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Tomasch J, Kopejtka K, Bílý T, Gardiner AT, Gardian Z, Shivaramu S, Koblížek M, Kaftan D. A photoheterotrophic bacterium from Iceland has adapted its photosynthetic machinery to the long days of polar summer. mSystems 2024; 9:e0131123. [PMID: 38376261 PMCID: PMC10949492 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01311-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024] Open
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During their long evolution, anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria have inhabited a wide variety of natural habitats and developed specific strategies to cope with the challenges of any particular environment. Expression, assembly, and safe operation of the photosynthetic apparatus must be regulated to prevent reactive oxygen species generation under illumination in the presence of oxygen. Here, we report on the photoheterotrophic Sediminicoccus sp. strain KRV36, which was isolated from a cold stream in north-western Iceland, 30 km south of the Arctic Circle. In contrast to most aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs, which stop pigment synthesis when illuminated, strain KRV36 maintained its bacteriochlorophyll synthesis even under continuous light. Its cells also contained between 100 and 180 chromatophores, each accommodating photosynthetic complexes that exhibit an unusually large carotenoid absorption spectrum. The expression of photosynthesis genes in dark-adapted cells was transiently downregulated in the first 2 hours exposed to light but recovered to the initial level within 24 hours. An excess of membrane-bound carotenoids as well as high, constitutive expression of oxidative stress response genes provided the required potential for scavenging reactive oxygen species, safeguarding bacteriochlorophyll synthesis and photosystem assembly. The unique cellular architecture and an unusual gene expression pattern represent a specific adaptation that allows the maintenance of anoxygenic phototrophy under arctic conditions characterized by long summer days with relatively low irradiance.IMPORTANCEThe photoheterotrophic bacterium Sediminicoccus sp. KRV36 was isolated from a cold stream in Iceland. It expresses its photosynthesis genes, synthesizes bacteriochlorophyll, and assembles functional photosynthetic complexes under continuous light in the presence of oxygen. Unraveling the molecular basis of this ability, which is exceptional among aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic species, will help to understand the evolution of bacterial photosynthesis in response to changing environmental conditions. It might also open new possibilities for genetic engineering of biotechnologically relevant phototrophs, with the aim of increasing photosynthetic activity and their tolerance to reactive oxygen species.
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- Jürgen Tomasch
- Laboratory of Anoxygenic Phototrophs, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Anoxygenic Phototrophs, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czechia
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Anoxygenic Phototrophs, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czechia
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Anoxygenic Phototrophs, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Anoxygenic Phototrophs, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czechia
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- Laboratory of Anoxygenic Phototrophs, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czechia
- Department Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czechia
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Lee H, Shams S, Dang Thi VH, Boyum G, Modhurima R, Hall E, Green I, Cervantes E, Miguez F, Clark K. The canonical HPA axis facilitates and maintains light adaptive behavior. Res Sq 2023:rs.3.rs-3240080. [PMID: 37720015 PMCID: PMC10503838 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3240080/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/19/2023]
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The vertebrate stress response (SR) is mediated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and contributes to generating context appropriate physiological and behavioral changes. Although the HPA axis plays vital roles both in stressful and basal conditions, research has focused on the response under stress. To understand broader roles of the HPA axis in a changing environment, we characterized an adaptive behavior of larval zebrafish during ambient illumination changes. The glucocorticoid receptor (nr3c1) was necessary to maintain basal locomotor activity in light and darkness. The HPA axis was required to adapt to light more efficiently but became dispensable when longer illumination was provided. Light adaptation was more efficient in dimmer light and did not require the mineralocorticoid receptor (nr3c2). Our findings show that the HPA axis contributes to the SR at various stages, facilitating the phasic response and maintaining an adapted basal state, and that certain adaptations occur without HPA axis activity.
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Shan Y, Xu M, Tan C, Chen Z, Wang G, Bian L. Effect of monochromatic light on light adaptation and opsin expression in Ectropis grisescens. Bull Entomol Res 2023; 113:529-536. [PMID: 37350427 DOI: 10.1017/s0007485323000202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
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Light has a substantial effect on the behaviour and physiology of nocturnal moths. Ectropis grisescens is a major nocturnal tea pest in China, and light traps are commonly used to control geometrid moths because of their positive phototaxis. However, some moths gather around light traps and enter the light adaptation state, which decreases the efficacy of light traps in controlling this pest. We identified opsin genes and the spectral sensitivities of the photoreceptors of E. grisescens moths. We also determined the effects of several monochromatic lights on opsin gene expression and light adaptation. We detected three types of opsin genes and six spectral sensitive peaks (at 370, 390, 480, 530, 550, and 580 nm). We also observed significant changes in the diurnal rhythm of opsin gene expression under different light conditions. When active males were suddenly exposed to different monochromatic lights, they quickly entered the light adaptation state, and the adaptation time was negatively correlated with the light intensity. Males were most sensitive to 390 nm wavelengths, followed by 544 nm, 457 nm, and 593 nm. Red light (627 nm) did not affect the activity of E. grisescens males but had detectable physiological effects.
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- Yao Shan
- Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, 9 Meiling South Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
- Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Wallan Avenue East, Hongqi District, Xinxiang, China
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- Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, 9 Meiling South Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
- Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Wallan Avenue East, Hongqi District, Xinxiang, China
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- Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, 9 Meiling South Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, 9 Meiling South Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
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- Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, 9 Meiling South Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, 9 Meiling South Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
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- Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Wallan Avenue East, Hongqi District, Xinxiang, China
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- Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, 9 Meiling South Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resource Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, 9 Meiling South Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, China
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Kovács-Öller T, Szarka G, Hoffmann G, Péntek L, Valentin G, Ross L, Völgyi B. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors Determine Expression Levels of Gap Junction-Forming Connexins in the Mammalian Retina. Biomolecules 2023; 13:1119. [PMID: 37509155 PMCID: PMC10377540 DOI: 10.3390/biom13071119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Gap junctions (GJs) are not static bridges; instead, GJs as well as the molecular building block connexin (Cx) proteins undergo major expression changes in the degenerating retinal tissue. Various progressive diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma, age-related retinal degeneration, etc., affect neurons of the retina and thus their neuronal connections endure irreversible changes as well. Although Cx expression changes might be the hallmarks of tissue deterioration, GJs are not static bridges and as such they undergo adaptive changes even in healthy tissue to respond to the ever-changing environment. It is, therefore, imperative to determine these latter adaptive changes in GJ functionality as well as in their morphology and Cx makeup to identify and distinguish them from alterations following tissue deterioration. In this review, we summarize GJ alterations that take place in healthy retinal tissue and occur on three different time scales: throughout the entire lifespan, during daily changes and as a result of quick changes of light adaptation.
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- Tamás Kovács-Öller
- Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- NEURON-066 Rethealthsi Research Group, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- Center for Neuroscience, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- NEURON-066 Rethealthsi Research Group, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- Center for Neuroscience, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- NEURON-066 Rethealthsi Research Group, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- Center for Neuroscience, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- NEURON-066 Rethealthsi Research Group, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
- Center for Neuroscience, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary
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Nikolaeva DA, Nekrasova MA, Rotov AY, Astakhova LA. Adaptation memory in photoreceptors: different mechanisms in rods and cones. Front Mol Neurosci 2023; 16:1135088. [PMID: 37168678 PMCID: PMC10165083 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1135088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023] Open
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Vertebrate rods and cones operate over a wide range of ambient illumination, which is provided by light adaptation mechanisms regulating the sensitivity and speed of the phototransduction cascade. Three calcium-sensitive feedback loops are well established in both rods and cones: acceleration of the quenching of a light-activated visual pigment and cGMP synthesis by guanylate cyclase, and increased affinity of ion channels for cGMP. Accumulating evidence suggests that the molecular mechanisms of light adaptation are more complex. While investigating these putative mechanisms, we discovered a novel phenomenon, observing that the recovery of light sensitivity in rods after turning off non-saturating adaptive light can take tens of seconds. Moreover, after a formal return of the membrane current to the dark level, cell sensitivity to the stimuli remains decreased for a further 1-2 min. We termed this phenomenon of prolonged photoreceptor desensitization 'adaptation memory' (of previous illumination) and the current study is focused on its detailed investigation in rods and an attempt to find the same phenomenon in cones. In rods, we have explored the dependencies of this phenomenon on adapting conditions, specifically, the intensity and duration of adapting illumination. Additionally, we report that fish and frog red-sensitive cones possess similar features of adaptation memory, such as a drop in sensitivity just after the steps of bright light and slow sensitivity recovery. However, we have found that the rate of this process and its nature are not the same as in rods. Our results indicate that the nature of the temporary drop in the sensitivity in rods and cones after adapting steps of light is different. In the rods, adaptation memory could be attributed to the existence of long-lasting modifications of the components of the phototransduction cascade after adapting illumination. In cones, the observed form of the adaptation memory seems to be due to the sensitivity drop caused by a decrease in the availability of the visual pigment, that is, by bleaching.
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- Darya A. Nikolaeva
- Laboratory of Evolution of the Sense Organs, I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratory of Evolution of the Sense Organs, I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratory of Evolution of the Sense Organs, I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Laboratory of Toxinology and Molecular Systematics, L.A. Orbeli Institute of Physiology NAS RA, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Laboratory of Evolution of the Sense Organs, I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- *Correspondence: Luba A. Astakhova,
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Baranauskas G, Rysevaite-Kyguoliene K, Sabeckis I, Pauza DH. Saturation of visual responses explains size tuning in rat collicular neurons. Eur J Neurosci 2023; 57:285-309. [PMID: 36451583 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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The receptive field of many visual neurons is composed of a central responsive area, the classical receptive field, and a non-classical receptive field, also called the "suppressive surround." A visual stimulus placed in the suppressive surround does not induce any response but modulates visual responses to stimuli within the classical receptive field, usually by suppressing them. Therefore, visual responses become smaller when stimuli exceed the classical receptive field size. The stimulus size inducing the maximal response is called the preferred stimulus size. In cortex, there is good correspondence between the sizes of the classical receptive field and the preferred stimulus. In contrast, in the rodent superior colliculus, the preferred size is often several fold smaller than the classical receptive field size. Here, we show that in the rat superior colliculus, the preferred stimulus size changes as a square root of the contrast inverse and the classical receptive field size is independent of contrast. In addition, responses to annulus were largely independent of the inner hole size. To explain these data, three models were tested: the divisive modulation of the gain by the suppressive surround (the "normalization" model), the difference of the Gaussians, and a divisive model that incorporates saturation to light flux. Despite the same number of free parameters, the model incorporating saturation to light performed the best. Thus, our data indicate that in rats, the saturation to light can be a dominant phenomenon even at relatively low illumination levels defining visual responses in the collicular neurons.
