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Neuron ; 64(2): 251-66, 2009 Oct 29.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19874792

ABSTRACT

Circadian clocks are synchronized by the natural day/night and temperature cycles. Our previous work demonstrated that synchronization by temperature is a tissue autonomous process, similar to synchronization by light. We show here that this is indeed the case, with the important exception of the brain. Using luciferase imaging we demonstrate that brain clock neurons depend on signals from peripheral tissues in order to be synchronized by temperature. Reducing the function of the gene nocte in chordotonal organs changes their structure and function and dramatically interferes with temperature synchronization of behavioral activity. Other mutants known to affect the function of these sensory organs also interfere with temperature synchronization, demonstrating the importance of nocte in this process and identifying the chordotonal organs as relevant sensory structures. Our work reveals surprising and important mechanistic differences between light- and temperature-synchronization and advances our understanding of how clock resetting is accomplished in nature.


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Afferent Pathways/physiology , Biological Clocks/physiology , Circadian Rhythm/physiology , Drosophila Proteins/physiology , Temperature , Adaptation, Ocular/genetics , Animals , Animals, Genetically Modified , Behavior, Animal , Biological Clocks/genetics , Brain/cytology , Circadian Rhythm/genetics , Drosophila , Drosophila Proteins/genetics , Female , Gene Expression Regulation/physiology , Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics , Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics , Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism , Luciferases/genetics , Luciferases/metabolism , Mutation/genetics , Neurons/physiology , Organ Culture Techniques , Period Circadian Proteins , RNA Interference/physiology , Sense Organs/metabolism , Thermosensing/genetics , Transcription Factors/genetics , Transcription Factors/metabolism
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Curr Biol ; 15(15): 1352-63, 2005 Aug 09.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16085487

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Circadian clocks are synchronized by both light:dark cycles and by temperature fluctuations. Although it has long been known that temperature cycles can robustly entrain Drosophila locomotor rhythms, nothing is known about the molecular mechanisms involved. RESULTS: We show here that temperature cycles induce synchronized behavioral rhythms and oscillations of the clock proteins PERIOD and TIMELESS in constant light, a situation that normally leads to molecular and behavioral arrhythmicity. We show that expression of the Drosophila clock gene period can be entrained by temperature cycles in cultured body parts and isolated brains. Further, we show that the phospholipase C encoded by the norpA gene contributes to thermal entrainment, suggesting that a receptor-coupled transduction cascade signals temperature changes to the circadian clock. We initiated the further genetic dissection of temperature-entrainment and isolated the novel Drosophila mutation nocte, which is defective in molecular and behavioral entrainment by temperature cycles but synchronizes normally to light:dark cycles. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that temperature synchronization of the circadian clock is a tissue-autonomous process that is able to override the arrhythmia-inducing effects of constant light. Our data suggest that it involves a cell-autonomous signal-transduction cascade from a thermal receptor to the circadian clock. This process includes the function of phospholipase C and the product specified by the novel mutation nocte.


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Biological Clocks/physiology , Circadian Rhythm/physiology , Drosophila Proteins/metabolism , Gene Expression Regulation , Nuclear Proteins/metabolism , Signal Transduction , Temperature , Animals , Animals, Genetically Modified , Blotting, Western , Brain/metabolism , Drosophila , Drosophila Proteins/genetics , Locomotion/physiology , Luciferases/metabolism , Mutagenesis , Mutation/genetics , Nuclear Proteins/genetics , Period Circadian Proteins , Photoperiod , Type C Phospholipases/metabolism
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