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Cornean J, Molina-Obando S, Gür B, Bast A, Ramos-Traslosheros G, Chojetzki J, Lörsch L, Ioannidou M, Taneja R, Schnaitmann C, Silies M. Heterogeneity of synaptic connectivity in the fly visual system. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1570. [PMID: 38383614 PMCID: PMC10882054 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45971-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024] Open
Abstract
Visual systems are homogeneous structures, where repeating columnar units retinotopically cover the visual field. Each of these columns contain many of the same neuron types that are distinguished by anatomic, genetic and - generally - by functional properties. However, there are exceptions to this rule. In the 800 columns of the Drosophila eye, there is an anatomically and genetically identifiable cell type with variable functional properties, Tm9. Since anatomical connectivity shapes functional neuronal properties, we identified the presynaptic inputs of several hundred Tm9s across both optic lobes using the full adult female fly brain (FAFB) electron microscopic dataset and FlyWire connectome. Our work shows that Tm9 has three major and many sparsely distributed inputs. This differs from the presynaptic connectivity of other Tm neurons, which have only one major, and more stereotypic inputs than Tm9. Genetic synapse labeling showed that the heterogeneous wiring exists across individuals. Together, our data argue that the visual system uses heterogeneous, distributed circuit properties to achieve robust visual processing.
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- Jacqueline Cornean
- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
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Bueno D, Narayan Dey P, Schacht T, Wolf C, Wüllner V, Morpurgo E, Rojas-Charry L, Sessinghaus L, Leukel P, Sommer C, Radyushkin K, Florin L, Baumgart J, Stamm P, Daiber A, Horta G, Nardi L, Vasic V, Schmeisser MJ, Hellwig A, Oskamp A, Bauer A, Anand R, Reichert AS, Ritz S, Nocera G, Jacob C, Peper J, Silies M, Frauenknecht KBM, Schäfer MKE, Methner A. NECAB2 is an endosomal protein important for striatal function. Free Radic Biol Med 2023; 208:643-656. [PMID: 37722569 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
Abstract
Synaptic signaling depends on ATP generated by mitochondria. Dysfunctional mitochondria shift the redox balance towards a more oxidative environment. Due to extensive connectivity, the striatum is especially vulnerable to mitochondrial dysfunction. We found that neuronal calcium-binding protein 2 (NECAB2) plays a role in striatal function and mitochondrial homeostasis. NECAB2 is a predominantly endosomal striatal protein which partially colocalizes with mitochondria. This colocalization is enhanced by mild oxidative stress. Global knockout of Necab2 in the mouse results in increased superoxide levels, increased DNA oxidation and reduced levels of the antioxidant glutathione which correlates with an altered mitochondrial shape and function. Striatal mitochondria from Necab2 knockout mice are more abundant and smaller and characterized by a reduced spare capacity suggestive of intrinsic uncoupling respectively mitochondrial dysfunction. In line with this, we also found an altered stress-induced interaction of endosomes with mitochondria in Necab2 knockout striatal cultures. The predominance of dysfunctional mitochondria and the pro-oxidative redox milieu correlates with a loss of striatal synapses and behavioral changes characteristic of striatal dysfunction like reduced motivation and altered sensory gating. Together this suggests an involvement of NECAB2 in an endosomal pathway of mitochondrial stress response important for striatal function.
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- Diones Bueno
- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Germany; University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Anatomy, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute of Neuropathology, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute of Neuropathology, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute of Neuropathology, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mouse Behavior Unit, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Virology, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Translational Animal Research Center (TARC), Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Center for Cardiology, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Center for Cardiology, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Anatomy, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Anatomy, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Anatomy, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Anatomy, Germany.
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- Department of Neurobiology, Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences (IZN), Heidelberg University, Germany.
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany.
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany.
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), Mainz, Germany.
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute of Neuropathology, Germany; Institute of Neuropathology, University and University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
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- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Germany.
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Ketkar MD, Shao S, Gjorgjieva J, Silies M. Multifaceted luminance gain control beyond photoreceptors in Drosophila. Curr Biol 2023:S0960-9822(23)00619-X. [PMID: 37285845 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Animals navigating in natural environments must handle vast changes in their sensory input. Visual systems, for example, handle changes in luminance at many timescales, from slow changes across the day to rapid changes during active behavior. To maintain luminance-invariant perception, visual systems must adapt their sensitivity to changing luminance at different timescales. We demonstrate that luminance gain control in photoreceptors alone is insufficient to explain luminance invariance at both fast and slow timescales and reveal the algorithms that adjust gain past photoreceptors in the fly eye. We combined imaging and behavioral experiments with computational modeling to show that downstream of photoreceptors, circuitry taking input from the single luminance-sensitive neuron type L3 implements gain control at fast and slow timescales. This computation is bidirectional in that it prevents the underestimation of contrasts in low luminance and overestimation in high luminance. An algorithmic model disentangles these multifaceted contributions and shows that the bidirectional gain control occurs at both timescales. The model implements a nonlinear interaction of luminance and contrast to achieve gain correction at fast timescales and a dark-sensitive channel to improve the detection of dim stimuli at slow timescales. Together, our work demonstrates how a single neuronal channel performs diverse computations to implement gain control at multiple timescales that are together important for navigation in natural environments.
