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Nakata S, Iwasaki K, Funato H, Yanagisawa M, Ozaki H. Neuronal subtype-specific transcriptomic changes in the cerebral neocortex associated with sleep pressure. Neurosci Res 2024; 207:13-25. [PMID: 38537682 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2024.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
Abstract
Sleep is homeostatically regulated by sleep pressure, which increases during wakefulness and dissipates during sleep. Recent studies have suggested that the cerebral neocortex, a six-layered structure composed of various layer- and projection-specific neuronal subtypes, is involved in the representation of sleep pressure governed by transcriptional regulation. Here, we examined the transcriptomic changes in neuronal subtypes in the neocortex upon increased sleep pressure using single-nucleus RNA sequencing datasets and predicted the putative intracellular and intercellular molecules involved in transcriptome alterations. We revealed that sleep deprivation (SD) had the greatest effect on the transcriptome of layer 2 and 3 intratelencephalic (L2/3 IT) neurons among the neocortical glutamatergic neuronal subtypes. The expression of mutant SIK3 (SLP), which is known to increase sleep pressure, also induced profound changes in the transcriptome of L2/3 IT neurons. We identified Junb as a candidate transcription factor involved in the alteration of the L2/3 IT neuronal transcriptome by SD and SIK3 (SLP) expression. Finally, we inferred putative intercellular ligands, including BDNF, LSAMP, and PRNP, which may be involved in SD-induced alteration of the transcriptome of L2/3 IT neurons. We suggest that the transcriptome of L2/3 IT neurons is most impacted by increased sleep pressure among neocortical glutamatergic neuronal subtypes and identify putative molecules involved in such transcriptional alterations.
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- Shinya Nakata
- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Department of Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan
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- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA; Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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- Bioinformatics Laboratory, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Chowdhury MAR, Haq MM, Lee JH, Jeong S. Multi-faceted regulation of CREB family transcription factors. Front Mol Neurosci 2024; 17:1408949. [PMID: 39165717 PMCID: PMC11333461 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2024.1408949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 07/12/2024] [Indexed: 08/22/2024] Open
Abstract
cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) is a ubiquitously expressed nuclear transcription factor, which can be constitutively activated regardless of external stimuli or be inducibly activated by external factors such as stressors, hormones, neurotransmitters, and growth factors. However, CREB controls diverse biological processes including cell growth, differentiation, proliferation, survival, apoptosis in a cell-type-specific manner. The diverse functions of CREB appear to be due to CREB-mediated differential gene expression that depends on cAMP response elements and multi-faceted regulation of CREB activity. Indeed, the transcriptional activity of CREB is controlled at several levels including alternative splicing, post-translational modification, dimerization, specific transcriptional co-activators, non-coding small RNAs, and epigenetic regulation. In this review, we present versatile regulatory modes of CREB family transcription factors and discuss their functional consequences.
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- Md Arifur Rahman Chowdhury
- Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
- Department of Molecular Biology, and Research Center of Bioactive Materials, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
- Department of Molecular Biology, and Research Center of Bioactive Materials, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Life Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioactive Material Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
- Department of Molecular Biology, and Research Center of Bioactive Materials, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
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Guo X, Keenan BT, Reiner BC, Lian J, Pack AI. Single-nucleus RNA-seq identifies one galanin neuronal subtype in mouse preoptic hypothalamus activated during recovery from sleep deprivation. Cell Rep 2024; 43:114192. [PMID: 38703367 PMCID: PMC11197849 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Revised: 03/13/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024] Open
Abstract
The preoptic area of the hypothalamus (POA) is essential for sleep regulation. However, the cellular makeup of the POA is heterogeneous, and the molecular identities of the sleep-promoting cells remain elusive. To address this question, this study compares mice during recovery sleep following sleep deprivation to mice allowed extended sleep. Single-nucleus RNA sequencing (single-nucleus RNA-seq) identifies one galanin inhibitory neuronal subtype that shows upregulation of rapid and delayed activity-regulated genes during recovery sleep. This cell type expresses higher levels of growth hormone receptor and lower levels of estrogen receptor compared to other galanin subtypes. single-nucleus RNA-seq also reveals cell-type-specific upregulation of purinergic receptor (P2ry14) and serotonin receptor (Htr2a) during recovery sleep in this neuronal subtype, suggesting possible mechanisms for sleep regulation. Studies with RNAscope validate the single-nucleus RNA-seq findings. Thus, the combined use of single-nucleus RNA-seq and activity-regulated genes identifies a neuronal subtype functionally involved in sleep regulation.
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- Xiaofeng Guo
- Circadian Sleep Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Circadian Sleep Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Circadian Sleep Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Circadian Sleep Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Cherasse Y, Taira Y, Rassu AL, Barateau L, Evangelista E, Muratani M, Funato H, Yanagisawa M, Dauvilliers Y. Association between idiopathic hypersomnia and a genetic variant in the PER3 gene. J Sleep Res 2024:e14146. [PMID: 38253863 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.14146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
Abstract
We aim to identify genetic markers associated with idiopathic hypersomnia, a disabling orphan central nervous system disorder of hypersomnolence that is still poorly understood. In our study, DNA was extracted from 79 unrelated patients diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia with long sleep time at the National Reference Center for Narcolepsy-France according to very stringent diagnostic criteria. Whole exome sequencing on the first 30 patients with idiopathic hypersomnia (25 females and 5 males) allowed the single nucleotide variants to be compared with a control population of 574 healthy subjects from the French Exome project database. We focused on the identification of genetic variants among 182 genes related to the regulation of sleep and circadian rhythm. Candidate variants obtained by exome sequencing analysis were then validated in a second sample of 49 patients with idiopathic hypersomnia (37 females and 12 males). Our study characterised seven variants from six genes significantly associated with idiopathic hypersomnia compared with controls. A targeted sequencing analysis of these seven variants on 49 other patients with idiopathic hypersomnia confirmed the relative over-representation of the A➔C variant of rs2859390, located in a potential splicing-site of PER3 gene. Our findings support a genetic predisposition and identify pathways involved in the pathogeny of idiopathic hypersomnia. A variant of the PER3 gene may predispose to idiopathic hypersomnia with long sleep time.
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- Yoan Cherasse
- Institute of Medicine/International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Sleep and Wake Disorders Centre, Department of Neurology, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Sleep and Wake Disorders Centre, Department of Neurology, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM, Neuropsychiatry: Epidemiological and Clinical Research, University Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Sleep and Wake Disorders Centre, Department of Neurology, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM, Neuropsychiatry: Epidemiological and Clinical Research, University Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Genome Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Life Science Center for Survival Dynamics, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Sleep and Wake Disorders Centre, Department of Neurology, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM, Neuropsychiatry: Epidemiological and Clinical Research, University Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Gessner NR, Peiravi M, Zhang F, Yimam S, Springer D, Harbison ST. A conserved role for frizzled in sleep architecture. SLEEP ADVANCES : A JOURNAL OF THE SLEEP RESEARCH SOCIETY 2023; 4:zpad045. [PMID: 38033424 PMCID: PMC10684271 DOI: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpad045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023]
Abstract
Previous studies of natural variants in Drosophila melanogaster implicated the Wnt signaling receptor frizzled in sleep. Given that the Wnt signaling pathway is highly conserved across species, we hypothesized that frizzled class receptor 1 (Fzd1), the murine homolog of frizzled, would also have a role in sleep. Using a CRISPR transgenic approach, we removed most of the Fzd1 coding region from C57BL/6N mice. We used a video assay to measure sleep characteristics in Fzd1-deficient mice. As Wnt signaling is known to affect visuospatial memory, we also examined the impact of the deletion on learning and memory using the novel object recognition (NOR) paradigm. Fzd1-deficient mice had altered sleep compared to littermate controls. The mice did not respond differently to the NOR paradigm compared to controls but did display anxiety-like behavior. Our strategy demonstrates that the study of natural variation in Drosophila sleep translates into candidate genes for sleep in vertebrate species such as the mouse.
