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CELL REPORTS
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108607
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- Simons Foundation [SF349247]
- NYSTAR
- NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences [GM103310]
- NIH National Center for Research Resources
- Knockout Consortium
- NIH [R35NS105094]
- Women & Science Fellowship
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The study found that the nervous system of C. elegans undergoes remodeling following stress, and investigated the impact of individual neuron remodeling events under stress conditions. The results revealed the key roles of glial cells in stress-induced nervous system plasticity and demonstrated that remodeling primes animals to respond to favorable conditions.
Animal nervous systems remodel following stress. Although global stress-dependent changes are well documented, contributions of individual neuron remodeling events to animal behavior modification are challenging to study. In response to environmental insults, C. elegans become stress-resistant dauers. Dauer entry induces amphid sensory organ remodeling in which bilateral AMsh glial cells expand and fuse, allowing embedded AWC chemosensory neurons to extend sensory receptive endings. We show that amphid remodeling correlates with accelerated dauer exit upon exposure to favorable conditions and identify a G protein-coupled receptor, REMO-1, driving AMsh glia fusion, AWC neuron remodeling, and dauer exit. REMO-1 is expressed in and localizes to AMsh glia tips, is dispensable for other remodeling events, and promotes stress-induced expression of the remodeling receptor tyrosine kinase VER-1. Our results demonstrate how single-neuron structural changes affect animal behavior, identify key glial roles in stress-induced nervous system plasticity, and demonstrate that remodeling primes animals to respond to favorable conditions.
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