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Ready DF, Chang HC. Calcium waves facilitate and coordinate the contraction of endfeet actin stress fibers in Drosophila interommatidial cells. Development 2021; 148:272616. [PMID: 34698814 DOI: 10.1242/dev.199700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Actomyosin contraction shapes the Drosophila eye's panoramic view. The convex curvature of the retinal epithelium, organized in ∼800 close-packed ommatidia, depends upon a fourfold condensation of the retinal floor mediated by contraction of actin stress fibers in the endfeet of interommatidial cells (IOCs). How these tensile forces are coordinated is not known. Here, we discover a novel phenomenon: Ca2+ waves regularly propagate across the IOC network in pupal and adult eyes. Genetic evidence demonstrates that IOC waves are independent of phototransduction, but require inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor (IP3R), suggesting these waves are mediated by Ca2+ releases from ER stores. Removal of IP3R disrupts stress fibers in IOC endfeet and increases the basal retinal surface by ∼40%, linking IOC waves to facilitating stress fiber contraction and floor morphogenesis. Further, IP3R loss disrupts the organization of a collagen IV network underneath the IOC endfeet, implicating ECM and its interaction with stress fibers in eye morphogenesis. We propose that coordinated cytosolic Ca2+ increases in IOC waves promote stress fiber contractions, ensuring an organized application of the planar tensile forces that condense the retinal floor.
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- Donald F Ready
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 915 West State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2054, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 915 West State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2054, USA
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Ca2+ Signaling in Drosophila Photoreceptor Cells. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2020; 1131:857-879. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12457-1_34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Katz B, Minke B. The Drosophila light-activated TRP and TRPL channels - Targets of the phosphoinositide signaling cascade. Prog Retin Eye Res 2018; 66:200-219. [DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2018.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Revised: 04/29/2018] [Accepted: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Intracellular calcium signals in neurons frequently derive from the stimulation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) by neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and neurohormones. GPCR stimulation in neurons leads to generation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3), which in turn activates endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-localized IP3 receptors. The IP3 receptor (IP3R) is a ligand-gated Ca2+ channel, which releases Ca2+ from ER stores. In Drosophila neurons it has been shown that depletion of ER Ca2+ store is followed by store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) through STIM and Orai, the ER Ca2+ sensor and the plasma membrane Ca2+ channel respectively. The elucidation of this Ca2+ signaling pathway in neurons has in part been possible due to the ease of genetic manipulation in Drosophila, which has allowed neuron-specific knockdown of various proteins of interest. This has been followed by standardization of conditions for culturing neurons from dissected brains of the relevant genotypes, such that they could be used for robust Ca2+ measurements by imaging with standard Ca2+ indicator dyes. Protocols for measurement of IP3-mediated Ca2+ release, passive depletion of ER Ca2+ store, and SOCE in primary cultures of Drosophila neurons are described here.
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Asteriti S, Liu CH, Hardie RC. Calcium signalling in Drosophila photoreceptors measured with GCaMP6f. Cell Calcium 2017; 65:40-51. [PMID: 28238353 PMCID: PMC5472182 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2017.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2016] [Revised: 02/10/2017] [Accepted: 02/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Drosophila phototransduction is mediated by phospholipase C leading to activation of cation channels (TRP and TRPL) in the 30000 microvilli forming the light-absorbing rhabdomere. The channels mediate massive Ca2+ influx in response to light, but whether Ca2+ is released from internal stores remains controversial. We generated flies expressing GCaMP6f in their photoreceptors and measured Ca2+ signals from dissociated cells, as well as in vivo by imaging rhabdomeres in intact flies. In response to brief flashes, GCaMP6f signals had latencies of 10-25ms, reached 50% Fmax with ∼1200 effectively absorbed photons and saturated (ΔF/F0∼10-20) with 10000-30000 photons. In Ca2+ free bath, smaller (ΔF/F0 ∼4), long latency (∼200ms) light-induced Ca2+ rises were still detectable. These were unaffected in InsP3 receptor mutants, but virtually eliminated when Na+ was also omitted from the bath, or in trpl;trp mutants lacking light-sensitive channels. Ca2+ free rises were also eliminated in Na+/Ca2+ exchanger mutants, but greatly accelerated in flies over-expressing the exchanger. These results show that Ca2+ free rises are strictly dependent on Na+ influx and activity of the exchanger, suggesting they reflect re-equilibration of Na+/Ca2+ exchange across plasma or intracellular membranes following massive Na+ influx. Any tiny Ca2+ free rise remaining without exchanger activity was equivalent to <10nM (ΔF/F0 ∼0.1), and unlikely to play any role in phototransduction.
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- Sabrina Asteriti
- Cambridge University, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, UK
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- Cambridge University, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, UK
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- Cambridge University, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, UK.
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Deb BK, Pathak T, Hasan G. Store-independent modulation of Ca(2+) entry through Orai by Septin 7. Nat Commun 2016; 7:11751. [PMID: 27225060 PMCID: PMC4894974 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2015] [Accepted: 04/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Orai channels are required for store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) in multiple cell types. Septins are a class of GTP-binding proteins that function as diffusion barriers in cells. Here we show that Septin 7 acts as a ‘molecular brake’ on activation of Orai channels in Drosophila neurons. Lowering Septin 7 levels results in dOrai-mediated Ca2+ entry and higher cytosolic Ca2+ in resting neurons. This Ca2+ entry is independent of depletion of endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ stores and Ca2+ release through the inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor. Importantly, store-independent Ca2+ entry through Orai compensates for reduced SOCE in the Drosophila flight circuit. Moreover, overexpression of Septin 7 reduces both SOCE and flight duration, supporting its role as a negative regulator of Orai channel function in vivo. Septin 7 levels in neurons can, therefore, alter neural circuit function by modulating Orai function and Ca2+ homeostasis. Orai channels are well known to mediate store-operated calcium entry. Here authors show that in neurons of the Drosophila flight circuit, Septin 7 acts as a negative regulator of Orai channels, surprisingly, by modulating store-independent calcium entry through Orai.
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- Bipan Kumar Deb
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560065, India
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560065, India.,Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka 576104, India
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560065, India
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Singh AK, Kumar R, Tripathi AK, Gupta BK, Pareek A, Singla-Pareek SL. Genome-wide investigation and expression analysis of Sodium/Calcium exchanger gene family in rice and Arabidopsis. RICE (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2015; 8:54. [PMID: 26134707 PMCID: PMC4488139 DOI: 10.1186/s12284-015-0054-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2015] [Accepted: 06/09/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND The Na(+)/Ca(2+) Exchanger (NCX) protein family is a member of the Cation/Ca(2+) exchanger superfamily and its members play important roles in cellular Ca(2+) homeostasis. While the functions of NCX family of proteins is well understood in humans, not much is known about the total complement of Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchangers in plants and their role in various physiological and developmental processes. In the present study, we have identified all the NCX proteins encoded in the genomes of rice and Arabidopsis and studied their phylogeny, domain architecture and expression profiles across different tissues, at various developmental stages and under stress conditions. RESULTS Through whole genome investigation, we identified twenty-two NCX proteins encoded by fifteen genes in rice and sixteen NCX proteins encoded by thirteen genes in Arabidopsis. Based on phylogenetic reconstruction, these could be classified into five clades, members of most of which were found to possess distinct domain architecture. Expression profiling of the identified NCX genes using publicly available MPSS and microarray data showed differential expression patterns under abiotic stresses, and at various development stages. In rice, OsNCX1, OsNCX8, OsNCX9 and OsNCX15 were found to be highly expressed in all the plant parts and various developmental stages. qRT-PCR based expression analysis revealed that OsNCX3, OsNCX10 and OsNCX15 were highly induced by salt and dehydration stress. Besides, expression profiling showed differential regulation of rice NCX genes in response to calcium and EGTA. Interestingly, expression of none of the NCX genes was found to be co-regulated by NaCl and calcium. CONCLUSIONS Together, our results present insights into the potential role of NCX family of proteins in abiotic stresses and development. Findings of the present investigation should serve as a starting point for future studies aiming functional characterization of plant NCX family proteins.
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- Anil Kumar Singh
- />Plant Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067 India
- />Present address: Division of Biotechnology, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur -, 176061, H.P. India
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- />Plant Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067 India
- />Present address: Division of Applied Life Science, Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660-701 Korea
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- />Plant Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067 India
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- />Plant Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067 India
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- />Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067 India
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- />Plant Molecular Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067 India
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The Drosophila "transient receptor potential" channel is the prototypical TRP channel, belonging to and defining the TRPC subfamily. Together with a second TRPC channel, trp-like (TRPL), TRP mediates the transducer current in the fly's photoreceptors. TRP and TRPL are also implicated in olfaction and Malpighian tubule function. In photoreceptors, TRP and TRPL are localised in the ~30,000 packed microvilli that form the photosensitive "rhabdomere"-a light-guiding rod, housing rhodopsin and the rest of the phototransduction machinery. TRP (but not TRPL) is assembled into multimolecular signalling complexes by a PDZ-domain scaffolding protein (INAD). TRPL (but not TRP) undergoes light-regulated translocation between cell body and rhabdomere. TRP and TRPL are also found in photoreceptor synapses where they may play a role in synaptic transmission. Like other TRPC channels, TRP and TRPL are activated by a G protein-coupled phospholipase C (PLCβ4) cascade. Although still debated, recent evidence indicates the channels can be activated by a combination of PIP2 depletion and protons released by the PLC reaction. PIP2 depletion may act mechanically as membrane area is reduced by cleavage of PIP2's bulky inositol headgroup. TRP, which dominates the light-sensitive current, is Ca(2+) selective (P Ca:P Cs >50:1), whilst TRPL has a modest Ca(2+) permeability (P Ca:P Cs ~5:1). Ca(2+) influx via the channels has profound positive and negative feedback roles, required for the rapid response kinetics, with Ca(2+) rapidly facilitating TRP (but not TRPL) and also inhibiting both channels. In trp mutants, stimulation by light results in rapid depletion of microvillar PIP2 due to lack of Ca(2+) influx required to inhibit PLC. This accounts for the "transient receptor potential" phenotype that gives the family its name and, over a period of days, leads to light-dependent retinal degeneration. Gain-of-function trp mutants with uncontrolled Ca(2+) influx also undergo retinal degeneration due to Ca(2+) cytotoxicity. In vertebrate retina, mice knockout studies suggest that TRPC6 and TRPC7 mediate a PLCβ4-activated transducer current in intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells, expressing melanopsin. TRPA1 has been implicated as a "photo-sensing" TRP channel in human melanocytes and light-sensitive neurons in the body wall of Drosophila.
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Chu B, Postma M, Hardie R. Fractional Ca(2+) currents through TRP and TRPL channels in Drosophila photoreceptors. Biophys J 2013; 104:1905-16. [PMID: 23663833 PMCID: PMC3647204 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.03.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2013] [Revised: 03/05/2013] [Accepted: 03/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Light responses in Drosophila photoreceptors are mediated by two Ca(2+) permeable cation channels, transient receptor potential (TRP) and TRP-like (TRPL). Although Ca(2+) influx via these channels is critical for amplification, inactivation, and light adaptation, the fractional contribution of Ca(2+) to the currents (Pf) has not been measured. We describe a slow (τ ∼ 350 ms) tail current in voltage-clamped light responses and show that it is mediated by electrogenic Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchange. Assuming a 3Na:1Ca stoichiometry, we derive empirical estimates of Pf by comparing the charge integrals of the exchanger and light-induced currents. For TRPL channels, Pf was ∼17% as predicted by Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz (GHK) theory. Pf for TRP (29%) and wild-type flies (26%) was higher, but lower than the GHK prediction (45% and 42%). As predicted by GHK theory, Pf for both channels increased with extracellular [Ca(2+)], and was largely independent of voltage between -100 and -30 mV. A model incorporating intra- and extracellular geometry, ion permeation, diffusion, extrusion, and buffering suggested that the deviation from GHK predictions was largely accounted for by extracellular ionic depletion during the light-induced currents, and the time course of the Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchange current could be used to obtain estimates of cellular Ca(2+) buffering capacities.
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- Brian Chu
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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- Section of Molecular Cytology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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Sengupta S, Barber TR, Xia H, Ready DF, Hardie RC. Depletion of PtdIns(4,5)P₂ underlies retinal degeneration in Drosophila trp mutants. J Cell Sci 2013; 126:1247-59. [PMID: 23378018 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.120592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The prototypical transient receptor potential (TRP) channel is the major light-sensitive, and Ca(2+)-permeable channel in the microvillar photoreceptors of Drosophila. TRP channels are activated following hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P₂] by the key effector enzyme phospholipase C (PLC). Mutants lacking TRP channels undergo light-dependent retinal degeneration, as a consequence of the reduced Ca(2+) influx. It has been proposed that degeneration is caused by defects in the Ca(2+)-dependent visual pigment cycle, which result in accumulation of toxic phosphorylated metarhodopsin-arrestin complexes (MPP-Arr2). Here we show that two interventions, which prevent accumulation of MPP-Arr2, namely rearing under red light or eliminating the C-terminal rhodopsin phosphorylation sites, failed to rescue degeneration in trp mutants. Instead, degeneration in trp mutants reared under red light was rescued by mutation of PLC. Degeneration correlated closely with the light-induced depletion of PtdIns(4,5)P₂ that occurs in trp mutants due to failure of Ca(2+)-dependent inhibition of PLC. Severe retinal degeneration was also induced in the dark in otherwise wild-type flies by overexpression of a bacterial PtdInsPn phosphatase (SigD) to deplete PtdIns(4,5)P₂. In degenerating trp photoreceptors, phosphorylated Moesin, a PtdIns(4,5)P₂-regulated membrane-cytoskeleton linker essential for normal microvillar morphology, was found to delocalize from the rhabdomere and there was extensive microvillar actin depolymerisation. The results suggest that compromised light-induced Ca(2+) influx, due to loss of TRP channels, leads to PtdIns(4,5)P₂ depletion, resulting in dephosphorylation of Moesin, actin depolymerisation and disintegration of photoreceptor structure.
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- Sukanya Sengupta
- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, UK.
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Chakraborty S, Hasan G. Functional complementation of Drosophila itpr mutants by rat Itpr1. J Neurogenet 2012; 26:328-37. [PMID: 22817477 DOI: 10.3109/01677063.2012.697501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The Drosophila inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP(3)R) and mammalian type-1 IP(3)Rs have 57-60% sequence similarity and share major domain homology with each other. Mutants in the single Drosophila IP(3)R gene, itpr, and Itpr1 knockout mice both exhibit lethality and defects in motor coordination. Here the authors show that the rat type-1 IP(3)R, which is the major neuronal isoform, when expressed in the pan-neuronal domain in Drosophila, functionally complements Drosophila IP(3)R function at cellular and systemic levels. It rescues the established neuronal phenotypes of itpr mutants in Drosophila, including wing posture, flight, electrophysiological correlates of flight maintenance, and intracellular calcium dynamics. This is the first in vivo demonstration of functional homology between a mammalian and fly IP(3)R. This study also paves the way for cellular and molecular analyses of the spinocerebellar ataxias in Drosophila, since SCA15/16 is known to be caused by heterozygosity of human ITPR1.
