Helfrich-Foerster, Charlotte and Taeuber, Marcus and Park, Jae H. and Muehlig-Versen, Max and Schneuwly, Stephan and Hofbauer, Alois (2000) Ectopic expression of the neuropeptide pigment-dispersing factor alters behavioral rhythms in Drosophila melanogaster. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, 20 (9). pp. 3339-3353. ISSN 0270-6474
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To study the function of the neuropeptide pigment-dispersing factor (PDF) in the circadian system of Drosophila, we misexpressed the pdf gene from the grasshopper Romalea in the CNS of Drosophila and investigated the effect of this on behavioral rhythmicity. pdf was either ectopically expressed in different numbers of neurons in the brain or the thoracical nervous system or overexpressed in the pacemaker neurons alone. We found severe alterations in the activity and eclosion rhythm of several but not all lines with ectopic pdf expression. Only ectopic pdf expression in neurons that projected into the dorsal central brain severely influenced activity rhythms. Therefore, we conclude that PDF acts as a neuromodulator in the dorsal central brain that is involved in the rhythmic control of behavior. Overexpression of pdf in the pacemaker neurons alone or in the other neurons that express the clock genes period ( per) and timeless (tim) did not disturb the activity rhythm. Such flies still showed a rhythm in PDF accumulation in the central brain terminals. This rhythm was absent in the terminals of neurons that expressed PDF ectopically. Probably, PDF is rhythmically processed, transported, or secreted in neurons expressing per and tim, and additional PDF expression in these cells does not influence this rhythmic process. In neurons lacking per and tim, PDF appears to be continuously processed, leading to a constant PDF secretion at their nerve terminals. This may lead to conflicting signals in the rhythmic output pathway and result in a severely altered rhythmic behavior.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | HORMONE-IMMUNOREACTIVE NEURONS; COCKROACH LEUCOPHAEA-MADERAE; DEVELOPING NERVOUS-SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN PACEMAKER; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE-E; CLOCK GENE; ACCESSORY MEDULLA; PERIOD; MUTANTS; PROTEIN; circadian rhythms; pigment-dispersing factor; neuropeptides; gene misexpression; Drosophila; insects |
| 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: | 10 May 2022 09:31 |
| Last Modified: | 10 May 2022 09:31 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/42532 |
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