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- Madhura D Ketkar
- Institute of Developmental and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Max-von-Laue-Straße 4, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Department of Neurophysiology, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 EN Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Max-von-Laue-Straße 4, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; School of Life Sciences, Technical University Munich, Maximus-von-Imhof-Forum 3, 85354 Freising, Germany.
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- Institute of Developmental and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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Ketkar MD, Gür B, Molina-Obando S, Ioannidou M, Martelli C, Silies M. First-order visual interneurons distribute distinct contrast and luminance information across ON and OFF pathways to achieve stable behavior. eLife 2022; 11:74937. [PMID: 35263247 PMCID: PMC8967382 DOI: 10.7554/elife.74937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
The accurate processing of contrast is the basis for all visually guided behaviors. Visual scenes with rapidly changing illumination challenge contrast computation because photoreceptor adaptation is not fast enough to compensate for such changes. Yet, human perception of contrast is stable even when the visual environment is quickly changing, suggesting rapid post receptor luminance gain control. Similarly, in the fruit fly Drosophila, such gain control leads to luminance invariant behavior for moving OFF stimuli. Here, we show that behavioral responses to moving ON stimuli also utilize a luminance gain, and that ON-motion guided behavior depends on inputs from three first-order interneurons L1, L2, and L3. Each of these neurons encodes contrast and luminance differently and distributes information asymmetrically across both ON and OFF contrast-selective pathways. Behavioral responses to both ON and OFF stimuli rely on a luminance-based correction provided by L1 and L3, wherein L1 supports contrast computation linearly, and L3 non-linearly amplifies dim stimuli. Therefore, L1, L2, and L3 are not specific inputs to ON and OFF pathways but the lamina serves as a separate processing layer that distributes distinct luminance and contrast information across ON and OFF pathways to support behavior in varying conditions.
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- Madhura D Ketkar
- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Henning M, Ramos-Traslosheros G, Gür B, Silies M. Populations of local direction-selective cells encode global motion patterns generated by self-motion. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabi7112. [PMID: 35044821 PMCID: PMC8769539 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi7112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Self-motion generates visual patterns on the eye that are important for navigation. These optic flow patterns are encoded by the population of local direction–selective cells in the mouse retina, whereas in flies, local direction–selective T4/T5 cells are thought to be uniformly tuned. How complex global motion patterns can be computed downstream is unclear. We show that the population of T4/T5 cells in Drosophila encodes global motion patterns. Whereas the mouse retina encodes four types of optic flow, the fly visual system encodes six. This matches the larger number of degrees of freedom and the increased complexity of translational and rotational motion patterns during flight. The four uniformly tuned T4/T5 subtypes described previously represent a local subset of the population. Thus, a population code for global motion patterns appears to be a general coding principle of visual systems that matches local motion responses to modes of the animal’s movement.
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- Miriam Henning
- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) and International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Neurosciences at the University of Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) and International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Neurosciences at the University of Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) and International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Neurosciences at the University of Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Corresponding author.
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In Drosophila, direction-selective neurons implement a mechanism of motion computation similar to cortical neurons, using contrast-opponent receptive fields with ON and OFF subfields. It is not clear how the presynaptic circuitry of direction-selective neurons in the OFF pathway supports this computation if all major inputs are OFF-rectified neurons. Here, we reveal the biological substrate for motion computation in the OFF pathway. Three interneurons, Tm2, Tm9 and CT1, provide information about ON stimuli to the OFF direction-selective neuron T5 across its receptive field, supporting a contrast-opponent receptive field organization. Consistent with its prominent role in motion detection, variability in Tm9 receptive field properties transfers to T5, and calcium decrements in Tm9 in response to ON stimuli persist across behavioral states, while spatial tuning is sharpened by active behavior. Together, our work shows how a key neuronal computation is implemented by its constituent neuronal circuit elements to ensure direction selectivity.
