PUBLICATION
Localization and characterization of val-opsin isoform-expressing cells in the brain of adult zebrafish
- Authors
- Hang, C.Y., Kitahashi, T., Parhar, I.S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-140722-14
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- The Journal of comparative neurology 522(17): 3847-60 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- Deep-brain, Merck Cat# AB3080 RRID:AB_11211640, RRID:ZFIN_ZDB-GENO-090918-6, neurotransmitters, non-visual
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Opsins/genetics
- Opsins/metabolism*
- Tryptophan Hydroxylase/genetics
- Tryptophan Hydroxylase/metabolism
- Male
- Zebrafish
- Protein Isoforms/genetics
- Protein Isoforms/metabolism
- Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone
- Brain/cytology*
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription Factors/metabolism
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/genetics
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/metabolism*
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 25043553 Full text @ J. Comp. Neurol.
Citation
Hang, C.Y., Kitahashi, T., Parhar, I.S. (2014) Localization and characterization of val-opsin isoform-expressing cells in the brain of adult zebrafish. The Journal of comparative neurology. 522(17):3847-60.
Abstract
In addition to vision, light information is used to regulate a range of animal physiology. Such non-image forming functions of light are mediated by non-visual photoreceptors expressed in distinct neurons in the retina and the brain in most vertebrates. A non-visual photoreceptor vertebrate ancient long opsin (VAL-opsin) possesses two functional isoforms in the zebrafish, encoded by valopa and valopb, which has received little attention. In order to delineate the neurochemical identities of valop cells and to test for co-localization of the valop isoforms, we used in situ hybridization to characterize the expression of the valop genes along with that of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides known to be present at the sites of valop expression. Double labeling showed that the thalamic valop population co-expresses valopa and valopb. All the thalamic valop cells overlapped with a GABAergic cell mass that continued from the anterior nucleus to the intercalated thalamic nucleus. A novel valopa cell population found in the superior raphe was serotonergic in nature. A valopb cell population in the Edinger-Westphal nucleus was identified to contain thyrotropin-releasing hormone. Valopb cells localized in the hindbrain intermediate reticular formation were non-cholinergic in nature (non-motorneurons). Thus, the presence of valop cell populations in different brain regions with co-expression of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides and, the co-localization of valop isoforms in the thalamic cell population indicate regulatory and functional complexity of VAL-opsin in the brain of the zebrafish.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping