (Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Institute).

2.5 qRT-PCR analysis of gene expression

Relative expression of mTOR signaling genes was determined using qRT-PCR analysis as described in our previous study (Ding et al., 2017). Briefly, total RNA was extracted from the hepatopancreas of prawns using an RNA extraction kit (Aidlab Biotech, Beijing, China). Complementary DNA (cDNA) was synthesized using a PrimeScriptTM RT-PCR Kit (TaKaRa, Japan). The qRT-PCR analysis used a SYBR® Premix Ex TaqTM Kit (TaKaRa) in the CFX96TM Touch Real-Time PCR System (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA). The gene-specific primers were designed based on the cDNA sequences in GenBank (target of rapamycin (TOR); ribosomal protein S6 kinase B1 (S6K1)) (Table 2).

Table 2 Primers used in this study
2.6 Bacterial genomic DNA extraction

No significant differences of growth performance and antioxidant indexes between FM25 and FM50 group according to later analysis, so we just selected one of the two groups to detect intestinal microbiota. Therefore, total bacterial community DNA was extracted from the intestinal contents of 10 prawns in no replacement group (FM100), medium replacement group (FM75), and high replacement group (FM25), using a TIANamp Micro DNA Purification Kit (Tiangen, Beijing, China). After measuring the quantity and quality, the DNA were submitted to the Origingene Bio-pharm Technology Co. (Shanghai, China) for 16S rRNA sequencing.

2.7 Intestinal microbiota analysis

The V3–V4 region of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene was amplified with the universal prokaryotic primers F341 (5′-CCTAYGGGRBGCASCAG-3′) and R806 (5′-GGACTACHVGGGTWTCTAAT-3′). The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) system and procedures were performed as described in Ding et al. (2020). All amplicon PCR products were purified and subjected to Illumina-based high-throughput sequencing. The nine sequences have been submitted to GenBank, and the SRA submission accession numbers are SRR12400109–SRR12400117.

Raw reads were analyzed and filtered using QIIME (version 1.17). Qualified reads with ≥97% similarity were clustered to generate the same operational taxonomic units (OTUs) using USEARCH (version 7.1). The phylogenetic affiliation for each OTU was annotated by searching the SILVA database applying a confidence threshold of 70% (Pruesse et al., 2007). Taxonomic richness estimators and community diversity (alpha diversity and beta diversity estimation) were determined in Mothur (version v.1.30.1). Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) on the weighted UniFrac distance matrices was performed to visualize differences in bacterial community composition and structure.

2.8 Data analysis

All data are expressed as mean±standard deviation. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 17.0 (IBM SPSS, Armonk, NY, USA). Statistical significance was determined using one-way ANOVA and Tukey's post hoc multiple comparisons test after normality test and homogeneity of variance. P < 0.05 was considered significant in statistics.

3 RESULT 3.1 Growth performance

Measures of growth performance for the M. rosenbergii raised from post-larvae to juveniles are shown in Table 3. The results show no significant differences in final weight, weight gain, and specific growth rate between the dietary treatment groups. Even so, when the FM replacement level was more than 50%, the survival rate decreased significantly, and the survival rate in groups FM50 and FM25 was significantly lower than that in the FM100 (no replacement) group (P < 0.05). The final stocking density in FM25 group was significantly lower than that in FM100 and FM75 groups (P < 0.05).

Table 3 Growth performance of Macrobrachium rosenbergii post-larvae fed test diets with different replacement ratios of fishmeal with soybean meal for 8 weeks (mean±SD, n=4)
3.2 mRNA expression of mTOR signaling

TOR and S6K1 gene transcripts were detected in all three groups examined (Fig. 1). TOR mRNA expression in hepatopancreas was lowest in prawns fed the FM25 diet, which was lower than that in the other three treatments (P < 0.05). Similarly, prawns fed the FM25 diet also had the lowest S6K1 mRNA expression.