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- Giordano Ramos-Traslosheros
- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School Neuroscienes and Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at the University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
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Ketkar MD, Sporar K, Gür B, Ramos-Traslosheros G, Seifert M, Silies M. Luminance Information Is Required for the Accurate Estimation of Contrast in Rapidly Changing Visual Contexts. Curr Biol 2020; 30:657-669.e4. [PMID: 32008904 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2019] [Revised: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 12/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Visual perception scales with changes in the visual stimulus, or contrast, irrespective of background illumination. However, visual perception is challenged when adaptation is not fast enough to deal with sudden declines in overall illumination, for example, when gaze follows a moving object from bright sunlight into a shaded area. Here, we show that the visual system of the fly employs a solution by propagating a corrective luminance-sensitive signal. We use in vivo 2-photon imaging and behavioral analyses to demonstrate that distinct OFF-pathway inputs encode contrast and luminance. Predictions of contrast-sensitive neuronal responses show that contrast information alone cannot explain behavioral responses in sudden dim light. The luminance-sensitive pathway via the L3 neuron is required for visual processing in such rapidly changing light conditions, ensuring contrast constancy when pure contrast sensitivity underestimates a stimulus. Thus, retaining a peripheral feature, luminance, in visual processing is required for robust behavioral responses.
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- Madhura D Ketkar
- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15, Mainz 55128, Germany; European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, a Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max Planck Society, Grisebachstr. 5, Göttingen 37077, Germany; International Max Planck Research School and Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at the University of Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15, Mainz 55128, Germany; European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, a Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max Planck Society, Grisebachstr. 5, Göttingen 37077, Germany; International Max Planck Research School and Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at the University of Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15, Mainz 55128, Germany; European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, a Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max Planck Society, Grisebachstr. 5, Göttingen 37077, Germany; International Max Planck Research School and Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at the University of Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15, Mainz 55128, Germany; European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, a Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max Planck Society, Grisebachstr. 5, Göttingen 37077, Germany; International Max Planck Research School and Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at the University of Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, a Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max Planck Society, Grisebachstr. 5, Göttingen 37077, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15, Mainz 55128, Germany; European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, a Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max Planck Society, Grisebachstr. 5, Göttingen 37077, Germany.
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Gür B, Sporar K, Lopez-Behling A, Silies M. Distinct expression of potassium channels regulates visual response properties of lamina neurons in Drosophila melanogaster. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2019; 206:273-287. [PMID: 31823004 DOI: 10.1007/s00359-019-01385-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2019] [Revised: 10/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
The computational organization of sensory systems depends on the diversification of individual cell types with distinct signal-processing capabilities. The Drosophila visual system, for instance, splits information into channels with different temporal properties directly downstream of photoreceptors in the first-order interneurons of the OFF pathway, L2 and L3. However, the biophysical mechanisms that determine this specialization are largely unknown. Here, we show that the voltage-gated Ka channels Shaker and Shal contribute to the response properties of the major OFF pathway input L2. L3 calcium response kinetics postsynaptic to photoreceptors resemble the sustained calcium signals of photoreceptors, whereas L2 neurons decay transiently. Based on a cell-type-specific RNA-seq data set and endogenous protein tagging, we identified Shaker and Shal as the primary candidates to shape L2 responses. Using in vivo two-photon imaging of L2 calcium signals in combination with pharmacological and genetic perturbations of these Ka channels, we show that the wild-type Shaker and Shal function is to enhance L2 responses and cell-autonomously sharpen L2 kinetics. Our results reveal a role for Ka channels in determining the signal-processing characteristics of a specific cell type in the visual system.
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- Burak Gür
- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany
- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen a Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen, and the Max Planck Society, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School and Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at the University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany
- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen a Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen, and the Max Planck Society, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School and Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at the University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen a Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen, and the Max Planck Society, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen a Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen, and the Max Planck Society, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
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Molina-Obando S, Vargas-Fique JF, Henning M, Gür B, Schladt TM, Akhtar J, Berger TK, Silies M. ON selectivity in the Drosophila visual system is a multisynaptic process involving both glutamatergic and GABAergic inhibition. eLife 2019; 8:e49373. [PMID: 31535971 PMCID: PMC6845231 DOI: 10.7554/elife.49373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Sensory systems sequentially extract increasingly complex features. ON and OFF pathways, for example, encode increases or decreases of a stimulus from a common input. This ON/OFF pathway split is thought to occur at individual synaptic connections through a sign-inverting synapse in one of the pathways. Here, we show that ON selectivity is a multisynaptic process in the Drosophila visual system. A pharmacogenetics approach demonstrates that both glutamatergic inhibition through GluClα and GABAergic inhibition through Rdl mediate ON responses. Although neurons postsynaptic to the glutamatergic ON pathway input L1 lose all responses in GluClα mutants, they are resistant to a cell-type-specific loss of GluClα. This shows that ON selectivity is distributed across multiple synapses, and raises the possibility that cell-type-specific manipulations might reveal similar strategies in other sensory systems. Thus, sensory coding is more distributed than predicted by simple circuit motifs, allowing for robust neural processing.
