Endocrine signals fine-tune daily activity patterns in Drosophila

Animals need to balance competitive behaviors to maintain internal homeostasis. The underlying mechanisms are complex but typically involve neuroendocrine signaling. Using Drosophila, we systematically manipulated signaling between energy-mobilizing endocrine cells producing adipokinetic hormone (AK...

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Published in:	Current biology Vol. 31; no. 18; pp. 4076 - 4087.e5
Main Authors:	Pauls, Dennis, Selcho, Mareike, Räderscheidt, Johanna, Amatobi, Kelechi M., Fekete, Agnes, Krischke, Markus, Hermann-Luibl, Christiane, Ozbek-Unal, Ayten Gizem, Ehmann, Nadine, Itskov, Pavel M., Kittel, Robert J., Helfrich-Förster, Charlotte, Kühnlein, Ronald P., Mueller, Martin J., Wegener, Christian
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Elsevier Inc 27-09-2021
Subjects:	AKH Drosophila fat body locomotor activity octopamine starvation octopamine starvation locomotor activity Drosophila AKH fat body
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Summary:	Animals need to balance competitive behaviors to maintain internal homeostasis. The underlying mechanisms are complex but typically involve neuroendocrine signaling. Using Drosophila, we systematically manipulated signaling between energy-mobilizing endocrine cells producing adipokinetic hormone (AKH), octopaminergic neurons, and the energy-storing fat body to assess whether this neuroendocrine axis involved in starvation-induced hyperactivity also balances activity levels under ad libitum access to food. Our results suggest that AKH signals via two divergent pathways that are mutually competitive in terms of activity and rest. AKH increases activity via the octopaminergic system during the day, while it prevents high activity levels during the night by signaling to the fat body. This regulation involves feedback signaling from octopaminergic neurons to AKH-producing cells (APCs). APCs are known to integrate a multitude of metabolic and endocrine signals. Our results add a new facet to the versatile regulatory functions of APCs by showing that their output contributes to shape the daily activity pattern under ad libitum access to food. •AKH induces activity under non-starving conditions via the octopaminergic system•AKH prevents increased activity during the night by signaling to the fat body•AKH promotes increased activity during the day by signaling to octopaminergic neurons•The regulation of activity involves octopamine feedback to AKH-producing cells Pauls et al. show that adipokinetic hormone fine-tunes daily activity patterns via two signaling pathways that are counter-acting each other with regard to locomotor activity and rest. These branches comprise octopaminergic neurons in the CNS and the energy-storing fat body.
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ISSN:	0960-9822 1879-0445 1879-0445
DOI:	10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.002