Fig.1 Relative mRNA expression of TOR (a) and S6K1 (b) in Macrobrachium rosenbergii post-larvae that were fed test diets with different ratios of replacement of fishmeal with soybean meal for 8 weeks Data are represented as the mean±SD. Bars with different letters are significantly different (P<0.05).
3.3 Hepatopancreas lipid oxidation and antioxidant enzyme activities

The activity of SOD in hepatopancreas of the FM25 group was significantly lower than that of the FM50 group (P < 0.05) (Table 4). At the same time, the activity of AKP in hepatopancreas was significantly lower in the FM25 group than that in the other three groups (P < 0.05). In contrast, MDA content in the FM25 group was significantly higher than that in the FM75 group (P < 0.05).

Table 4 The antioxidant activities of malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD), and alkaline phosphatase (AKP) in Macrobrachium rosenbergii post-larvae fed test diets with different replacement ratios of fishmeal with soybean meal for 8 weeks (mean±SD, n=4)
3.4 Analysis of intestinal microbiota

To study the effects of different dietary treatments on the intestinal microbiota of prawns, the ecological characteristics of intestinal bacteria in 100% FM (FM100 group), 75% FM (FM75 group), and 25% FM (FM25 group) were evaluated (Table 5). A total of 987 016 high-quality reads from the three intestinal samples was obtained, with an average of 109 668 sequences per sample. The coverage rates were more than 99% in each sample, demonstrating that the 16S rRNA gene sequences identified in each group represent the most of bacteria present in the samples. The number of OTUs observed at a 97% taxonomic cutoff. Sufficient sampling depth was obtained for each sample in the study according to the rarefaction analysis. Before subsampling, there were 1 101 OTUs with a clear taxonomic level. After subsampling, a total of 1 099 OTUs were left, of which 231 OTUs were shared among the three samples. There were 385, 110, and 130 unique OTUs for FM100, FM75, and FM25 treatment groups, respectively (Fig. 2). No significant differences were observed in the number of OTUs, Shannon and Simpson diversity indexes, and the Chao1 richness estimators (Table 5).

Table 5 Alpha diversity of intestinal microbiota in Macrobrachium rosenbergii post-larvae fed test diets with different replacement ratios of fishmeal with soybean meal for 8 weeks
Fig.2 Venn diagram demonstrating the distribution of the unique and shared operational taxonomic units in the three groups: FM100 (100% FM), FM75 (75% FM), and FM25 (25% FM) There were 385, 110, and 130 unique OTUs for FM100, FM75, and FM25 treatment groups, respectively, and 231 OTUs were shared among the three treatment groups.

The UniFrac distance was visualized by a PCoA plot, which showed the bacterial communities in prawns fed different diets (Fig. 3). The groups FM75 (replicates FM75-1, FM75-2, FM75-3) and FM25 (FM25-1, FM25-2, FM25-3) showed clear and distinct patterns in bacterial community composition along PC1 as compared with the FM100 group (FM100-1, FM100-2, FM100-3).

Fig.3 Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) of weighted UniFrac distances, for the intestinal bacterial communities in Macrobrachium rosenbergii post-larvae that were fed diets containing different ratios of fishmeal (FM) as the protein source The groups FM75 and FM25 showed clear and distinct patterns in bacterial community composition along PC1 as compared with the FM100 group.

Figure 4 shows the relative abundance of the gut microbiota in each sample at the phylum level. Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteria were the most abundant phyla in the three dietary treatment groups. The relative abundances of these four phyla were: 73.39%±7.63%, 10.99%±4.74%, 11.36%±8.23%, and 2.66%±2.11%, respectively, in group FM100; 87.49%±7.77%, 1.61%±1.71%, 3.55%±3.17%, and 0.72%±0.57%, respectively, in group FM75; and 86.50%±4.59%, 5.38%±4.18%, 1.51%±0.03%, and 1.98%±2.10%, respectively, in group FM25. At the phylum level, the differences among the three dietary treatment groups of prawns were not significant (P>0.05) (Table 6). However, at the genus level, the relative abundances differed significantly, that of Aeromonas was lower in the FM100 group than in groups FM75 and FM25 (P < 0.05) (Table 6); the relative abundances of Pseudomonas and Stenotrophomonas were lower in groups FM75 and FM25 than in the FM100 group (P < 0.05); and the relative abundance of Chryseobacterium was higher in the FM100 group than in the FM25 group (P < 0.05).