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- Nicholas R Gessner
- Laboratory of Systems Genetics, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Murine Phenotyping Core, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Transgenic Core, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Genetics, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Murine Phenotyping Core, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Systems Genetics, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Bedard ML, Lord JS, Perez PJ, Bravo IM, Teklezghi AT, Tarantino LM, Diering GH, McElligott ZA. Probing different paradigms of morphine withdrawal on sleep behavior in male and female C57BL/6J mice. Behav Brain Res 2023; 448:114441. [PMID: 37075956 PMCID: PMC10278096 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 04/21/2023]
Abstract
Opioid misuse has dramatically increased over the last few decades resulting in many people suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD). The prevalence of opioid overdose has been driven by the development of new synthetic opioids, increased availability of prescription opioids, and more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. Coinciding with increases in exposure to opioids, the United States has also observed increases in multiple Narcan (naloxone) administrations as a life-saving measures for respiratory depression, and, thus, consequently, naloxone-precipitated withdrawal. Sleep dysregulation is a main symptom of OUD and opioid withdrawal syndrome, and therefore, should be a key facet of animal models of OUD. Here we examine the effect of precipitated and spontaneous morphine withdrawal on sleep behaviors in C57BL/6 J mice. We find that morphine administration and withdrawal dysregulate sleep, but not equally across morphine exposure paradigms. Furthermore, many environmental triggers promote relapse to drug-seeking/taking behavior, and the stress of disrupted sleep may fall into that category. We find that sleep deprivation dysregulates sleep in mice that had previous opioid withdrawal experience. Our data suggest that the 3-day precipitated withdrawal paradigm has the most profound effects on opioid-induced sleep dysregulation and further validates the construct of this model for opioid dependence and OUD.
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- Madigan L Bedard
- Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
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Hou X, Hayashi R, Itoh M, Tonoki A. Small-molecule screening in aged Drosophila identifies mGluR as a regulator of age-related sleep impairment. Sleep 2023; 46:zsad018. [PMID: 36721967 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsad018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Revised: 01/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
Abstract
As a normal physiological phenomenon, aging has a significant impact on sleep. Aging leads to sleep impairment, including sleep loss, fragmented sleep, and a lower arousal threshold, leading to various diseases. Because sleep regulates memory consolidation, age-dependent sleep impairment also affects memory. However, the mechanisms underlying age-related sleep dysregulation and its impact on memory remain unclear. Using male and female Drosophila as a model, which possesses sleep characteristics similar to those of mammals and exhibits age-dependent sleep impairment, we performed small-molecule screening to identify novel regulators of age-dependent decline in sleep. The screening identified 3,3'-difluorobenzaldazine (DFB), a positive allosteric modulator of the metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) 5, as a novel sleep-promoting compound in aged flies. We found that mutant flies of mGluR, a single mGluR gene in Drosophila, and decreased mGluR expression had significant impairment in sleep and memory due to olfactory conditioning. The decreased sleep phenotype in the mGluR mutants was not promoted by DFB, suggesting that the effects of DFB on age-dependent sleep impairment are dependent on mGluR. Although aging decreases the expression of mGluR and the binding scaffold proteins Homer and Shank, the transient overexpression of mGluR in neurons improves sleep in both young and aged flies. Overall, these findings indicate that age-dependent decreased expression or function of mGluR impairs sleep and memory in flies, which could lead to age-related sleep and memory impairment.
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- Xue Hou
- Department of Biochemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba 260-8675, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba 260-8675, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba 260-8675, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba 260-8675, Japan
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Segu A, Kannan NN. The duration of caffeine treatment plays an essential role in its effect on sleep and circadian rhythm. SLEEP ADVANCES : A JOURNAL OF THE SLEEP RESEARCH SOCIETY 2023; 4:zpad014. [PMID: 37193284 PMCID: PMC10108652 DOI: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpad014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2022] [Revised: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
Abstract
Sleep is regulated by the homeostatic system and the circadian clock. Caffeine intake promotes wakefulness in Drosophila. In humans, caffeine is consumed on a daily basis and hence it is important to understand the effect of prolonged caffeine intake on both circadian and homeostatic regulation of sleep. Furthermore, sleep changes with age and the impact of caffeine on age-dependent sleep fragmentation are yet to be understood. Hence in the present study, we examined the effect of short exposure to caffeine on homeostatic sleep and age-dependent sleep fragmentation in Drosophila. We further assessed the effect of prolonged exposure to caffeine on homeostatic sleep and circadian clock. The results of our study showed that short exposure to caffeine reduces sleep and food intake in mature flies. It also enhances sleep fragmentation with increasing age. However, we have not assessed the effect of caffeine on food intake in older flies. On the other hand, prolonged caffeine exposure did not exert any significant effect on the duration of sleep and food intake in mature flies. Nevertheless, prolonged caffeine ingestion decreased the morning and evening anticipatory activity in these flies indicating that it affects the circadian rhythm. These flies also exhibited phase delay in the clock gene timeless transcript oscillation and exhibited either behavioral arrhythmicity or a longer free-running period under constant darkness. In summary, the results of our studies showed that short exposure to caffeine increases the sleep fragmentation with age whereas prolonged caffeine exposure disrupts the circadian clock.
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- Aishwarya Segu
- Chronobiology Laboratory, School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Thiruvananthapuram, India
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- Chronobiology Laboratory, School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Thiruvananthapuram, India
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Diering GH. Remembering and forgetting in sleep: Selective synaptic plasticity during sleep driven by scaling factors Homer1a and Arc. Neurobiol Stress 2022; 22:100512. [PMID: 36632309 PMCID: PMC9826981 DOI: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2022.100512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Sleep is a conserved and essential process that supports learning and memory. Synapses are a major target of sleep function and a locus of sleep need. Evidence in the literature suggests that the need for sleep has a cellular or microcircuit level basis, and that sleep need can accumulate within localized brain regions as a function of waking activity. Activation of sleep promoting kinases and accumulation of synaptic phosphorylation was recently shown to be part of the molecular basis for the localized sleep need. A prominent hypothesis in the field suggests that some benefits of sleep are mediated by a broad but selective weakening, or scaling-down, of synaptic strength during sleep in order to offset increased excitability from synaptic potentiation during wake. The literature also shows that synapses can be strengthened during sleep, raising the question of what molecular mechanisms may allow for selection of synaptic plasticity types during sleep. Here I describe mechanisms of action of the scaling factors Arc and Homer1a in selective plasticity and links with sleep need. Arc and Homer1a are induced in neurons in response to waking neuronal activity and accumulate with time spent awake. I suggest that during sleep, Arc and Homer1a drive broad weakening of synapses through homeostatic scaling-down, but in a manner that is sensitive to the plasticity history of individual synapses, based on patterned phosphorylation of synaptic proteins. Therefore, Arc and Homer1a may offer insights into the intricate links between a cellular basis of sleep need and memory consolidation during sleep.
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- Graham H. Diering
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and the UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA,Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, USA,111 Mason Farm Road, 5200 Medical and Biomolecular Research Building, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7545, USA.
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Keenan BT, Galante RJ, Lian J, Zhang L, Guo X, Veatch OJ, Chesler EJ, O'Brien WT, Svenson KL, Churchill GA, Pack AI. The dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase gene contributes to heritable differences in sleep in mice. Curr Biol 2021; 31:5238-5248.e7. [PMID: 34653361 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Revised: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Many aspects of sleep are heritable, but only a few sleep-regulating genes have been reported. Here, we leverage mouse models to identify and confirm a previously unreported gene affecting sleep duration-dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (Dpyd). Using activity patterns to quantify sleep in 325 Diversity Outbred (DO) mice-a population with high genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity-a linkage peak for total sleep in the active lights off period was identified on chromosome 3 (LOD score = 7.14). Mice with the PWK/PhJ ancestral haplotype at this location demonstrated markedly reduced sleep. Among the genes within the linkage region, available RNA sequencing data in an independent sample of DO mice supported a highly significant expression quantitative trait locus for Dpyd, wherein reduced expression was associated with the PWK/PhJ allele. Validation studies were performed using activity monitoring and EEG/EMG recording in Collaborative Cross mouse strains with and without the PWK/PhJ haplotype at this location, as well as EEG and EMG recording of sleep and wake in Dpyd knockout mice and wild-type littermate controls. Mice lacking Dpyd had 78.4 min less sleep during the lights-off period than wild-type mice (p = 0.007; Cohen's d = -0.94). There was no difference in other measured behaviors in knockout mice, including assays evaluating cognitive-, social-, and affective-disorder-related behaviors. Dpyd encodes the rate-limiting enzyme in the metabolic pathway that catabolizes uracil and thymidine to β-alanine, an inhibitory neurotransmitter. Thus, data support β-alanine as a neurotransmitter that promotes sleep in mice.
