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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 105, Issue 20, Pages 7321-7326Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802164105
Keywords
chemosensation; neural plasticity
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Funding Source: Medline
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Rapid behavioral responses to oxygen are generated by specialized sensory neurons that sense hypoxia and hyperoxia. On a slower time scale, many cells respond to oxygen through the activity of the hypoxia-inducible transcription factor HIF-1. Here, we show that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, prolonged growth in hypoxia alters the neuronal circuit for oxygen preference by activating the hif-1 pathway. Activation of hif-1 by hypoxia or by mutations in its negative regulator egl-9/prolyl hydroxylase shifts behavioral oxygen preferences to lower concentrations and eliminates a regulatory input from food. At a neuronal level, hif-1 activation transforms a distributed, regulated neuronal network for oxygen preference into a smaller, fixed network that is constitutively active. The hif-1 pathway acts both in neurons and in gonadal endocrine cells to regulate oxygen preference. These results suggest that physiological detection of hypoxia by multiple tissues provides adaptive information to neuronal circuits to modify behavior.
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