Cargando…
Putative Neural Network Within an Olfactory Sensory Unit for Nestmate and Non-nestmate Discrimination in the Japanese Carpenter Ant: The Ultra-structures and Mathematical Simulation
Ants are known to use a colony-specific blend of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) as a pheromone to discriminate between nestmates and non-nestmates and the CHCs were sensed in the basiconic type of antennal sensilla (S. basiconica). To investigate the functional design of this type of antennal sensill...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2018
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6157317/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30283303 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2018.00310 |
_version_ | 1783358253576486912 |
---|---|
author | Takeichi, Yusuke Uebi, Tatsuya Miyazaki, Naoyuki Murata, Kazuyoshi Yasuyama, Kouji Inoue, Kanako Suzaki, Toshinobu Kubo, Hideo Kajimura, Naoko Takano, Jo Omori, Toshiaki Yoshimura, Ryoichi Endo, Yasuhisa Hojo, Masaru K. Takaya, Eichi Kurihara, Satoshi Tatsuta, Kenta Ozaki, Koichi Ozaki, Mamiko |
author_facet | Takeichi, Yusuke Uebi, Tatsuya Miyazaki, Naoyuki Murata, Kazuyoshi Yasuyama, Kouji Inoue, Kanako Suzaki, Toshinobu Kubo, Hideo Kajimura, Naoko Takano, Jo Omori, Toshiaki Yoshimura, Ryoichi Endo, Yasuhisa Hojo, Masaru K. Takaya, Eichi Kurihara, Satoshi Tatsuta, Kenta Ozaki, Koichi Ozaki, Mamiko |
author_sort | Takeichi, Yusuke |
collection | PubMed |
description | Ants are known to use a colony-specific blend of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) as a pheromone to discriminate between nestmates and non-nestmates and the CHCs were sensed in the basiconic type of antennal sensilla (S. basiconica). To investigate the functional design of this type of antennal sensilla, we observed the ultra-structures at 2D and 3D in the Japanese carpenter ant, Camponotus japonicus, using a serial block-face scanning electron microscope (SBF-SEM), and conventional and high-voltage transmission electron microscopes. Based on the serial images of 352 cross sections of SBF-SEM, we reconstructed a 3D model of the sensillum revealing that each S. basiconica houses > 100 unbranched dendritic processes, which extend from the same number of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs). The dendritic processes had characteristic beaded-structures and formed a twisted bundle within the sensillum. At the “beads,” the cell membranes of the processes were closely adjacent in the interdigitated profiles, suggesting functional interactions via gap junctions (GJs). Immunohistochemistry with anti-innexin (invertebrate GJ protein) antisera revealed positive labeling in the antennae of C. japonicus. Innexin 3, one of the five antennal innexin subtypes, was detected as a dotted signal within the S. basiconica as a sensory organ for nestmate recognition. These morphological results suggest that ORNs form an electrical network via GJs between dendritic processes. We were unable to functionally certify the electric connections in an olfactory sensory unit comprising such multiple ORNs; however, with the aid of simulation of a mathematical model, we examined the putative function of this novel chemosensory information network, which possibly contributes to the distinct discrimination of colony-specific blends of CHCs or other odor detection. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-6157317 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2018 |
publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-61573172018-10-03 Putative Neural Network Within an Olfactory Sensory Unit for Nestmate and Non-nestmate Discrimination in the Japanese Carpenter Ant: The Ultra-structures and Mathematical Simulation Takeichi, Yusuke Uebi, Tatsuya Miyazaki, Naoyuki Murata, Kazuyoshi Yasuyama, Kouji Inoue, Kanako Suzaki, Toshinobu Kubo, Hideo Kajimura, Naoko Takano, Jo Omori, Toshiaki Yoshimura, Ryoichi Endo, Yasuhisa Hojo, Masaru K. Takaya, Eichi Kurihara, Satoshi Tatsuta, Kenta Ozaki, Koichi Ozaki, Mamiko Front Cell Neurosci Neuroscience Ants are known to use a colony-specific blend of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) as a pheromone to discriminate between nestmates and non-nestmates and the CHCs were sensed in the basiconic type of antennal sensilla (S. basiconica). To investigate the functional design of this type of antennal sensilla, we observed the ultra-structures at 2D and 3D in the Japanese carpenter ant, Camponotus japonicus, using a serial block-face scanning electron microscope (SBF-SEM), and conventional and high-voltage transmission electron microscopes. Based on the serial images of 352 cross sections of SBF-SEM, we reconstructed a 3D model of the sensillum revealing that each S. basiconica houses > 100 unbranched dendritic processes, which extend from the same