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- Brendan T Keenan
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Neurobehavior Testing Core, Institute for Translational and Therapeutic Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Bjørkum AA, Carrasco Duran A, Frode B, Sinha Roy D, Rosendahl K, Birkeland E, Stuhr L. Human blood serum proteome changes after 6 hours of sleep deprivation at night. SLEEP SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 2021. [DOI: 10.1186/s41606-021-00066-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Background
The aim of this study was to discover significantly changed proteins in human blood serum after loss of 6 h sleep at night. Furthermore, to reveal affected biological process- and molecular function categories that might be clinically relevant, by exploring systems biological databases.
Methods
Eight females were recruited by volunteer request. Peripheral venous whole blood was sampled at 04:00 am, after 6 h of sleep and after 6 h of sleep deprivation. We used within-subjects design (all subjects were their own control). Blood serum from each subject was depleted before protein digestion by trypsin and iTRAQ labeling. Labled peptides were analyzed by mass spectrometry (LTQ OritrapVelos Elite) connected to a LC system (Dionex Ultimate NCR-3000RS).
Results
We identified 725 proteins in human blood serum. 34 proteins were significantly differentially expressed after 6 h of sleep deprivation at night. Out of 34 proteins, 14 proteins were up-regulated, and 20 proteins were down-regulated. We emphasized the functionality of the 16 proteins commonly differentiated in all 8 subjects and the relation to pathological conditions. In addition, we discussed Histone H4 (H4) and protein S100-A6/Calcyclin (S10A6) that were upregulated more than 1.5-fold. Finally, we discussed affected biological process- and molecular function categories.
Conclusions
Overall, our study suggest that acute sleep deprivation, at least in females, affects several known biological processes- and molecular function categories and associates to proteins that also are changed under pathological conditions like impaired coagulation, oxidative stress, immune suppression, neurodegenerative related disorder, and cancer. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD021004.
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Anna G, Kannan NN. Post-transcriptional modulators and mediators of the circadian clock. Chronobiol Int 2021; 38:1244-1261. [PMID: 34056966 PMCID: PMC7611477 DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2021.1928159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Revised: 04/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
The endogenous circadian timekeeping system drives ~24-h rhythms in gene expression and rhythmically coordinates the physiology, metabolism and behavior in a wide range of organisms. Regulation at various levels is important for the accurate functioning of this circadian timing system. The core circadian oscillator consists of an interlocked transcriptional-translational negative feedback loop (TTFL) that imposes a substantial delay between the accumulation of clock gene mRNA and its protein to generate 24-h oscillations. This TTFL mediated daily oscillation of clock proteins is further fine-tuned by post-translational modifications that regulate the clock protein stability, interaction with other proteins and subcellular localization. Emerging evidence from various studies indicates that besides TTFL and post-translational modifications, post-transcriptional regulation plays a key role in shaping the rhythmicity of mRNAs and to delay the accumulation of clock proteins in relation to their mRNAs. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge on the importance of post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms such as splicing, polyadenylation, the role of RNA-binding proteins, RNA methylation and microRNAs in the context of shaping the circadian rhythmicity in Drosophila and mammals. In particular, we discuss microRNAs, an important player in post-transcriptional regulation of core-clock machinery, circadian neural circuit, clock input, and output pathways. Furthermore, we provide an overview of the microRNAs that exhibit diurnal rhythm in expression and their role in mediating rhythmic physiological processes.
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- Geo Anna
- Chronobiology Laboratory, School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695551, India
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- Chronobiology Laboratory, School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695551, India
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Huang S, Sigrist SJ. Presynaptic and postsynaptic long-term plasticity in sleep homeostasis. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2021; 69:1-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2020.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 11/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Bockaert J, Perroy J, Ango F. The Complex Formed by Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor (mGluR) and Homer1a Plays a Central Role in Metaplasticity and Homeostatic Synaptic Scaling. J Neurosci 2021; 41:5567-5578. [PMID: 34193623 PMCID: PMC8244974 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0026-21.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2021] [Revised: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
G-protein-coupled receptors can be constitutively activated following physical interaction with intracellular proteins. The first example described was the constitutive activation of Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR: mGluR1,5) following their interaction with Homer1a, an activity-inducible early-termination variant of the scaffolding protein Homer that lacks dimerization capacity (Ango et al., 2001). Homer1a disrupts the links, maintained by the long form of Homer (cross-linking Homers), between mGluR1,5 and the Shank-GKAP-PSD-95-ionotropic glutamate receptor network. Two characteristics of the constitutive activation of the Group I mGluR-Homer1a complex are particularly interesting: (1) it affects a large number of synapses in which Homer1a is upregulated following enhanced, long-lasting neuronal activity; and (2) it mainly depends on Homer1a protein turnover. The constitutively active Group I mGluR-Homer1a complex is involved in the two main forms of non-Hebbian neuronal plasticity: "metaplasticity" and "homeostatic synaptic scaling," which are implicated in a large series of physiological and pathologic processes. Those include non-Hebbian plasticity observed in visual system, synapses modulated by addictive drugs (rewarded synapses), chronically overactivated synaptic networks, normal sleep, and sleep deprivation.
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- Joël Bockaert
- Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Université Montpellier, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, 34094 Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Université Montpellier, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, 34094 Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier, Université Montpellier, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, 34295 Montpellier, France
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Keenan BT, Galante RJ, Lian J, Simecek P, Gatti DM, Zhang L, Lim DC, Svenson KL, Churchill GA, Pack AI. High-throughput sleep phenotyping produces robust and heritable traits in Diversity Outbred mice and their founder strains. Sleep 2021; 43:5740842. [PMID: 32074270 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsz278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2019] [Revised: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVES This study describes high-throughput phenotyping strategies for sleep and circadian behavior in mice, including examinations of robustness, reliability, and heritability among Diversity Outbred (DO) mice and their eight founder strains. METHODS We performed high-throughput sleep and circadian phenotyping in male mice from the DO population (n = 338) and their eight founder strains: A/J (n = 6), C57BL/6J (n = 14), 129S1/SvlmJ (n = 6), NOD/LtJ (n = 6), NZO/H1LtJ (n = 6), CAST/EiJ (n = 8), PWK/PhJ (n = 8), and WSB/EiJ (n = 6). Using infrared beam break systems, we defined sleep as at least 40 s of continuous inactivity and quantified sleep-wake amounts and bout characteristics. We developed assays to measure sleep latency in a new environment and during a modified Murine Multiple Sleep Latency Test, and estimated circadian period from wheel-running experiments. For each trait, broad-sense heritability (proportion of variability explained by all genetic factors) was derived in founder strains, while narrow-sense heritability (proportion of variability explained by additive genetic effects) was calculated in DO mice. RESULTS Phenotypes were robust to different inactivity durations to define sleep. Differences across founder strains and moderate/high broad-sense heritability were observed for most traits. There was large phenotypic variability among DO mice, and phenotypes were reliable, although estimates of heritability were lower than in founder mice. This likely reflects important nonadditive genetic effects. CONCLUSIONS A high-throughput phenotyping strategy in mice, based primarily on monitoring of activity patterns, provides reliable and heritable estimates of sleep and circadian traits. This approach is suitable for discovery analyses in DO mice, where genetic factors explain some proportion of phenotypic variation.