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- Sumita Chakraborty
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India
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Wardill TJ, List O, Li X, Dongre S, McCulloch M, Ting CY, O'Kane CJ, Tang S, Lee CH, Hardie RC, Juusola M. Multiple spectral inputs improve motion discrimination in the Drosophila visual system. Science 2012; 336:925-31. [PMID: 22605779 DOI: 10.1126/science.1215317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Color and motion information are thought to be channeled through separate neural pathways, but it remains unclear whether and how these pathways interact to improve motion perception. In insects, such as Drosophila, it has long been believed that motion information is fed exclusively by one spectral class of photoreceptor, so-called R1 to R6 cells; whereas R7 and R8 photoreceptors, which exist in multiple spectral classes, subserve color vision. Here, we report that R7 and R8 also contribute to the motion pathway. By using electrophysiological, optical, and behavioral assays, we found that R7/R8 information converge with and shape the motion pathway output, explaining flies' broadly tuned optomotor behavior by its composite responses. Our results demonstrate that inputs from photoreceptors of different spectral sensitivities improve motion discrimination, increasing robustness of perception.
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- Trevor J Wardill
- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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Pak WL, Leung HT. Genetic Approaches to Visual Transduction in Drosophila melanogaster. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.3109/10606820308242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Hardie RC. Phototransduction mechanisms in Drosophila microvillar photoreceptors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/wmts.20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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A brief history of trp: commentary and personal perspective. Pflugers Arch 2011; 461:493-8. [PMID: 21286746 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-011-0922-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2011] [Accepted: 01/10/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The history of the discovery of the transient receptor potential (TRP) cation channel superfamily began in 1969 with Cosens and Manning's isolation of the Drosophila transient receptor potential mutant, in which the photoreceptor response decays during continuous illumination. Early studies from Minke found that the elementary light response was unaffected in trp mutants, and he attributed the defect to an intermediate stage of phototransduction. Montell and Rubin cloned the trp gene in 1989: they recognised it as a transmembrane protein, but also concluded that it did not encode the light-sensitive channels. In 1991, Minke and Selinger proposed that TRP represented a Ca2+ transporter required for refilling intracellular InsP3-sensitive Ca2+ stores, in turn required for activation of the light-sensitive channels. Also in 1991, after developing a photoreceptor patch clamp preparation, I showed that the light-sensitive channels themselves were highly permeable to Ca2+, questioning the need for such a dedicated Ca2+ transporter. In 1992, in collaboration with Minke, I resolved this paradox by showing there were two classes of light-sensitive channels, one highly Ca2+ permeable and eliminated in trp mutants. This represented the first and compelling evidence that TRP represented a light-sensitive channel and was supported by the cloning of the second light-sensitive channel, TRPL, by Kelly's lab. Three years later, in 1995, the labs of Montell and Birnbaumer independently cloned TRPC1, the first of 29 vertebrate TRP isoforms distributed amongst seven subfamilies.
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Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are polymodal cellular sensors involved in a wide variety of cellular processes, mainly by changing membrane voltage and increasing cellular Ca(2+). This review outlines in detail the history of the founding member of the TRP family, the Drosophila TRP channel. The field began with a spontaneous mutation in the trp gene that led to a blind mutant during prolonged intense light. It was this mutant that allowed for the discovery of the first TRP channels. A combination of electrophysiological, biochemical, Ca(2+) measurements, and genetic studies in flies and in other invertebrates pointed to TRP as a novel phosphoinositide-regulated and Ca(2+)-permeable channel. The cloning and sequencing of the trp gene provided its molecular identity. These seminal findings led to the isolation of the first mammalian homologues of the Drosophila TRP channels. We now know that TRP channel proteins are conserved through evolution and are found in most organisms, tissues, and cell-types. The TRP channel superfamily is classified into seven related subfamilies: TRPC, TRPM, TRPV, TRPA, TRPP, TRPML, and TRPN. A great deal is known today about participation of TRP channels in many biological processes, including initiation of pain, thermoregulation, salivary fluid secretion, inflammation, cardiovascular regulation, smooth muscle tone, pressure regulation, Ca(2+) and Mg(2+) homeostasis, and lysosomal function. The native Drosophila photoreceptor cells, where the founding member of the TRP channels superfamily was found, is still a useful preparation to study basic features of this remarkable channel.
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- Baruch Minke
- Department of Medical Neurobiology, The Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the Kühne Minerva Center for Studies of Visual Transduction, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
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Satoh AK, Xia H, Yan L, Liu CH, Hardie RC, Ready DF. Arrestin translocation is stoichiometric to rhodopsin isomerization and accelerated by phototransduction in Drosophila photoreceptors. Neuron 2010; 67:997-1008. [PMID: 20869596 PMCID: PMC2946946 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Upon illumination, visual arrestin translocates from photoreceptor cell bodies to rhodopsin and membrane-rich photosensory compartments, vertebrate outer segments or invertebrate rhabdomeres, where it quenches activated rhodopsin. Both the mechanism and function of arrestin translocation are unresolved and controversial. In dark-adapted photoreceptors of the fruitfly Drosophila, confocal immunocytochemistry shows arrestin (Arr2) associated with distributed photoreceptor endomembranes. Immunocytochemistry and live imaging of GFP-tagged Arr2 demonstrate rapid reversible translocation to stimulated rhabdomeres in stoichiometric proportion to rhodopsin photoisomerization. Translocation is very rapid in normal photoreceptors (time constant <10 s) and can also be resolved in the time course of electroretinogram recordings. Genetic elimination of key phototransduction proteins, including phospholipase C (PLC), Gq, and the light-sensitive Ca2+-permeable TRP channels, slows translocation by 10- to 100-fold. Our results indicate that Arr2 translocation in Drosophila photoreceptors is driven by diffusion, but profoundly accelerated by phototransduction and Ca2+ influx.
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- Akiko K. Satoh
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 466-8601, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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del Pilar Gomez M, Nasi E. Prolonged calcium influx after termination of light-induced calcium release in invertebrate photoreceptors. J Gen Physiol 2009; 134:177-89. [PMID: 19720959 PMCID: PMC2737223 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200910214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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In microvillar photoreceptors, light stimulates the phospholipase C cascade and triggers an elevation of cytosolic Ca2+ that is essential for the regulation of both visual excitation and sensory adaptation. In some organisms, influx through light-activated ion channels contributes to the Ca2+ increase. In contrast, in other species, such as Lima, Ca2+ is initially only released from an intracellular pool, as the light-sensitive conductance is negligibly permeable to calcium ions. As a consequence, coping with sustained stimulation poses a challenge, requiring an alternative pathway for further calcium mobilization. We observed that after bright or prolonged illumination, the receptor potential of Lima photoreceptors is followed by the gradual development of an after-depolarization that decays in 1–4 minutes. Under voltage clamp, a graded, slow inward current (Islow) can be reproducibly elicited by flashes that saturate the photocurrent, and can reach a peak amplitude in excess of 200 pA. Islow obtains after replacing extracellular Na+ with Li+, guanidinium, or N-methyl-d-glucamine, indicating that it does not reflect the activation of an electrogenic Na/Ca exchange mechanism. An increase in membrane conductance accompanies the slow current. Islow is impervious to anion replacements and can be measured with extracellular Ca2+ as the sole permeant species; Ba can substitute for Ca2+ but Mg2+ cannot. A persistent Ca2+ elevation parallels Islow, when no further internal release takes place. Thus, this slow current could contribute to sustained Ca2+ mobilization and the concomitant regulation of the phototransduction machinery. Although reminiscent of the classical store depletion–operated calcium influx described in other cells, Islow appears to diverge in some significant aspects, such as its large size and insensitivity to SKF96365 and lanthanum; therefore, it may reflect an alternative mechanism for prolonged increase of cytosolic calcium in photoreceptors.