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- Gytis Baranauskas
- Neurophysiology Laboratory, Neuroscience Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Anatomy Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Anatomy Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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Han F, Guo S, Wei S, Guo R, Cai T, Zhang P, Jia Z, Hussain S, Javed T, Chen X, Ren X, Al-Sadoon MK, Stępień P. Photosynthetic and yield responses of rotating planting strips and reducing nitrogen fertilizer application in maize-peanut intercropping in dry farming areas. Front Plant Sci 2022; 13:1014631. [PMID: 36466232 PMCID: PMC9708908 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1014631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Improving cropping systems together with suitable agronomic management practices can maintain dry farming productivity and reduce water competition with low N inputs. The objective of the study was to determine the photosynthetic and yield responses of maize and peanut under six treatments: sole maize, sole peanut, maize-peanut intercropping, maize-peanut rotation-intercropping, 20% and 40% N reductions for maize in the maize-peanut rotation-intercropping. Maize-peanut intercropping had no land-use advantage. Intercropped peanut is limited in carboxylation rates and electron transport rate (ETR), leading to a decrease in hundred-grain weight (HGW) and an increase in blighted pods number per plant (NBP). Intercropped peanut adapts to light stress by decreasing light saturation point (Isat) and light compensation point (Icomp) and increasing the electron transport efficiency. Intercropped maize showed an increase in maximum photosynthetic rate (Pnmax) and Icomp due to a combination of improved intercellular CO2 concentration, carboxylation rates, PSII photochemical quantum efficiency, and ETR. Compare to maize-peanut intercropping, maize-peanut rotation-intercropping alleviated the continuous crop barriers of intercropped border row peanut by improving carboxylation rates, electron transport efficiency and decreasing Isat, thereby increasing its HGW and NBP. More importantly, the land equivalent ratio of maize-peanut rotation-intercropping in the second and third planting years were 1.05 and 1.07, respectively, showing obvious land use advantages. A 20% N reduction for maize in maize-peanut rotation-intercropping does not affect photosynthetic character and yield for intercropped crops. However, a 40% N reduction decreased significantly the carboxylation rates, ETR, Icomp and Pnmax of intercropped maize, thereby reducing in a 14.83% HGW and 5.75% lower grain number per spike, and making land-use efficiency negative.
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- Fei Han
- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Crop Physic–ecology and Tillage Science in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- State Key Lab of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Crop Physic–ecology and Tillage Science in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Crop Physic–ecology and Tillage Science in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Crop Physic–ecology and Tillage Science in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- State Key Lab of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Crop Physic–ecology and Tillage Science in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- State Key Lab of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Crop Physic–ecology and Tillage Science in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- State Key Lab of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Crop Physic–ecology and Tillage Science in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- State Key Lab of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Crop Physic–ecology and Tillage Science in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- State Key Lab of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Key Laboratory of Crop Physic–ecology and Tillage Science in Northwestern Loess Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- State Key Lab of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Soil Science, Plant Nutrition and Environmental Protection, Wroclaw, Poland
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Berry S. The Use of Optical Coherence Tomography to Demonstrate Dark and Light Adaptation in a Live Moth. Environ Entomol 2022; 51:643-648. [PMID: 35762335 PMCID: PMC9389422 DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvac044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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To work effectively, the eyes of nocturnal insects have a problem they must overcome. During the night, the light levels are low, so their eyes need to be very sensitive; but they also need a way of adapting to environmental light conditions, and protecting those sensitive organs, if a bright light is encountered. Human eyes have a pupil that changes size to regulate light input to the eye. Moths (Lepidoptera) use a light absorbing pigment that moves position to limit the light within the eye. This pigment migration is difficult to record because it is a dynamic process and will only occur in a live moth. This paper presents the first use of Ocular Coherence Tomography as a method of viewing anatomical detail in a compound eye. This is noninvasive and does not harm the insect. To demonstrate the effectiveness, this article documents the dynamic process of light adaptation within a moth's eye.
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Chadova O, Skriptsova A, Velansky P. Effect of Temperature and Light Intensity on the Polar Lipidome of Endophytic Brown Algae Streblonema corymbiferum and Streblonema sp. In Vitro. Mar Drugs 2022; 20:428. [PMID: 35877721 PMCID: PMC9320489 DOI: 10.3390/md20070428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Revised: 06/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The effect of temperature and light intensity on the polar lipidome of endophytic brown algae Streblonema corymbiferum and Streblonema sp. in vitro was investigated. More than 460 molecular species have been identified in four glycoglycerolipids classes, five phosphoglycerolipids classes and one betaine lipid class. The lipids glucuronosyldiacylglycerol and diacylglyceryl-N,N,N-trimethyl-homoserine were found in the algae of the order Ectocarpales for the first time. A decrease in cultivation temperature led to an increase in the unsaturation level in all classes of polar lipids. Thus, at low temperatures, the content of 18:4/18:4 monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG), 20:5/18:4 digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG), 18:3/16:0 sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol (SQDG), 18:3/18:3 and 18:3/18:4 phosphatidylglycerol (PG), 20:4/20:5 and 20:5/20:5 phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), 14:0/20:5, 16:0/20:5 and 20:5/20:5 phosphatidylcholine (PC), 20:5/20:4 phosphatidylhydroxyethylglycine and 18:1/18:2 DGTS increased. At high temperatures, an increase in the content of chloroplast-derived MGDG, DGDG and PG was observed. Both low and high light intensities caused an increase in 20:5/18:3 MGDG and 18:3/16:1 PG. At low light intensity, the content of DGDG with fatty acid (FA) 18:3 increased, and at high light intensity, it was with FA 20:5. The molecular species composition of extraplastid lipids also showed a dependence on light intensity. Thus, the content of PC and PE species with C20-polyunsaturated FA at both sn-positions, 18:1/18:1 DGTS and 16:0/18:1 phosphatidylinositol increased. Low light intensity induced a significant increase in the content of chloroplast-derived 18:1/16:1 phosphatidylethanolamine.
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- Oksana Chadova
- A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 690041 Vladivostok, Russia; (A.S.); (P.V.)
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Ignatova II, Frolov RV. Distinct mechanisms of light adaptation of elementary responses in photoreceptors of Dipteran flies and American cockroach. J Neurophysiol 2022; 128:263-277. [PMID: 35730751 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00519.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Of many light adaptation mechanisms optimizing photoreceptor functioning in the compound eyes of insects, those modifying the single photon response, the quantum bump (QB), remain least studied. Here, by recording from photoreceptors of the blow fly Protophormia terraenovae, the hover fly Volucella pellucens and the cockroach Periplaneta americana, we investigated mechanisms of rapid light adaptation by examining how properties of QBs change after light stimulation and multiquantal impulse responses during repetitive stimulation. In P. terraenovae, light stimulation reduced latencies, characteristic durations and amplitudes of QBs in the intensity- and duration-dependent manner. In P. americana, only QB amplitudes decreased consistently. In both species, time constants of QB parameters' recovery increased with the strength and duration of stimulation, reaching about 30 s after bright prolonged 10 s pulses. In the blow fly, changes in QB amplitudes during recovery correlated with changes in half-widths but not latencies, suggesting at least two separate mechanisms of light adaptation: acceleration of QB onset by sensitizing transduction channels, and acceleration of transduction channel inactivation causing QB shortening and diminishment. In the cockroach, light adaptation reduced QB amplitude by apparently lowering the transduction channel availability. Impulse response data in the blow fly and cockroach were consistent with the mechanistic inferences from the QB recovery experiments. However, in the hover fly V. pellucens, impulse response latencies and durations decreased simultaneously whereas amplitudes decreased little, even when bright flashes were applied at high frequencies. These findings indicate existence of dissimilar mechanisms of light adaptation in the microvilli of different species.
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- Irina I Ignatova
- Nano and Molecular Systems Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Laboratory of Comparative Sensory Physiology, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Lankford CK, Umino Y, Poria D, Kefalov V, Solessio E, Baker SA. Cone-Driven Retinal Responses Are Shaped by Rod But Not Cone HCN1. J Neurosci 2022; 42:4231-4249. [PMID: 35437278 PMCID: PMC9145265 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2271-21.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Signal integration of converging neural circuits is poorly understood. One example is in the retina where the integration of rod and cone signaling is responsible for the large dynamic range of vision. The relative contribution of rods versus cones is dictated by a complex function involving background light intensity and stimulus temporal frequency. One understudied mechanism involved in coordinating rod and cone signaling onto the shared retinal circuit is the hyperpolarization activated current (Ih) mediated by hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated 1 (HCN1) channels expressed in rods and cones. Ih opposes membrane hyperpolarization driven by activation of the phototransduction cascade and modulates the strength and kinetics of the photoreceptor voltage response. We examined conditional knock-out (KO) of HCN1 from mouse rods using electroretinography (ERG). In the absence of HCN1, rod responses are prolonged in dim light which altered the response to slow modulation of light intensity both at the level of retinal signaling and behavior. Under brighter intensities, cone-driven signaling was suppressed. To our surprise, conditional KO of HCN1 from mouse cones had no effect on cone-mediated signaling. We propose that Ih is dispensable in cones because of the high level of temporal control of cone phototransduction. Thus, HCN1 is required for cone-driven retinal signaling only indirectly by modulating the voltage response of rods to limit their output.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Hyperpolarization gated hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated 1 (HCN1) channels carry a feedback current that helps to reset light-activated photoreceptors. Using conditional HCN1 knock-out (KO) mice we show that ablating HCN1 from rods allows rods to signal in bright light when they are normally shut down. Instead of enhancing vision this results in suppressing cone signaling. Conversely, ablating HCN1 from cones was of no consequence. This work provides novel insights into the integration of rod and cone signaling in the retina and challenges our assumptions about the role of HCN1 in cones.
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- Colten K Lankford
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Center for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York 13210
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California, Irvine, California 92697
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California, Irvine, California 92697
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, California 92697
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- Center for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York 13210
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Institute for Vision Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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Shi Y, Liu Y, Yang L, Yan J. A Mathematical Model to Characterize the Role of Light Adaptation in Mammalian Circadian Clock. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:681696. [PMID: 34950699 PMCID: PMC8691188 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.681696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In response to a light stimulus, the mammalian circadian clock first dramatically increases the expression of Per1 mRNA, and then drops to a baseline even when light persists. This phenomenon is known as light adaptation, which has been experimentally proven to be related to the CRTC1-SIK1 pathway in suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). However, the role of this light adaptation in the circadian rhythm remains to be elucidated. To reveal the in-depth function of light adaptation and the underlying dynamics, we proposed a mathematical model for the CRTC1-SIK1 network and coupled it to a mammalian circadian model. The simulation result proved that the light adaptation is achieved by the self-inhibition of the CRTC1/CREB complex. Also, consistently with experimental observations, this adaptation mechanism can limit the phase response to short-term light stimulus, and it also restricts the rate of the phase shift in a jet lag protocol to avoid overly rapid re-entrainment. More importantly, this light adaptation is predicted to prevent the singularity behavior in the cell population, which represents the abolishment of circadian rhythmicity due to desynchronization of oscillating cells. Furthermore, it has been shown to provide refractoriness to successive stimuli with short gap. Therefore, we concluded that the light adaptation generated by the CRTC1-SIK1 pathway in the SCN provides a robust mechanism, allowing the circadian system to maintain homeostasis in the presence of light perturbations. These results not only give new insights into the dynamics of light adaptation from a computational perspective but also lead us to formulate hypotheses about the related physiological significance.