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- Brendan T Keenan
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.,Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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The why and how of sleep-dependent synaptic down-selection. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2021; 125:91-100. [PMID: 33712366 PMCID: PMC8426406 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2021.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Sleep requires that we disconnect from the environment, losing the ability to promptly respond to stimuli. There must be at least one essential function that justifies why we take this risk every day, and that function must depend on the brain being offline. We have proposed that this function is to renormalize synaptic weights after learning has led to a net increase in synaptic strength in many brain circuits. Without this renormalization, synaptic activity would become energetically too expensive and saturation would prevent new learning. There is converging evidence from molecular, electrophysiological, and ultrastructural experiments showing a net increase in synaptic strength after the major wake phase, and a net decline after sleep. The evidence also suggests that sleep-dependent renormalization is a smart process of synaptic down-selection, comprehensive and yet specific, which could explain the many beneficial effects of sleep on cognition. Recently, a key molecular mechanism that allows broad synaptic weakening during sleep was identified. Other mechanisms still being investigated should eventually explain how sleep can weaken most synapses but afford protection to some, including those directly activated by learning. That synaptic down-selection takes place during sleep is by now established; why it should take place during sleep has a plausible explanation; how it happens is still work in progress.
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Pedrazzoli M, Mazzotti DR, Ribeiro AO, Mendes JV, Bittencourt LRA, Tufik S. A single nucleotide polymorphism in the HOMER1 gene is associated with sleep latency and theta power in sleep electroencephalogram. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0223632. [PMID: 32645048 PMCID: PMC7347117 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Glutamate is the most excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system and it is involved in the initiation and maintaining of waking and rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep. Homer proteins act in the trafficking and/or clustering of metabotropic glutamate receptors, and polymorphisms in the HOMER1 gene have been associated with phenotypes related to glutamate signaling dysregulation. In this study, we report the association of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the HOMER1 gene (rs3822568) with specific aspects of sleep in a sample of the Brazilian population. To accomplish this, 1,042 individuals were subjected to a full-night polysomnography, and a subset of 983 subjects had rs3822568 genotyping data available. When compared with the A allele carriers, GG genotyped individuals showed higher sleep latency, lower sleep efficiency, reduced number of arousals per hour, lower apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) and lower theta spectral power. In summary, the present findings suggest that the rs3822568 polymorphism in the HOMER1 gene is associated with sleep EEG profiles and might have an impact on sleep quality and sleep structure, with potential to explain inter-individual variation in sleep homeostasis.
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- Mario Pedrazzoli
- School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychobiology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil
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Zhu J, Hafycz J, Keenan BT, Guo X, Pack A, Naidoo N. Acute Sleep Loss Upregulates the Synaptic Scaffolding Protein, Homer1a, in Non-canonical Sleep/Wake Brain Regions, Claustrum, Piriform and Cingulate Cortices. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:188. [PMID: 32231514 PMCID: PMC7083128 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2019] [Accepted: 02/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Homer proteins are a component of the post-synaptic density of neurons that are necessary for the maintenance and consolidation of behavioral state. The dominant negative protein homer1a is rapidly increased by neuronal activity and sleep loss. Homer1a knockout mice with globally absent homer1a have reduced ability to sustain wakefulness during the active period. It is not known whether homer1a is required globally or in very specific brain regions or neurons for its role in maintaining wake. In this study, we examined the expression of homer1a, an immediate early gene involved in intracellular signaling cascades, in mice subjected to extended wakefulness. We found that mice displayed increased expression of homer1a in the claustrum, a brain region thought to be involved in consciousness, as well as the cingulate and piriform cortices compared to non-sleep deprived mice. In situ hybridization (ISH) studies also indicate that homer1a is not induced in the known wake promoting regions with sleep deprivation, but is instead upregulated primarily in the claustrum and piriform cortex. Examination of homer1a expression levels with recovery sleep after sleep deprivation indicate that baseline homer1a expression levels were restored. Further, we have identified that homer1a is upregulated in excitatory neurons of the claustrum suggesting that homer1a promotes wakefulness through activating excitatory neurons. This work identifies regions previously unknown to be involved in sleep regulation that respond to acute sleep deprivation or enhanced waking.
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Nian X, Chen W, Bai W, Zhao Z. Regulation of circadian locomotor rhythm by miR-263a. BIOL RHYTHM RES 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/09291016.2020.1726049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Xiaoge Nian
- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Life Sciences, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Ly S, Strus E, Naidoo N. Genetic disruption of the putative binding site for Homer on DmGluRA reduces sleep in Drosophila. Sleep 2020; 43:zsz190. [PMID: 31418019 PMCID: PMC7974020 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsz190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Revised: 05/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Homer proteins mediate plasticity and signaling at the postsynaptic density of neurons and are necessary for sleep and synaptic remodeling during sleep. The goal of this study was to investigate the mechanisms of sleep regulation by Homer signaling. Using the Drosophila animal model, we demonstrate that knockdown of Homer specifically in the brain reduces sleep and that Drosophila Homer binds to the sole Drosophila mGluR, known as DmGluRA. This is the first evidence that DmGluRA, which bears greatest homology to group II mammalian metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs), shares functional homology with group I mGluRs which couple to Homer proteins in mammals. As sleep is associated with the physical dissociation of Homer and mGluRs proteins at the synapse, we sought to determine the functional necessity of Homer × DmGluRA interaction in sleep regulation. Using the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system, we generated a targeted amino acid replacement of the putative binding site for Homer on DmGluRA to prevent Homer and DmGluRA protein binding. We found that loss of the conserved proline-rich PPXXF sequence on DmGluRA reduces Homer/DmGluRA associations and significantly reduces sleep amount. Thus, we identify a conserved mechanism of synaptic plasticity in Drosophila and demonstrate that the interaction of Homer with DmGluRA is necessary to promote sleep.
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- Sarah Ly
- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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Sauvage M, Kitsukawa T, Atucha E. Single-cell memory trace imaging with immediate-early genes. J Neurosci Methods 2019; 326:108368. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Revised: 07/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Clifton NE, Trent S, Thomas KL, Hall J. Regulation and Function of Activity-Dependent Homer in Synaptic Plasticity. MOLECULAR NEUROPSYCHIATRY 2019; 5:147-161. [PMID: 31312636 DOI: 10.1159/000500267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Alterations in synaptic signaling and plasticity occur during the refinement of neural circuits over the course of development and the adult processes of learning and memory. Synaptic plasticity requires the rearrangement of protein complexes in the postsynaptic density (PSD), trafficking of receptors and ion channels and the synthesis of new proteins. Activity-induced short Homer proteins, Homer1a and Ania-3, are recruited to active excitatory synapses, where they act as dominant negative regulators of constitutively expressed, longer Homer isoforms. The expression of Homer1a and Ania-3 initiates critical processes of PSD remodeling, the modulation of glutamate receptor-mediated functions, and the regulation of calcium signaling. Together, available data support the view that Homer1a and Ania-3 are responsible for the selective, transient destabilization of postsynaptic signaling complexes to facilitate plasticity of the excitatory synapse. The interruption of activity-dependent Homer proteins disrupts disease-relevant processes and leads to memory impairments, reflecting their likely contribution to neurological disorders.
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- Nicholas E Clifton
- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.,MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.,School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.,MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Ly S, Naidoo N. Loss of DmGluRA exacerbates age-related sleep disruption and reduces lifespan. Neurobiol Aging 2019; 80:83-90. [PMID: 31103635 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Revised: 04/03/2019] [Accepted: 04/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Declines in sleep amount and quality-characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and an inability to sleep at night-are common features of aging. Sleep dysfunction is also associated with age-related ailments and diseases, suggesting that sleep is functionally relevant to the aging process. Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs)-which are critical regulators of neurotransmission and synaptic plasticity-have been implicated in both age-related disease and sleep regulation. Therefore, in this study, we examined the sleep and aging effect of complete genetic loss of mGluR signaling in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetic knockdown of the sole Drosophila mGluR-known as DmGluRA-reduced daytime wakefulness and nighttime sleep, recapitulating age-related sleep changes that occur across species. Furthermore, loss of DmGluRA significantly reduced lifespan and exacerbated age-related sleep loss in older flies. Thus, we identify DmGluRA as a novel regulator of sleep whose loss results in an age-relevant sleep phenotype that is associated with shortened lifespan. This is the first evidence that mGluR signaling regulates sleep/wake in a manner that is relevant to the aging process.
