Ivanchenko, Maria and Stanewsky, Ralf and Giebultowicz, Jadwiga M. (2001) Circadian photoreception in Drosophila: Functions of cryptochrome in peripheral and central clocks. JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS, 16 (3). pp. 205-215. ISSN 0748-7304
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In Drosophila melanogaster, disruption of night by even short light exposures results in degradation of the clock protein TIMELESS (TIM), leading to shifts in the fly molecular and behavioral rhythms. Several lines of evidence indicate that light entrainment of the brain clock involves the blue-light photoreceptor cryptochrome (CRY). In cryptochrome-depleted Drosophila (cry(b)), the entrainment of the brain clock by short light pulses is impaired but the clock is still entrainable by light-dark cycles, probably due to light input from the visual system. Whether cryptochrome and visual transduction pathways play a role in entrainment of noninnervated, directly photosensitive peripheral clocks is not known and the subject of this study. The authors monitored levels of the clock protein TIM in the lateral neurons (LNs) of larval brains and in the renal Malpighian tubules (MTs) of flies mutant for the cryptochrome gene (cry(b)) and in mutants that lack signaling from the visual photopigments (norpA(P41)). In cry(b) flies, light applied during the dark period failed to induce degradation of TIM both in MTs and in LNs, yet attenuated cycling of TIM was observed in both tissues in LD. This cycling was abolished in LNs, but persisted in MTs, of norpA(P41);cry(b) double mutants. Furthermore, the activity of the tim gene in the MTs of cry(b) flies, reported by luciferase, seemed stimulated by lights-on and suppressed by lights-off, suggesting that the absence of functional cryptochrome uncovered an additional light-sensitive pathway synchronizing the expression of TIM in this tissue. In constant darkness, cycling of TIM was abolished in MTs; however, it persisted in LNs of cry(b) flies. The authors conclude that cryptochrome is involved in TIM-mediated entrainment of both central LN and peripheral MT clocks. Cryptochrome is also an indispensable component of the endogenous clock mechanism in the examined peripheral tissue, but not in the brain. Thus, although neural and epithelial cells share the core clock mechanism, some clock components and light-entrainment pathways appear to have tissue-specific roles.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PERIOD GENE-EXPRESSION; PHOSPHOLIPASE-C; RHYTHMIC EXPRESSION; MALPIGHIAN TUBULES; LIGHT-ENTRAINMENT; TIMELESS GENES; FEEDBACK LOOP; NORPA GENE; PROTEIN; MELANOGASTER; circadian clocks; light entrainment; peripheral organs; cryptochrome; norpA; Malpighian tubules |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Entwicklungsbiologie (Prof. Dr. Stephan Schneuwly) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2022 10:33 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2022 10:33 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/41392 |
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