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- Yuzeng Shi
- School of Mathematical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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Flood MD, Eggers ED. Dopamine D1 and D4 receptors contribute to light adaptation in ON-sustained retinal ganglion cells. J Neurophysiol 2021; 126:2039-2052. [PMID: 34817291 PMCID: PMC8715048 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00218.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Revised: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The adaptation of ganglion cells to increasing light levels is a crucial property of the retina. The retina must respond to light intensities that vary by 10-12 orders of magnitude, but the dynamic range of ganglion cell responses covers only ∼3 orders of magnitude. Dopamine is a crucial neuromodulator for light adaptation and activates receptors in the D1 and D2 families. Dopamine type D1 receptors (D1Rs) are expressed on horizontal cells and some bipolar, amacrine, and ganglion cells. In the D2 family, D2Rs are expressed on dopaminergic amacrine cells and D4Rs are primarily expressed on photoreceptors. However, the roles of activating these receptors to modulate the synaptic properties of the inputs to ganglion cells are not yet clear. Here, we used single-cell retinal patch-clamp recordings from the mouse retina to determine how activating D1Rs and D4Rs changed the light-evoked and spontaneous excitatory inputs to ON-sustained (ON-s) ganglion cells. We found that both D1R and D4R activation decrease the light-evoked excitatory inputs to ON-s ganglion cells, but that only the sum of the peak response decrease due to activating the two receptors was similar to the effect of light adaptation to a rod-saturating background. The largest effects on spontaneous excitatory activity of both D1R and D4R agonists was on the frequency of events, suggesting that both D1Rs and D4Rs are acting upstream of the ganglion cells.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Dopamine by bright light conditions allows retinal neurons to reduce sensitivity to adapt to bright light conditions. It is not clear how and why dopamine receptors modulate retinal ganglion cell signaling. We found that both D1 and D4 dopamine receptors in photoreceptors and inner retinal neurons contribute significantly to the reduction in sensitivity of ganglion cells with light adaptation. However, light adaptation also requires dopamine-independent mechanisms that could reflect inherent sensitivity changes in photoreceptors.
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- Michael D Flood
- Department of Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- Department Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Physiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- Department Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Ignatova II, Miinalainen I, Frolov RV. Morphological and electrophysiological specializations of photoreceptors in the love spot of hover fly Volucella pellucens. Vis Neurosci 2021; 38:E015. [PMID: 34635193 DOI: 10.1017/S0952523821000146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Studies of functional variability in the compound eyes of flies reveal superior temporal resolution of photoreceptors from the frontal areas that mediate binocular vision, and in males mate recognition and pursuit. However, the mechanisms underlying differences in performance are not known. Here, we investigated properties of hover fly Volucella pellucens photoreceptors from two regions of the retina, the frontal-dorsal "love spot" and the lateral one. Morphologically, the microvilli of the frontal-dorsal photoreceptors were relatively few in number per rhabdomere cross-section, short and narrow. In electrophysiological experiments involving stimulation with prolonged white-noise and natural time intensity series, frontal-dorsal photoreceptors demonstrated comparatively high corner frequencies and information rates. Investigation of possible mechanisms responsible for their superior performance revealed significant differences in the properties of quantum bumps, and, unexpectedly, relatively high absolute sensitivity of the frontal-dorsal photoreceptors. Analysis of light adaptation indicated that photoreceptors from two regions adapt similarly but because frontal-dorsal photoreceptors were depolarized much stronger by the same stimuli than the lateral photoreceptors, they reached a deeper state of adaptation associated with higher corner frequencies of light response. Recordings from the photoreceptor axons were characterized by spike-like events that can significantly expand the frequency response range. Seamless integration of spikes into the graded voltage responses was enabled by light adaptation mechanisms that accelerate kinetics and decrease duration of depolarizing light response transients.
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Dai Y, Sun T. Oguchi's disease: two cases and literature review. J Int Med Res 2021; 49:3000605211019921. [PMID: 34057838 PMCID: PMC8829741 DOI: 10.1177/03000605211019921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Oguchi's disease is a rare form of congenital stationary night blindness, associated with light-dependent golden fundus discoloration. In this report, we describe two cases of Oguchi's disease, both of which had two characteristic features: congenital stationary night blindness and fundoscopic manifestation of the Mizuo–Nakamura phenomenon. In both patients, fundus examination revealed a metallic sheen throughout the retina, which disappeared after 2.5 hours of dark adaptation, suggestive of the Mizuo–Nakamura phenomenon. The characteristic electroretinogram (ERG) changes (i.e., un-recordable rod response and reductions of maximal response, oscillatory potentials, and flicker response) in these patients confirmed the clinical diagnosis of Oguchi's disease. Furthermore, we discuss the results of our literature search for evidence concerning the diagnosis and pathogenesis of this rare disease. Further studies regarding the genes involved in phototransduction and light adaptation are needed to determine the pathogenesis of this rare disease.
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- Ying Dai
- Department of Ophthalmology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, The First People's Hospital of Yancheng, Yancheng, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, The First People's Hospital of Yancheng, Yancheng, China
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Cammarisano L, Donnison IS, Robson PRH. The Effect of Red & Blue Rich LEDs vs Fluorescent Light on Lollo Rosso Lettuce Morphology and Physiology. Front Plant Sci 2021; 12:603411. [PMID: 33679825 PMCID: PMC7930480 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.603411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The challenges of feeding an increasing population, an increasingly urban population and within an increasingly challenging global environment have focused ideas on new ways to grow food. Growing food in a controlled environment (CE) is not new but new technologies such as broad-spectrum LEDs and robotics are generating new opportunities. Growth recipes can be tailored to plant species in a CE and plasticity in plant responses to the environment may be utilized to make growth systems more efficient for improved yield and crop quality. Light use efficiency within CE must consider energy requirements, yield and impacts on quality. We hypothesized that understanding how plants change their morphology and physiology in response to light will allow us to identify routes to make light more efficient for delivery of high-quality produce. We focused on responses to light in Lollo rosso lettuce which produces compact, crinkly and highly pigmented leaves. We compared the spectra of the commonly used artificial light sources in indoor farming (compact fluorescence tubes, FL, and broad-spectrum light-emitting diodes, LEDs) at two irradiance levels (270 and 570 μmol m-2 s-1). We discovered LEDs (λP: 451, 634, and 665 nm) produced the same amount of produce for half the incident energy of FL (T5). At higher irradiances LEDs produced 9% thicker leaves, 13% larger rosettes and 15% greater carotenoid content. Leaves differed in light absorptance with plants grown under lower FL absorbing 30% less of mid-range wavelengths. We show that the relative efficiencies of LED and FL is a function of the irradiances compared and demonstrate the importance of understanding the asymptotes of yield and quality traits. Increasing our understanding of structural and biochemical changes that occur under different combination of wavelengths may allow us to better optimize light delivery, select for different ranges of plasticity in crop plants and further optimize light recipes.
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- Laura Cammarisano
- IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
- Next-Generation Horticultural Systems, Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), Grossbeeren, Germany
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Simunovic MP, Hess K, Avery N, Mammo Z. Threshold versus intensity functions in two-colour automated perimetry. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2020; 41:157-164. [PMID: 33063858 DOI: 10.1111/opo.12743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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PURPOSE Two-colour computerised perimetry is a technique developed for assessing cone- and rod-function at fixed background luminances in retinal disease. However, the state of adaptation during testing is unknown but crucial in the interpretation of results. We therefore aimed to determine the adaptational state of rod- and cone-mechanisms in two-colour perimetry. METHODS Sensitivity to 480 nm (blue) and 640 nm (red) Goldmann size V targets was determined for 10 normal subjects aged 16 to 46 years at 17 locations in the central 60 degrees of the visual field under scotopic conditions and then from -1.5 log cd m-2 to 2 log cd m-2 (white background) in 0.5 log unit steps. Data were fitted with threshold versus intensity (tvi) functions of the form logT = logT0 + log ((A + A0 )/A0 )n . RESULTS No clear rod-cone break was observed for 640 nm stimuli. For 480 nm stimuli, transition from rod-detection to cone-detection occurred at mesopic illumination levels, where rod adaptation approached Weber behaviour. Cone detection mechanisms did not display Weber-like adaptation until the background luminance approached 1 log cd.m-2 . Diseases resulting in a "filter effect" - including disorders of the photoreceptors - are therefore predicted to affect sensitivity when rod function is probed with short-wavelength targets under scotopic conditions, but less so under mesopic conditions. Filter effects are similarly anticipated to affect cone function measured using long-wavelength targets under mesopic conditions (e.g., during microperimetry), but less so under photopic conditions. CONCLUSIONS Asymmetries in adaptation in automated two-colour perimetry are predicted to artefactually favour the detection of losses in rod sensitivity under scotopic conditions and cones under mesopic conditions.
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- Matthew P Simunovic
- Save Sight Institute, Discipline of Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.,Retinal Unit, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Save Sight Institute, Discipline of Ophthalmology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.,Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Retinal Unit, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Retinal Unit, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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Kim E, Watanabe A, Duffy CDP, Ruban AV, Minagawa J. Multimeric and monomeric photosystem II supercomplexes represent structural adaptations to low- and high-light conditions. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:14537-14545. [PMID: 32561642 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2020] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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An intriguing molecular architecture called the "semi-crystalline photosystem II (PSII) array" has been observed in the thylakoid membranes in vascular plants. It is an array of PSII-light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) supercomplexes that only appears in low light, but its functional role has not been clarified. Here, we identified PSII-LHCII supercomplexes in their monomeric and multimeric forms in low light-acclimated spinach leaves and prepared them using sucrose-density gradient ultracentrifugation in the presence of amphipol A8-35. When the leaves were acclimated to high light, only the monomeric forms were present, suggesting that the multimeric forms represent a structural adaptation to low light and that disaggregation of the PSII-LHCII supercomplex represents an adaptation to high light. Single-particle EM revealed that the multimeric PSII-LHCII supercomplexes are composed of two ("megacomplex") or three ("arraycomplex") units of PSII-LHCII supercomplexes, which likely constitute a fraction of the semi-crystalline PSII array. Further characterization with fluorescence analysis revealed that multimeric forms have a higher light-harvesting capability but a lower thermal dissipation capability than the monomeric form. These findings suggest that the configurational conversion of PSII-LHCII supercomplexes may serve as a structural basis for acclimation of plants to environmental light.
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- Eunchul Kim
- Division of Environmental Photobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan; Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan
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- Division of Environmental Photobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan; Department of Basic Biology, School of Life Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Okazaki, Japan
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Environmental Photobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan; Department of Basic Biology, School of Life Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Okazaki, Japan.