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- Sarah Ly
- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Barone I, Hawks-Mayer H, Lipton JO. Mechanisms of sleep and circadian ontogeny through the lens of neurodevelopmental disorders. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2019; 160:160-172. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2019.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2018] [Revised: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 01/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Martin SC, Monroe SK, Diering GH. Homer1a and mGluR1/5 Signaling in Homeostatic Sleep Drive and Output. THE YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2019; 92:93-101. [PMID: 30923476 PMCID: PMC6430175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
Abstract
Sleep is an essential physiological behavior that promotes cognitive development and function. Although the switch between sleep/wake cycles is controlled by specific neural circuits, sleep need and the restorative benefits of sleep are likely controlled by cellular mechanisms localized in critical areas of the brain involved in learning and memory including the cortex and hippocampus. However, the molecular basis for the restorative function(s) of sleep that support cognition, or for the homeostatic build-up of sleep need are poorly understood. Synapses undergo local and global changes in strength to support learning and memory and are likely a point of restoration during sleep. Homer1a and mGluR1/5, recently implicated in sleep function, are molecules involved in the scaling down process that weakens synapses during sleep to restore synapse homeostasis. During wake, long-form Homer proteins tether mGluR1/5 to IP3R and to the post-synaptic density (PSD). During sleep, short-form Homer1a uncouples mGluR1/5 from IP3R leaving mGluR1/5 open to interact with other effectors, switching mGluR1/5 signaling from "awake-type" to "sleep-type" signaling modes. Importantly, mGluR1/5 have been implicated in several neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), all of which show abnormal sleep phenotypes, linking sleep, disease, and mGluR1/5 signaling. Further investigation into the downstream effectors of mGluR1/5 and sleep/wake signaling will lead to more targeted therapeutic interventions.
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- Shenée C. Martin
- Neuroscience Center and Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
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- Neuroscience Center and Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
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- Neuroscience Center and Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC,Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC,To whom all correspondence should be addressed: Graham H. Diering, University of North Carolina 111 Mason Farm Road, 5200 Medical Biomolecular Research Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7545; Tel: 919-966-1464, Fax: 919-966-6927,
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Genomic imprinting and the control of sleep in mammals. Curr Opin Behav Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Naidoo N, Zhu J, Galante RJ, Lian J, Strus E, Lee A, Keenan BT, Pack AI. Reduction of the molecular chaperone binding immunoglobulin protein (BiP) accentuates the effect of aging on sleep-wake behavior. Neurobiol Aging 2018; 69:10-25. [PMID: 29843048 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2017] [Revised: 04/05/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Sleep and wake quality, quantity, and architecture become modified with aging. Sleep and wake quality decline coinciding with increased fragmentation of both states across aging. We have previously shown that this age-related decline in sleep-wake quality is associated with increased endoplasmic reticular (ER) stress and decreased expression of the major ER chaperone binding immunoglobulin protein (BiP). BiP, also known as glucose-regulated protein 78, plays a key role in controlling the cellular response to ER stress, acting as a regulator of a protein homeostatic signaling pathway known as the unfolded protein response. Induction of BiP during cellular stress is part of an adaptive prosurvival mechanism. Here, using mice heterozygous for BiP, we investigated the effect of reduced BiP expression on sleep-wake behavior across aging; complete knockdown of BiP is embryonic lethal. We report that BiP heterozygosity accentuates the aging sleep-wake phenotype. Sleep and wake fragmentation was more pronounced in the BiP heterozygotes across the 3 ages examined. In mice lacking 1 functional copy of BiP, we observed an age-related significant reduction in wake bout duration and increase in wake bout numbers during the active period, as well as an increase in non rapid eye movement and rapid eye movement bout numbers accompanied by reduced bout durations of both non rapid eye movement and rapid eye movement during the sleep period. In addition, we observed increased ER stress in orexin neurons and occurrence of aggregates immunopositive for orexin at the terminals and projections of orexin neurons in the middle-aged BiP heterozygotes. Taken together, our data indicate that a reduction in the molecular chaperone BiP impacts sleep architecture across aging and that orexin processing is likely to be affected.
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- Nirinjini Naidoo
- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Division of Sleep Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Keck, School of Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Division of Sleep Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Vieira GC, D'Ávila MF, Zanini R, Deprá M, da Silva Valente VL. Evolution of DNMT2 in drosophilids: Evidence for positive and purifying selection and insights into new protein (pathways) interactions. Genet Mol Biol 2018; 41:215-234. [PMID: 29668012 PMCID: PMC5913717 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2017-0056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2017] [Accepted: 06/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
The DNA methyltransferase 2 (DNMT2) protein is the most conserved member of the
DNA methyltransferase family. Nevertheless, its substrate specificity is still
controversial and elusive. The genomic role and determinants of DNA methylation
are poorly understood in invertebrates, and several mechanisms and associations
are suggested. In Drosophila, the only known DNMT gene is
Dnmt2. Here we present our findings from a wide search for
Dnmt2 homologs in 68 species of Drosophilidae. We
investigated its molecular evolution, and in our phylogenetic analyses the main
clades of Drosophilidae species were recovered. We tested whether the
Dnmt2 has evolved neutrally or under positive selection
along the subgenera Drosophila and Sophophora
and investigated positive selection in relation to several physicochemical
properties. Despite of a major selective constraint on Dnmt2,
we detected six sites under positive selection. Regarding the DNMT2 protein, 12
sites under positive-destabilizing selection were found, which suggests a
selection that favors structural and functional shifts in the protein. The
search for new potential protein partners with DNMT2 revealed 15 proteins with
high evolutionary rate covariation (ERC), indicating a plurality of DNMT2
functions in different pathways. These events might represent signs of molecular
adaptation, with molecular peculiarities arising from the diversity of
evolutionary histories experienced by drosophilids.
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- Gilberto Cavalheiro Vieira
- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia e Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Palmeira das Missões, RS, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,Departamento de Zoologia e Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Palmeira das Missões, RS, Brazil.,Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Ly S, Pack AI, Naidoo N. The neurobiological basis of sleep: Insights from Drosophila. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2018; 87:67-86. [PMID: 29391183 PMCID: PMC5845852 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2017] [Revised: 01/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Sleep is a biological enigma that has raised numerous questions about the inner workings of the brain. The fundamental question of why our nervous systems have evolved to require sleep remains a topic of ongoing scientific deliberation. This question is largely being addressed by research using animal models of sleep. Drosophila melanogaster, also known as the common fruit fly, exhibits a sleep state that shares common features with many other species. Drosophila sleep studies have unearthed an immense wealth of knowledge about the neuroscience of sleep. Given the breadth of findings published on Drosophila sleep, it is important to consider how all of this information might come together to generate a more holistic understanding of sleep. This review provides a comprehensive summary of the neurobiology of Drosophila sleep and explores the broader insights and implications of how sleep is regulated across species and why it is necessary for the brain.
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- Sarah Ly
- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, 125 South 31st St., Philadelphia, PA, 19104-3403, United States.
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, 125 South 31st St., Philadelphia, PA, 19104-3403, United States; Division of Sleep Medicine/Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 125 South 31st St., Philadelphia, PA, 19104-3403, United States
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, 125 South 31st St., Philadelphia, PA, 19104-3403, United States; Division of Sleep Medicine/Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 125 South 31st St., Philadelphia, PA, 19104-3403, United States.
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Nadjar A, Wigren HKM, Tremblay ME. Roles of Microglial Phagocytosis and Inflammatory Mediators in the Pathophysiology of Sleep Disorders. Front Cell Neurosci 2017; 11:250. [PMID: 28912686 PMCID: PMC5582207 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2017] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Sleep serves crucial learning and memory functions in both nervous and immune systems. Microglia are brain immune cells that actively maintain health through their crucial physiological roles exerted across the lifespan, including phagocytosis of cellular debris and orchestration of neuroinflammation. The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth of microglial research. Considering the recent developments in the field of microglia and sleep, we examine their possible impact on various pathological conditions associated with a gain, disruption, or loss of sleep in this focused mini-review. While there are extensive studies of microglial implication in a variety of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, less is known regarding their roles in sleep disorders. It is timely to stimulate new research in this emergent and rapidly growing field of investigation.