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- Sebastian Molina-Obando
- Institute of Developmental Biology and NeurobiologyJohannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzMainzGermany
- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen – A Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max-Planck-SocietyGöttingenGermany
- International Max Planck Research School and Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at the University of GöttingenGöttingenGermany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and NeurobiologyJohannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzMainzGermany
- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen – A Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max-Planck-SocietyGöttingenGermany
- International Max Planck Research School and Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at the University of GöttingenGöttingenGermany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and NeurobiologyJohannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzMainzGermany
- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen – A Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max-Planck-SocietyGöttingenGermany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and NeurobiologyJohannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzMainzGermany
- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen – A Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max-Planck-SocietyGöttingenGermany
- International Max Planck Research School and Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB) at the University of GöttingenGöttingenGermany
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- Department of Molecular Sensory SystemsCenter of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar)BonnGermany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and NeurobiologyJohannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzMainzGermany
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- Department of Molecular Sensory SystemsCenter of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar)BonnGermany
- Institute of Physiology and PathophysiologyPhilipps-Universität MarburgMarburgGermany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and NeurobiologyJohannes Gutenberg-Universität MainzMainzGermany
- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen – A Joint Initiative of the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Max-Planck-SocietyGöttingenGermany
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Akhtar J, More P, Albrecht S, Marini F, Kaiser W, Kulkarni A, Wojnowski L, Fontaine JF, Andrade-Navarro MA, Silies M, Berger C. TAF-ChIP: an ultra-low input approach for genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation assay. Life Sci Alliance 2019; 2:2/4/e201900318. [PMID: 31331983 PMCID: PMC6653780 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.201900318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Revised: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The authors present a novel method for obtaining chromatin profiles from low cell numbers without prior nuclei isolation. The method is successfully implemented in generating epigenetic profile from 100 cells with high signal-to-noise ratio. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) followed by next generation sequencing (ChIP-Seq) is a powerful technique to study transcriptional regulation. However, the requirement of millions of cells to generate results with high signal-to-noise ratio precludes it in the study of small cell populations. Here, we present a tagmentation-assisted fragmentation ChIP (TAF-ChIP) and sequencing method to generate high-quality histone profiles from low cell numbers. The data obtained from the TAF-ChIP approach are amenable to standard tools for ChIP-Seq analysis, owing to its high signal-to-noise ratio. The epigenetic profiles from TAF-ChIP approach showed high agreement with conventional ChIP-Seq datasets, thereby underlining the utility of this approach.
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- Junaid Akhtar
- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Faculty of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis Mainz, Mainz, Germany.,Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Neuert H, Deing P, Krukkert K, Naffin E, Steffes G, Risse B, Silies M, Klämbt C. The Drosophila NCAM homolog Fas2 signals independent of adhesion. Development 2019; 147:dev.181479. [DOI: 10.1242/dev.181479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The development of tissues and organs requires close interaction of cells. To do so, cells express adhesion proteins such as the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) or its Drosophila orthologue Fasciclin 2 (Fas2). Both are members of the Ig-domain superfamily of proteins that mediate homophilic adhesion. These proteins are expressed as different isoforms differing in their membrane anchorage and their cytoplasmic domains. To study the function of single isoforms we have conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis of fas2. We reveal the expression pattern of all major Fas2 isoforms, two of which are GPI-anchored. The remaining five isoforms carry transmembrane domains with variable cytoplasmic tails. We generated fas2 mutants expressing only single isoforms. In contrast to the null mutation which causes embryonic lethality, these mutants are viable, indicating redundancy among the different isoforms. Cell type specific rescue experiments showed that glial secreted Fas2 can rescue the fas2 mutant phenotype to viability. This demonstrates cytoplasmic Fas2 domains have no apparent essential functions and indicate that Fas2 has function(s) other than homophilic adhesion. In conclusion, our data propose novel mechanistic aspects of a long studied adhesion protein.
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- Helen Neuert
- University of Münster, Institute for Neuro- and Behavioral Biology, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- University of Münster, Institute for Neuro- and Behavioral Biology, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- University of Münster, Institute for Neuro- and Behavioral Biology, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- University of Münster, Institute for Neuro- and Behavioral Biology, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- University of Münster, Institute for Neuro- and Behavioral Biology, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- University of Münster, Institute for Neuro- and Behavioral Biology, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- University of Münster, Institute for Neuro- and Behavioral Biology, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- University of Münster, Institute for Neuro- and Behavioral Biology, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Liou NF, Lin SH, Chen YJ, Tsai KT, Yang CJ, Lin TY, Wu TH, Lin HJ, Chen YT, Gohl DM, Silies M, Chou YH. Publisher Correction: Diverse populations of local interneurons integrate into the Drosophila adult olfactory circuit. Nat Commun 2018; 9:4729. [PMID: 30401872 PMCID: PMC6219512 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07001-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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- Nan-Fu Liou
- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.,Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter, Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.,University of Minnesota Genomics Center, 1-210 CCRB, 2231 6th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.,European Neuroscience Institute, University Medical Center Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 5, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan. .,Neuroscience Program of Academia Sinica, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.
