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Calcium homeostasis in photoreceptor cells of Drosophila mutants inaC and trp studied with the pupil mechanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

Cornelia A. Hofstee  and
Doekele G. Stavenga
Cornelia A. Hofstee
Affiliation:
Department of Biophysics, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, NL-9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
Doekele G. Stavenga
Affiliation:
Department of Biophysics, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, NL-9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Abstract

The light-driven pupil mechanism, consisting of an assembly of mobile pigment granules inside the photoreceptor cells, has been investigated by in vivo reflection microspectrophotometry in wild type (WT) Drosophila and in the photoreceptor mutants inaC and trp. The pupillary response of a dark-adapted WT eye to a step in light is a monophasic reflectance increase reaching a plateau after ca. 15-s light adaptation. This reflectance change is due to photoreceptor pigment granules that accumulate near the tips of the rhabdomeres under light adaptation and that are withdrawn towards the periphery in the dark (Franceschini & Kirschfeld, 1976). The step response of the pupil mechanism of inaC is triphasic. Strikingly, the reflectance level at light onset is distinctly higher than that in WT, due to a partly aggregated state of the photoreceptor pigment granules near the rhabdomere tips that persists in the dark-adapted state, in line with direct calcium measurements of Peretz et al. (1994b). The step response of the pupil mechanism of inaC is slightly elevated compared to that of WT. The step response in trp is a transient, biphasic reflectance change, approximating a log normal function. This function is also a good approximation of the pulse response in WT and inaC. The intensity range of pupillary sensitivity is about 4 log unit. The range of inaC compared to that of WT is slightly (≈0.5 log unit) shifted towards lower intensities, but that in trp is strongly shifted to higher intensities (≈2.5 log unit). The results can be interpreted with the present knowledge of the primary steps in fly phototransduction and the hypothesis that the local intracellular calcium concentration determines the position of the pigment granules, and hence are in line with the notion that the pupil can be used as a qualitative Ca2+ probe.

Keywords

FruitflyPhotoreceptorAdaptationCalcium
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Research Articles
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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , March 1996 , pp. 257 - 263
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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