Fig.4 Relative abundance (%) of the bacterial phyla in the intestine of Macrobrachium rosenbergii post-larvae that were fed diets containing 100%, 75%, or 25% fishmeal (FM) as the protein source (FM100 group, FM75 group, and FM25 group, respectively)
Table 6 Main gut microbiota species in Macrobrachium rosenbergii post larvae fed test diets with different ratio replacement of fishmeal with soybean meal for 8 weeks
4 DISCUSSION

Soybean meal is the most common alternative protein feedstuff to replace fishmeal in formulated feeds for fish and shrimp because of its high protein content and excellent amino acid profile (Gatlin III et al., 2007). Our results indicate that replacing fishmeal by 0–75% with soybean meal in the diet did not negatively impact the growth performance of M. rosenbergii, with an average initial weight of 0.045 g, as compared with animals fed the fish meal-based diet (i.e. with no replacement). Although there is a deficiency in the essential amino acids (methionine, lysine, and tryptophan) of soybean meal (Floreto et al., 2000), the giant freshwater prawn seemed to can tolerate the diet with 75% fishmeal replacement by soybean meal from the index of growth performance. Similar results were observed by Zhu and Yang (1995) who found that prawns (initial weight 3.6 g) fed a diet with raw soybean meal as the sole protein source showed no poorer growth than prawns given a feed with fish meal. Tidwell et al. (1993) demonstrated that fishmeal could be partly or completely replaced with raw soybean meal in a feed for prawns (initial weight 0.51 g) raised in temperate pond. However, the results of our present study partially differ with Hasanuzzaman et al. (2009) and Du and Niu (2003). Hasanuzzaman et al. (2009) found that replacing 80% of fishmeal protein by extracted soybean meal protein was the most favorable option, based on growth performance, in M. rosenbergii with an initial average weight of 2.51–5.19 g. Du and Niu (2003) reported that defatted soybean meal is not suitable as a major protein source for this freshwater prawn, based on growth performance and standard metabolic rate indexes on juveniles of M. rosenbergii (0.32 g) fed diets with 0%, 20%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of the fishmeal replacement with soybean meal. The difference between these reported results may be related to the developmental stages of the experimental prawns and the evaluation indexes chosen to measure the effects of fishmeal replacement in an aquafeed.

The prawns in our study were raised from postlarvae to juveniles, and indeed underwent two developmental stages. Furthermore, we could not ignore the fact that although we found no significant differences in weight gain among all groups, a significantly decreased survival rate was observed in our study when fishmeal replacement by soybean meal exceeded 50%. The decreased survival rate may be because M. rosenbergii post-larvae are intolerant of a high proportion of soybean meal in the diet. During the experiment, the density of the prawns in the tanks changed as mortalities ensued in the FM50 and FM25 groups. Therefore, the lack of significant differences in growth performance among all groups does not exclude the possibility that diminishing densities influenced the outcome for groups FM50 and FM25 when compared with groups FM100 and FM75 with their higher survival rates. Many studies have proved that stocking density is an environmental factor that will affect the growth of crustaceans, and lower stocking densities could improve growth performance (Li et al., 2006; Sun et al., 2016).

