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Majdi S, Berglund EC, Dunevall J, Oleinick AI, Amatore C, Krantz DE, Ewing AG. Electrochemical Measurements of Optogenetically Stimulated Quantal Amine Release from Single Nerve Cell Varicosities in Drosophila Larvae. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:13609-12. [PMID: 26387683 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201506743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [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: 07/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The nerve terminals found in the body wall of Drosophila melanogaster larvae are readily accessible to experimental manipulation. We used the light-activated ion channel, channelrhodopsin-2, which is expressed by genetic manipulation in Type II varicosities to study octopamine release in Drosophila. We report the development of a method to measure neurotransmitter release from exocytosis events at individual varicosities in the Drosophila larval system by amperometry. A microelectrode was placed in a region of the muscle containing a varicosity and held at a potential sufficient to oxidize octopamine and the terminal stimulated by blue light. Optical stimulation of Type II boutons evokes exocytosis of octopamine, which is detected through oxidization at the electrode surface. We observe 22700±4200 molecules of octopamine released per vesicle. This system provides a genetically accessible platform to study the regulation of amine release at an intact synapse.
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- Soodabeh Majdi
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology Department, Kemivägen 10, 41296 Gothenburg (Sweden)
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, 41296 Gothenburg (Sweden)
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology Department, Kemivägen 10, 41296 Gothenburg (Sweden)
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL Research University, Département de Chimie, Sorbonne Universités-UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS UMR 8640 PASTEUR, 24, rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris (France)
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL Research University, Département de Chimie, Sorbonne Universités-UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS UMR 8640 PASTEUR, 24, rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris (France)
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Gonda Center for Neuroscience and Genetics Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology Department, Kemivägen 10, 41296 Gothenburg (Sweden). .,Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, 41296 Gothenburg (Sweden).
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Majdi S, Berglund EC, Dunevall J, Oleinick AI, Amatore C, Krantz DE, Ewing AG. Electrochemical Measurements of Optogenetically Stimulated Quantal Amine Release from Single Nerve Cell Varicosities inDrosophilaLarvae. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201506743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Phan NTN, Hanrieder J, Berglund EC, Ewing AG. Capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry-based detection of drugs and neurotransmitters in Drosophila brain. Anal Chem 2013; 85:8448-54. [PMID: 23915325 DOI: 10.1021/ac401920v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry has been used to determine the in vivo concentrations of the neuroactive drug, methylphenidate, and a metabolite in the heads of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster . These concentrations, evaluated at the site of action, the brain, have been correlated with orally administrated methylphenidate. D. melanogaster has a relatively simple nervous system but possesses high-order brain functions similar to humans; thus, it has been used as a common model system in biological and genetics research. Methylphenidate has been used to mediate cocaine addiction due to its lower pharmacokinetics, which results in fewer addictive and reinforcing effects than cocaine; the effects of the drug on the nervous system, however, have not been fully understood. In addition to measurements of drug concentration, the method has been used to examine drug-dose dependence on the levels of several primary biogenic amines. Higher in vivo concentration of methylphenidate is observed with increasing feeding doses up to 25 mM methylphenidate. Furthermore, administrated methylphenidate increases the drug metabolism activity and the neurotransmitter levels; however, this increase appears to saturate at a feeding dose of 20 mM. The method developed for the fruit fly provides a new tool to evaluate the concentration of administered drug at the site of action and provides information concerning the effect of methylphenidate on the nervous system.
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- Nhu T N Phan
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
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Berglund EC, Makos MA, Keighron JD, Phan N, Heien ML, Ewing AG. Oral administration of methylphenidate blocks the effect of cocaine on uptake at the Drosophila dopamine transporter. ACS Chem Neurosci 2013; 4:566-74. [PMID: 23402315 DOI: 10.1021/cn3002009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Although our understanding of the actions of cocaine in the brain has improved, an effective drug treatment for cocaine addiction has yet to be found. Methylphenidate binds the dopamine transporter and increases extracellular dopamine levels in mammalian central nervous systems similar to cocaine, but it is thought to elicit fewer addictive and reinforcing effects owing to slower pharmacokinetics for different routes of administration between the drugs. This study utilizes the fruit fly model system to quantify the effects of oral methylphenidate on dopamine uptake during direct cocaine exposure to the fly CNS. The effect of methylphenidate on the dopamine transporter has been explored by measuring the uptake of exogenously applied dopamine. The data suggest that oral consumption of methylphenidate inhibits the Drosophila dopamine transporter and the inhibition is concentration dependent. The peak height increased to 150% of control when cocaine was used to block the dopamine transporter for untreated flies but only to 110% for methylphenidate-treated flies. Thus, the dopamine transporter is mostly inhibited for the methylphenidate-fed flies before the addition of cocaine. The same is true for the rate of the clearance of dopamine measured by amperometry. For untreated flies the rate of clearance changes 40% when the dopamine transporter is inhibited with cocaine, and for treated flies the rate changes only 10%. The results were correlated to the in vivo concentration of methylphenidate determined by CE-MS. Our data suggest that oral consumption of methylphenidate inhibits the Drosophila dopamine transporter for cocaine uptake, and the inhibition is concentration dependent.