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Liou NF, Lin SH, Chen YJ, Tsai KT, Yang CJ, Lin TY, Wu TH, Lin HJ, Chen YT, Gohl DM, Silies M, Chou YH. Diverse populations of local interneurons integrate into the Drosophila adult olfactory circuit. Nat Commun 2018; 9:2232. [PMID: 29884811 PMCID: PMC5993751 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04675-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 05/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Drosophila olfactory local interneurons (LNs) in the antennal lobe are highly diverse and variable. How and when distinct types of LNs emerge, differentiate, and integrate into the olfactory circuit is unknown. Through systematic developmental analyses, we found that LNs are recruited to the adult olfactory circuit in three groups. Group 1 LNs are residual larval LNs. Group 2 are adult-specific LNs that emerge before cognate sensory and projection neurons establish synaptic specificity, and Group 3 LNs emerge after synaptic specificity is established. Group 1 larval LNs are selectively reintegrated into the adult circuit through pruning and re-extension of processes to distinct regions of the antennal lobe, while others die during metamorphosis. Precise temporal control of this pruning and cell death shapes the global organization of the adult antennal lobe. Our findings provide a road map to understand how LNs develop and contribute to constructing the olfactory circuit. Local interneurons (LNs) in the Drosophila olfactory system are highly diverse. Here, the authors labeled different LN types and described how different LN subtypes are integrated into the developing circuit.
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- Nan-Fu Liou
- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.,Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter, Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,University of Minnesota Genomics Center, 1-210 CCRB, 2231 6th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,European Neuroscience Institute, University Medical Center Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 5, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan. .,Neuroscience Program of Academia Sinica, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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Burgos A, Honjo K, Ohyama T, Qian CS, Shin GJE, Gohl DM, Silies M, Tracey WD, Zlatic M, Cardona A, Grueber WB. Nociceptive interneurons control modular motor pathways to promote escape behavior in Drosophila. eLife 2018. [PMID: 29528286 PMCID: PMC5869015 DOI: 10.7554/elife.26016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
Abstract
Rapid and efficient escape behaviors in response to noxious sensory stimuli are essential for protection and survival. Yet, how noxious stimuli are transformed to coordinated escape behaviors remains poorly understood. In Drosophila larvae, noxious stimuli trigger sequential body bending and corkscrew-like rolling behavior. We identified a population of interneurons in the nerve cord of Drosophila, termed Down-and-Back (DnB) neurons, that are activated by noxious heat, promote nociceptive behavior, and are required for robust escape responses to noxious stimuli. Electron microscopic circuit reconstruction shows that DnBs are targets of nociceptive and mechanosensory neurons, are directly presynaptic to pre-motor circuits, and link indirectly to Goro rolling command-like neurons. DnB activation promotes activity in Goro neurons, and coincident inactivation of Goro neurons prevents the rolling sequence but leaves intact body bending motor responses. Thus, activity from nociceptors to DnB interneurons coordinates modular elements of nociceptive escape behavior.
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- Anita Burgos
- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States
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- University of Minnesota Genomics Center, Minneapolis, United States
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- European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- The Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States.,Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States.,Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, United States
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Peng J, Santiago IJ, Ahn C, Gur B, Tsui CK, Su Z, Xu C, Karakhanyan A, Silies M, Pecot MY. Drosophila Fezf coordinates laminar-specific connectivity through cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic mechanisms. eLife 2018. [PMID: 29513217 PMCID: PMC5854465 DOI: 10.7554/elife.33962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Laminar arrangement of neural connections is a fundamental feature of neural circuit organization. Identifying mechanisms that coordinate neural connections within correct layers is thus vital for understanding how neural circuits are assembled. In the medulla of the Drosophila visual system neurons form connections within ten parallel layers. The M3 layer receives input from two neuron types that sequentially innervate M3 during development. Here we show that M3-specific innervation by both neurons is coordinated by Drosophila Fezf (dFezf), a conserved transcription factor that is selectively expressed by the earlier targeting input neuron. In this cell, dFezf instructs layer specificity and activates the expression of a secreted molecule (Netrin) that regulates the layer specificity of the other input neuron. We propose that employment of transcriptional modules that cell-intrinsically target neurons to specific layers, and cell-extrinsically recruit other neurons is a general mechanism for building layered networks of neural connections.