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- Maria del Pilar Gomez
- Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Genética, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Krause Y, Krause S, Huang J, Liu CH, Hardie RC, Weckström M. Light-dependent modulation of Shab channels via phosphoinositide depletion in Drosophila photoreceptors. Neuron 2008; 59:596-607. [PMID: 18760696 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2007] [Revised: 05/08/2008] [Accepted: 07/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The Drosophila phototransduction cascade transforms light into depolarizations that are further shaped by activation of voltage-dependent K+ (Kv) channels. In whole-cell recordings of isolated photoreceptors, we show that light selectively modulated the delayed rectifier (Shab) current. Shab currents were increased by light with similar kinetics to the light-induced current itself (latency approximately 20 ms), recovering to control values with a t(1/2) of approximately 60 s in darkness. Genetic disruption of PLCbeta4, responsible for light-induced PIP(2) hydrolysis, abolished this light-dependent modulation. In mutants of CDP-diaclyglycerol synthase (cds(1)), required for PIP(2) resynthesis, the modulation became irreversible, but exogenously applied PIP(2) restored reversibility. The modulation was accurately and reversibly mimicked by application of PIP(2) to heterologously expressed Shab channels in excised inside-out patches. The results indicate a functionally implemented mechanism of Kv channel modulation by PIP(2) in photoreceptors, which enables light-dependent regulation of signal processing by direct coupling to the phototransduction cascade.
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- Yani Krause
- University of Oulu, Department of Physical Sciences, Division of Biophysics, 90014 Oulun Yliopisto, Finland
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Trivedi D, Padinjat R. RdgB proteins: Functions in lipid homeostasis and signal transduction. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2007; 1771:692-9. [PMID: 17543578 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2007.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2006] [Revised: 04/26/2007] [Accepted: 04/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The RdgBs are a group of evolutionarily conserved molecules that contain a phosphatidylinositol transfer protein (PITP) domain. However in contrast to classical PITPs (PITPalpha) with whom they share the conserved PITP domain, these proteins also contain several additional sequence elements whose functional significance remains unknown. The founding member of the family DrdgB alpha (Drosophila rdgB) appears to be essential for sensory transduction and maintenance of ultra structure in photoreceptors (retinal sensory neurons). Although proposed to support the maintenance of phosphatidylinositol 4, 5 bisphosphate [PI (4, 5) P(2)] levels during G-protein coupled phospholipase C activity in these cells, the biochemical mechanism of DrdgB alpha function remains unresolved. More recently, a mammalian RdgB protein has been implicated in the maintenance of diacylglycerol (DAG) levels and secretory function at Golgi membranes. In this review we discuss existing work on the function of RdgB proteins and set out future challenges in understanding this group of lipid transfer proteins.
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- Deepti Trivedi
- Inositide Laboratory, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK
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Wang T, Montell C. Phototransduction and retinal degeneration in Drosophila. Pflugers Arch 2007; 454:821-47. [PMID: 17487503 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-007-0251-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2007] [Accepted: 03/05/2007] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Drosophila visual transduction is the fastest known G-protein-coupled signaling cascade and has therefore served as a genetically tractable animal model for characterizing rapid responses to sensory stimulation. Mutations in over 30 genes have been identified, which affect activation, adaptation, or termination of the photoresponse. Based on analyses of these genes, a model for phototransduction has emerged, which involves phosphoinoside signaling and culminates with opening of the TRP and TRPL cation channels. Many of the proteins that function in phototransduction are coupled to the PDZ containing scaffold protein INAD and form a supramolecular signaling complex, the signalplex. Arrestin, TRPL, and G alpha(q) undergo dynamic light-dependent trafficking, and these movements function in long-term adaptation. Other proteins play important roles either in the formation or maturation of rhodopsin, or in regeneration of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2), which is required for the photoresponse. Mutation of nearly any gene that functions in the photoresponse results in retinal degeneration. The underlying bases of photoreceptor cell death are diverse and involve mechanisms such as excessive endocytosis of rhodopsin due to stable rhodopsin/arrestin complexes and abnormally low or high levels of Ca2+. Drosophila visual transduction appears to have particular relevance to the cascade in the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells in mammals, as the photoresponse in these latter cells appears to operate through a remarkably similar mechanism.
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- Tao Wang
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Center for Sensory Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Rosenbaum EE, Hardie RC, Colley NJ. Calnexin is essential for rhodopsin maturation, Ca2+ regulation, and photoreceptor cell survival. Neuron 2006; 49:229-41. [PMID: 16423697 PMCID: PMC3414428 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2005] [Revised: 10/07/2005] [Accepted: 12/02/2005] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In sensory neurons, successful maturation of signaling molecules and regulation of Ca2+ are essential for cell function and survival. Here, we demonstrate a multifunctional role for calnexin as both a molecular chaperone uniquely required for rhodopsin maturation and a regulator of Ca2+ that enters photoreceptor cells during light stimulation. Mutations in Drosophila calnexin lead to severe defects in rhodopsin (Rh1) expression, whereas other photoreceptor cell proteins are expressed normally. Mutations in calnexin also impair the ability of photoreceptor cells to control cytosolic Ca2+ levels following activation of the light-sensitive TRP channels. Finally, mutations in calnexin lead to retinal degeneration that is enhanced by light, suggesting that calnexin's function as a Ca2+ buffer is important for photoreceptor cell survival. Our results illustrate a critical role for calnexin in Rh1 maturation and Ca2+ regulation and provide genetic evidence that defects in calnexin lead to retinal degeneration.
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- Erica E. Rosenbaum
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Department of Genetics University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53792
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- Department of Anatomy Cambridge University Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3DY United Kingdom
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Department of Genetics University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53792
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Gu Y, Oberwinkler J, Postma M, Hardie RC. Mechanisms of light adaptation in Drosophila photoreceptors. Curr Biol 2005; 15:1228-34. [PMID: 16005297 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.05.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2005] [Revised: 04/27/2005] [Accepted: 05/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Phototransduction in Drosophila is mediated by a phospholipase C (PLC) cascade culminating in activation of transient receptor potential (TRP) channels. Ca(2+) influx via these channels is required for light adaptation, but although several molecular targets of Ca(2+)-dependent feedback have been identified, their contribution to adaptation is unclear. By manipulating cytosolic Ca(2+) via the Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchange equilibrium, we found that Ca(2+) inhibited the light-induced current (LIC) over a range corresponding to steady-state light-adapted Ca(2+) levels (0.1-10 microM Ca(2+)) and accurately mimicked light adaptation. However, PLC activity monitored with genetically targeted PIP(2)-sensitive ion channels (Kir2.1) was first inhibited by much higher (>/= approximately 50 microM) Ca(2+) levels, which occur only transiently in vivo. Ca(2+)-dependent inhibition of PLC, but not the LIC, was impaired in mutants (inaC) of protein kinase C (PKC). The results indicate that light adaptation is primarily mediated downstream of PLC and independently of PKC by Ca(2+)-dependent inhibition of TRP channels. This is interpreted as a strategy to prevent inhibition of PLC by global steady-state light-adapted Ca(2+) levels, whereas rapid inhibition of PLC by local Ca(2+) transients is required to terminate the response and ensures that PIP(2) reserves are not depleted during stimulation.
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- Yuchun Gu
- Department of Anatomy, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom.