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Zhang S, Lyuboslavsky P, Dixon JA, Chrenek MA, Sellers JT, Hamm JM, Ribelayga CP, Zhang Z, Le YZ, Iuvone PM. Effects of Cone Connexin-36 Disruption on Light Adaptation and Circadian Regulation of the Photopic ERG. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2020; 61:24. [PMID: 32531058 PMCID: PMC7415284 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.61.6.24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Purpose The present study tested the hypothesis that connexin-36 (Cx36) and gap junctions between photoreceptor cells contribute to the circadian rhythm of the photopic electroretinogram (ERG) b-wave amplitude. Methods Cone-specific disruption of Cx36 was obtained in mice with a floxed Gjd2 gene and human red/green pigment promoter (HRGP)-driven Cre recombinase. Standard ERG, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and histochemical methods were used. Results HRGPcreGjd2fl/fl mice had a selective reduction in Cx36 protein in the outer plexiform layer; no reduction in Cx36 was observed in the inner plexiform layer. Cx36 disruption had no effect on the number of cones, the thickness of the photoreceptor layer, or the scotopic ERG responses. However, there was a reduction of the photopic ERG circadian rhythm, with b-wave amplitudes in the day and the night locked in the daytime, light-adapted state. In HRGPcreGjd2+/+and Gjd2fl/fl controls, the circadian rhythm of light-adapted ERG persisted, similar to that in wild type mice. Conclusions Cx36 regulation contributes to the circadian rhythm of light-adapted ERG; in the absence of photoreceptor gap junctions, mice appear to be in a fully light-adapted state regardless of the time of day. The higher amplitudes and reduced circadian regulation of the b-wave of HRGPcreGjd2fl/fl mice may be due to increased synaptic strength at the cone to ON bipolar cell synapse due to electrotonic isolation of the terminals lacking gap junctions.
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- Shuo Zhang
- Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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- Ruiz Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
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- Ruiz Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
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- Departments of Medicine, Cell Biology, and Ophthalmology and Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Department of Pharmacology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Lee SI, Kinoshita S, Noguchi A, Eto T, Ohashi M, Nishimura Y, Maeda K, Motomura Y, Awata Y, Higuchi S. Melatonin suppression during a simulated night shift in medium intensity light is increased by 10-minute breaks in dim light and decreased by 10-minute breaks in bright light. Chronobiol Int 2020; 37:897-909. [PMID: 32326827 DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2020.1752704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Exposure to light at night results in disruption of endogenous circadian rhythmicity and/or suppression of pineal melatonin, which can consequently lead to acute or chronic adverse health problems. In the present study, we investigated whether exposure to very dim light or very bright light for a short duration influences melatonin suppression, subjective sleepiness, and performance during exposure to constant moderately bright light. Twenty-four healthy male university students were divided into two experimental groups: Half of them (mean age: 20.0 ± 0.9 years) participated in an experiment for short-duration (10 min) light conditions of medium intensity light (430 lx, medium breaks) vs. very dim light (< 1 lx, dim breaks) and the other half (mean age: 21.3 ± 2.5 years) participated in an experiment for short-duration light conditions of medium intensity light (430 lx, medium breaks) vs. very bright light (4700 lx, bright breaks). Each simulated night shift consisting of 5 sets (each including 50-minute night work and 10-minute break) was performed from 01:00 to 06:00 h. The subjects were exposed to medium intensity light (550 lx) during the night work. Each 10-minute break was conducted every hour from 02:00 to 06:00 h. Salivary melatonin concentrations were measured, subjective sleepiness was assessed, the psychomotor vigilance task was performed at hourly intervals from 21:00 h until the end of the experiment. Compared to melatonin suppression between 04:00 and 06:00 h in the condition of medium breaks, the condition of dim breaks significantly promoted melatonin suppression and the condition of bright breaks significantly diminished melatonin suppression. However, there was no remarkable effect of either dim breaks or bright breaks on subjective sleepiness and performance of the psychomotor vigilance task. Our findings suggest that periodic exposure to light for short durations during exposure to a constant light environment affects the sensitivity of pineal melatonin to constant light depending on the difference between light intensities in the two light conditions (i.e., short light exposure vs. constant light exposure). Also, our findings indicate that exposure to light of various intensities at night could be a factor influencing the light-induced melatonin suppression in real night work settings.
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- Sang-Il Lee
- Department of Human Science, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, Japan.,Division of Human Environmental Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University , Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Kansei Science, Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Science, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Kansei Science, Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Science, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Kansei Science, Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Science, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Kansei Science, Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Science, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Kansei Science, Graduate School of Integrated Frontier Science, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, Japan.,Occupational Stress and Health Management Research Group, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health , Kawasaki, Japan
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- Ground Facilities Department, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency , Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Human Science, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, Japan
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- Ground Facilities Department, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency , Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Human Science, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, Japan
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Weisse T, Moser M. Light affects picocyanobacterial grazing and growth response of the mixotrophic flagellate Poterioochromonas malhamensis. J Microbiol 2020; 58:268-278. [PMID: 31989545 DOI: 10.1007/s12275-020-9567-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We measured the grazing and growth response of the mixotrophic chrysomonad flagellate Poterioochromonas malhamensis on four closely related picocyanobacterial strains isolated from subalpine lakes in central Europe. The picocyanobacteria represented different pigment types (phycoerythrin-rich, PE, and phycocyanin-rich, PC) and phylogenetic clusters. The grazing experiments were conducted with laboratory cultures acclimated to 10 µmol photon/m2/sec (low light, LL) and 100 µmol photon/m2/sec (moderate light, ML), either in the dark or at four different irradiances ranging from low (6 µmol photon/m2/sec) to high (1,500 µmol photon/m2/sec) light intensity. Poterioochromonas malhamensis preferred the larger, green PC-rich picocyanobacteria to the smaller, red PE-rich picocyanobacterial, and heterotrophic bacteria. The feeding and growth rates of P. malhamensis were sensitive to the actual light conditions during the experiments; the flagellate performed relatively better in the dark and at LL conditions than at high light intensity. In summary, our results found strain-specific ingestion and growth rates of the flagellate; an effect of the preculturing conditions, and, unexpectedly, a direct adverse effect of high light levels. We conclude that this flagellate may avoid exposure to high surface light intensities commonly encountered in temperate lakes during the summer.
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- Thomas Weisse
- University of Innsbruck, Research Department for Limnology, Mondseestr. 9, A-5310, Mondsee, Austria.
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- University of Innsbruck, Research Department for Limnology, Mondseestr. 9, A-5310, Mondsee, Austria
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Jacoby J, Nath A, Jessen ZF, Schwartz GW. A Self-Regulating Gap Junction Network of Amacrine Cells Controls Nitric Oxide Release in the Retina. Neuron 2018; 100:1149-1162.e5. [PMID: 30482690 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.09.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Revised: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Neuromodulators regulate circuits throughout the nervous system, and revealing the cell types and stimulus conditions controlling their release is vital to understanding their function. The effects of the neuromodulator nitric oxide (NO) have been studied in many circuits, including in the vertebrate retina, where it regulates synaptic release, gap junction coupling, and blood vessel dilation, but little is known about the cells that release NO. We show that a single type of amacrine cell (AC) controls NO release in the inner retina, and we report its light responses, electrical properties, and calcium dynamics. We discover that this AC forms a dense gap junction network and that the strength of electrical coupling in the network is regulated by light through NO. A model of the network offers insights into the biophysical specializations leading to auto-regulation of NO release within the network.
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- Jason Jacoby
- Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Medical Scientist Training Program, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
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Borghuis BG, Ratliff CP, Smith RG. Impact of light-adaptive mechanisms on mammalian retinal visual encoding at high light levels. J Neurophysiol 2018; 119:1437-1449. [PMID: 29357459 PMCID: PMC5966735 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00682.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2017] [Revised: 12/20/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A persistent change in illumination causes light-adaptive changes in retinal neurons. Light adaptation improves visual encoding by preventing saturation and by adjusting spatiotemporal integration to increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and utilize signaling bandwidth efficiently. In dim light, the visual input contains a greater relative amount of quantal noise, and vertebrate receptive fields are extended in space and time to increase SNR. Whereas in bright light, SNR of the visual input is high, the rate of synaptic vesicle release from the photoreceptors is low so that quantal noise in synaptic output may limit SNR postsynaptically. Whether and how reduced synaptic SNR impacts spatiotemporal integration in postsynaptic neurons remains unclear. To address this, we measured spatiotemporal integration in retinal horizontal cells and ganglion cells in the guinea pig retina across a broad illumination range, from low to high photopic levels. In both cell types, the extent of spatial and temporal integration changed according to an inverted U-shaped function consistent with adaptation to low SNR at both low and high light levels. We show how a simple mechanistic model with interacting, opponent filters can generate the observed changes in ganglion cell spatiotemporal receptive fields across light-adaptive states and postulate that retinal neurons postsynaptic to the cones in bright light adopt low-pass spatiotemporal response characteristics to improve visual encoding under conditions of low synaptic SNR.
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- Bart G Borghuis
- Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine , Louisville, Kentucky
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- Center for Systems Vision Science, Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Vinberg F, Peshenko IV, Chen J, Dizhoor AM, Kefalov VJ. Guanylate cyclase-activating protein 2 contributes to phototransduction and light adaptation in mouse cone photoreceptors. J Biol Chem 2018; 293:7457-7465. [PMID: 29549122 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra117.001574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2017] [Revised: 03/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Light adaptation of photoreceptor cells is mediated by Ca2+-dependent mechanisms. In darkness, Ca2+ influx through cGMP-gated channels into the outer segment of photoreceptors is balanced by Ca2+ extrusion via Na+/Ca2+, K+ exchangers (NCKXs). Light activates a G protein signaling cascade, which closes cGMP-gated channels and decreases Ca2+ levels in photoreceptor outer segment because of continuing Ca2+ extrusion by NCKXs. Guanylate cyclase-activating proteins (GCAPs) then up-regulate cGMP synthesis by activating retinal membrane guanylate cyclases (RetGCs) in low Ca2+ This activation of RetGC accelerates photoresponse recovery and critically contributes to light adaptation of the nighttime rod and daytime cone photoreceptors. In mouse rod photoreceptors, GCAP1 and GCAP2 both contribute to the Ca2+-feedback mechanism. In contrast, only GCAP1 appears to modulate RetGC activity in mouse cones because evidence of GCAP2 expression in cones is lacking. Surprisingly, we found that GCAP2 is expressed in cones and can regulate light sensitivity and response kinetics as well as light adaptation of GCAP1-deficient mouse cones. Furthermore, we show that GCAP2 promotes cGMP synthesis and cGMP-gated channel opening in mouse cones exposed to low Ca2+ Our biochemical model and experiments indicate that GCAP2 significantly contributes to the activation of RetGC1 at low Ca2+ when GCAP1 is not present. Of note, in WT mouse cones, GCAP1 dominates the regulation of cGMP synthesis. We conclude that, under normal physiological conditions, GCAP1 dominates the regulation of cGMP synthesis in mouse cones, but if its function becomes compromised, GCAP2 contributes to the regulation of phototransduction and light adaptation of cones.
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- Frans Vinberg
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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- Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Salus University, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania 19027
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- Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033
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- Pennsylvania College of Optometry, Salus University, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania 19027
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- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.