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- Jing Peng
- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- European Neuroscience Institute, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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Neuert H, Yuva-Aydemir Y, Silies M, Klämbt C. Different modes of APC/C activation control growth and neuron-glia interaction in the developing Drosophila eye. Development 2017; 144:4673-4683. [DOI: 10.1242/dev.152694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 10/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The development of the nervous system requires tight control of cell division, fate specification and migration. The anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that affects different steps of cell cycle progression, as well as having postmitotic functions in nervous system development. It can therefore link different developmental stages in one tissue. The two adaptor proteins Fizzy/Cdc20 and Fizzy-Related/Cdh1 confer APC/C substrate specificity. Here we show that two distinct modes of APC/C function act during Drosophila eye development. Fizzy/Cdc20 controls the early growth of the eye disc anlage and the concomitant entry of glial cells onto the disc. In contrast, fzr/cdh1 acts during neuronal patterning and photoreceptor axon growth, and subsequently affects neuron-glia interaction. To further address the postmitotic role of Fzr/Cdh1 in controlling neuron-glia interaction, we identified a series of novel APC/C candidate substrates. Four of our candidate genes are required for fzr/cdh1 dependent neuron-glia interaction, including the dynein light chain Dlc90F. Taken together, our data show how different modes of APC/C activation can couple early growth and neuron-glia interaction during eye disc development.
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- Helen Neuert
- Institut für Neurobiologie, Universität Münster, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
- Present address: Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Life Sciences Centre, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Institut für Neurobiologie, Universität Münster, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
- Present address: Department of Neurology, UMASS Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Institut für Neurobiologie, Universität Münster, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
- European Neuroscience Institute, University Medical Center Goettingen, Grisebachstr. 5, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Neurobiologie, Universität Münster, Badestr. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Fisher YE, Silies M, Clandinin TR. Orientation Selectivity Sharpens Motion Detection in Drosophila. Neuron 2015; 88:390-402. [PMID: 26456048 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Revised: 08/08/2015] [Accepted: 08/31/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Detecting the orientation and movement of edges in a scene is critical to visually guided behaviors of many animals. What are the circuit algorithms that allow the brain to extract such behaviorally vital visual cues? Using in vivo two-photon calcium imaging in Drosophila, we describe direction selective signals in the dendrites of T4 and T5 neurons, detectors of local motion. We demonstrate that this circuit performs selective amplification of local light inputs, an observation that constrains motion detection models and confirms a core prediction of the Hassenstein-Reichardt correlator (HRC). These neurons are also orientation selective, responding strongly to static features that are orthogonal to their preferred axis of motion, a tuning property not predicted by the HRC. This coincident extraction of orientation and direction sharpens directional tuning through surround inhibition and reveals a striking parallel between visual processing in flies and vertebrate cortex, suggesting a universal strategy for motion processing.
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- Yvette E Fisher
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Sugie A, Hakeda-Suzuki S, Suzuki E, Silies M, Shimozono M, Möhl C, Suzuki T, Tavosanis G. Molecular Remodeling of the Presynaptic Active Zone of Drosophila Photoreceptors via Activity-Dependent Feedback. Neuron 2015; 86:711-25. [PMID: 25892303 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2014] [Revised: 02/10/2015] [Accepted: 03/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Neural activity contributes to the regulation of the properties of synapses in sensory systems, allowing for adjustment to a changing environment. Little is known about how synaptic molecular components are regulated to achieve activity-dependent plasticity at central synapses. Here, we found that after prolonged exposure to natural ambient light the presynaptic active zone in Drosophila photoreceptors undergoes reversible remodeling, including loss of Bruchpilot, DLiprin-α, and DRBP, but not of DSyd-1 or Cacophony. The level of depolarization of the postsynaptic neurons is critical for the light-induced changes in active zone composition in the photoreceptors, indicating the existence of a feedback signal. In search of this signal, we have identified a crucial role of microtubule meshwork organization downstream of the divergent canonical Wnt pathway, potentially via Kinesin-3 Imac. These data reveal that active zone composition can be regulated in vivo and identify the underlying molecular machinery.
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- Atsushi Sugie
- Dendrite Differentiation, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn 53175, Germany
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- Core Division of Advanced Research, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Titech), Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
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- Gene Network Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics and Department of Genetics, SOKENDAI, Mishima 411-8540, Japan
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- European Neuroscience Institute (ENI), 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Core Division of Advanced Research, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Titech), Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
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- Image and Data Analysis Facility, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn 53175, Germany
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- Core Division of Advanced Research, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Titech), Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.
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- Dendrite Differentiation, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn 53175, Germany.