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Hardie RC. Inhibition of phospholipase C activity in Drosophila photoreceptors by 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA) and di-bromo BAPTA. Cell Calcium 2005; 38:547-56. [PMID: 16140375 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2005.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2005] [Revised: 06/29/2005] [Accepted: 07/19/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In vivo light-induced and basal hydrolysis of phosphatidyl inositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) by phospholipase C (PLC) were monitored in Drosophila photoreceptors using genetically targeted PIP2-sensitive ion channels (Kir2.1) as electrophysiological biosensors for PIP2. In cells loaded via patch pipettes with varying concentrations of Ca2+ buffered by 4 mM free BAPTA, light-induced PLC activity, showed an apparent bell-shaped dependence on free Ca2+ (maximum at "100 nM", approximately 10-fold inhibition at <10nM or approximately 1 microM). However, experiments where the total BAPTA concentration was varied whilst free [Ca2+] was maintained constant indicated that inhibition of PLC at higher (>100 nM) nominal Ca2+ concentrations was independent of Ca2+ and due to inhibition by BAPTA itself (IC50 approximately 8 mM). Di-bromo BAPTA (DBB) was yet more potent at inhibiting PLC activity (IC50 approximately 1mM). Both BAPTA and DBB also appeared to induce a modest, but less severe inhibition of basal PLC activity. By contrast, EGTA, failed to inhibit PLC activity when pre-loaded with Ca2+, but like BAPTA, inhibited both basal and light-induced PLC activity when introduced without Ca2+. The results indicate that both BAPTA and DBB inhibit PLC activity independently of their role as Ca2+ chelators, whilst non-physiologically low (<100 nM) levels of Ca2+ suppress both basal and light-induced PLC activity.
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- Roger C Hardie
- Cambridge University, Department of Anatomy, Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK.
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Wang T, Xu H, Oberwinkler J, Gu Y, Hardie RC, Montell C. Light activation, adaptation, and cell survival functions of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger CalX. Neuron 2005; 45:367-78. [PMID: 15694324 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2004.12.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2004] [Revised: 11/30/2004] [Accepted: 12/22/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In sensory neurons, Ca(2+) entry is crucial for both activation and subsequent attenuation of signaling. Influx of Ca(2+) is counterbalanced by Ca(2+) extrusion, and Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchange is the primary mode for rapid Ca(2+) removal during and after sensory stimulation. However, the consequences on sensory signaling resulting from mutations in Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchangers have not been described. Here, we report that mutations in the Drosophila Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger calx have a profound effect on activity-dependent survival of photoreceptor cells. Loss of CalX activity resulted in a transient response to light, a dramatic decrease in signal amplification, and unusually rapid adaptation. Conversely, overexpression of CalX had reciprocal effects and greatly suppressed the retinal degeneration caused by constitutive activity of the TRP channel. These results illustrate the critical role of Ca(2+) for proper signaling and provide genetic evidence that Ca(2+) overload is responsible for a form of retinal degeneration resulting from defects in the TRP channel.
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- Tao Wang
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Matthies HJG, Broadie K. Techniques to dissect cellular and subcellular function in the Drosophila nervous system. Methods Cell Biol 2004; 71:195-265. [PMID: 12884693 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(03)01011-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Heinrich J G Matthies
- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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Oberwinkler J. Calcium homeostasis in fly photoreceptor cells. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2003; 514:539-83. [PMID: 12596943 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0121-3_32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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In fly photoreceptor cells, two processes dominate the Ca2+ homeostasis: light-induced Ca2+ influx through members of the TRP family of ion channels, and Ca2+ extrusion by Na+/Ca2+ exchange. Ca2+ release from intracellular stores is quantitatively insignificant. Both, the light-activated channels and the Ca2+-extruding exchangers are located in or close to the rhabdomeric microvilli, small protrusions of the plasma membrane. The microvilli also contain the molecular machinery necessary for generating quantum bumps, short electrical responses caused by the absorption of a single photon. Due to this anatomical arrangement, the light-induced Ca2+ influx results in two separate Ca2+ signals that have different functions: a global, homogeneous increase of the Ca2+ concentration in the cell body, and rapid but large amplitude Ca2+ transients in the microvilli. The global rise of the Ca2+ concentration mediates light adaptation, via regulatory actions on the phototransduction cascade, the voltage-gated K+ channels and small pigment granules controlling the light intensity. The local Ca2+ transients in the microvilli are responsible for shaping the quantum bumps into fast, all-or-nothing events. They achieve this by facilitating strongly the phototransduction cascade at early stages ofthe light response and subsequently inhibiting it. Many molecular targets of these feedback mechanisms have been identified and characterized due to the availability of numerous Drosophila mutant showing defects in the phototransduction.
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Minke B. The TRP calcium channel and retinal degeneration. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2003; 514:601-22. [PMID: 12596945 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0121-3_34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The Drosophila light activated channel TRP is the founding member of a large and diverse family of channel proteins that is conserved throughout evolution. These channels are Ca2+ permeable and have been implicated as important component of cellular Ca2+ homeostasis in neuronal and non-neuronal cells. The power of the molecular genetics of Drosophila has yielded several mutants in which constitutive activity of TRP leads to a rapid retinal degeneration in the dark. Metabolic stress activates rapidly and reversibly the TRP channels in the dark in a constitutive manner by a still unknown mechanism. The link of TRP gating to the metabolic state of the cell is shared also by mammalian homologues of TRP and makes cells expressing TRP extremely vulnerable to metabolic stress, a mechanism that may underlie retinal degeneration and neuronal cell death.
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- Baruch Minke
- Department of Physiology and the Kühne Minerva Center for Studies of Visual Transduction, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
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In Drosophila photoreceptors, the light-sensitive current is mediated downstream of phospholipase C by TRP (transient receptor potential) channels. Recent evidence suggests that Drosophila TRP channels are activated by diacylglycerol (DAG) or its metabolites (polyunsaturated fatty acids), possibly in combination with the reduction in phosphatidyl inositol 4,5 bisphosphate (PIP2). Consistent with this view, diacylglycerol kinase is identified as a key enzyme required for response termination. Signaling is critically dependent upon efficient PIP2 synthesis; mutants of this pathway in combination with genetically targeted PIP2 reporters provide unique insights into the kinetics and regulation of PIP2 turnover. Recent evidence indicates that a growing number of mammalian TRP homologues are also regulated by lipid messengers, including DAG, arachidonic acid, and PIP2.
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- Roger C Hardie
- Department of Anatomy, Cambridge University, Downing St Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom.
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Hardie RC, Martin F, Chyb S, Raghu P. Rescue of light responses in the Drosophila "null" phospholipase C mutant, norpAP24, by the diacylglycerol kinase mutant, rdgA, and by metabolic inhibition. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:18851-8. [PMID: 12621055 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m300310200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Light responses in Drosophila are reportedly abolished in severe mutants of the phospholipase C (PLC) gene, norpA. However, on establishing the whole-cell recording configuration in photoreceptors of the supposedly null allele, norpAP24, we detected a small ( approximately 15 pA) inward current that represented spontaneous light channel activity. The current decayed during approximately 20 min, after which tiny residual responses (<2 pA) were elicited by intense flashes. Both spontaneous currents and light responses appeared to be mediated by residual PLC activity, because they were enhanced by impairing diacylglycerol (DAG) kinase function by mutation (rdgA) or by restricting ATP but were reduced or abolished by a mutation of the PLC-specific Gq alpha subunit. It was reported recently that metabolic inhibition activated the light-sensitive transient receptor potential and transient receptor potential-like channels, even in norpAP24, leading to the conclusion that this action was independent of PLC (Agam, K., von Campenhausen, M., Levy, S., Ben-Ami, H. C., Cook, B., Kirschfeld, K., and Minke, B. (2000) J. Neurosci. 20, 5748-5755). However, we found that channel activation by metabolic inhibitors in norpAP24 was strictly dependent on the residual PLC activity underlying the spontaneous current, because the inhibitors failed to activate any channels after the spontaneous current had decayed. By contrast, polyunsaturated fatty acids invariably activated the channels independently of PLC. The results strongly support the obligatory requirement for PLC and DAG in Drosophila phototransduction, suggest that activation by metabolic inhibition is primarily because of the failure of diacylglycerol kinase, and are consistent with the proposal that polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are potential DAG metabolites, act directly on the channels.