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Chaffiol A, Ishii M, Cao Y, Mangel SC. Dopamine Regulation of GABA A Receptors Contributes to Light/Dark Modulation of the ON-Cone Bipolar Cell Receptive Field Surround in the Retina. Curr Biol 2017; 27:2600-2609.e4. [PMID: 28844643 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2017] [Revised: 05/22/2017] [Accepted: 07/27/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Cone bipolar cells are interneurons that receive synaptic input from cone photoreceptor cells and provide the output of the first synaptic layer of the retina. These cells exhibit center-surround receptive fields, a prototype of lateral inhibition between neighboring sensory cells in which stimulation of the receptive field center excites the cell whereas stimulation of the surrounding region laterally inhibits the cell. This fundamental sensory coding mechanism facilitates spatial discrimination and detection of stimulus edges. However, although it is well established that the receptive field surround is strongest when ambient or background illumination is most intense, e.g., at midday, and that the surround is minimal following maintained darkness, the synaptic mechanisms that produce and modulate the surround have not been resolved. Using electrical recording of bipolar cells under experimental conditions in which the cells exhibited surround light responses, and light and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry, we show in the rabbit retina that bright-light-induced activation of dopamine D1 receptors located on ON-center cone bipolar cell dendrites increases the expression and activity of GABAA receptors on the dendrites of the cells and that surround light responses depend on endogenous GABAA receptor activation. We also show that maintained darkness and D1 receptor blockade following maintained illumination and D1 receptor activation result in minimal GABAA receptor expression and activity and greatly diminished surrounds. Modulation of the D1/GABAA receptor signaling pathway of ON-cBC dendrites by the ambient light level facilitates detection of spatial details on bright days and large dim objects on moonless nights.
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- Antoine Chaffiol
- Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University College Of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University College Of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University College Of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University College Of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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Calcium (Ca2+) plays an important role in the function and health of neurons. In vertebrate cone photoreceptors, Ca2+ controls photoresponse sensitivity, kinetics, and light adaptation. Despite the critical role of Ca2+ in supporting the function and survival of cones, the mechanism for its extrusion from cone outer segments is not well understood. Here, we show that the Na+/Ca2+, K+ exchanger NCKX4 is expressed in zebrafish, mouse, and primate cones. Functional analysis of NCKX4-deficient mouse cones revealed that this exchanger is essential for the wide operating range and high temporal resolution of cone-mediated vision. We show that NCKX4 shapes the cone photoresponse together with the cone-specific NCKX2: NCKX4 acts early to limit response amplitude, while NCKX2 acts late to further accelerate response recovery. The regulation of Ca2+ by NCKX4 in cones is a novel mechanism that supports their ability to function as daytime photoreceptors and promotes their survival. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24550.001 Cells known as photoreceptors sense light in the eye. Light activates signaling pathways inside the photoreceptors that relay visual information to nerve cells, which carry the information to the brain. Photoreceptors called cone cells allow us to distinguish different colors of light and therefore play an important role in daytime vision. Over the course of the day, the overall levels of light in the environment can vary widely and so photoreceptors need to be able to adjust their signaling pathways so that they can still respond to light stimuli. Calcium ions modulate the signaling pathways inside cone cells to help them adjust to changing light levels. These ions also play other important roles in the health and activity of photoreceptors, so the cells need to carefully control how many calcium ions they contain. Cone cells contain a structure known as the outer segment, which is responsible for detecting light stimuli. It is believed that cones control the levels of calcium ions in the outer segment by balancing the flow of calcium ions into and out of the segment. The calcium ions enter the outer segment via channels that sit in the membrane surrounding the cell. A transporter protein known as NCKX2, which is only found in cone cells, was thought to pump the calcium ions out of the cell. However, recent data has challenged this idea by demonstrating that NCKX2 only plays a minor role in this process. Vinberg et al. investigated how calcium ions leave the outer segments of cone cells in several different animals. The experiments show that a transporter protein called NCKX4 – which belongs to the same protein family as NCKX2 – is the main transporter involved in removing calcium ions from the cone cells of mice. Loss of NCKX4 from mouse cones reduced the ability of these cells to respond to fast and rapidly changing light stimuli, and to operate in bright light. Further experiments show that NCKX4 is also found in the outer segments of zebrafish and monkey cone cells. The next challenges will be to find out if NCKX4 is also present in human cones and whether it plays a role in regulating our daytime vision. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24550.002
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- Frans Vinberg
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, United States
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- Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.,Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.,Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, United States
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, United States
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- Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.,Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.,Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, United States
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Song Z, Juusola M. A biomimetic fly photoreceptor model elucidates how stochastic adaptive quantal sampling provides a large dynamic range. J Physiol 2017; 595:5439-5456. [PMID: 28369994 PMCID: PMC5556150 DOI: 10.1113/jp273614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 02/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Light intensities (photons s-1 μm-2 ) in a natural scene vary over several orders of magnitude from shady woods to direct sunlight. A major challenge facing the visual system is how to map such a large dynamic input range into its limited output range, so that a signal is neither buried in noise in darkness nor saturated in brightness. A fly photoreceptor has achieved such a large dynamic range; it can encode intensity changes from single to billions of photons, outperforming man-made light sensors. This performance requires powerful light adaptation, the neural implementation of which has only become clear recently. A computational fly photoreceptor model, which mimics the real phototransduction processes, has elucidated how light adaptation happens dynamically through stochastic adaptive quantal information sampling. A Drosophila R1-R6 photoreceptor's light sensor, the rhabdomere, has 30,000 microvilli, each of which stochastically samples incoming photons. Each microvillus employs a full G-protein-coupled receptor signalling pathway to adaptively transduce photons into quantum bumps (QBs, or samples). QBs then sum the macroscopic photoreceptor responses, governed by four quantal sampling factors (limitations): (i) the number of photon sampling units in the cell structure (microvilli), (ii) sample size (QB waveform), (iii) latency distribution (time delay between photon arrival and emergence of a QB), and (iv) refractory period distribution (time for a microvillus to recover after a QB). Here, we review how these factors jointly orchestrate light adaptation over a large dynamic range.
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- Zhuoyi Song
- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.,State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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Song Z, Zhou Y, Juusola M. Random Photon Absorption Model Elucidates How Early Gain Control in Fly Photoreceptors Arises from Quantal Sampling. Front Comput Neurosci 2016; 10:61. [PMID: 27445779 PMCID: PMC4919358 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2016.00061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2015] [Accepted: 06/09/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Many diurnal photoreceptors encode vast real-world light changes effectively, but how this performance originates from photon sampling is unclear. A 4-module biophysically-realistic fly photoreceptor model, in which information capture is limited by the number of its sampling units (microvilli) and their photon-hit recovery time (refractoriness), can accurately simulate real recordings and their information content. However, sublinear summation in quantum bump production (quantum-gain-nonlinearity) may also cause adaptation by reducing the bump/photon gain when multiple photons hit the same microvillus simultaneously. Here, we use a Random Photon Absorption Model (RandPAM), which is the 1st module of the 4-module fly photoreceptor model, to quantify the contribution of quantum-gain-nonlinearity in light adaptation. We show how quantum-gain-nonlinearity already results from photon sampling alone. In the extreme case, when two or more simultaneous photon-hits reduce to a single sublinear value, quantum-gain-nonlinearity is preset before the phototransduction reactions adapt the quantum bump waveform. However, the contribution of quantum-gain-nonlinearity in light adaptation depends upon the likelihood of multi-photon-hits, which is strictly determined by the number of microvilli and light intensity. Specifically, its contribution to light-adaptation is marginal (≤ 1%) in fly photoreceptors with many thousands of microvilli, because the probability of simultaneous multi-photon-hits on any one microvillus is low even during daylight conditions. However, in cells with fewer sampling units, the impact of quantum-gain-nonlinearity increases with brightening light.
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- Zhuoyi Song
- Centre for Mathematics, Physics and Engineering in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), University College LondonLondon, UK; Department of Biomedical Science, University of SheffieldSheffield, UK
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- School of Engineering, College of Science and Technology, University of Central Lancashire Preston, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of SheffieldSheffield, UK; State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal UniversityBeijing, China
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Wacker A, Piepho M, Harwood JL, Guschina IA, Arts MT. Light-Induced Changes in Fatty Acid Profiles of Specific Lipid Classes in Several Freshwater Phytoplankton Species. Front Plant Sci 2016; 7:264. [PMID: 27014290 PMCID: PMC4792871 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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We tested the influence of two light intensities [40 and 300 μmol PAR / (m(2)s)] on the fatty acid composition of three distinct lipid classes in four freshwater phytoplankton species. We chose species of different taxonomic classes in order to detect potentially similar reaction characteristics that might also be present in natural phytoplankton communities. From samples of the bacillariophyte Asterionella formosa, the chrysophyte Chromulina sp., the cryptophyte Cryptomonas ovata and the zygnematophyte Cosmarium botrytis we first separated glycolipids (monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, digalactosyldiacylglycerol, and sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol), phospholipids (phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, and phosphatidylserine) as well as non-polar lipids (triacylglycerols), before analyzing the fatty acid composition of each lipid class. High variation in the fatty acid composition existed among different species. Individual fatty acid compositions differed in their reaction to changing light intensities in the four species. Although no generalizations could be made for species across taxonomic classes, individual species showed clear but small responses in their ecologically-relevant omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in terms of proportions and of per tissue carbon quotas. Knowledge on how lipids like fatty acids change with environmental or culture conditions is of great interest in ecological food web studies, aquaculture, and biotechnology, since algal lipids are the most important sources of omega-3 long-chain PUFA for aquatic and terrestrial consumers, including humans.
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- Alexander Wacker
- Theoretical Aquatic Ecology and Ecophysiology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of PotsdamPotsdam, Germany
- *Correspondence: Alexander Wacker
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- Department for Ecology, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of RostockRostock, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, Ryerson UniversityToronto, ON, Canada
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Feigenspan A, Babai N. Functional properties of spontaneous excitatory currents and encoding of light/dark transitions in horizontal cells of the mouse retina. Eur J Neurosci 2015; 42:2615-32. [PMID: 26173960 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2015] [Revised: 06/23/2015] [Accepted: 07/07/2015] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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As all visual information is represented in the spatio-temporal dynamics of transmitter release from photoreceptors and the combined postsynaptic responses of second-order neurons, appropriate synaptic transfer functions are fundamental for a meaningful perception of the visual world. The functional contribution of horizontal cells to gain control and organization of bipolar and ganglion cell receptive fields can only be evaluated with an in-depth understanding of signal processing in horizontal cells. Therefore, a horizontal slice preparation of the mouse retina was established to record from horizontal cell bodies with their dendritic fields intact and receiving functional synaptic input from cone photoreceptors. Horizontal cell bodies showed spontaneous excitatory currents (spEPSCs) of monophasic and more complex multi-peak waveforms. spEPSCs were induced by quantal release of glutamate from presynaptic cones with a unitary amplitude of 3 pA. Non-stationary noise analysis revealed that spEPSCs with a monoexponential decay were mediated by 7-8 glutamate receptors with a single-channel amplitude of 1.55 pA. Responses to photopic full-field illumination were characterized by reduction of a tonic inward current or hyperpolarization, inhibition of spEPSCs, followed by a fast and transient inward current at light offset. The response to periodic dark/light transitions of different frequencies was dependent on the adaptational status of the cell with a limiting frequency of 10 Hz. Both on and off components of the light response were mediated by AMPA and kainate receptors. Detailed analysis of horizontal cell synaptic physiology is a prerequisite for understanding signal coding and processing at the photoreceptor ribbon synapse.