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Silies M, Yuva-Aydemir Y, Rut Franzdottir S, Klämbt C. The eye imaginal disc as a model to study the coordination of neuronal and glial development. Fly (Austin) 2014; 4:71-9. [DOI: 10.4161/fly.4.1.11312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Silies M, Clandinin T. Vision: EM-erging Motion-Detecting Circuits. Curr Biol 2014; 24:R390-2. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Visual motion cues provide animals with critical information about their environment and guide a diverse array of behaviors. The neural circuits that carry out motion estimation provide a well-constrained model system for studying the logic of neural computation. Through a confluence of behavioral, physiological, and anatomical experiments, taking advantage of the powerful genetic tools available in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, an outline of the neural pathways that compute visual motion has emerged. Here we describe these pathways, the evidence supporting them, and the challenges that remain in understanding the circuits and computations that link sensory inputs to behavior. Studies in flies and vertebrates have revealed a number of functional similarities between motion-processing pathways in different animals, despite profound differences in circuit anatomy and structure. The fact that different circuit mechanisms are used to achieve convergent computational outcomes sheds light on the evolution of the nervous system.
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- Marion Silies
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305; , ,
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Silies M, Gohl DM, Fisher YE, Freifeld L, Clark DA, Clandinin TR. Modular use of peripheral input channels tunes motion-detecting circuitry. Neuron 2013; 79:111-27. [PMID: 23849199 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/12/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
In the visual system, peripheral processing circuits are often tuned to specific stimulus features. How this selectivity arises and how these circuits are organized to inform specific visual behaviors is incompletely understood. Using forward genetics and quantitative behavioral studies, we uncover an input channel to motion detecting circuitry in Drosophila. The second-order neuron L3 acts combinatorially with two previously known inputs, L1 and L2, to inform circuits specialized to detect moving light and dark edges. In vivo calcium imaging of L3, combined with neuronal silencing experiments, suggests a neural mechanism to achieve selectivity for moving dark edges. We further demonstrate that different innate behaviors, turning and forward movement, can be independently modulated by visual motion. These two behaviors make use of different combinations of input channels. Such modular use of input channels to achieve feature extraction and behavioral specialization likely represents a general principle in sensory systems.
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- Marion Silies
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Ales J, Clark D, Fitzgerald J, Gohl D, Silies M, Clandinin T, Norcia A. Computation of high-order correlations underlies edge-polarity selective motion processing. J Vis 2013. [DOI: 10.1167/13.9.974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Gao XJ, Potter CJ, Gohl DM, Silies M, Katsov AY, Clandinin TR, Luo L. Specific kinematics and motor-related neurons for aversive chemotaxis in Drosophila. Curr Biol 2013; 23:1163-72. [PMID: 23770185 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2013] [Revised: 04/14/2013] [Accepted: 05/07/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Chemotaxis, the ability to direct movements according to chemical cues in the environment, is important for the survival of most organisms. The vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster, displays robust olfactory aversion and attraction, but how these behaviors are executed via changes in locomotion remains poorly understood. In particular, it is not clear whether aversion and attraction bidirectionally modulate a shared circuit or recruit distinct circuits for execution. RESULTS Using a quantitative behavioral assay, we determined that both aversive and attractive odorants modulate the initiation and direction of turns but display distinct kinematics. Using genetic tools to perturb these behaviors, we identified specific populations of neurons required for aversion, but not for attraction. Inactivation of these populations of cells affected the completion of aversive turns, but not their initiation. Optogenetic activation of the same populations of cells triggered a locomotion pattern resembling aversive turns. Perturbations in both the ellipsoid body and the ventral nerve cord, two regions involved in motor control, resulted in defects in aversion. CONCLUSIONS Aversive chemotaxis in vinegar flies triggers ethologically appropriate kinematics distinct from those of attractive chemotaxis and requires specific motor-related neurons.
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- Xiaojing J Gao
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Burke CJ, Huetteroth W, Owald D, Perisse E, Krashes MJ, Das G, Gohl D, Silies M, Certel S, Waddell S. Layered reward signalling through octopamine and dopamine in Drosophila. Nature 2012; 492:433-7. [PMID: 23103875 PMCID: PMC3528794 DOI: 10.1038/nature11614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 364] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2012] [Accepted: 09/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Dopamine (DA) is synonymous with reward and motivation in mammals1,2. However, only recently has dopamine been linked to motivated behavior and rewarding reinforcement in fruit flies3,4. Instead octopamine (OA) has historically been considered the signal for reward in insects5-7. Here we show using temporal control of neural function in Drosophila that only short-term appetitive memory is reinforced by OA. Moreover, OA-dependent memory formation requires signaling through DA neurons. Part of the OA signal requires the α-adrenergic like OAMB receptor in an identified subset of mushroom body (MB)-targeted DA neurons. OA triggers an increase in intracellular calcium in these DA neurons and their direct activation can substitute for sugar to form appetitive memory, even in flies lacking OA. Analysis of the β-adrenergic like Octβ2R receptor reveals that OA-dependent reinforcement also requires an interaction with DA neurons that control appetitive motivation. These data suggest that sweet taste engages a distributed OA signal that reinforces memory through discrete subsets of MB-targeted DA neurons. In addition, they reconcile prior findings with OA and DA and suggest that reinforcement systems in flies are more similar to mammals than previously envisaged.
