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PLoS Biol ; 22(3): e3002535, 2024 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38470868

RESUMO

Light enables vision and exerts widespread effects on physiology and behavior, including regulating circadian rhythms, sleep, hormone synthesis, affective state, and cognitive processes. Appropriate lighting in animal facilities may support welfare and ensure that animals enter experiments in an appropriate physiological and behavioral state. Furthermore, proper consideration of light during experimentation is important both when it is explicitly employed as an independent variable and as a general feature of the environment. This Consensus View discusses metrics to use for the quantification of light appropriate for nonhuman mammals and their application to improve animal welfare and the quality of animal research. It provides methods for measuring these metrics, practical guidance for their implementation in husbandry and experimentation, and quantitative guidance on appropriate light exposure for laboratory mammals. The guidance provided has the potential to improve data quality and contribute to reduction and refinement, helping to ensure more ethical animal use.


Assuntos
Experimentação Animal , Animais de Laboratório , Animais , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Ritmo Circadiano/fisiologia , Mamíferos
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J Cell Sci ; 135(6)2022 03 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35274137

RESUMO

Melanopsin is an opsin photopigment and light-activated G-protein-coupled receptor; it is expressed in photoreceptive retinal ganglion cells (mRGCs) and can be employed as an optogenetic tool. Mammalian melanopsins can signal via Gq/11 and Gi/o/t heterotrimeric G proteins, but aspects of the mRGC light response appear incompatible with either mode of signalling. We use live-cell reporter assays in HEK293T cells to show that melanopsins from mice and humans can also signal via Gs. We subsequently show that this mode of signalling is substantially divergent between species. The two established structural isoforms of mouse melanopsin (which differ in the length of their C-terminal tail) both signalled strongly through all three G-protein classes (Gq/11, Gi/o and Gs), whereas human melanopsin showed weaker signalling through Gs. Our data identify Gs as a new mode of signalling for mammalian melanopsins and reveal diversity in G-protein selectivity across mammalian melanopsins.


Assuntos
Optogenética , Opsinas de Bastonetes , Animais , Proteínas de Ligação ao GTP/genética , Proteínas de Ligação ao GTP/metabolismo , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Mamíferos/metabolismo , Camundongos , Opsinas de Bastonetes/genética , Opsinas de Bastonetes/metabolismo
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Curr Biol ; 33(15): 3289-3298.e6, 2023 08 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37480852

RESUMO

Patterns of diel activity-how animals allocate their activity throughout the 24-h daily cycle-play key roles in shaping the internal physiology of an animal and its relationship with the external environment.1,2,3,4,5 Although shifts in diel activity patterns have occurred numerous times over the course of vertebrate evolution,6 the genomic correlates of such transitions remain unknown. Here, we use the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio), a species that transitioned from the ancestrally nocturnal diel niche of its close relatives to a diurnal one,7,8,9,10,11 to define patterns of naturally occurring molecular variation in diel niche traits. First, to facilitate genomic analyses, we generate a chromosome-level genome assembly of the striped mouse. Next, using transcriptomics, we show that the switch to daytime activity in this species is associated with a realignment of daily rhythms in peripheral tissues with respect to the light:dark cycle and the central circadian clock. To uncover selection pressures associated with this temporal niche shift, we perform comparative genomic analyses with closely related rodent species and find evidence of relaxation of purifying selection on striped mouse genes in the rod phototransduction pathway. In agreement with this, electroretinogram measurements demonstrate that striped mice have functional differences in dim-light visual responses compared with nocturnal rodents. Taken together, our results show that striped mice have undergone a drastic change in circadian organization and provide evidence that the visual system has been a major target of selection as this species transitioned to a novel temporal niche.


Assuntos
Relógios Circadianos , Ritmo Circadiano , Camundongos , Animais , Ritmo Circadiano/genética , Roedores/genética , Fotoperíodo , Genômica
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Elife ; 82019 10 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31635694

RESUMO

Animals detect light using opsin photopigments. Xenopsin, a recently classified subtype of opsin, challenges our views on opsin and photoreceptor evolution. Originally thought to belong to the Gαi-coupled ciliary opsins, xenopsins are now understood to have diverged from ciliary opsins in pre-bilaterian times, but little is known about the cells that deploy these proteins, or if they form a photopigment and drive phototransduction. We characterized xenopsin in a flatworm, Maritigrella crozieri, and found it expressed in ciliary cells of eyes in the larva, and in extraocular cells around the brain in the adult. These extraocular cells house hundreds of cilia in an intra-cellular vacuole (phaosome). Functional assays in human cells show Maritigrella xenopsin drives phototransduction primarily by coupling to Gαi. These findings highlight similarities between xenopsin and c-opsin and reveal a novel type of opsin-expressing cell that, like jawed vertebrate rods, encloses the ciliary membrane within their own plasma membrane.


Assuntos
Peptídeos/metabolismo , Células Fotorreceptoras de Invertebrados/fisiologia , Platelmintos/fisiologia , Células Fotorreceptoras Retinianas Bastonetes/metabolismo , Proteínas de Xenopus/metabolismo , Animais , Encéfalo , Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Evolução Molecular , Olho/citologia , Olho/metabolismo , Subunidades alfa de Proteínas de Ligação ao GTP , Humanos , Larva , Transdução de Sinal Luminoso/fisiologia , Opsinas/classificação , Opsinas/genética , Opsinas/metabolismo , Células Fotorreceptoras/citologia , Células Fotorreceptoras/fisiologia , Células Fotorreceptoras de Vertebrados/fisiologia , Filogenia , Células Fotorreceptoras Retinianas Bastonetes/citologia , Alinhamento de Sequência , Análise de Sequência de Proteína
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