The EGL-30 pathway regulates experience-dependent aversive behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans to the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications(2023)
摘要
Avoidance of harmful substances is survival strategy used cross invertebrates and vertebrates. For example, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans evolves a sufficient avoidance response to pathogenic bacteria. Despite G protein has been found to exert neural plasticity for avoidance behaviours in C. elegans, the function of Gi/o and Gq subunit signalling in experience-dependent aversive behaviour remains unclear. In this study, we show that EGL-30/Gq coupled with EGL-8/UNC-13 regulates aversive behaviour of C. elegans to pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 via acetylcholine and its receptor nAChR. Pyocyanin, a toxin secreted from P. aeruginosa, acts as a signal molecule to trigger aversive behaviour. ODR-3 and ODR-7 in AWA and AWC neurons function as upstream of EGL-30 to induce experience-dependent aversive behaviour to P. aeruginosa, respectively. These results suggested that a novel signalling pathway to regulate a behavioural response.
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egl-30/Gq,C. elegans,P. aeruginosa,Pyocyanin,nAChR
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