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Journal Article
Genetic dissection of neuropeptide cell biology at high and low activity in a defined sensory neuron
2018
Overview
Neuropeptides are ubiquitous modulators of behavior and physiology. They are packaged in specialized secretory organelles called dense core vesicles (DCVs) that are released upon neural stimulation. Unlike synaptic vesicles, which can be recycled and refilled close to release sites, DCVs must be replenished by de novo synthesis in the cell body. Here, we dissect DCV cell biology in vivo in a Caenorhabditis elegans sensory neuron whose tonic activity we can control using a natural stimulus. We express fluorescently tagged neuropeptides in the neuron and define parameters that describe their subcellular distribution. We measure these parameters at high and low neural activity in 187 mutants defective in proteins implicated in membrane traffic, neuroendocrine secretion, and neuronal or synaptic activity. Using unsupervised hierarchical clustering methods, we analyze these data and identify 62 groups of genes with similar mutant phenotypes. We explore the function of a subset of these groups. We recapitulate many previous findings, validating our paradigm. We uncover a large battery of proteins involved in recycling DCV membrane proteins, something hitherto poorly explored. We show that the unfolded protein response promotes DCV production, which may contribute to intertissue communication of stress. We also find evidence that different mechanisms of priming and exocytosis may operate at high and low neural activity. Our work provides a defined framework to study DCV biology at different neural activity levels.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Subject
/ Biology
/ Caenorhabditis elegans - genetics
/ Caenorhabditis elegans - metabolism
/ Genes
/ Genetics
/ Mutation
/ Neurons
/ Peptides
/ Priming
/ Proteins
/ Secretory Vesicles - genetics
/ Secretory Vesicles - metabolism
/ Sensory Receptor Cells - metabolism
/ Synaptic Vesicles - genetics
/ Synaptic Vesicles - metabolism
/ Vesicles
