期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
卷 106, 期 2, 页码 817-827出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00578.2010
关键词
locomotion; metabotropic GABA receptor; plasticity; channelrhodopsin-2; excitatory-inhibitory balance
资金
- National Institutes of Health-National Center for Research Resources
- Japanese National Bioresource Project for the Experimental Animal
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [GO1011/2-1, SFB807-TP11]
- Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt-Macromolecular Complexes
Schultheis C, Brauner M, Liewald JF, Gottschalk A. Optogenetic analysis of GABA B receptor signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans motor neurons. J Neurophysiol 106: 817-827, 2011. First published May 25, 2011; doi:10.1152/jn.00578.2010.-In the nervous system, a perfect balance of excitation and inhibition is required, for example, to enable coordinated locomotion. In Caenorhabditis elegans, cholinergic and GABAergic motor neurons (MNs) effect waves of contralateral muscle contraction and relaxation. Cholinergic MNs innervate muscle as well as GABAergic MNs, projecting to the opposite side of the body, at dyadic synapses. Only a few connections exist from GABAergic to cholinergic MNs, emphasizing that GABA signaling is mainly directed toward muscle. Yet, a GABA(B) receptor comprising GBB-1 and GBB-2 subunits, expressed in cholinergic MNs, was shown to affect locomotion, likely by feedback inhibition of cholinergic MNs in response to spillover GABA. In the present study, we examined whether the GBB-1/2 receptor could also affect short-term plasticity in cholinergic MNs with the use of channelrhodopsin-2-mediated photostimulation of GABAergic and cholinergic neurons. The GBB-1/2 receptor contributes to acute body relaxation, evoked by photoactivation of GABAergic MNs, and to effects of GABA on locomotion behavior. Loss of the plasma membrane GABA transporter SNF-11, as well as acute photoevoked GABA release, affected cholinergic MN function in opposite directions. Prolonged stimulation of GABA MNs had subtle effects on cholinergic MNs, depending on stimulus duration and gbb-2. Thus GBB-1/2 receptors serve mainly for linear feedback inhibition of cholinergic MNs but also evoke minor plastic changes.
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