RRC ID 51480
著者 Ohno H, Sakai N, Adachi T, Iino Y.
タイトル Dynamics of Presynaptic Diacylglycerol in a Sensory Neuron Encode Differences between Past and Current Stimulus Intensity.
ジャーナル Cell Rep
Abstract Memorizing the intensity of sensory stimuli enables animals to successfully deal with changing environmental conditions and contributes to cognitive functions such as auditory and visual working memory. However, how nervous systems process past and current stimulus intensity is largely unknown at the molecular level. Here, we employ in vivo diacylglycerol (DAG) imaging in the ASER taste neuron of Caenorhabditis elegans and demonstrate that associative learning between ambient salt concentrations and food can be explained by changes in presynaptic DAG. The abundance of DAG is regulated in response to external salt concentration changes via sensory transduction in ASER and can encode differences between past and current salt concentrations. The DAG dynamics are modulated downstream of the synaptic insulin/phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway, which regulates the behavioral plasticity induced by starvation. These results provide insights into how a single neuron stores past input intensity and generates appropriate behavioral responses.
巻・号 20(10)
ページ 2294-2303
公開日 2017-9-5
DOI 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.08.038
PII S2211-1247(17)31145-2
PMID 28877465
MeSH Animals Caenorhabditis elegans / metabolism* Caenorhabditis elegans / physiology Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / metabolism* Chemotaxis / genetics Chemotaxis / physiology Diglycerides / metabolism Insulin / metabolism Memory / physiology Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / metabolism Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / metabolism
IF 8.109
引用数 3
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