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Integration of light and temperature in the regulation of circadian gene expression in Drosophila

Boothroyd, Catharine E.
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Wijnen, Herman
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Naef, Felix  
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2007
PLoS genetics

Circadian clocks are aligned to the environment via synchronizing signals, or Zeitgebers, such as daily light and temperature cycles, food availability, and social behavior. In this study, we found that genome-wide expression profiles from temperature-entrained flies show a dramatic difference in the presence or absence of a thermocycle. Whereas transcript levels appear to be modified broadly by changes in temperature, there is a specific set of temperature-entrained circadian mRNA profiles that continue to oscillate in constant conditions. There are marked differences in the biological functions represented by temperature-driven or circadian regulation. The set of temperature-entrained circadian transcripts overlaps significantly with a previously defined set of transcripts oscillating in response to a photocycle. In follow-up studies, all thermocycle-entrained circadian transcript rhythms also responded to light/dark entrainment, whereas some photocycle-entrained rhythms did not respond to temperature entrainment. Transcripts encoding the clock components Period, Timeless, Clock, Vrille, PAR-domain protein 1, and Cryptochrome were all confirmed to be rhythmic after entrainment to a daily thermocycle, although the presence of a thermocycle resulted in an unexpected phase difference between period and timeless expression rhythms at the transcript but not the protein level. Generally, transcripts that exhibit circadian rhythms both in response to thermocycles and photocycles maintained the same mutual phase relationships after entrainment by temperature or light. Comparison of the collective temperature- and light-entrained circadian phases of these transcripts indicates that natural environmental light and temperature cycles cooperatively entrain the circadian clock. This interpretation is further supported by comparative analysis of the circadian phases observed for temperature-entrained and light-entrained circadian locomotor behavior. Taken together, these findings suggest that information from both light and temperature is integrated by the transcriptional clock mechanism in the adult fly head.

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research article
DOI
10.1371/journal.pgen.0030054
Web of Science ID

WOS:000246041700005

Author(s)
Boothroyd, Catharine E.
Wijnen, Herman
Naef, Felix  
Saez, Lino
Young, Michael W.
Date Issued

2007

Publisher

Public Library of Science

Published in
PLoS genetics
Volume

3

Issue

4

Start page

e54

Subjects

Light

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Temperature

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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November 1, 2010
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/56533
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