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- Agnes Nadjar
- Nutrition et Neurobiologie Intégrée, UMR 1286, Institut National de la Recherche AgronomiqueBordeaux, France.,Nutrition et Neurobiologie Intégrée, UMR 1286, Bordeaux UniversityBordeaux, France.,OptiNutriBrain International Associated Laboratory (NutriNeuro France-INAF Canada)Québec, QC, Canada
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- Axe Neurosciences, CRCHU de Québec-Université LavalQuébec, QC, Canada.,Département de médecine moléculaire, Université LavalQuébec, QC, Canada
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Allada R, Cirelli C, Sehgal A. Molecular Mechanisms of Sleep Homeostasis in Flies and Mammals. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2017; 9:a027730. [PMID: 28432135 PMCID: PMC5538413 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a027730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Sleep is homeostatically regulated with sleep pressure accumulating with the increasing duration of prior wakefulness. Yet, a clear understanding of the molecular components of the homeostat, as well as the molecular and cellular processes they sense and control to regulate sleep intensity and duration, remain a mystery. Here, we will discuss the cellular and molecular basis of sleep homeostasis, first focusing on the best homeostatic sleep marker in vertebrates, slow wave activity; second, moving to the molecular genetic analysis of sleep homeostasis in the fruit fly Drosophila; and, finally, discussing more systemic aspects of sleep homeostasis.
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- Ravi Allada
- Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ilinois 60208
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53719
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- Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6058
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Jensen P, Myhre CL, Lassen PS, Metaxas A, Khan AM, Lambertsen KL, Babcock AA, Finsen B, Larsen MR, Kempf SJ. TNFα affects CREB-mediated neuroprotective signaling pathways of synaptic plasticity in neurons as revealed by proteomics and phospho-proteomics. Oncotarget 2017; 8:60223-60242. [PMID: 28947966 PMCID: PMC5601134 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.19428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Neuroinflammation is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and TNFα as the main inducer of neuroinflammation has neurodegenerative but also pro-regenerative properties, however, the dose-dependent molecular changes on signaling pathway level are not fully understood. We performed quantitative proteomics and phospho-proteomics to target this point. In HT22 cells, we found that TNFα reduced mitochondrial signaling and inhibited mTOR protein translation signaling but also led to induction of neuroprotective MAPK-CREB signaling. Stimulation of human neurons with TNFα revealed similar cellular mechanisms. Moreover, a number of synaptic plasticity-associated genes were altered in their expression profile including CREB. SiRNA-mediated knockdown of CREB in human neurons prior to TNFα stimulation led to a reduced number of protein/phospho-protein hits compared to siRNA-mediated knockdown of CREB or TNFα stimulation alone and countermeasured the reduced CREB signaling. In vivo data of TNFα knockout mice showed that learning ability did not depend on TNFα per se but that TNFα was essential for preserving the learning ability after episodes of lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation. This may be based on modulation of CREB/CREB signaling as revealed by the in vitro / in vivo data. Our data show that several molecular targets and signaling pathways induced by TNFα in neurons resemble those seen in Alzheimer's disease pathology.
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- Pia Jensen
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Neurobiology Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Neurobiology Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Neurobiology Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Neurobiology Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Department of Neurology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.,BRIDGE, Brain Research-Inter-Disciplinary Guided Excellence, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Neurobiology Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Neurobiology Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,BRIDGE, Brain Research-Inter-Disciplinary Guided Excellence, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Veatch OJ, Keenan BT, Gehrman PR, Malow BA, Pack AI. Pleiotropic genetic effects influencing sleep and neurological disorders. Lancet Neurol 2017; 16:158-170. [PMID: 28102151 DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(16)30339-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2016] [Revised: 10/04/2016] [Accepted: 11/09/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Research evidence increasingly points to the large impact of sleep disturbances on public health. Many aspects of sleep are heritable and genes influencing traits such as timing, EEG characteristics, sleep duration, and response to sleep loss have been identified. Notably, large-scale genome-wide analyses have implicated numerous genes with small effects on sleep timing. Additionally, there has been considerable progress in the identification of genes influencing risk for some neurological sleep disorders. For restless legs syndrome, implicated variants are typically in genes associated with neuronal development. By contrast, genes conferring risk for narcolepsy function in the immune system. Many genetic variants associated with sleep disorders are also implicated in neurological disorders in which sleep abnormalities are common; for example, variation in genes involved in synaptic homoeostasis are implicated in autism spectrum disorder and sleep-wake control. Further investigation into pleiotropic roles of genes influencing both sleep and neurological disorders could lead to new treatment strategies for a variety of sleep disturbances.
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- Olivia J Veatch
- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Genes and neural circuits for sleep of the fruit fly. Neurosci Res 2017; 118:82-91. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2017.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2017] [Revised: 03/29/2017] [Accepted: 03/29/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Sandsmark DK, Elliott JE, Lim MM. Sleep-Wake Disturbances After Traumatic Brain Injury: Synthesis of Human and Animal Studies. Sleep 2017; 40:3074241. [PMID: 28329120 PMCID: PMC6251652 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsx044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Sleep-wake disturbances following traumatic brain injury (TBI) are increasingly recognized as a serious consequence following injury and as a barrier to recovery. Injury-induced sleep-wake disturbances can persist for years, often impairing quality of life. Recently, there has been a nearly exponential increase in the number of primary research articles published on the pathophysiology and mechanisms underlying sleep-wake disturbances after TBI, both in animal models and in humans, including in the pediatric population. In this review, we summarize over 200 articles on the topic, most of which were identified objectively using reproducible online search terms in PubMed. Although these studies differ in terms of methodology and detailed outcomes; overall, recent research describes a common phenotype of excessive daytime sleepiness, nighttime sleep fragmentation, insomnia, and electroencephalography spectral changes after TBI. Given the heterogeneity of the human disease phenotype, rigorous translation of animal models to the human condition is critical to our understanding of the mechanisms and of the temporal course of sleep-wake disturbances after injury. Arguably, this is most effectively accomplished when animal and human studies are performed by the same or collaborating research programs. Given the number of symptoms associated with TBI that are intimately related to, or directly stem from sleep dysfunction, sleep-wake disorders represent an important area in which mechanistic-based therapies may substantially impact recovery after TBI.
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- VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR
- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
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- VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR
- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR; Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
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Allen SL, Bonduriansky R, Sgro CM, Chenoweth SF. Sex-biased transcriptome divergence along a latitudinal gradient. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:1256-1272. [PMID: 28100025 DOI: 10.1111/mec.14015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2016] [Revised: 11/23/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Sex-dependent gene expression is likely an important genomic mechanism that allows sex-specific adaptation to environmental changes. Among Drosophila species, sex-biased genes display remarkably consistent evolutionary patterns; male-biased genes evolve faster than unbiased genes in both coding sequence and expression level, suggesting sex differences in selection through time. However, comparatively little is known of the evolutionary process shaping sex-biased expression within species. Latitudinal clines offer an opportunity to examine how changes in key ecological parameters also influence sex-specific selection and the evolution of sex-biased gene expression. We assayed male and female gene expression in Drosophila serrata along a latitudinal gradient in eastern Australia spanning most of its endemic distribution. Analysis of 11 631 genes across eight populations revealed strong sex differences in the frequency, mode and strength of divergence. Divergence was far stronger in males than females and while latitudinal clines were evident in both sexes, male divergence was often population specific, suggesting responses to localized selection pressures that do not covary predictably with latitude. While divergence was enriched for male-biased genes, there was no overrepresentation of X-linked genes in males. By contrast, X-linked divergence was elevated in females, especially for female-biased genes. Many genes that diverged in D. serrata have homologs also showing latitudinal divergence in Drosophila simulans and Drosophila melanogaster on other continents, likely indicating parallel adaptation in these distantly related species. Our results suggest that sex differences in selection play an important role in shaping the evolution of gene expression over macro- and micro-ecological spatial scales.
