ArticleCommunications biology2025
Heat stress response in the cave nectar bat Eonycteris spelaea differs from that of Mus musculus.
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Bats as the only flying mammals incur a high metabolic cost during extended powered flight, which results in febrile-like temperatures without injury. Herein, we investigate the in vivo heat shock response (HSR) in the cave nectar bat Eonycteris spelaea. We demonstrate that E. spelaea exhibits enhanced physiological heat resistance, marked by reduced lethality, tissue damage and serum corticosterone levels in comparison to mice upon heat challenge. Additionally, E. spelaea did not exhibit an acute transcriptional response observed in heat stressed mice. Instead, bats displayed a delayed and non-canonical HSR that did not involve the activation of classical heat shock related genes and pathways. This altered response in E. spelaea is attributed to the elevated basal expression of heat shock proteins, which we demonstrate to be a common characteristic exhibited by bats from diverse sub-orders, families and diets. Taken together, we demonstrate a distinct HSR in E. spelaea relative to the conventional model organism, mouse, which may provide insights to understand novel regulatory targets and effector proteins that underlie the mammalian heat shock response.
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