TY  - INPR
A1  - Aoki, Ichiro
A1  - Shiota, Makoto
A1  - Nakano, Shunji
A1  - Mori, Ikue
T1  - cGMP dynamics underlie thermosensation in C. elegans
T2  - bioRxiv
N2  - Animals sense ambient temperature so that they can adjust their behavior to the environment; they avoid noxious heat and coldness and stay within a survivable temperature range. C. elegans can sense temperature, memorize past cultivation temperature and navigate towards preferable temperature, for which a thermosensory neuron, AFD, is essential. AFD responds to temperature increase from the past cultivation temperature by increasing intracellular Ca2+ level. We aimed to reveal how AFD encodes and memorizes the information of temperature. Although cGMP synthesis is crucial for thermosensation by AFD, whether and how cGMP level temporally fluctuates in AFD remained elusive. We therefore monitored cGMP level in AFD and found that cGMP dynamically responded to temperature change in a manner dependent on past cultivation temperature. Given that cGMP dynamics is supposed to be upstream of Ca2+ dynamics, our results suggest that AFD’s memory is formed by simpler molecular mechanisms than previously expected from the Ca2+ dynamics. Moreover, we analyzed how guanylyl cyclases and phosphodiesterases, which synthesize and degrade cGMP, respectively, contributed to cGMP and Ca2+ dynamics and thermotaxis behavior.
KW  - C. elegans
KW  - thermotaxis
KW  - thermosensation
KW  - cGMP
KW  - guanylyl cyclase (GCY)
KW  - phosphodiesterase (PDE)
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/72603
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-726032
IS  - 764571
ER  -