The mTOR signaling pathway can be involved in cell growth and proliferation by regulating protein synthesis (Hay and Sonenberg, 2004). TOR and S6K1 are important upstream and downstream regulators of mTOR signaling pathway, respectively. TOR can incorporate signals from nutrients to control protein translation (Saxton and Sabatini, 2017), and S6K1 controls protein synthesis and growth by phosphorylating ribosomal protein S6 and the translation initiation factor eIF4B (Adegooke and Samimi-Seisan, 2009). In the present study, there were no significant differences in TOR and S6K1 mRNA expression among groups FM100, FM75, and FM50, but consuming a diet with a greater proportion of soybean meal (group FM25) resulted in significant decreases of TOR and S6K1 mRNA expression. mTOR signaling activation is manifested as an increase in the expression of S6K1 (Sonenberg and Hinnebusch, 2009); in this study, less than 50% replacement of fishmeal with soybean meal was not demonstrably detrimental to protein synthesis, but significantly decreased the rate of protein synthesis with 75% replacement of fishmeal with soybean meal. The inhibiting protein synthesis of prawns fed FM25 did not result in retarded growth of prawns, which may be due to the lower stocking density of prawns mentioned above. Xu et al. (2020) found that 10% or 15% replacement of fishmeal with soybean meal increased the expression of S6K1 in hepatopancreas of Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis, indicating that crabs that consumed some amount of soybean meal had more-active protein metabolism. Similar results were reported for fish, in terms of including other alternative sources of dietary protein. In juvenile blackhead seabream Acanthopagrus schlegelii, when fishmeal was replaced by poultry byproduct meal from 0% to 30%, the TOR and S6K1 relative expressions were significantly increased, while the expression levels of the two genes significantly decreased with the increase of poultry byproduct (Irm et al., 2020). In blunt snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala, TOR mRNA expression in liver and gut were not affected by 1% or 3% cottonseed meal protein hydrolysate in the feed, but the expression levels significantly decreased as the supplementation was increased (Yuan et al., 2019).

To further understand the mechanism of a decreased survival rate when fishmeal replacement with soybean meal was more than 50%, we examined the hepatopancreas for antioxidant abilities and intestinal microbiota populations.

In aquaculture, replacing fishmeal with too high a proportion of a plant-based protein in a feed often results in oxidative stress to the animals (Ding et al., 2015; Kokou et al., 2015; Li et al., 2020). Oxidative stress is caused by excess production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) relative to the antioxidant defense (Shankar and Mehendale, 2014). SOD is usually considered the first line of defense for removing ROS, the activity of which can reflect the antioxidant status of an organism (Wu et al., 2013). MDA is a final product of lipid peroxidation, which reflects the degree of cell damage (Livingstone, 2013). In this study, decreased SOD activity and increased MDA content were determined in the FM25 group, which may be linked to ROS generation, leading to exhaustion of the antioxidant defense, which ultimately results in oxidative damage to the cell membrane, as indicated by enhanced MDA levels. It is believed that plant-based feedstuffs can trigger oxidative stress in animals as a result of their antinutritional content (Sitjà-Bobadilla et al., 2005; Rahimnejad et al., 2019). Hence, too much soybean meal (i.e. with more anti-nutritional factors) in the FM25 diet could have induced oxidative stress among the M. rosenbergii post-larvae. AKP is thought to act as an antibacterial agent because of its hydrolytic activity, which has long been recognized as an important component of innate immunity (Qin et al., 2012; Roosta et al., 2014). Here, lower AKP activity in hepatopancreas of the FM25 group might be attributable to a poorer immune response in post-larval M. rosenbergii. This is in line with research on oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense (Ding et al., 2015), which correspondingly indicated the nutrient limitations of soybean meal in diets for M. rosenbergii post-larvae.

Determination of the intestinal microbiota community in aquatic animals provides additional insight into the effects of fishmeal replacement. In the present study, the composition of intestinal microbiota in M. rosenbergii was analyzed by sequencing the 16S rRNA gene amplicons. In accordance with our analyses of the Chao1 estimator and the Shannon and Simpson indices, rearing on a feed with less fishmeal did not affect the richness and diversity of the intestinal microbiota in this prawn species; this is similar to results with white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei that were fed fermented soybean meal to replace fishmeal (Shao et al., 2019). However, Siriyappagouder et al. (2018) suggest that the presence or enrichment of certain beneficial genera/species in the community has a more beneficial effect than the bacterial diversity itself, although diversity plays an important role in maintaining the gut ecological function. The unique OTUs and the consistent PCoA results in this study suggest that the different dietary treatments led to unique microbial populations in the prawn intestines.