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- Andreas Feigenspan
- Department of Biology, Division of Animal Physiology, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Staudtstrasse 5, D-91058, Erlangen, German
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- Department of Biology, Division of Animal Physiology, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Staudtstrasse 5, D-91058, Erlangen, German
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Nowack S, Olsen MT, Schaible GA, Becraft ED, Shen G, Klapper I, Bryant DA, Ward DM. The molecular dimension of microbial species: 2. Synechococcus strains representative of putative ecotypes inhabiting different depths in the Mushroom Spring microbial mat exhibit different adaptive and acclimative responses to light. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:626. [PMID: 26175719 PMCID: PMC4484337 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2015] [Accepted: 06/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Closely related strains of thermophilic Synechococcus were cultivated from the microbial mats found in the effluent channels of Mushroom Spring, Yellowstone National Park (YNP). These strains have identical or nearly identical 16S rRNA sequences but are representative of separate, predicted putative ecotype (PE) populations, which were identified by using the more highly resolving psaA locus and which predominate at different vertical positions within the 1-mm-thick upper-green layer of the mat. Pyrosequencing confirmed that each strain contained a single, predominant psaA genotype. Strains differed in growth rate as a function of irradiance. A strain with a psaA genotype corresponding to a predicted PE that predominates near the mat surface grew fastest at high irradiances, whereas strains with psaA genotypes representative of predominant subsurface populations grew faster at low irradiance and exhibited greater sensitivity to abrupt shifts to high light. The high-light-adapted and low-light-adapted strains also exhibited differences in pigment content and the composition of the photosynthetic apparatus (photosystem ratio) when grown under different light intensities. Cells representative of the different strains had similar morphologies under low-light conditions, but under high-light conditions, cells of low-light-adapted strains became elongated and formed short chains of cells. Collectively, the results presented here are consistent with the hypothesis that closely related, but distinct, ecological species of Synechococcus occupy different light niches in the Mushroom Spring microbial mat and acclimate differently to changing light environments.
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- Shane Nowack
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, USA ; School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph ON, Canada
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- Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, USA
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- Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, USA
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- Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA, USA
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, USA ; Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA, USA ; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, USA
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- Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, USA
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Most life forms on Earth are supported by solar energy harnessed by oxygenic photosynthesis. In eukaryotes, photosynthesis is achieved by large membrane-embedded super-complexes, containing reaction centers and connected antennae. Here, we report the structure of the higher plant PSI-LHCI super-complex determined at 2.8 Å resolution. The structure includes 16 subunits and more than 200 prosthetic groups, which are mostly light harvesting pigments. The complete structures of the four LhcA subunits of LHCI include 52 chlorophyll a and 9 chlorophyll b molecules, as well as 10 carotenoids and 4 lipids. The structure of PSI-LHCI includes detailed protein pigments and pigment–pigment interactions, essential for the mechanism of excitation energy transfer and its modulation in one of nature's most efficient photochemical machines. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07433.001 Most plants, green algae and some bacteria use a process called photosynthesis to convert energy from sunlight into the chemical energy they need to survive and grow. With this energy, these organisms use carbon dioxide and water to create organic matter and release oxygen into the atmosphere. Therefore, photosynthesis plays a major role in providing the basis for life on earth. During photosynthesis, molecules of pigments known as chlorophyll and carotenoid capture the light energy. These pigments are contained within large groups (or ‘complexes’) of proteins that sit in membrane structures within cells. Two of the protein complexes—called photosystem I and LHCI—interact with each other to form a ‘supercomplex’ that transfers energy to a small protein called ferredoxin. To achieve this, the light energy captured by pigment molecules is transferred to other pigment molecules so that the energy is funneled towards the center of photosystem I. Mazor et al. used a technique called X-ray crystallography to create a very detailed three-dimensional model of photosystem I and LHCI from pea plants. The model shows how the twelve proteins of photosystem I are arranged in relation to the four proteins of the LHCI complex. The super-complex contains more than 200 other molecules, which are mostly chlorophylls and carotenoids. Of these, 61 chlorophyll molecules and ten carotenoid molecules are found in LHCI. The model also provides detailed information about how the pigments interact with each other and with the proteins in the supercomplex. Mazor et al.'s detailed model may help us to understand how these interactions allow photosystem I to harvest light energy with almost 100% efficiency, and aid efforts to develop new technologies that harness light. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07433.002
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- Yuval Mazor
- Department of Biochemistry, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Biochemistry, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Biochemistry, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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The emergence and evolution of life on our planet was possible because the sun provides energy to our biosphere. Indeed, all life forms need energy for existence and proliferation in space and time. Light-energy conversion takes place in photosynthetic organisms that evolve in various environments featuring an impressive range of light intensities that span several orders of magnitude. This property is achieved by the evolution of mechanisms of efficient energy capture that involved development of antenna pigments and pigment-protein complexes as well as the emergence of various strategies on the organismal, cellular, and molecular levels to counteract the detrimental effects of high light intensity on the delicate photosynthetic apparatus. Darwin was one of the first to describe the behaviour of plants towards light. He noticed that some plants try to avoid full daylight and called this reaction paraheliotropism. However, it was only in the second half of the 20th century, when scientists began to discover the structure and molecular mechanisms of the photosynthetic machinery, that the reasons for paraheliotropisms became clear. This review explains the need for the evolution of light adaptations using the example of higher plants. The review focuses on short-term adaptation mechanisms that occur on the minute scale, showing that these processes are fast enough to track rapid fluctuations in light intensity and that they evolved to be effective, allowing for the expansion of plant habitats and promoting diversification and survival. Also introduced are the most recent developments in methods that enable quantification of the light intensities that can be tolerated by plants.
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- Alexander V Ruban
- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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Xing D, Yeh CI, Gordon J, Shapley RM. Cortical brightness adaptation when darkness and brightness produce different dynamical states in the visual cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:1210-5. [PMID: 24398523 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314690111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Darkness and brightness are very different perceptually. To understand the neural basis for the visual difference, we studied the dynamical states of populations of neurons in macaque primary visual cortex when a spatially uniform area (8° × 8°) of the visual field alternated between black and white. Darkness evoked sustained nerve-impulse spiking in primary visual cortex neurons, but bright stimuli evoked only a transient response. A peak in the local field potential (LFP) γ band (30-80 Hz) occurred during darkness; white-induced LFP fluctuations were of lower amplitude, peaking at 25 Hz. However, the sustained response to white in the evoked LFP was larger than for black. Together with the results on spiking, the LFP results imply that, throughout the stimulus period, bright fields evoked strong net sustained inhibition. Such cortical brightness adaptation can explain many perceptual phenomena: interocular speeding up of dark adaptation, tonic interocular suppression, and interocular masking.
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Chang L, He S. Light adaptation increases response latency of alpha ganglion cells via a threshold-like nonlinearity. Neuroscience 2013; 256:101-16. [PMID: 24144626 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2013] [Revised: 09/18/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Adaptation is an important process of sensory systems to adjust sensitivity to ensure the appropriate information encoding. Sensitivity and kinetics of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) responses have been studied extensively using a brief flash superimposed on different but steady backgrounds. However, it is still unclear if light adaptation exerts any effect on more complex response properties, such as response nonlinearity. In this study, we found that the latency of spike responses to a repeated flashing spot stimulation increased by 30 ms in the mouse ON α RGCs (An ON-type RGC is excited when a spot is turned on in the center of its receptive field). A single dimming event preceding the test flash on a steady adapting background could also produce similar effect in increasing latency of light responses. A simple computational model with a linear transformation of the light stimulus and a threshold-like nonlinearity could account for the experimental data. Moreover, the strength of the measured nonlinearity and the response latency were affected by the duration of light adaptation. The possible biological processes underlying this nonlinearity were explored. Voltage clamp recording revealed the presence of the increase in latency and threshold-like nonlinearity in the excitatory input of RGCs. However, no comparable nonlinearity was observed in the light responses of the ON cone bipolar cells. We further excluded GABAergic and glycinergic inhibition, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor rectification and voltage-gated Na(+) channels as potential sources of this nonlinearity by pharmacological experiments. Our results indicate the bipolar cell terminals as the potential site of nonlinearity. Computational modeling constrained by experimental data supports that conclusion and suggests the voltage-sensitive Ca(++) channels and Ca(++)-dependent vesicle release in the bipolar cell terminals as mechanistic basis.
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- L Chang
- State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China; School of Biomedical Engineering, Bio-X Research Center and Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dong-Chuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China.
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Muto A, Taylor MR, Suzawa M, Korenbrot JI, Baier H. Glucocorticoid receptor activity regulates light adaptation in the zebrafish retina. Front Neural Circuits 2013; 7:145. [PMID: 24068988 PMCID: PMC3781318 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2013] [Accepted: 08/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Glucocorticoids modulate diverse aspects of physiology and behavior, including energy homeostasis, stress response, and memory, through activation of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Light perception has profound effects on the production of glucocorticoids via functional connections of the retina to the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis. We report here that glucocorticoids can also signal in the reverse direction, i. e., regulate visual function in zebrafish, Danio rerio. The zebrafish GR mutant, gr (s357) , harbors a missense mutation that completely blocks the transcriptional activity of GR. In this mutant, visual behavior was abolished following a period of darkness and recovered sluggishly after return to the light. Electrophysiological measurements showed that the photoresponse of the dark-adapted retina was reduced in the mutant and re-adapted to light with a substantial delay. Several gene products, including some that are important for dopaminergic signaling, were misregulated in gr (s357) mutants. We suggest that GR controls a gene network required for visual adaptation in the zebrafish retina and potentially integrates neuroendocrine and sensory responses to environmental changes.
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- Akira Muto
- Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA
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In normal human visual behavior, our visual system is continuously exposed to abrupt changes in the local contrast and mean luminance in various parts of the visual field, as caused by actual changes in the environment, as well as by movements of our body, head, and eyes. Previous research has shown that both threshold and suprathreshold contrast percepts are attenuated by a co-occurring change in the mean luminance at the location of the target stimulus. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that contrast targets presented with a co-occurring change in local mean luminance receive fewer fixations than targets presented in a region with a steady mean luminance. To that end we performed an eye-tracking experiment involving eight observers. On each trial, after a 4 s adaptation period, an observer's task was to make a saccade to one of two target gratings, presented simultaneously at 7° eccentricity, separated by 30° in polar angle. When both targets were presented with a steady mean luminance, saccades landed mostly in the area between the two targets, signifying the classic global effect. However, when one of the targets was presented with a change in luminance, the saccade distribution was biased towards the target with the steady luminance. The results show that the attenuation of contrast signals by co-occurring, ecologically typical changes in mean luminance affects fixation selection and is therefore likely to affect eye movements in natural visual behavior.