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- E. Carina Berglund
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96, Göteborg,
Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96, Göteborg,
Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, 1306 E. University Boulevard,
Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96, Göteborg,
Sweden
- Department of Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96, Göteborg, Sweden
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Berglund EC, Kuklinski NJ, Karagündüz E, Ucar K, Hanrieder J, Ewing AG. Freeze-drying as sample preparation for micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography-electrochemical separations of neurochemicals in Drosophila brains. Anal Chem 2013; 85:2841-6. [PMID: 23387977 DOI: 10.1021/ac303377x] [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] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography with electrochemical detection has been used to quantify biogenic amines in freeze-dried brains of Drosophila melanogaster. Freeze-drying samples offers a way to preserve the biological sample while making dissection of these tiny samples easier and faster. Fly samples were extracted in cold acetone and dried in a rotary evaporator. Extraction and drying times were optimized in order to avoid contamination by red pigment from the fly eyes and still have intact brain structures. Single freeze-dried fly brain samples were found to produce representative electropherograms as a single hand-dissected brain sample. With utilization of the faster dissection time that freeze-drying affords, the number of brains in a fixed homogenate volume can be increased to concentrate the sample. Thus, concentrated brain samples containing five or fifteen preserved brains were analyzed for their neurotransmitter content, and four analytes; N-acetyloctopamine, N-acetylserotonin, N-acetyltyramine, and N-acetyldopamine were found to correspond well with previously reported values.
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- E Carina Berglund
- Department of Molecular Biology and Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
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Kuklinski NJ, Berglund EC, Engelbrektsson J, Ewing AG. Biogenic amines in microdissected brain regions of Drosophila melanogaster measured with micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography-electrochemical detection. Anal Chem 2010; 82:7729-35. [PMID: 20738098 PMCID: PMC2939159 DOI: 10.1021/ac101603d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Micellar electrokinetic chromatography with electrochemical detection has been used to quantify biogenic amines in microdissected Drosophila melanogaster brains and brain regions. The effects of pigment from the relatively large fly eyes on the separation have been examined to find that the red pigment from the compound eye masks much of the signal from biogenic amines. The brains of white mutant flies, which have characteristically low pigment in the eyes, have a significantly simplified separation profile in comparison to the red-eyed, wild-type, Canton S fly. Yet, the white mutant flies were found to have significantly less amounts of dopamine, l-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA), salsolinol, and N-acetyltyramine in their dissected brains when compared to dissected brains of Canton S flies. In addition, significant variation has been observed in the dissected brains between individual flies that might be related to changes in neurotransmitter turnover. The transgenic GFP fly line (TH-GFP), for which the overall profile of biogenic amines is not found to be significantly different from Canton S, can be used to visualize the location of dopamine neurons. Biogenic amines were then quantified in three brain regions observed to have dopamine levels, the central brain, optic lobes, and posterior superiormedial protocerebrum (PPM1) region.
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- Nicholas J. Kuklinski
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 125 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 125 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96, Göteborg, Sweden
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Kuklinski NJ, Berglund EC, Engelbreksson J, Ewing AG. Determination of salsolinol, norsalsolinol, and twenty-one biogenic amines using micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography-electrochemical detection. Electrophoresis 2010; 31:1886-93. [PMID: 20446293 PMCID: PMC2892185 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200900761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Micellar electrokinetic chromatography coupled to amperometric electrochemical detection was used to resolve and then quantify biogenic amines and metabolites within the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. A new separation scheme was devised to allow resolution of 24 compounds of interest. This was accomplished by precisely controlling the amount of base added to the background buffer, optimizing the resolution of the separation, and then calculating the pH. Here we focused on measurements of six of the analytes that are thought to be involved in the response to alcohol, dopamine, salsolinol, norsalsolinol, N-acetyloctopamine, octopamine, and N-acetyldopamine. These were identified and quantified within the fly head. We believe that the identification of salsolinol and norsalsolinol in the fly brain is novel.
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- Nicholas J. Kuklinski
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 125 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-41296, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-41296, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-41296, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 125 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, Kemivägen 10, SE-41296, Göteborg, Sweden
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The fruit fly is one of the most heavily studied model organisms for genetics research and has significantly contributed to the molecular, cellular, and evolutionary understandings of human behavior. Recent research in the analytical chemistry of the fruit fly has focused on developing methods to obtain highly sensitive chemical quantification information of Drosophila melanogaster, especially looking at the nervous system. We provide a brief overview of work in the area of CE of the fly head and brain.
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- Nicholas J Kuklinski
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
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The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been extensively used as a model organism in genetics research and has significantly contributed to understanding molecular, cellular and evolutionary aspects of human behavior. Recently, research has focused on developing analytical methods to obtain highly sensitive chemical quantification along with spatiotemporal information from Drosophila melanogaster. We review a number of these advances in capillary electrophoresis, high-performance liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and technologies involving intact organisms, including in vivo electrochemistry.
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- Monique A. Makos
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 125 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 125 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, 10 Kemivägen, SE-41296, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, 10 Kemivägen, SE-41296, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 125 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 125 Chemistry Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, 10 Kemivägen, SE-41296, Göteborg, Sweden
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