The dominant phyla of gut microbiota identified were the Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Firmicutes, regardless of the level of fishmeal contained in the prawns' diet; this finding indicates that populations of these core taxa could tolerate soybean meal as the dietary protein source. These data are in general agreement with descriptions of these same phyla in the microbial community in the intestines of many aquatic taxa, such as fish (Shao et al., 2019; Ye et al., 2020b), prawns (Ding et al., 2020), and crabs (Sun et al., 2018). Although not statistically significant, the abundance of Proteobacteria in the intestine of M. rosenbergii showed an increasing trend with increased replacement with soybean meal protein. Previously, it was proposed that a greater abundance of Proteobacteria is a potential risk for disease (Shin et al., 2015; Rizzatti et al., 2017), therefore we further analyzed the intestinal microbial populations at the genus level.

We found that the relative abundance of 4 of the 8 dominant genera differed significantly among the three dietary treatment groups examined. Species of Aeromonas exist predominantly in aquatic environments and are recognized as opportunistic pathogens that cause diseases in humans and animals (Pessoa et al., 2020). Furthermore, Aeromonas can cause intestinal damage through the secretion of lipases, which can hydrolyze the lipids of the outermost cell layers of the intestinal tract (Beaz-Hidalgo and Figueras, 2013). In the present study, the relative abundance of Aeromonas significantly increased when fishmeal was replaced with soybean meal by more than 50%, implying that excessive soybean meal in diets for M. rosenbergii might affect the health state of the prawns.

Pseudomonads are common inhabitants of the aquatic environment, including culture ponds for shrimp (Otta and Karunasagar, 1999). The beneficial effects of Pseudomonas have been investigated, including reduced mortality from stress-induced furunculosis (Smith and Devey, 1993) and an antagonistic activity against pathogens (Chythanya et al., 2002). Our data showed lower relative abundance of Pseudomonas in groups FM75 and FM25 compared with in the FM100 group, indicating that increasing the proportion of soybean meal in the feed might lessen the anti-disease ability of the prawns. So decreased fishmeal ratio in diet may potentially decrease the abundance of intestinal beneficial microbiota, affecting health and production of the prawns.

The genus Stenotrophomonas of family Lysobacteraceae is common in natural environments (Zhang et al., 2020). In the aquatic environment, Stenotrophomonas species may function as acceptors, stable reservoirs, and potential vectors of antimicrobial resistance (Mançano et al., 2020). However, few studies have examined intestinal microbiota in cultured animals in relation to the use of fishmeal replacement in their diet. The underlying reasons for the higher abundance of Stenotrophomonas in the FM group in the present study merits future research. Shao et al. (2019) reported that replacement of fishmeal by fermented soybean meal did not significantly influence the intestinal microbiota of white shrimp; however, that study analyzed the intestinal microbiota only at the phylum level, and not genus level.

5 CONCLUSION

The soybean meal replacement to fishmeal in M. rosenbergii post-larvae was proved feasible, which will promote the healthy farming of the prawns. The replacement of dietary fishmeal by soybean meal by up to 75% had no adverse effects on the growth of M. rosenbergii post-larvae, but the expression of TOR and S6K1 involved in mTOR signaling pathway was inhibited in prawns given a diet with 75% soybean meal. More than 50% replacement with soybean meal decreased survival and induced oxidant stress. The dominant phyla in the gut were Proteobacteria, followed by Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes, regardless of the level of fishmeal in the prawns' diet. A high level of fishmeal replacement with soybean meal had a potential risk to increase relative abundances of several opportunistic pathogens in the gut when considered at the genus level.

6 DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

Bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences have been submitted to GenBank, and the SRA submission accession numbers are SRR12400109–SRR12400117.

The cDNA sequence data that support the findings of this study have been deposited to NCBI with the accession codes of MT786656, MT786654, and AY626840.1.

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