Shaker it OFF: Biophysical Characterization of an Inactivating Potassium Conductance Mediating Object Segmentation in a Collision-Detecting Neuron
Shaulsky, G. H.; Bellini, D.; Ulloa, D.; Nasiotis, E.; Khan, H.; Luo, J.; Wang, H.; Dierick, H.; Zong, C.; Gabbiani, F. H.; Dewell, R. B.
10.1101/2025.09.04.674057 bioRxivShow abstract
Homologous ion channels are expressed in sensory neurons across species where they shape responses to varied sensory stimuli, on a wide range of timescales. In grasshoppers, visual detection of looming stimuli which simulate an approaching predator involves the sub-cellular expression pattern of a newly characterized Shaker channel in a single identified neuron, discovered using a newly sequenced genome and single cell RNA sequencing. This channel shapes selectivity for approaching threats and was characterized with electrophysiological recordings, RNA interference, pharmacology and biophysical compartmental simulations. Our results explain how a slowly activating and inactivating potassium conductance common in neuronal dendrites contributes to visual object segmentation and implements a complex neural computation within a single neuron.
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