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The Role of Carcinine in Signaling at the Drosophila Photoreceptor Synapse
The Drosophila melanogaster photoreceptor cell has long served as a model system for researchers focusing on how animal sensory neurons receive information from their surroundings and translate this information into chemical and electrical messages. Electroretinograph (ERG) analysis of Drosophila mu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2134947/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18069895 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030206 |
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author | Gavin, Brendan A Arruda, Susan E Dolph, Patrick J |
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description | The Drosophila melanogaster photoreceptor cell has long served as a model system for researchers focusing on how animal sensory neurons receive information from their surroundings and translate this information into chemical and electrical messages. Electroretinograph (ERG) analysis of Drosophila mutants has helped to elucidate some of the genes involved in the visual transduction pathway downstream of the photoreceptor cell, and it is now clear that photoreceptor cell signaling is dependent upon the proper release and recycling of the neurotransmitter histamine. While the neurotransmitter transporters responsible for clearing histamine, and its metabolite carcinine, from the synaptic cleft have remained unknown, a strong candidate for a transporter of either substrate is the uncharacterized inebriated protein. The inebriated gene (ine) encodes a putative neurotransmitter transporter that has been localized to photoreceptor cells in Drosophila and mutations in ine result in an abnormal ERG phenotype in Drosophila. Loss-of-function mutations in ebony, a gene required for the synthesis of carcinine in Drosophila, suppress components of the mutant ine ERG phenotype, while loss-of-function mutations in tan, a gene necessary for the hydrolysis of carcinine in Drosophila, have no effect on the ERG phenotype in ine mutants. We also show that by feeding wild-type flies carcinine, we can duplicate components of mutant ine ERGs. Finally, we demonstrate that treatment with H(3) receptor agonists or inverse agonists rescue several components of the mutant ine ERG phenotype. Here, we provide pharmacological and genetic epistatic evidence that ine encodes a carcinine neurotransmitter transporter. We also speculate that the oscillations observed in mutant ine ERG traces are the result of the aberrant activity of a putative H(3) receptor. |
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spelling | pubmed-21349472007-12-13 The Role of Carcinine in Signaling at the Drosophila Photoreceptor Synapse Gavin, Brendan A Arruda, Susan E Dolph, Patrick J PLoS Genet Research Article The Drosophila melanogaster photoreceptor cell has long served as a model system for researchers focusing on how animal sensory neurons receive information from their surroundings and translate this information into chemical and electrical messages. Electroretinograph (ERG) analysis of Drosophila mutants has helped to elucidate some of the genes involved in the visual transduction pathway downstream of the photoreceptor cell, and it is now clear that photoreceptor cell signaling is dependent upon the proper release and recycling of the neurotransmitter histamine. While the neurotransmitter transporters responsible for clearing histamine, and its metabolite carcinine, from the synaptic cleft have remained unknown, a strong candidate for a transporter of either substrate is the uncharacterized inebriated protein. The inebriated gene (ine) encodes a putative neurotransmitter transporter that has been localized to photoreceptor cells in Drosophila and mutations in ine result in an abnormal ERG phenotype in Drosophila. Loss-of-function mutations in ebony, a gene required for the synthesis of carcinine in Drosophila, suppress components of the mutant ine ERG phenotype, while loss-of-function mutations in tan, a gene necessary for the hydrolysis of carcinine in Drosophila, have no effect on the ERG phenotype in ine mutants. We also show that by feeding wild-type flies carcinine, we can duplicate components of mutant ine ERGs. Finally, we demonstrate that treatment with H(3) receptor agonists or inverse agonists rescue several components of the mutant ine ERG phenotype. Here, we provide pharmacological and genetic epistatic evidence that ine encodes a carcinine neurotransmitter transporter. We also speculate that the oscillations observed in mutant ine ERG traces are the result of the aberrant activity of a putative H(3) receptor. Public Library of Science 2007-12 2007-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2134947/ /pubmed/18069895 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030206 Text en © 2007 Gavin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gavin, Brendan A Arruda, Susan E Dolph, Patrick J The Role of Carcinine in Signaling at the Drosophila Photoreceptor Synapse |
title | The Role of Carcinine in Signaling at the Drosophila Photoreceptor Synapse |
title_full | The Role of Carcinine in Signaling at the Drosophila Photoreceptor Synapse |
title_fullStr | The Role of Carcinine in Signaling at the Drosophila Photoreceptor Synapse |
title_full_unstemmed | The Role of Carcinine in Signaling at the Drosophila Photoreceptor Synapse |
title_short | The Role of Carcinine in Signaling at the Drosophila Photoreceptor Synapse |
title_sort | role of carcinine in signaling at the drosophila photoreceptor synapse |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2134947/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18069895 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030206 |
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