cGMP dynamics underlie thermosensation in C. elegans
Aoki, I.; Shiota, M.; Nakano, S.; Mori, I.
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Animals sense ambient temperature so that they can adjust their behavior to the environment; they avoid noxious heat and coldness and stay within a survivable temperature range. C. elegans can sense temperature, memorize past cultivation temperature and navigate towards preferable temperature, for which a thermosensory neuron, AFD, is essential. AFD responds to temperature increase from the past cultivation temperature by increasing intracellular Ca2+ level. We aimed to reveal how AFD encodes and memorizes the information of temperature. Although cGMP synthesis is crucial for thermosensation by AFD, whether and how cGMP level temporally fluctuates in AFD remained elusive. We therefore monitored cGMP level in AFD and found that cGMP dynamically responded to temperature change in a manner dependent on past cultivation temperature. Given that cGMP dynamics is supposed to be upstream of Ca2+ dynamics, our results suggest that AFDs memory is formed by simpler molecular mechanisms than previously expected from the Ca2+ dynamics. Moreover, we analyzed how guanylyl cyclases and phosphodiesterases, which synthesize and degrade cGMP, respectively, contributed to cGMP and Ca2+ dynamics and thermotaxis behavior.
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