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- Christopher J Burke
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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Piglosiewicz B, Sadiq D, Mascheck M, Schmidt S, Silies M, Vasa P, Lienau C. Ultrasmall bullets of light--focusing few-cycle light pulses to the diffraction limit. Opt Express 2011; 19:14451-14463. [PMID: 21934807 DOI: 10.1364/oe.19.014451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We demonstrate an essentially dispersion-free and diffraction-limited focusing of few-cycle laser pulses through all-reflective microscope objectives. By transmitting 6-fs-pulses from a Ti:sapphire oscillator through an all-reflective 0.5 NA objective, we reach a focus with a beam diameter of 1.0 µm, preserving the time structure of the pulses. The temporal and spatial pulse profile is recorded simultaneously using a novel tip-enhanced electron emission autocorrelator, indicating a focal volume of these pulses of only 1.8 µm3. We anticipate that the demonstrated technique is of considerable interest for inducing and probing optical nonlinearities of individual nanostructures.
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- B Piglosiewicz
- Institut für Physik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, D-26111 Oldenburg, Germany.
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Schmidt S, Mascheck M, Silies M, Yatsui T, Kitamura K, Ohtsu M, Lienau C. Distinguishing between ultrafast optical harmonic generation and multi-photon-induced luminescence from ZnO thin films by frequency-resolved interferometric autocorrelation microscopy. Opt Express 2010; 18:25016-25028. [PMID: 21164847 DOI: 10.1364/oe.18.025016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The nonlinear optical properties of thin ZnO film are studied using interferometric autocorrelation (IFRAC) microscopy. Ultrafast, below-bandgap excitation with 6-fs laser pulses at 800 nm focused to a spot size of 1 µm results in two emission bands in the blue and blue-green spectral region with distinctly different coherence properties. We show that an analysis of the wavelength-dependence of the interference fringes in the IFRAC signal allows for an unambiguous assignment of these bands as coherent second harmonic emission and incoherent, multiphoton-induced photoluminescence, respectively. More generally our analysis shows that IFRAC allows for a complete characterization of the coherence properties of the nonlinear optical emission from nanostructures in a single-beam experiment. Since this technique combines a very high temporal and spatial resolution we anticipate broad applications in nonlinear nano-optics.
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- S Schmidt
- Institut für Physik Carl von Ossietzky Universität, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
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Frigge R, Hoger T, Siemer B, Witte H, Silies M, Zacharias H, Olsen T, Schiøtz J. Site specificity in femtosecond laser desorption of neutral H atoms from graphite(0001). Phys Rev Lett 2010; 104:256102. [PMID: 20867400 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.256102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Femtosecond laser excitation and density functional theory reveal site and vibrational state specificity in neutral atomic hydrogen desorption from graphite induced by multiple electronic transitions. Multimodal velocity distributions witness the participation of ortho and para pair states of chemisorbed hydrogen in the desorption process. Very slow velocities of 700 and 400 ms^{-1} for H and D atoms are associated with the desorption out of the highest vibrational state of a barrierless potential.
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- R Frigge
- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Nanotechnology (CeNTech), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, 48149 Münster, Germany.
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Stork T, Thomas S, Rodrigues F, Silies M, Naffin E, Wenderdel S, Klämbt C. Drosophila Neurexin IV stabilizes neuron-glia interactions at the CNS midline by binding to Wrapper. Development 2009; 136:1251-61. [PMID: 19261699 DOI: 10.1242/dev.032847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ensheathment of axons by glial membranes is a key feature of complex nervous systems ensuring the separation of single axons or axonal fascicles. Nevertheless, the molecules that mediate the recognition and specific adhesion of glial and axonal membranes are largely unknown. We use the Drosophila midline of the embryonic central nervous system as a model to investigate these neuron glia interactions. During development, the midline glial cells acquire close contact to commissural axons and eventually extend processes into the commissures to wrap individual axon fascicles. Here, we show that this wrapping of axons depends on the interaction of the neuronal transmembrane protein Neurexin IV with the glial Ig-domain protein Wrapper. Although Neurexin IV has been previously described to be an essential component of epithelial septate junctions (SJ), we show that its function in mediating glial wrapping at the CNS midline is independent of SJ formation. Moreover, differential splicing generates two different Neurexin IV isoforms. One mRNA is enriched in septate junction-forming tissues, whereas the other mRNA is expressed by neurons and recruited to the midline by Wrapper. Although both Neurexin IV isoforms are able to bind Wrapper, the neuronal isoform has a higher affinity for Wrapper. We conclude that Neurexin IV can mediate different adhesive cell-cell contacts depending on the isoforms expressed and the context of its interaction partners.
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- Tobias Stork
- Institut für Neurobiologie, Universität Münster, Badestrasse 9, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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