From Pheromone Receptors to Social Behaviors

从信息素受体到社会行为

基本信息

批准号：
8265993
负责人：
Hubert O Amrein
金额：
$ 29.83万
依托单位：
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CTR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2008-03-21 至 2014-02-28
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8265993
关键词：
Adult Aggressive behavior Alleles Animals Auditory Axon Behavior Behavioral Behavioral Assay Biological Models Biological Neural Networks Chemicals Complex Courtship Cues Discrimination Drosophila genus Drosophila melanogaster Family Female Goals Grant Individual Insecta Investigation Knock-out Knowledge Ligands Link Mammals Maps Modality Molecular Molecular Neurobiology Nervous system structure Neurons Neurosciences Organism Partner in relationship Pheromone Pheromone Receptors Play Receptor Gene Reporter Role Sensory Sex Behavior Signal Transduction Social Behavior Social Interaction Synapses System Testing Variant Visual Work base fly gene function genetic analysis homologous recombination male member mutant neural circuit positional cloning preference receptor receptor function relating to nervous system research study sensory system tool

项目摘要

Our long-term objective is to elucidate how social behaviors, universal features of animals with complex nervous systems, are genetically controlled through the various sensory systems in an organism. As a general strategy, we will utilize Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to elucidate the roles of pheromones and their receptors in social behaviors, such as courtship, mating, aggression etc. In most mammals and insects, the recognition of contact and/or volatile pheromone signals plays a central role in these behaviors. In Drosophila and other insects, members of two families of seven-transmembrane receptors, encoded by the olfactory (Or) and gustatory receptor (Gr) genes, are thought to recognize pheromones. Stimulation of these receptors leads to the activation of neural ensembles in the CNS, which are thought to receive also input from other sensory modalities (i.e. visual and auditory). Finally, a complex neural circuit must integrate the information from these diverse sensory channels and control the elaborate behavioral displays during courtship, aggression and other social interactions between individuals. To understand how such complex, integrated circuits operate is one of the main scientific challenges in modern, molecular neurobiology. We have previously identified a bona fide pheromone receptor, which plays a major role in male courtship. This receptor is encoded by Gr68a, a member of a Gr subfamily, which includes five other Gr genes - Gr32a, Gr39a.a, Gr39a.b, Gr39a.c and Gr39a.d. The central hypothesis of our proposal is that all these Gr genes encode pheromone receptors with specific roles in diverse social behaviors in Drosophila. We shall take a reverse genetic approach to elucidate the roles of these receptors. We will generate knock-out alleles for all six Gr pheromone receptor genes, generate Gr mutant fly strains and perform extensive behavioral analyses with these flies to elucidate Gr gene functions in courtship activation, courtship suppression, aggression, female attraction and other social behaviors. We shall map the axonal projections of Gr-expressing, pheromone-sensing neurons and identify neuronal targets that form synapses with their axons. Finally, we shall identify the main chemical compounds that are recognized by these GR pheromone receptors, and hence, represent the cues that activate these neural circuits. This grant will investigate the specific role of pheromone receptors in complex social behaviors including sexual behavior, aggression and rejection, using the Drosophila as a model system. The proposed studies will employ extensive genetic analyses, behavioral experiments and neuroanatomical investigations to identify the function of these receptors, with the goal to reveal links between receptors and behavior. Our work will significantly expand our rather poor knowledge of pheromone-guided complex behavior and neural circuits that control them, a hot topic in the field of behavioral and molecular neuroscience.

我们的长期目标是阐明社会行为，普遍特征具有复杂神经系统的动物通过各种感觉通过遗传控制有机体中的系统。作为一般策略，我们将利用果蝇Melanogaster作为阐明信息素及其受体在社会行为中的作用的模型系统，在大多数哺乳动物和昆虫中，例如求爱，交配，侵略等，对接触和/或挥发性信息素信号在这些行为中起着核心作用。在果蝇中和其他昆虫，两个七跨膜受体家族的成员，由编码嗅觉（OR）和味觉受体（GR）基因被认为可以识别信息素。这些受体的刺激导致CNS中神经合奏的激活，人们认为还从其他感觉方式（即视觉和听觉）接收输入。最后，复杂的神经回路必须整合来自这些不同感觉的信息渠道并控制求爱，侵略和其他期间精心制作的行为表现个人之间的社会互动。了解这种复杂，集成的电路如何操作是现代分子神经生物学中的主要科学挑战之一。我们以前已经确定了真正的信息素受体，它发挥了作用在男性求爱中的作用。该受体由GR68A（GR亚家族的成员）编码，该受体包括其他五个GR基因-GR32A，GR39A.A，GR39A.B，GR39A.C和GR39A.D。中央我们建议的假设是所有这些GR基因编码信息素受体在果蝇的各种社会行为中的特定角色。我们将采取反向遗传阐明这些受体的作用的方法。我们将生成所有六个 GR信息素受体基因，产生GR突变蝇菌株并进行广泛用这些苍蝇进行行为分析，以阐明求爱的GR基因在求爱激活中的功能，求爱，侵略，女性吸引力和其他社会行为。我们将映射 GR表达，信息素感应神经元的轴突投射并识别神经元靶标与轴突形成突触。最后，我们将确定主要化学物质这些GR信息素受体识别的化合物，因此代表激活这些神经回路的提示。该赠款将研究信息素受体在复合物中的特定作用社交行为，包括性行为，侵略和拒绝，使用果蝇作为模型系统。拟议的研究将采用广泛的遗传分析，行为实验和神经解剖学研究识别这些受体的功能，目的是揭示受体和行为。我们的工作将大大扩大我们相当贫穷的了解信息素指导的复杂行为和神经回路控制它们，这是行为和分子神经科学领域中的热门话题。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（13）

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A fructose receptor functions as a nutrient sensor in the Drosophila brain.

DOI：
10.1016/j.cell.2012.10.024
发表时间：
2012-11-21
期刊：
Cell
影响因子：
64.5
作者：
Miyamoto T;Slone J;Song X;Amrein H
通讯作者：
Amrein H

Enhancing perception of contaminated food through acid-mediated modulation of taste neuron responses.

DOI：
10.1016/j.cub.2014.07.069
发表时间：
2014-09-08
期刊：
Current biology : CB
影响因子：
0
作者：
Chen Y;Amrein H
通讯作者：
Amrein H

Suppression of male courtship by a Drosophila pheromone receptor.

DOI：
10.1038/nn.2161
发表时间：
2008-08
期刊：
Nature neuroscience
影响因子：
25
作者：
Miyamoto T;Amrein H
通讯作者：
Amrein H

The molecular basis of sugar sensing in Drosophila larvae.

DOI：
10.1016/j.cub.2013.06.028
发表时间：
2013-08-05
期刊：
CURRENT BIOLOGY
影响因子：
9.2
作者：
Mishra, Dushyant;Miyamoto, Tetsuya;Rezenom, Yohannes H.;Broussard, Alex;Yavuz, Ahmet;Slone, Jesse;Russell, David H.;Amrein, Hubert
通讯作者：
Amrein, Hubert

Identification of a Drosophila glucose receptor using Ca2+ imaging of single chemosensory neurons.