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PLoS Genet ; 10(5): e1004356, 2014 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24852170

RESUMO

Chemosensory pheromonal information regulates aggression and reproduction in many species, but how pheromonal signals are transduced to reliably produce behavior is not well understood. Here we demonstrate that the pheromonal signals detected by Gr32a-expressing chemosensory neurons to enhance male aggression are filtered through octopamine (OA, invertebrate equivalent of norepinephrine) neurons. Using behavioral assays, we find males lacking both octopamine and Gr32a gustatory receptors exhibit parallel delays in the onset of aggression and reductions in aggression. Physiological and anatomical experiments identify Gr32a to octopamine neuron synaptic and functional connections in the suboesophageal ganglion. Refining the Gr32a-expressing population indicates that mouth Gr32a neurons promote male aggression and form synaptic contacts with OA neurons. By restricting the monoamine neuron target population, we show that three previously identified OA-Fru(M) neurons involved in behavioral choice are among the Gr32a-OA connections. Our findings demonstrate that octopaminergic neuromodulatory neurons function as early as a second-order step in this chemosensory-driven male social behavior pathway.


Assuntos
Agressão , Comportamento Animal/fisiologia , Proteínas de Drosophila/fisiologia , Drosophila/fisiologia , Neurônios/fisiologia , Octopamina/fisiologia , Receptores de Superfície Celular/fisiologia , Comportamento Sexual Animal , Animais , Animais Geneticamente Modificados , Sequência de Bases , Primers do DNA , Proteínas de Drosophila/genética , Masculino , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Receptores de Superfície Celular/genética , Transdução de Sinais
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 109(35): 14081-6, 2012 Aug 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22891317

RESUMO

Sex pheromone communication, acting as a prezygotic barrier to mating, is believed to have contributed to the speciation of moths and butterflies in the order Lepidoptera. Five decades after the discovery of the first moth sex pheromone, little is known about the molecular mechanisms that underlie the evolution of pheromone communication between closely related species. Although Asian and European corn borers (ACB and ECB) can be interbred in the laboratory, they are behaviorally isolated from mating naturally by their responses to subtly different sex pheromone isomers, (E)-12- and (Z)-12-tetradecenyl acetate and (E)-11- and (Z)-11-tetradecenyl acetate (ACB: E12, Z12; ECB; E11, Z11). Male moth olfactory systems respond specifically to the pheromone blend produced by their conspecific females. In vitro, ECB(Z) odorant receptor 3 (OR3), a sex pheromone receptor expressed in male antennae, responds strongly to E11 but also generally to the Z11, E12, and Z12 pheromones. In contrast, we show that ACB OR3, a gene that has been subjected to positive selection (ω = 2.9), responds preferentially to the ACB E12 and Z12 pheromones. In Ostrinia species the amino acid residue corresponding to position 148 in transmembrane domain 3 of OR3 is alanine (A), except for ACB OR3 that has a threonine (T) in this position. Mutation of this residue from A to T alters the pheromone recognition pattern by selectively reducing the E11 response ∼14-fold. These results suggest that discrete mutations that narrow the specificity of more broadly responsive sex pheromone receptors may provide a mechanism that contributes to speciation.


Assuntos
Evolução Molecular , Mariposas/genética , Receptores de Feromônios/genética , Atrativos Sexuais/fisiologia , Adaptação Fisiológica/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Feminino , Masculino , Potenciais da Membrana/fisiologia , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mariposas/classificação , Oócitos/fisiologia , Filogenia , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único/genética , Receptores Odorantes/genética , Receptores Odorantes/fisiologia , Receptores de Feromônios/fisiologia , Olfato/genética , Especificidade da Espécie , Xenopus
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 108(36): 14980-5, 2011 Sep 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21873219

RESUMO

A prominent aqueous cavity is formed by the junction of three identical subunits in the excitatory amino acid transporter (EAAT) family. To investigate the effect of this structure on the interaction of ligands with the transporter, we recorded currents in voltage-clamped Xenopus oocytes expressing EAATs and used concentration jumps to measure binding and unbinding rates of a high-affinity aspartate analog that competitively blocks transport (ß-2-fluorenyl-aspartylamide; 2-FAA). The binding rates of the blocker were approximately one order of magnitude slower than l-Glu and were not significantly different for EAAT1, EAAT2, or EAAT3, but 2-FAA exhibited higher affinity for the neuronal transporter EAAT3 as a result of a slower dissociation rate. Unexpectedly, the rate of recovery from block was increased by l-Glu in a saturable and concentration-dependent manner, ruling out a first-order mechanism and suggesting that following unbinding, there is a significant probability of ligand rebinding to the same or neighboring subunits within a trimer. Consistent with such a mechanism, coexpression of wild-type subunits with mutant (R447C) subunits that do not bind glutamate or 2-FAA also increased the unblocking rate. The data suggest that electrostatic and steric factors result in an effective dissociation rate that is approximately sevenfold slower than the microscopic subunit unbinding rate. The quaternary structure, which has been conserved through evolution, is expected to increase the transporters' capture efficiency by increasing the probability that following unbinding, a ligand will rebind as opposed to being lost to diffusion.


Assuntos
Ácido Aspártico/química , Proteínas de Transporte de Glutamato da Membrana Plasmática/química , Animais , Ácido Aspártico/análogos & derivados , Ácido Aspártico/metabolismo , Sítios de Ligação/fisiologia , Transporte Biológico/fisiologia , Proteínas de Transporte de Glutamato da Membrana Plasmática/antagonistas & inibidores , Proteínas de Transporte de Glutamato da Membrana Plasmática/metabolismo , Humanos , Ligantes , Xenopus laevis
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