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- Roger C Hardie
- Cambridge University Department of Anatomy, Cambridge CB2 3DY, United Kingdom.
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Minke B, Agam K. TRP gating is linked to the metabolic state and maintenance of the Drosophila photoreceptor cells. Cell Calcium 2003; 33:395-408. [PMID: 12765685 DOI: 10.1016/s0143-4160(03)00052-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The Drosophila light-activated channel TRP is the founding member of a large and diverse family of channel proteins that is conserved throughout evolution. In spite of much progress, the gating mechanism of TRP channels is still unknown. However, recent studies have shown multi-faceted functions of the Drosophila light-sensitive TRP channel that may shed light on TRP gating. Accordingly, metabolic stress, which leads to depletion of cellular ATP, reversibly activates the Drosophila TRP and TRPL channels in the dark in a constitutive manner. In several Drosophila mutants, constitutive activity of TRP channels lead to a rapid retinal degeneration in the dark, while genetic elimination of TRP protects the cells from degeneration. Additional studies have shown that TRPL translocates in a light-dependent manner between the signaling membranes and the cell body. This light-activated translocation is accompanied by reversible morphological changes leading to partial and reversible collapse of the microvillar signaling membranes into the cytosol, which allows turnover of signaling molecules. These morphological changes are also blocked by genetic elimination of TRP channels. The link of TRP gating to the metabolic state and maintenance of cells makes cells expressing TRP extremely vulnerable to metabolic stress via a mechanism that may underlie retinal degeneration and neuronal cell death upon malfunction.
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- Baruch Minke
- Department of Physiology, Kühne Minerva Center for Studies of Visual Transduction, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University, P.O. Box 12272, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
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The light-sensitive current in Drosophila photoreceptors is mediated by transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, at least two members of which (TRP and TRPL) are activated downstream of phospholipase C (PLC) in response to light. Recent evidence is reviewed suggesting that Drosophila TRP channels are activated by one or more lipid products of PLC activity: namely diacylglycerol (DAG), its metabolites (polyunsaturated fatty acids) or the reduction in phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP(2)). The most compelling evidence for this view comes from analysis of rdgA mutants which are unable to effectively metabolise DAG due to a defect in DAG kinase. The rdgA mutation leads to constitutive activation of both TRP and TRPL channels and dramatically increases sensitivity to light in hypomorphic mutations of PLC and G protein.
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- Roger C Hardie
- Department of Anatomy, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK.
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Hardie RC, Martin F, Cochrane GW, Juusola M, Georgiev P, Raghu P. Molecular basis of amplification in Drosophila phototransduction: roles for G protein, phospholipase C, and diacylglycerol kinase. Neuron 2002; 36:689-701. [PMID: 12441057 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(02)01048-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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In Drosophila photoreceptors, the amplification responsible for generating quantum bumps in response to photoisomerization of single rhodopsin molecules has been thought to be mediated downstream of phospholipase C (PLC), since bump amplitudes were reportedly unaffected in mutants with greatly reduced levels of either G protein or PLC. We now find that quantum bumps in such mutants are reduced approximately 3- to 5-fold but are restored to near wild-type values by mutations in the rdgA gene encoding diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) and also by depleting intracellular ATP. The results demonstrate that amplification requires activation of multiple G protein and PLC molecules, identify DGK as a key enzyme regulating amplification, and implicate diacylglycerol as a messenger of excitation in Drosophila phototransduction.
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- R C Hardie
- Department of Anatomy, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Webel R, Haug-Collet K, Pearson B, Szerencsei RT, Winkfein RJ, Schnetkamp PPM, Colley NJ. Potassium-dependent sodium-calcium exchange through the eye of the fly. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2002; 976:300-14. [PMID: 12502573 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04753.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In this review, we describe the characterization of a Drosophila sodium/calcium-potassium exchanger, Nckx30C. Sodium/calcium (-potassium) exchangers (NCX and NCKX) are required for the rapid removal of calcium in excitable cells. The deduced protein topology for NCKX30C is similar to that of mammalian NCKX, with 5 hydrophobic domains in the amino terminus separated from 6 at the carboxy-terminal end by a large intracellular loop. NCKX30C functions as a potassium-dependent sodium-calcium exchanger and is expressed in adult neurons and during ventral nerve cord development in the embryo. Nckx30C is expressed in a dorsal/ventral pattern in the eye-antennal disc, suggesting that large fluxes of calcium may be occurring during imaginal disc development in the larvae. NCKX30C may play a critical role in modulating calcium during development as well as in the removal of calcium and maintenance of calcium homeostasis in adults.
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- R Webel
- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53792, USA
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TRP channel proteins constitute a large and diverse family of proteins that are expressed in many tissues and cell types. This family was designated TRP because of a spontaneously occurring Drosophila mutant lacking TRP that responded to a continuous light with a transient receptor potential (hence TRP). In addition to responses to light, TRPs mediate responses to nerve growth factor, pheromones, olfaction, mechanical, chemical, temperature, pH, osmolarity, vasorelaxation of blood vessels, and metabolic stress. Furthermore, mutations in several members of TRP-related channel proteins are responsible for several diseases, such as several tumors and neurodegenerative disorders. TRP-related channel proteins are found in a variety of organisms, tissues, and cell types, including nonexcitable, smooth muscle, and neuronal cells. The large functional diversity of TRPs is also reflected in their diverse permeability to ions, although, in general, they are classified as nonselective cationic channels. The molecular domains that are conserved in all members of the TRP family constitute parts of the transmembrane domains and in most members also the ankyrin-like repeats at the NH2 terminal of the protein and a "TRP domain" at the COOH terminal, which is a highly conserved 25-amino acid stretch with still unknown function. All of the above features suggest that members of the TRP family are "special assignment" channels, which are recruited to diverse signaling pathways. The channels' roles and characteristics such as gating mechanism, regulation, and permeability are determined by evolution according to the specific functional requirements.
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- Baruch Minke
- Department of Physiology and the Kühne Minerva Center for Studies of Visual Transduction, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Bähner M, Frechter S, Da Silva N, Minke B, Paulsen R, Huber A. Light-regulated subcellular translocation of Drosophila TRPL channels induces long-term adaptation and modifies the light-induced current. Neuron 2002; 34:83-93. [PMID: 11931743 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(02)00630-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Drosophila phototransduction results in the opening of two classes of cation channels, composed of the channel subunits transient receptor potential (TRP), TRP-like (TRPL), and TRPgamma. Here, we report that one of these subunits, TRPL, is translocated back and forth between the signaling membrane and an intracellular compartment by a light-regulated mechanism. A high level of rhabdomeral TRPL, characteristic of dark-raised flies, is functionally manifested in the properties of the light-induced current. These flies are more sensitive than flies with no or reduced TRPL level to dim background lights, and they respond to a wider range of light intensities, which fit them to function better in darkness or dim background illumination. Thus, TRPL translocation represents a novel mechanism to fine tune visual responses.
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- Monika Bähner
- Zoological Institute, Department of Cell- and Neurobiology, University of Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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As in most invertebrate microvillar photoreceptors, phototransduction in Drosophila melanogaster uses a G-protein-coupled phosphoinositide pathway, whereby hydrolysis of phosphatidyl inositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) by phospholipase C generates inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) and diacyl glycerol (DAG), leading to activation of two classes of Ca2+-permeable light-sensitive channel, encoded by the trp and trpl genes. In some invertebrate photoreceptors, excitation is mediated by release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores by InsP3; however, in Drosophila melanogaster, recent evidence suggests instead that a lipid messenger, such as DAG, its metabolites and/or the reduction in PIP2 levels, may mediate excitation. Like vertebrate rods, Drosophila melanogaster photoreceptors generate quantum bumps in response to single photons, but their kinetics is approximately 10–100 times faster, and this reflects a fundamentally different strategy incorporating a threshold, positive and negative feedback by Ca2+ acting downstream of phospholipase C and a refractory period.