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- Markku Kilpeläinen
- Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Battelle BA, Kempler KE, Parker AK, Gaddie CD. Opsin1-2, G(q)α and arrestin levels at Limulus rhabdoms are controlled by diurnal light and a circadian clock. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 216:1837-49. [PMID: 23393287 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.083519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Dark and light adaptation in photoreceptors involve multiple processes including those that change protein concentrations at photosensitive membranes. Light- and dark-adaptive changes in protein levels at rhabdoms have been described in detail in white-eyed Drosophila maintained under artificial light. Here we tested whether protein levels at rhabdoms change significantly in the highly pigmented lateral eyes of wild-caught Limulus polyphemus maintained in natural diurnal illumination and whether these changes are under circadian control. We found that rhabdomeral levels of opsins (Ops1-2), the G protein activated by rhodopsin (G(q)α) and arrestin change significantly from day to night and that nighttime levels of each protein at rhabdoms are significantly influenced by signals from the animal's central circadian clock. Clock input at night increases Ops1-2 and G(q)α and decreases arrestin levels at rhabdoms. Clock input is also required for a rapid decrease in rhabdomeral Ops1-2 beginning at sunrise. We found further that dark adaptation during the day and the night are not equivalent. During daytime dark adaptation, when clock input is silent, the increase of Ops1-2 at rhabdoms is small and G(q)α levels do not increase. However, increases in Ops1-2 and G(q)α at rhabdoms are enhanced during daytime dark adaptation by treatments that elevate cAMP in photoreceptors, suggesting that the clock influences dark-adaptive increases in Ops1-2 and G(q)α at Limulus rhabdoms by activating cAMP-dependent processes. The circadian regulation of Ops1-2 and G(q)α levels at rhabdoms probably has a dual role: to increase retinal sensitivity at night and to protect photoreceptors from light damage during the day.
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- Barbara-Anne Battelle
- The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, 9505 Ocean Shore Blvd, St Augustine, FL 32080-8610, USA.
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Lee BB, Sun H, Cao D. Macaque ganglion cell responses to probe stimuli on modulated backgrounds. J Vis 2010; 10:26. [PMID: 21047758 PMCID: PMC2983472 DOI: 10.1167/10.12.26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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In the natural environment, visual targets have to be detected and identified on changing backgrounds. Here, responses of parasol (magnocellular) ganglion cells to probes on modulated backgrounds are described. At low frequency, the adaptation level of the background influences the probe response, but with increasing frequency there is a strong interaction with the response to the background per se, so that on- and off-center cell responses are modulated in different phases. Interactions with the background response include both thresholding effects (when the cell's firing is suppressed and no pulse response occurs) and saturation effects (when the background response is vigorous the pulse generates few additional spikes). At 30 Hz, the effect of the pulse is largely a suppression or phase shift of the background response. The data are relevant to the probed-sinewave paradigm, in which pulse detection thresholds are modulated with pulse phase relative to a sinusoidal background. The physiological substrates of the psychophysical results with the probed-sinewave paradigm appear complex, with on- and off-center cells likely to contribute to detection at different pulse phases.
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- Barry B. Lee
- SUNY College of Optometry, New York, NY, USA, & Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Optometry and Visual Sciences, Buskerud University College, Kongsberg, Norway
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- Sections of Surgical Research and Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Nemargut JP, Zhu J, Savoie BT, Wang GY. Differential effects of charybdotoxin on the activity of retinal ganglion cells in the dark- and light-adapted mouse retina. Vision Res 2009; 49:388-97. [PMID: 19084033 PMCID: PMC2721325 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2008] [Revised: 11/12/2008] [Accepted: 11/18/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Patch-clamp recordings were made from retinal ganglion cells in the mouse retina. Under dark adaptation, blockage of BK(Ca) channels increases the spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) and light-evoked On-EPSCs, while it decreases the light-evoked Off inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs). However, under light adaptation it decreases the light-evoked On-EPSCs, the spontaneous IPSCs and the light-evoked On- and Off-IPSCs. Blockage of BK(Ca) channels significantly altered the outputs of RGCs by changing their light-evoked responses into a bursting pattern and increasing the light-evoked depolarization of the membrane potentials, while it did not significantly change the peak firing rates of light-evoked responses.
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- Joseph P Nemargut
- Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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Connexin 35/36 is the most widespread neuronal gap junction protein in the retina and central nervous system. Electrical and/or tracer coupling in a number of neuronal circuits that express this connexin are regulated by light adaptation. In many cases, the regulation of coupling depends on signaling pathways that activate protein kinases such as PKA, and Cx35 has been shown to be regulated by PKA phosphorylation in cell culture systems. To examine whether phosphorylation might regulate Cx35/36 in the retina we developed phospho-specific polyclonal antibodies against the two regulatory phosphorylation sites of Cx35 and examined the phosphorylation state of this connexin in the retina. Western blot analysis with hybrid bass retinal membrane preparations showed Cx35 to be phosphorylated at both the Ser110 and Ser276 sites, and this labeling was eliminated by alkaline phosphatase digestion. The homologous sites of mouse and rabbit Cx36 were also phosphorylated in retinal membrane preparations. Quantitative confocal immunofluorescence analysis showed gap junctions identified with a monoclonal anti-Cx35 antibody to have variable levels of phosphorylation at both the Ser110 and Ser276 sites. Unusual gap junctions that could be identified by their large size (up to 32 microm2) and location in the IPL showed a prominent shift in phosphorylation state from heavily phosphorylated in nighttime, dark-adapted retina to weakly phosphorylated in daytime, light-adapted retina. Both Ser110 and Ser276 sites showed significant changes in this manner. Under both lighting conditions, other gap junctions varied from non-phosphorylated to heavily phosphorylated. We predict that changes in the phosphorylation states of these sites correlate with changes in the degree of coupling through Cx35/36 gap junctions. This leads to the conclusion that connexin phosphorylation mediates changes in coupling in some retinal networks. However, these changes are not global and likely occur in a cell type-specific or possibly a gap junction-specific manner.
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- W. Wade Kothmann
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Wade AR, Wandell BA. Chromatic light adaptation measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurosci 2002; 22:8148-57. [PMID: 12223569 PMCID: PMC6758099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/26/2023] Open
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Sensitivity changes, beginning at the first stages of visual transduction, permit neurons with modest dynamic range to respond to contrast variations across an enormous range of mean illumination. We have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate how these sensitivity changes are controlled within the visual pathways. We measured responses in human visual area V1 to a constant-amplitude, contrast-reversing probe presented on a range of mean backgrounds. We found that signals from probes initiated in the L and M cones were affected by backgrounds that changed the mean absorption rates in the L and M cones, but not by background changes seen only by the S cones. Similarly, signals from S cone-initiated probes were altered by background changes in the S cones, but not by background changes in the L and M cones. Performance in psychophysical tests under similar conditions closely mirrored the changes in V1 fMRI signals. We compare our data with simulations of the visual pathway from photon catch rates to cortical blood-oxygen level-dependent signals and show that the quantitative fMRI signals are consistent with a simple model of mean-field adaptation based on Naka-Rushton (Naka and Rushton, 1966) adaptation mechanisms within cone photoreceptor classes.
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- Alex R Wade
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
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Nir I, Harrison JM, Haque R, Low MJ, Grandy DK, Rubinstein M, Iuvone PM. Dysfunctional light-evoked regulation of cAMP in photoreceptors and abnormal retinal adaptation in mice lacking dopamine D4 receptors. J Neurosci 2002; 22:2063-73. [PMID: 11896146 PMCID: PMC6758276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023] Open
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Dopamine is a retinal neuromodulator that has been implicated in many aspects of retinal physiology. Photoreceptor cells express dopamine D4 receptors that regulate cAMP metabolism. To assess the effects of dopamine on photoreceptor physiology, we examined the morphology, electrophysiology, and regulation of cAMP metabolism in mice with targeted disruption of the dopamine D4 receptor gene. Photoreceptor morphology and outer segment disc shedding after light onset were normal in D4 knock-out (D4KO) mice. Quinpirole, a dopamine D2/D3/D4 receptor agonist, decreased cAMP synthesis in retinas of wild-type (WT) mice but not in retinas of D4KO mice. In WT retinas, the photoreceptors of which were functionally isolated by incubation in the presence of exogenous glutamate, light also suppressed cAMP synthesis. Despite the similar inhibition of cAMP synthesis, the effect of light is directly on the photoreceptors and independent of dopamine modulation, because it was unaffected by application of the D4 receptor antagonist l-745,870. Nevertheless, compared with WT retinas, basal cAMP formation was reduced in the photoreceptors of D4KO retinas, and light had no additional inhibitory effect. The results suggest that dopamine, via D4 receptors, normally modulates the cascade that couples light responses to adenylyl cyclase activity in photoreceptor cells, and the absence of this modulation results in dysfunction of the cascade. Dark-adapted electroretinogram (ERG) responses were normal in D4KO mice. However, ERG b-wave responses were greatly suppressed during both light adaptation and early stages of dark adaptation. Thus, the absence of D4 receptors affects adaptation, altering transmission of light responses from photoreceptors to inner retinal neurons. These findings indicate that dopamine D4 receptors normally play a major role in regulating photoreceptor cAMP metabolism and adaptive retinal responses to changing environmental illumination.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptation, Ocular/physiology
- Animals
- Cell Survival/genetics
- Cyclic AMP/metabolism
- Darkness
- Dopamine/metabolism
- Dopamine Agonists/pharmacology
- Glutamic Acid/metabolism
- In Vitro Techniques
- Light
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Phagocytosis/physiology
- Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate/drug effects
- Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate/metabolism
- Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate/radiation effects
- Quinpirole/pharmacology
- Receptors, Dopamine D2/agonists
- Receptors, Dopamine D2/deficiency
- Receptors, Dopamine D2/genetics
- Receptors, Dopamine D4
- Retina/drug effects
- Retina/metabolism
- Retina/radiation effects
- Rod Cell Outer Segment/ultrastructure
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- Izhak Nir
- Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
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Vaquero CF, Pignatelli A, Partida GJ, Ishida AT. A dopamine- and protein kinase A-dependent mechanism for network adaptation in retinal ganglion cells. J Neurosci 2001; 21:8624-35. [PMID: 11606650 PMCID: PMC3245881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2001] [Revised: 08/09/2001] [Accepted: 08/16/2001] [Indexed: 02/21/2023] Open
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Vertebrates can detect light intensity changes in vastly different photic environments, in part, because postreceptoral neurons undergo "network adaptation." Previous data implicated dopaminergic, cAMP-dependent inhibition of retinal ganglion cells in this process yet left unclear how this occurs and whether this occurs in darkness versus light. To test for light- and dopamine-dependent changes in ganglion cell cAMP levels in situ, we immunostained dark- and light-adapted retinas with anti-cAMP antisera in the presence and absence of various dopamine receptor ligands. To test for direct effects of dopamine receptor ligands and membrane-permeable protein kinase ligands on ganglion cell excitability, we recorded spikes from isolated ganglion cells in perforated-patch whole-cell mode before and during application of these agents by microperfusion. Our immunostainings show that light, endogenous dopamine, and exogenous dopamine elevate ganglion cell cAMP levels in situ by activating D1-type dopamine receptors. Our spike recordings show that D1-type agonists and 8-bromo cAMP reduce spike frequency and curtail sustained spike firing and that these effects entail protein kinase A activation. These effects resemble those of background light on ganglion cell responses to light flashes. Network adaptation could thus be produced, to some extent, by dopaminergic modulation of ganglion cell spike generation, a mechanism distinct from modulation of transmitter release onto ganglion cells or of transmitter-gated currents in ganglion cells. Combining these observations with results obtained in studies of photoreceptor, bipolar, and horizontal cells indicates that all three layers of neurons in the retina are equipped with mechanisms for adaptation to ambient light intensity.
