BMAL1-Driven Tissue Clocks Respond Independently to Light to Maintain Homeostasis

Circadian rhythms control organismal physiology throughout the day. At the cellular level, clock regulation is established by a self-sustained Bmal1-dependent transcriptional oscillator network. However, it is still unclear how different tissues achieve a synchronized rhythmic physiology. That is, d...

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Autores: Welz, Patrick-Simon, Zinna, Valentina M., Symeonidi, Aikaterini, Koronowski, Kevin B., Kinouchi, Kenichiro, Smith, Jacob G., Marín Guillén, Inés, Castellanos, Andrés, Furrow, Stephen, Aragón, Ferrán, Crainiciuc, Georgiana, Prats, Neus, Martín Caballero, Juan, Hidalgo, Andrés, Sassone-Corsi, Paolo, Aznar Benitah, Salvador
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/141217
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/141217
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ritmes circadiaris
Fisiologia
Circadian rhythms
Physiology
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Sumario:Circadian rhythms control organismal physiology throughout the day. At the cellular level, clock regulation is established by a self-sustained Bmal1-dependent transcriptional oscillator network. However, it is still unclear how different tissues achieve a synchronized rhythmic physiology. That is, do they respond independently to environmental signals, or require interactions with each other to do so? We show that unexpectedly, light synchronizes the Bmal1-dependent circadian machinery in single tissues in the absence of Bmal1 in all other tissues. Strikingly, light-driven tissue autonomous clocks occur without rhythmic feeding behavior and are lost in constant darkness. Importantly, tissue-autonomous Bmal1 partially sustains homeostasis in otherwise arrhythmic and prematurely aging animals. Our results therefore support a two-branched model for the daily synchronization of tissues: an autonomous response branch, whereby light entrains circadian clocks without any commitment of other Bmal1-dependent clocks, and a memory branch using other Bmal1-dependent clocks to “remember” time in the absence of external cues.

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