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- R C Hardie
- Cambridge University, Department of Anatomy, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK.
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Hardie RC, Raghu P, Moore S, Juusola M, Baines RA, Sweeney ST. Calcium influx via TRP channels is required to maintain PIP2 levels in Drosophila photoreceptors. Neuron 2001; 30:149-59. [PMID: 11343651 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00269-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The trp (transient receptor potential) gene encodes a Ca2+ channel responsible for the major component of the phospholipase C (PLC) mediated light response in Drosophila. In trp mutants, maintained light leads to response decay and temporary total loss of sensitivity (inactivation). Using genetically targeted PIP2-sensitive inward rectifier channels (Kir2.1) as biosensors, we provide evidence that trp decay reflects depletion of PIP2. Two independent mutations in the PIP2 recycling pathway (rdgB and cds) prevented recovery from inactivation. Abolishing Ca2+ influx in wild-type photoreceptors mimicked inactivation, while raising Ca2+ by blocking Na+/Ca2+ exchange prevented inactivation in trp. The results suggest that Ca2+ influx prevents PIP2 depletion by inhibiting PLC activity and facilitating PIP2 recycling. Without this feedback one photon appears sufficient to deplete the phosphoinositide pool of approximately 4 microvilli.
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- R C Hardie
- Department of Anatomy, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Juusola M, Hardie RC. Light adaptation in Drosophila photoreceptors: I. Response dynamics and signaling efficiency at 25 degrees C. J Gen Physiol 2001; 117:3-25. [PMID: 11134228 PMCID: PMC2232468 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.117.1.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Besides the physical limits imposed on photon absorption, the coprocessing of visual information by the phototransduction cascade and photoreceptor membrane determines the fidelity of photoreceptor signaling. We investigated the response dynamics and signaling efficiency of Drosophila photoreceptors to natural-like fluctuating light contrast stimulation and intracellular current injection when the cells were adapted over a 4-log unit light intensity range at 25 degrees C. This dual stimulation allowed us to characterize how an increase in the mean light intensity causes the phototransduction cascade and photoreceptor membrane to produce larger, faster and increasingly accurate voltage responses to a given contrast. Using signal and noise analysis, this appears to be associated with an increased summation of smaller and faster elementary responses (i.e., bumps), whose latency distribution stays relatively unchanged at different mean light intensity levels. As the phototransduction cascade increases, the size and speed of the signals (light current) at higher adapting backgrounds and, in conjunction with the photoreceptor membrane, reduces the light-induced voltage noise, and the photoreceptor signal-to-noise ratio improves and extends to a higher bandwidth. Because the voltage responses to light contrasts are much slower than those evoked by current injection, the photoreceptor membrane does not limit the speed of the phototransduction cascade, but it does filter the associated high frequency noise. The photoreceptor information capacity increases with light adaptation and starts to saturate at approximately 200 bits/s as the speed of the chemical reactions inside a fixed number of transduction units, possibly microvilli, is approaching its maximum.
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- M Juusola
- Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, United Kingdom.
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Agam K, von Campenhausen M, Levy S, Ben-Ami HC, Cook B, Kirschfeld K, Minke B. Metabolic stress reversibly activates the Drosophila light-sensitive channels TRP and TRPL in vivo. J Neurosci 2000; 20:5748-55. [PMID: 10908615 PMCID: PMC6772559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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Drosophila transient receptor potential (TRP) is a prototypical member of a novel family of channel proteins underlying phosphoinositide-mediated Ca(2+) entry. Although the initial stages of this signaling cascade are well known, downstream events leading to the opening of the TRP channels are still obscure. In the present study we applied patch-clamp whole-cell recordings and measurements of Ca(2+) concentration by ion-selective microelectrodes in eyes of normal and mutant Drosophila to isolate the TRP and TRP-like (TRPL)-dependent currents. We report that anoxia rapidly and reversibly depolarizes the photoreceptors and induces Ca(2+) influx into these cells in the dark. We further show that openings of the light-sensitive channels, which mediate these effects, can be obtained by mitochondrial uncouplers or by depletion of ATP in photoreceptor cells, whereas the effects of illumination and all forms of metabolic stress were additive. Effects similar to those found in wild-type flies were also found in mutants with strong defects in rhodopsin, Gq-protein, or phospholipase C, thus indicating that the metabolic stress operates at a late stage of the phototransduction cascade. Genetic elimination of both TRP and TRPL channels prevented the effects of anoxia, mitochondrial uncouplers, and depletion of ATP, thus demonstrating that the TRP and TRPL channels are specific targets of metabolic stress. These results shed new light on the properties of the TRP and TRPL channels by showing that a constitutive ATP-dependent process is required to keep these channels closed in the dark, a requirement that would make them sensitive to metabolic stress.
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- K Agam
- Department of Physiology and the Kühne Minerva Center for Studies of Visual Transduction, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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Oberwinkler J, Stavenga DG. Calcium imaging demonstrates colocalization of calcium influx and extrusion in fly photoreceptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:8578-83. [PMID: 10900015 PMCID: PMC26990 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.15.8578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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During illumination, Ca(2+) enters fly photoreceptor cells through light-activated channels that are located in the rhabdomere, the compartment specialized for phototransduction. From the rhabdomere, Ca(2+) diffuses into the cell body. We visualize this process by rapidly imaging the fluorescence in a cross section of a photoreceptor cell injected with a fluorescent Ca(2+) indicator in vivo. The free Ca(2+) concentration in the rhabdomere shows a very fast and large transient shortly after light onset. The free Ca(2+) concentration in the cell body rises more slowly and displays a much smaller transient. After approximately 400 ms of light stimulation, the Ca(2+) concentration in both compartments reaches a steady state, indicating that thereafter an amount of Ca(2+), equivalent to the amount of Ca(2+) flowing into the cell, is extruded. Quantitative analysis demonstrates that during the steady state, the free Ca(2+) concentration in the rhabdomere and throughout the cell body is the same. This shows that Ca(2+) extrusion takes place very close to the location of Ca(2+) influx, the rhabdomere, because otherwise gradients in the steady-state distribution of Ca(2+) should be measured. The close colocalization of Ca(2+) influx and Ca(2+) extrusion ensures that, after turning off the light, Ca(2+) removal from the rhabdomere is faster than from the cell body. This is functionally significant because it ensures rapid dark adaptation.
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- J Oberwinkler
- Department of Neurobiophysics, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Physiological studies have provided evidence for the existence of ryanodine receptor (RyR) Ca(2+) channels in compound eyes of insects. The present study identifies and localizes RyR in insect photoreceptors by use of an affinity-purified antibody against lobster muscle RyR. Western blotting and indirect immunofluorescence staining confirm cross-reactivity of the antibody with insect muscle RyR. In both honeybee and fly eyes, the antibody identifies a single protein that comigrates with muscle RyR on sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) polyacrylamide gels demonstrating that RyR is present in this tissue. By confocal immunofluorescence microscopy on honeybee eyes, RyR is detected within the photoreceptors and shows a nonhomogeneous distribution over the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Double labeling studies have demonstrated further that RyR is localized at distinct ER elements close to the light-sensitive microvilli and juxtaposed to adherens junctions. RyR has also been observed within the remaining soma of honeybee photoreceptors, being concentrated on ER cisternae close to mitochondria and the nonreceptive plasma membrane. For comparative purposes, the distribution of RyR has also been assayed in compound eyes of flies. In both Calliphora and Drosophila photoreceptors, the anti-RyR antibody provides punctate labeling throughout the cell body. The submicrovillar ER cisternae associated with the base of the microvilli, however, are only lightly labeled for RyR. These results suggest that RyR is involved with Ca(2+) regulation in the nonreceptive cell area of both fly and honeybee photoreceptors, but that it may contribute to Ca(2+) regulation close to the phototransduction compartment only in the latter cell.
