American Journal of Water Resources, 2018, Vol. 6, No. 5, 203-206
Available online at http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajwr/6/5/3
©Science and Education Publishing
DOI:10.12691/ajwr-6-5-3
Achieving SDG’S in Bangladesh: Fish Stress Protein
as Biomonitoring Tool for Sustainable Management
of Water
Tahmina Hoq
1,*
, Md. Nazmul Haque
2
1
Assistant Professor, Institute of Education and Research, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
2
Department of Fisheries Biology and Genetics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
*Corresponding author: tahmina.hoq@du.ac.bd
Received July 08, 2018; Revised August 20, 2018; Accepted November 28, 2018
Abstract Water is working in a very significant role in all the sectors of sustainable development and therefore
being responsible for numerous global and economic crises. Need exists for rapid means of assessing the "health” of
water bodies in Bangladesh. This study aims to assess health indicator for aquatic lives. Nile tilapia (Oreochromis
niloticus) were studied in the laboratory tanks of constant temperature, 28°C and were treated with K2Cr2O7 and
Psedumonas, commonly found stressor in the water bodies of Bangladesh. Test animal was used to obtain tissue for
conducting SDS-PAGE. SDS-PAGE was applied to protein samples to linearize proteins. A dominant band of 100
kDa was found in the brain, gill and intestine after c exposure. Presence of 100 kDa suggests that HSp 100 can be
the ideal stress marker. The present study also indicates that the use of stress protein for biomarker is easy to use and
sensitive for managing water quality to achieve SDG in Bangladesh.
Keywords: HSP100, stress protein, biomonitoring, environmental stressor, water management
Cite This Article: Tahmina Hoq, and Md. Nazmul Haque, “Achieving SDG’S In Bangladesh: Fish Stress
Protein as Biomonitoring Tool for Sustainable Management of Water.” American Journal of Water Resources,
vol. 6, no. 5 (2018): 203-206. doi: 10.12691/ajwr-6-5-3.
1. Introduction
Water is working in a very significant role in all the
sectors of sustainable development and therefore being
responsible for numerous global and economic crises. [1].
So, in hope of all-out solution of these water issues, a
unique step should be added in the SDGs. Besides, due to
its interconnection with other global issues, a worldwide
goal concerning water issues is being a must to put in
effect some effective vows and coordinated actions to every
water issue to achieve global development goals. Water
issues are getting much worse and alarming nowadays. [1].
Interconnections among global issues like water, social
and economic issues are getting more alarming with the
help of rapid population growth, change of land usages,
rapid unplanned urbanizations, and aftermath of climatic
degradation and pollution of water simultaneously.
Reasonably, water security has aroused the necessity of
the intersection of hydrology, ecology and society as well.
[1]. Huge bulk of waste water from domestic and
industrial areas carried by their surrounding water bodies
like rivers and lakes is getting discharged into the seas
which is frequently polluting waters as a whole. These
contamination causes the most of all heavy metal
contaminations. [2] Consequently, heavy metals get into
fish body from those contaminated waters and alter the
organisms. These contaminants not only damage the
organisms but also get deposited into aquatic affecting
bioconcentration, bioaccumulation and food chain system.
Consequently, these contaminants can threaten the health
of mankind. [2] Fishes maintain their normal metabolism
by taking metal from water, foods and sediments. But a
high concentration of heavy metals caused by water
pollution is causing toxic effects in fish world. [2]
Now a day, appraisal of water quality is based only on
chemical measurements and analyses of the water itself
through early detection of changes in the quality of water
resources impacted by anthropogenic contaminants along
with microbial infestation. But a need has always been
existed for a rapid means of assessing the "health” for
sustainable management of water bodies in Bangladesh. A
reliable, field applicable method with a valuable tool
which determines stress levels in fish could provide
resource managers to determine the severity of health of
water for immediate management. This is possible with
the use of biotests or biomarkers, e.g. investigations of the
induction of heat shock proteins (proteotoxicity evaluate).
[3] Heat shock protein (HSP) genes are highly conserved
as well as are constitutively expressed in all tissues in
response to stress. Stress disrupts homeostasis, the regular
conformation of proteins demanding the aid of HSP to
regularize the effect. In fish, stress could be due to any
minor change in the environment [4]. Fish are exposed to
many kinds of stressors such as microbial infection, toxic