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- Scott L Allen
- The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld, 4072, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic., 3800, Australia
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- The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Qld, 4072, Australia
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Diering GH, Nirujogi RS, Roth RH, Worley PF, Pandey A, Huganir RL. Homer1a drives homeostatic scaling-down of excitatory synapses during sleep. Science 2017; 355:511-515. [PMID: 28154077 DOI: 10.1126/science.aai8355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 323] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Accepted: 12/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Sleep is an essential process that supports learning and memory by acting on synapses through poorly understood molecular mechanisms. Using biochemistry, proteomics, and imaging in mice, we find that during sleep, synapses undergo widespread alterations in composition and signaling, including weakening of synapses through removal and dephosphorylation of synaptic AMPA-type glutamate receptors. These changes are driven by the immediate early gene Homer1a and signaling from group I metabotropic glutamate receptors mGluR1/5. Homer1a serves as a molecular integrator of arousal and sleep need via the wake- and sleep-promoting neuromodulators, noradrenaline and adenosine, respectively. Our data suggest that homeostatic scaling-down, a global form of synaptic plasticity, is active during sleep to remodel synapses and participates in the consolidation of contextual memory.
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- Graham H Diering
- Solomon Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Solomon Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Solomon Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Solomon Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Sleep is essential for health and cognition, but the molecular and neural mechanisms of sleep regulation are not well understood. We recently reported the identification of TARANIS (TARA) as a sleep-promoting factor that acts in a previously unknown arousal center in Drosophila. tara mutants exhibit a dose-dependent reduction in sleep amount of up to ∼60%. TARA and its mammalian homologs, the Trip-Br (Transcriptional Regulators Interacting with PHD zinc fingers and/or Bromodomains) family of proteins, are primarily known as transcriptional coregulators involved in cell cycle progression, and contain a conserved Cyclin-A (CycA) binding homology domain. We found that tara and CycA synergistically promote sleep, and CycA levels are reduced in tara mutants. Additional data demonstrated that Cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (Cdk1) antagonizes tara and CycA to promote wakefulness. Moreover, we identified a subset of CycA expressing neurons in the pars lateralis, a brain region proposed to be analogous to the mammalian hypothalamus, as an arousal center. In this Extra View article, we report further characterization of tara mutants and provide an extended discussion of our findings and future directions within the framework of a working model, in which a network of cell cycle genes, tara, CycA, and Cdk1, interact in an arousal center to regulate sleep.
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- Dinis J S Afonso
- a Department of Neuroscience ; the Farber Institute for Neurosciences; and Kimmel Cancer Center; Thomas Jefferson University ; Philadelphia , PA USA.,b Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS); School of Health Sciences; University of Minho ; 4710-057 Braga , Portugal.,c ICVS/3B's; PT Government Associate Laboratory ; 4710-057 Braga/Guimarães ; Portugal
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- a Department of Neuroscience ; the Farber Institute for Neurosciences; and Kimmel Cancer Center; Thomas Jefferson University ; Philadelphia , PA USA.,b Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS); School of Health Sciences; University of Minho ; 4710-057 Braga , Portugal.,c ICVS/3B's; PT Government Associate Laboratory ; 4710-057 Braga/Guimarães ; Portugal
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- a Department of Neuroscience ; the Farber Institute for Neurosciences; and Kimmel Cancer Center; Thomas Jefferson University ; Philadelphia , PA USA
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Gerstner JR, Koberstein JN, Watson AJ, Zapero N, Risso D, Speed TP, Frank MG, Peixoto L. Removal of unwanted variation reveals novel patterns of gene expression linked to sleep homeostasis in murine cortex. BMC Genomics 2016; 17:727. [PMID: 27801296 PMCID: PMC5088519 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3065-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Why we sleep is still one of the most perplexing mysteries in biology. Strong evidence indicates that sleep is necessary for normal brain function and that sleep need is a tightly regulated process. Surprisingly, molecular mechanisms that determine sleep need are incompletely described. Moreover, very little is known about transcriptional changes that specifically accompany the accumulation and discharge of sleep need. Several studies have characterized differential gene expression changes following sleep deprivation. Much less is known, however, about changes in gene expression during the compensatory response to sleep deprivation (i.e. recovery sleep). RESULTS In this study we present a comprehensive analysis of the effects of sleep deprivation and subsequent recovery sleep on gene expression in the mouse cortex. We used a non-traditional analytical method for normalization of genome-wide gene expression data, Removal of Unwanted Variation (RUV). RUV improves detection of differential gene expression following sleep deprivation. We also show that RUV normalization is crucial to the discovery of differentially expressed genes associated with recovery sleep. Our analysis indicates that the majority of transcripts upregulated by sleep deprivation require 6 h of recovery sleep to return to baseline levels, while the majority of downregulated transcripts return to baseline levels within 1-3 h. We also find that transcripts that change rapidly during recovery (i.e. within 3 h) do so on average with a time constant that is similar to the time constant for the discharge of sleep need. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrate that proper data normalization is essential to identify changes in gene expression that are specifically linked to sleep deprivation and recovery sleep. Our results provide the first evidence that recovery sleep is comprised of two waves of transcriptional regulation that occur at different times and affect functionally distinct classes of genes.
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- Jason R Gerstner
- Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Spokane, WA, 99202, USA
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- Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Spokane, WA, 99202, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Spokane, WA, 99202, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Bioinformatics Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Spokane, WA, 99202, USA.
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- Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Spokane, WA, 99202, USA.
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Cytokine-induced sleep: Neurons respond to TNF with production of chemokines and increased expression of Homer1a in vitro. Brain Behav Immun 2015; 47:186-92. [PMID: 25476601 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2014.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2014] [Revised: 11/17/2014] [Accepted: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Interactions of neurons with microglia may play a dominant role in sleep regulation. TNF may exert its somnogeneic effects by promoting attraction of microglia and their processes to the vicinity of dendrites and synapses. We found TNF to stimulate neurons (i) to produce CCL2, CCL7 and CXCL10, chemokines acting on mononuclear phagocytes and (ii) to stimulate the expression of the macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF/Csf1), which leads to elongation of microglia processes. TNF may also act on neurons by affecting the expression of genes essential in sleep-wake behavior. The neuronal expression of Homer1a mRNA, increases during spontaneous and enforced periods of wakefulness. Mice with a deletion of Homer1a show a reduced wakefulness with increased non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep during the dark period. Recently the TNF-dependent increase of NREM sleep in the dark period of mice with CD40-induced immune activation was found to be associated with decreased expression of Homer1a. In the present study we investigated the effects of TNF and IL-1β on gene expression in cultures of the neuronal cell line HT22 and cortical neurons. TNF slightly increased the expression of Homer1a and IL-1β profoundly enhanced the expression of Early growth response 2 (Egr2). The data presented here indicate that the decreased expression of Homer1a, which was found in the dark period of mice with CD40-induced increase of NREM sleep is not due to inhibitory effects of TNF and IL-1β on the expression of Homer1a in neurons.
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Archer SN, Oster H. How sleep and wakefulness influence circadian rhythmicity: effects of insufficient and mistimed sleep on the animal and human transcriptome. J Sleep Res 2015; 24:476-93. [PMID: 26059855 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Accepted: 04/04/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The mammalian circadian system is a multi-oscillator, hierarchically organised system where a central pacemaker synchronises behavioural, physiological and gene expression rhythms in peripheral tissues. Epidemiological studies show that disruption of this internal synchronisation by short sleep and shift work is associated with adverse health outcomes through mechanisms that remain to be elucidated. Here, we review recent animal and human studies demonstrating the profound effects of insufficient and mistimed sleep on the rhythms of gene expression in central and peripheral tissues. In mice, sleep restriction leads to an ~80% reduction in circadian transcripts in the brain and profound disruption of the liver transcriptome. In humans, sleep restriction leads to a 1.9% reduction in circadian transcripts in whole blood, and when sleep is displaced to the daytime, 97% of rhythmic genes become arrhythmic and one-third of all genes show changes in temporal expression profiles. These changes in mice and humans include a significant reduction in the circadian regulation of transcription and translation and core clock genes in the periphery, while at the same time rhythms within the suprachiasmatic nucleus are not disrupted. Although the physiological mediators of these sleep disruption effects on the transcriptome have not been established, altered food intake, changes in hormones such as cortisol, and changes in body and brain temperature may play important roles. Processes and molecular pathways associated with these disruptions include metabolism, immune function, inflammatory and stress responses, and point to the molecular mechanisms underlying the established adverse health outcomes associated with short sleep duration and shift work, such as metabolic syndrome and cancer.
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- Simon N Archer
- Surrey Sleep Research Centre, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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- Chronophysiology Group, Medical Department I, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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Relevance of the metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR5) in the regulation of NREM-REM sleep cycle and homeostasis: Evidence from mGluR5 (−/−) mice. Behav Brain Res 2015; 282:218-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2014] [Revised: 12/21/2014] [Accepted: 01/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Negative versus positive allosteric modulation of metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR5): indices for potential pro-cognitive drug properties based on EEG network oscillations and sleep-wake organization in rats. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2015; 232:1107-22. [PMID: 25323624 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-014-3746-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2013] [Accepted: 09/15/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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RATIONALE Evidence is emerging that positive and negative modulation of the metabotropic glutamate (mGluR5) receptors has the potential for treating cognitive deficits and neuroprotection associated with psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, respectively. Sleep and synchronisation of disparate neuronal networks are critically involved in neuronal plasticity, and disturbance in vigilance states and cortical network connectivity contribute significantly to cognitive deficits described in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Here, we examined the circadian changes of mGluR5 density and the functional response to modulation of mGluR5 signaling. METHODS The current study carried out in Sprague-Dawley rats quantified the density of mGluR5 across the light-dark cycle with autoradiography. The central activity of mGluR5 negative allosteric modulators (2-methyl-6-(phenylethynyl)pyridine (MPEP) and [(2-methyl-1,3-thiazol-4-yl)ethynyl]pyridine (MTEP) and positive allosteric modulators (S-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-{3-[3-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-[1,2,4]oxadiazol-5-yl]-piperidin-1-yl}-methanone (ADX47273) and (7S)-3-tert-butyl-7-[3-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-1,2,4-oxadiazol-5-yl]-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro[1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a]pyridine (LSN2814617) was examined on sleep-wake architecture. The functional effect of mGluR5 modulation on cortical networks communication was described in freely moving animals. RESULTS The density of mGluR5 in the striatal, cortical, hippocampal and thalamic structures was unchanged across the light-dark cycle. Allosteric blockade of mGluR5 consistently consolidated deep sleep, enhanced sleep efficiency and elicited prominent functional coherent network activity in slow theta and gamma oscillations. However, allosteric activation of mGluR5 increased waking, decreased deep sleep and reduced functional network connectivity following the activation of slow alpha oscillatory activity. CONCLUSION This functional study differentiates the pharmacology of allosteric blockade of mGluR5 from that of allosteric activation and suggests that mGluR5 blockade enhances sleep and facilitates oscillatory network connectivity, both processes being known to have relevance in cognition processes.
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Sleep is a complex behavior both in its manifestation and regulation, that is common to almost all animal species studied thus far. Sleep is not a unitary behavior and has many different aspects, each of which is tightly regulated and influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Despite its essential role for performance, health, and well-being, genetic mechanisms underlying this complex behavior remain poorly understood. One important aspect of sleep concerns its homeostatic regulation, which ensures that levels of sleep need are kept within a range still allowing optimal functioning during wakefulness. Uncovering the genetic pathways underlying the homeostatic aspect of sleep is of particular importance because it could lead to insights concerning sleep's still elusive function and is therefore a main focus of current sleep research. In this chapter, we first give a definition of sleep homeostasis and describe the molecular genetics techniques that are used to examine it. We then provide a conceptual discussion on the problem of assessing a sleep homeostatic phenotype in various animal models. We finally highlight some of the studies with a focus on clock genes and adenosine signaling molecules.
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- Géraldine M Mang
- Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Genopode Building, 1015, Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland,
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The energy allocation function of sleep: A unifying theory of sleep, torpor, and continuous wakefulness. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2014; 47:122-53. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2013] [Revised: 06/27/2014] [Accepted: 08/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Singh K, Ju JY, Walsh MB, DiIorio MA, Hart AC. Deep conservation of genes required for both Drosphila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans sleep includes a role for dopaminergic signaling. Sleep 2014; 37:1439-51. [PMID: 25142568 DOI: 10.5665/sleep.3990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Cross-species conservation of sleep-like behaviors predicts the presence of conserved molecular mechanisms underlying sleep. However, limited experimental evidence of conservation exists. Here, this prediction is tested directly. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS During lethargus, Caenorhabditis elegans spontaneously sleep in short bouts that are interspersed with bouts of spontaneous locomotion. We identified 26 genes required for Drosophila melanogaster sleep. Twenty orthologous C. elegans genes were selected based on similarity. Their effect on C. elegans sleep and arousal during the last larval lethargus was assessed. The 20 most similar genes altered both the quantity of sleep and arousal thresholds. In 18 cases, the direction of change was concordant with Drosophila studies published previously. Additionally, we delineated a conserved genetic pathway by which dopamine regulates sleep and arousal. In C. elegans neurons, G-alpha S, adenylyl cyclase, and protein kinase A act downstream of D1 dopamine receptors to regulate these behaviors. Finally, a quantitative analysis of genes examined herein revealed that C. elegans arousal thresholds were directly correlated with amount of sleep during lethargus. However, bout duration varies little and was not correlated with arousal thresholds. CONCLUSIONS The comprehensive analysis presented here suggests that conserved genes and pathways are required for sleep in invertebrates and, likely, across the entire animal kingdom. The genetic pathway delineated in this study implicates G-alpha S and previously known genes downstream of dopamine signaling in sleep. Quantitative analysis of various components of quiescence suggests that interdependent or identical cellular and molecular mechanisms are likely to regulate both arousal and sleep entry.
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Neuroscience-driven discovery and development of sleep therapeutics. Pharmacol Ther 2014; 141:300-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2013.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2013] [Accepted: 10/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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McShane BB, Jensen ST, Pack AI, Wyner AJ. Statistical Learning with Time Series Dependence: An Application to Scoring Sleep in Mice. J Am Stat Assoc 2013; 108:1147-1162. [PMID: 24504359 DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2013.779838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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We develop methodology which combines statistical learning methods with generalized Markov models, thereby enhancing the former to account for time series dependence. Our methodology can accommodate very general and very long-term time dependence structures in an easily estimable and computationally tractable fashion. We apply our methodology to the scoring of sleep behavior in mice. As currently used methods are expensive, invasive, and labor intensive, there is considerable interest in high-throughput automated systems which would allow many mice to be scored cheaply and quickly. Previous efforts have been able to differentiate sleep from wakefulness, but they are unable to differentiate the rare and important state of REM sleep from non-REM sleep. Key difficulties in detecting REM are that (i) REM is much rarer than non-REM and wakefulness, (ii) REM looks similar to non-REM in terms of the observed covariates, (iii) the data are noisy, and (iv) the data contain strong time dependence structures crucial for differentiating REM from non-REM. Our new approach (i) shows improved differentiation of REM from non-REM sleep and (ii) accurately estimates aggregate quantities of sleep in our application to video-based sleep scoring of mice.
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, University of Pennsylvania
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- Philip R. Gehrman
- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Suite 670, Philadelphia PA 19104, 215-746-3578
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Translational Research Laboratories, Suite 2100, 125 South 31st Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3403, (215) 746-4801
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- Queensland Brain Institute, Upland Road, University of Queensland, St.Lucia, QLD 4072, +61 7 3346 6300
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Maintaining wakefulness is associated with a progressive increase in the need for sleep. This phenomenon has been linked to changes in synaptic function. The synaptic adhesion molecule Neuroligin-1 (NLG1) controls the activity and synaptic localization of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors, which activity is impaired by prolonged wakefulness. We here highlight that this pathway may underlie both the adverse effects of sleep loss on cognition and the subsequent changes in cortical synchrony. We found that the expression of specific Nlg1 transcript variants is changed by sleep deprivation in three mouse strains. These observations were associated with strain-specific changes in synaptic NLG1 protein content. Importantly, we showed that Nlg1 knockout mice are not able to sustain wakefulness and spend more time in nonrapid eye movement sleep than wild-type mice. These changes occurred with modifications in waking quality as exemplified by low theta/alpha activity during wakefulness and poor preference for social novelty, as well as altered delta synchrony during sleep. Finally, we identified a transcriptional pathway that could underlie the sleep/wake-dependent changes in Nlg1 expression and that involves clock transcription factors. We thus suggest that NLG1 is an element that contributes to the coupling of neuronal activity to sleep/wake regulation.
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