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- C F Vaquero
- Section of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Sieving PA, Fowler ML, Bush RA, Machida S, Calvert PD, Green DG, Makino CL, McHenry CL. Constitutive "light" adaptation in rods from G90D rhodopsin: a mechanism for human congenital nightblindness without rod cell loss. J Neurosci 2001; 21:5449-60. [PMID: 11466416 PMCID: PMC6762654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023] Open
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A dominant form of human congenital nightblindness is caused by a gly90-->asp (G90D) mutation in rhodopsin. G90D has been shown to activate the phototransduction cascade in the absence of light in vitro. Such constitutive activity of G90D rhodopsin in vivo would desensitize rod photoreceptors and lead to nightblindness. In contrast, other rhodopsin mutations typically give rise to nightblindness by causing rod cell death. Thus, the proposed desensitization without rod degeneration would be a novel mechanism for this disorder. To explore this possibility, we induced mice to express G90D opsin in their rods and then examined rod function and morphology, after first crossing the transgenic animals with rhodopsin knock-out mice to obtain appropriate levels of opsin expression. The G90D mouse opsin bound the chromophore and formed a bleachable visual pigment with lambda(max) of 492 nm that supported rod photoresponses. (G+/-, R+/-) retinas, heterozygous for both G90D and wild-type (WT) rhodopsin, possessed normal numbers of photoreceptors and had a normal rhodopsin complement but exhibited considerable loss of rod sensitivity as measured electroretinographically. The rod photoresponses were desensitized, and the response time to peak was faster than in (R+/-) animals. An equivalent desensitization resulted by exposing WT retinas to a background light producing 82 photoisomerizations rod(-1) sec(-1), suggesting that G90D rods in darkness act as if they are partially "light-adapted." Adding a second G90D allele gave (G+/+, R+/-) animals that exhibited a further increase of equivalent background light level but had no rod cell loss by 24 weeks of age. (G+/+, R-/-) retinas that express only the mutant rhodopsin develop normal rod outer segments and show minimal rod cell loss even at 1 year of age. We conclude that G90D is constitutively active in mouse rods in vivo but that it does not cause significant rod degeneration. Instead, G90D desensitizes rods by a process equivalent to light adaptation.
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- P A Sieving
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA.
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We investigated the kinetics and sensitivity of photocurrent responses of salamander rods, both in darkness and during adaptation to steady backgrounds producing 20-3,000 photoisomerizations per second, using suction pipet recordings. The most intense backgrounds suppressed 80% of the circulating dark current and decreased the flash sensitivity approximately 30-fold. To investigate the underlying transduction mechanism, we expressed the responses as a fraction of the steady level of cGMP-activated current recorded in the background. The fractional responses to flashes of any fixed intensity began rising along a common trajectory, regardless of background intensity. We interpret these invariant initial trajectories to indicate that, at these background intensities, light adaptation does not alter the gain of any of the amplifying steps of phototransduction. For subsaturating flashes of fixed intensity, the fractional responses obtained on backgrounds of different intensity were found to "peel off" from their common initial trajectory in a background-dependent manner: the more intense the background, the earlier the time of peeling off. This behavior is consistent with a background-induced reduction in the effective lifetime of at least one of the three major integrating steps in phototransduction; i.e., an acceleration of one or more of the following: (1) the inactivation of activated rhodopsin (R*); (2) the inactivation of activated phosphodiesterase (E*, representing the complex G(alpha)-PDE of phosphodiesterase with the transducin alpha-subunit); or (3) the hydrolysis of cGMP, with rate constant beta. Our measurements show that, over the range of background intensities we used, beta increased on average to approximately 20 times its dark-adapted value; and our theoretical analysis indicates that this increase in beta is the primary mechanism underlying the measured shortening of time-to-peak of the dim-flash response and the decrease in sensitivity of the fractional response.
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- S. Nikonov
- Department of Ophthalmology and Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, United Kingdom
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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Koblížek M, Komenda J, Masojídek J, Pechar L. CELL AGGREGATION OF THE CYANOBACTERIUM SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS: ROLE OF THE ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN. J Phycol 2000; 36:662-668. [PMID: 29542152 DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2000.99030.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Cell aggregation, the formation of irregular clusters of individual cells or filaments, is frequently observed in many cyanobacterial species. The mechanism(s) and potential causes of cell aggregation were studied in a thermophilic strain of the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus Näg. We found that cell aggregation occured as the natural response of a healthy, well-growing culture to a sudden increase in irradiance. We propose that aggregation represents a fast (time scale in minutes), light-adapting mechanism, affected by both light quality and the presence of substances altering photosynthetic electron transfer. Our data suggest an involvement of electron transfer downstream of PSI, with reactive oxygen species triggering the signal. Aggregation was an ATP-independent process and did not require de novo protein synthesis. We suggest a specific role of glutathione in this process based on its ability to induce aggregation in the dark.
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- Michal Koblížek
- Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Opatovický Mlýn CZ-379 81 Třeboň, Czech RepublicSection of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Dukelská 135 CZ-379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic Applied Ecology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia, Studentská 13 CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Opatovický Mlýn CZ-379 81 Třeboň, Czech RepublicSection of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Dukelská 135 CZ-379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic Applied Ecology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia, Studentská 13 CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Opatovický Mlýn CZ-379 81 Třeboň, Czech RepublicSection of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Dukelská 135 CZ-379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic Applied Ecology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia, Studentská 13 CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Opatovický Mlýn CZ-379 81 Třeboň, Czech RepublicSection of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences, Dukelská 135 CZ-379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic Applied Ecology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, University of South Bohemia, Studentská 13 CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Oberwinkler J, Stavenga DG. Calcium transients in the rhabdomeres of dark- and light-adapted fly photoreceptor cells. J Neurosci 2000; 20:1701-9. [PMID: 10684872 PMCID: PMC6772907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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The light response of fly photoreceptor cells is modulated by changes in free Ca(2+) concentration. Fly phototransduction and most processes regulating it take place in or very close to the rhabdomere. We therefore measured the kinetics and the absolute values of the free Ca(2+) concentration in the rhabdomere of fly photoreceptor cells in vivo by making use of the natural optics of the fly's eye. We show that Ca(2+) flowing into the rhabdomere after light stimulation of dark-adapted cells causes fast Ca(2+) transients that reach peak values higher than 200 microM in <20 msec. Approximately 500 msec later, the free Ca(2+) concentration has declined again to approximately 20 microM. The duration of the Ca(2+) transients becomes still shorter, and their size reduced, when the photoreceptor cell is light-adapted. This reduction in duration and size of the Ca(2+) transients is graded with the intensity of the adapting light. The kinetics and absolute values of the free calcium concentration found to occur in the rhabdomere are suitable to mediate the fast feedback signals known to act on the fly phototransduction cascade.
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- J Oberwinkler
- Department of Neurobiophysics, University of Groningen, NL-9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Hamer RD. Computational analysis of vertebrate phototransduction: combined quantitative and qualitative modeling of dark- and light-adapted responses in amphibian rods. Vis Neurosci 2000; 17:679-99. [PMID: 11153649 PMCID: PMC1482460 DOI: 10.1017/s0952523800175030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We evaluated the generality of two models of vertebrate phototransduction. The approach was to quantitatively optimize each model to the full waveform of high-quality, dark-adapted (DA), salamander rod flash responses. With the optimal parameters, each model was then used to account for signature, qualitative features of rod responses from three experimental paradigms (stimulus/response, "S/R suite"): (1) step responses; (2) the intensity dependence of the period of photocurrent saturation (Tsat vs. ln(I)); and (3) light-adapted (LA) incremental flash sensitivity as a function of background intensity. The first model was the recent successful model of Nikonov et al. (1998). The second model replaced the instantaneous Ca2+ buffering used in the Nikonov et al. model with a dynamic buffer. The results showed that, in the absence of the dynamic Ca2+ buffer, the Nikonov et al. model does not have sufficient flexibility to provide a good fit to the flash responses, and, using the same parameters, reproduce the salient features of the S/R suite--critical features at step onset and offset are absent; the Tsat function has too shallow a slope; and the model cannot generate the empirically observed I-range of Weber-Fechner LA behavior. Some features could be recovered by changing parameters, but only at the expense of the fit to the reference (Ref) data. When the dynamic buffer is added, the model is able to achieve an acceptable fit to the Ref data while reproducing several features of the S/R suite, including an empirically observed Tsat function, and an extended range of LA flash sensitivity adhering to Weber's law. The overall improved behavior of the model with a dynamic Ca2+ buffer indicates that it is an important mechanism to include in a working model of phototransduction, and that, despite the slow kinetics of amphibian rods, Ca2+ buffering should not be simulated as an instantaneous process. However, neither model was able to capture all the features with the same parameters yielding the optimal fit to the Ref data. In addition, neither model could maintain a good fit to the Ref data when five key biochemical parameters were held at their current known values. Moreover, even after optimization, a number of important parameters remained outside their empirical estimates. We conclude that other mechanisms will need to be added, including additional Ca2+-feedback mechanisms. The present research illustrates the importance of a hybrid qualitative/quantitative approach to model development, and the limitations of modeling restricted sets of data.
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- R D Hamer
- Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA.
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Sampath AP, Matthews HR, Cornwall MC, Bandarchi J, Fain GL. Light-dependent changes in outer segment free-Ca2+ concentration in salamander cone photoreceptors. J Gen Physiol 1999; 113:267-77. [PMID: 9925824 PMCID: PMC2223363 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.113.2.267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/1998] [Accepted: 11/18/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Simultaneous measurements of photocurrent and outer segment Ca2+ were made from isolated salamander cone photoreceptors. While recording the photocurrent from the inner segment, which was drawn into a suction pipette, a laser spot confocal technique was employed to evoke fluorescence from the outer segment of a cone loaded with the Ca2+ indicator fluo-3. When a dark-adapted cone was exposed to the intense illumination of the laser, the circulating current was completely suppressed and fluo-3 fluorescence rapidly declined. In the more numerous red-sensitive cones this light-induced decay in fluo-3 fluorescence was best fitted as the sum of two decaying exponentials with time constants of 43 +/- 2.4 and 640 +/- 55 ms (mean +/- SEM, n = 25) and unequal amplitudes: the faster component was 1.7-fold larger than the slower. In blue-sensitive cones, the decay in fluorescence was slower, with time constants of 140 +/- 30 and 1,400 +/- 300 ms, and nearly equal amplitudes. Calibration of fluo-3 fluorescence in situ from red-sensitive cones allowed the calculation of the free-Ca2+ concentration, yielding values of 410 +/- 37 nM in the dark-adapted outer segment and 5.5 +/- 2.4 nM after saturating illumination (mean +/- SEM, n = 8). Photopigment bleaching by the laser resulted in a considerable reduction in light sensitivity and a maintained decrease in outer segment Ca2+ concentration. When the photopigment was regenerated by applying exogenous 11-cis-retinal, both the light sensitivity and fluo-3 fluorescence recovered rapidly to near dark-adapted levels. Regeneration of the photopigment allowed repeated measurements of fluo-3 fluorescence to be made from a single red-sensitive cone during adaptation to steady light over a range of intensities. These measurements demonstrated that the outer segment Ca2+ concentration declines in a graded manner during adaptation to background light, varying linearly with the magnitude of the circulating current.
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- A P Sampath
- Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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