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- O Baumann
- Institut für Zoophysiologie und Zellbiologie, Universität Potsdam, 14471 Potsdam, Germany.
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Raghu P, Colley NJ, Webel R, James T, Hasan G, Danin M, Selinger Z, Hardie RC. Normal phototransduction in Drosophila photoreceptors lacking an InsP(3) receptor gene. Mol Cell Neurosci 2000; 15:429-45. [PMID: 10833300 DOI: 10.1006/mcne.2000.0846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The Drosophila light-sensitive channels TRP and TRPL are prototypical members of an ion channel family responsible for a variety of receptor-mediated Ca(2+) influx phenomena, including store-operated calcium influx. While phospholipase Cbeta is essential, downstream events leading to TRP and TRPL activation remain unclear. We investigated the role of the InsP(3) receptor (InsP(3)R) by generating mosaic eyes homozygous for a deficiency of the only known InsP(3)R gene in Drosophila. Absence of gene product was confirmed by RT-PCR, Western analysis, and immunocytochemistry. Mutant photoreceptors underwent late onset retinal degeneration; however, whole-cell recordings from young flies demonstrated that phototransduction was unaffected, quantum bumps, macroscopic responses in the presence and absence of external Ca(2+), light adaptation, and Ca(2+) release from internal stores all being normal. Using the specific TRP channel blocker La(3+) we demonstrated that both TRP and TRPL channel functions were unaffected. These results indicate that InsP(3)R-mediated store depletion does not underlie TRP and TRPL activation in Drosophila photoreceptors.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Calcium/metabolism
- Calcium Channels/genetics
- Calcium Channels/metabolism
- Drosophila melanogaster/physiology
- Gene Deletion
- Homozygote
- Immunohistochemistry
- Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors
- Light
- Microscopy, Electron
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
- Mutation/physiology
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/physiology
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/radiation effects
- Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate/ultrastructure
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/genetics
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/metabolism
- Reference Values
- Tissue Distribution
- Vision, Ocular/physiology
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- P Raghu
- Department of Anatomy, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
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Raghu P, Usher K, Jonas S, Chyb S, Polyanovsky A, Hardie RC. Constitutive activity of the light-sensitive channels TRP and TRPL in the Drosophila diacylglycerol kinase mutant, rdgA. Neuron 2000; 26:169-79. [PMID: 10798401 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)81147-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Mutations in the Drosophila retinal degeneration A (rdgA) gene, which encodes diacylglycerol kinase (DGK), result in early onset retinal degeneration and blindness. Whole-cell recordings revealed that light-sensitive Ca2+ channels encoded by the trp gene were constitutively active in rdgA photoreceptors. Early degeneration was rescued in rdgA;trp double mutants, lacking TRP channels; however, the less Ca2+-permeable light-sensitive channels (TRPL) were constitutively active instead. No constitutive activity was seen in rdgA;trpI;trp mutants lacking both classes of channel, although, like rdgA;trp, these still showed a residual slow degeneration. Responses to light were restored in rdgA;trp but deactivated abnormally slowly, indicating that DGK is required for response termination. The findings suggest that early degeneration in rdgA is caused by uncontrolled Ca2+ influx and support the proposal that diacylglycerol or its metabolites are messengers of excitation in Drosophila photoreceptors.
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- P Raghu
- Department of Anatomy, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
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Henderson SR, Reuss H, Hardie RC. Single photon responses in Drosophila photoreceptors and their regulation by Ca2+. J Physiol 2000; 524 Pt 1:179-94. [PMID: 10747191 PMCID: PMC2269851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2000.00179.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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1. Discrete events (quantum bumps) elicited by dim light were analysed in whole-cell voltage clamp of photoreceptors from dissociated Drosophila ommatidia. Bumps were automatically detected and analysed for amplitude, rise and decay times, and latency. 2. The bump interval and amplitude distributions, and the 'frequency of seeing' curve conformed to Poisson predictions for the absorption of single photons. 3. At resting potential (-70 mV), bumps averaged 10 pA in peak amplitude with a half-width of ca 20 ms, representing simultaneous activation of ca 15 channels. 4. The macroscopic response to flashes containing up to at least 750 photons were predicted by the linear summation of quantum bumps convolved with their latency dispersion. 5. Bump duration was unaffected by lowering the extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o) from 1.5 to 0.5 mM, but increased >10-fold between 0.5 mM Ca2+ and 0 Ca2+. Bump amplitude was constant over the range 1.5-100 microM, but decreased ca 5- to 10-fold at lower Ca2+ concentrations. Bump latency increased by ca 50 % between 1.5 mM and 100 microM Ca2+o but returned to near control levels in Ca2+-free solutions. At intermediate [Ca2+]o bumps were biphasic with a slow rising phase followed by rapid amplification and inactivation. This behaviour was mimicked in high [Ca2+]o by internal buffering with BAPTA, but not EGTA. This suggests that Ca2+ influx through the light-sensitive channels must first raise cytosolic Ca2+ to a threshold level before initiating a cycle of positive and negative feedback mediated by molecular targets within the same microvillus. Quantum bumps in trp mutants lacking the major class of light-sensitive channel were reduced in size (mean 3.5 pA) representing simultaneous activation of only one or two channels; however, a second rarer (10 %) class of large bump had an amplitude similar to wild-type (WT) bumps. Bumps in trpl mutants lacking the second class of light-sensitive channel were very similar to WT bumps, but with slightly slower decay times. In InaDP215 mutants, in which the association of the TRP channels with the INAD scaffolding molecule is disrupted, bumps showed a defect in quantum bump termination, but their amplitudes and latencies were near normal.
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- S R Henderson
- Cambridge University, Department of Anatomy, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK
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Oberwinkler J, Stavenga DG. Calcium transients in the rhabdomeres of dark- and light-adapted fly photoreceptor cells. J Neurosci 2000; 20:1701-9. [PMID: 10684872 PMCID: PMC6772907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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The light response of fly photoreceptor cells is modulated by changes in free Ca(2+) concentration. Fly phototransduction and most processes regulating it take place in or very close to the rhabdomere. We therefore measured the kinetics and the absolute values of the free Ca(2+) concentration in the rhabdomere of fly photoreceptor cells in vivo by making use of the natural optics of the fly's eye. We show that Ca(2+) flowing into the rhabdomere after light stimulation of dark-adapted cells causes fast Ca(2+) transients that reach peak values higher than 200 microM in <20 msec. Approximately 500 msec later, the free Ca(2+) concentration has declined again to approximately 20 microM. The duration of the Ca(2+) transients becomes still shorter, and their size reduced, when the photoreceptor cell is light-adapted. This reduction in duration and size of the Ca(2+) transients is graded with the intensity of the adapting light. The kinetics and absolute values of the free calcium concentration found to occur in the rhabdomere are suitable to mediate the fast feedback signals known to act on the fly phototransduction cascade.
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- J Oberwinkler
- Department of Neurobiophysics, University of Groningen, NL-9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Chapter 10 Modeling primary visual processes in insect photoreceptors. HANDBOOK OF BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s1383-8121(00)80013-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Chapter 8 Phototransduction mechanisms in microvillar and ciliary photoreceptors of invertebrates. HANDBOOK OF BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s1383-8121(00)80011-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Minke B, Hardie R. Chapter 9 Genetic dissection of Drosophila phototransduction. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s1383-8121(00)80012-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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