number of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs). The dendritic processes had characteristic beaded-structures and formed a twisted bundle within the sensillum. At the “beads,” the cell membranes of the processes were closely adjacent in the interdigitated profiles, suggesting functional interactions via gap junctions (GJs). Immunohistochemistry with anti-innexin (invertebrate GJ protein) antisera revealed positive labeling in the antennae of C. japonicus. Innexin 3, one of the five antennal innexin subtypes, was detected as a dotted signal within the S. basiconica as a sensory organ for nestmate recognition. These morphological results suggest that ORNs form an electrical network via GJs between dendritic processes. We were unable to functionally certify the electric connections in an olfactory sensory unit comprising such multiple ORNs; however, with the aid of simulation of a mathematical model, we examined the putative function of this novel chemosensory information network, which possibly contributes to the distinct discrimination of colony-specific blends of CHCs or other odor detection. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6157317/ /pubmed/30283303 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2018.00310 Text en Copyright © 2018 Takeichi, Uebi, Miyazaki, Murata, Yasuyama, Inoue, Suzaki, Kubo, Kajimura, Takano, Omori, Yoshimura, Endo, Hojo, Takaya, Kurihara, Tatsuta, Ozaki and Ozaki. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Takeichi, Yusuke Uebi, Tatsuya Miyazaki, Naoyuki Murata, Kazuyoshi Yasuyama, Kouji Inoue, Kanako Suzaki, Toshinobu Kubo, Hideo Kajimura, Naoko Takano, Jo Omori, Toshiaki Yoshimura, Ryoichi Endo, Yasuhisa Hojo, Masaru K. Takaya, Eichi Kurihara, Satoshi Tatsuta, Kenta Ozaki, Koichi Ozaki, Mamiko Putative Neural Network Within an Olfactory Sensory Unit for Nestmate and Non-nestmate Discrimination in the Japanese Carpenter Ant: The Ultra-structures and Mathematical Simulation |
title | Putative Neural Network Within an Olfactory Sensory Unit for Nestmate and Non-nestmate Discrimination in the Japanese Carpenter Ant: The Ultra-structures and Mathematical Simulation |
title_full | Putative Neural Network Within an Olfactory Sensory Unit for Nestmate and Non-nestmate Discrimination in the Japanese Carpenter Ant: The Ultra-structures and Mathematical Simulation |
title_fullStr | Putative Neural Network Within an Olfactory Sensory Unit for Nestmate and Non-nestmate Discrimination in the Japanese Carpenter Ant: The Ultra-structures and Mathematical Simulation |
title_full_unstemmed | Putative Neural Network Within an Olfactory Sensory Unit for Nestmate and Non-nestmate Discrimination in the Japanese Carpenter Ant: The Ultra-structures and Mathematical Simulation |
title_short | Putative Neural Network Within an Olfactory Sensory Unit for Nestmate and Non-nestmate Discrimination in the Japanese Carpenter Ant: The Ultra-structures and Mathematical Simulation |
title_sort | putative neural network within an olfactory sensory unit for nestmate and non-nestmate discrimination in the japanese carpenter ant: the ultra-structures and mathematical simulation |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6157317/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30283303 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2018.00310 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT takeichiyusuke putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT uebitatsuya putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT miyazakinaoyuki putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT muratakazuyoshi putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT yasuyamakouji putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT inouekanako putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT suzakitoshinobu putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT kubohideo putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT kajimuranaoko putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT takanojo putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT omoritoshiaki putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT yoshimuraryoichi putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT endoyasuhisa putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT hojomasaruk putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT takayaeichi putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT kuriharasatoshi putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT tatsutakenta putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT ozakikoichi putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation AT ozakimamiko putativeneuralnetworkwithinanolfactorysensoryunitfornestmateandnonnestmatediscriminationinthejapanesecarpenteranttheultrastructuresandmathematicalsimulation |