PUBLICATION
Single-cell in vivo imaging of cellular circadian oscillators in zebrafish
- Authors
- Wang, H., Yang, Z., Li, X., Huang, D., Yu, S., He, J., Li, Y., Yan, J.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-200403-60
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- PLoS Biology 18: e3000435 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- He, Jie, Yu, Shuguang
- Keywords
- none
- Datasets
- GEO:GSE134288
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Bacterial Proteins/genetics
- Brain/cytology
- Circadian Clocks/genetics*
- Circadian Rhythm/genetics
- Circadian Rhythm/physiology
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/cytology
- Luminescent Proteins/genetics
- Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group D, Member 1/genetics*
- Photoperiod
- Pineal Gland/cytology*
- Pineal Gland/physiology
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Single-Cell Analysis
- Time-Lapse Imaging
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- PubMed
- 32168317 Full text @ PLoS Biol.
Citation
Wang, H., Yang, Z., Li, X., Huang, D., Yu, S., He, J., Li, Y., Yan, J. (2020) Single-cell in vivo imaging of cellular circadian oscillators in zebrafish. PLoS Biology. 18:e3000435.
Abstract
The circadian clock is a cell-autonomous time-keeping mechanism established gradually during embryonic development. Here, we generated a transgenic zebrafish line carrying a destabilized fluorescent protein driven by the promoter of a core clock gene, nr1d1, to report in vivo circadian rhythm at the single-cell level. By time-lapse imaging of this fish line and 3D reconstruction, we observed the sequential initiation of the reporter expression starting at photoreceptors in the pineal gland, then spreading to the cells in other brain regions at the single-cell level. Even within the pineal gland, we found heterogeneous onset of nr1d1 expression, in which each cell undergoes circadian oscillation superimposed over a cell type-specific developmental trajectory. Furthermore, we found that single-cell expression of nr1d1 showed synchronous circadian oscillation under a light-dark (LD) cycle. Remarkably, single-cell oscillations were dramatically dampened rather than desynchronized in animals raised under constant darkness, while the developmental trend still persists. It suggests that light exposure in early zebrafish embryos has significant effect on cellular circadian oscillations.
Errata / Notes
This article is corrected by ZDB-PUB-210817-14.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping