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Differential effects of light and feeding on circadian organization of peripheral clocks in a forebrain Bmal1 mutant

  1. Mariko Izumo
  2. Martina Pejchal
  3. Andrew C Schook
  4. Ryan P Lange
  5. Jacqueline A Walisser
  6. Takashi R Sato
  7. Xiaozhong Wang
  8. Christopher A Bradfield
  9. Joseph S Takahashi  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
  2. Northwestern University, United States
  3. University of Wisconsin, United States
  4. University of Tübingen, Germany
  5. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04617
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  1. Mariko Izumo
  2. Martina Pejchal
  3. Andrew C Schook
  4. Ryan P Lange
  5. Jacqueline A Walisser
  6. Takashi R Sato
  7. Xiaozhong Wang
  8. Christopher A Bradfield
  9. Joseph S Takahashi
(2014)
Differential effects of light and feeding on circadian organization of peripheral clocks in a forebrain Bmal1 mutant
eLife 3:e04617.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04617
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Abstract

In order to assess the contribution of a central clock in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) to circadian behavior and the organization of peripheral clocks, we generated forebrain/SCN-specific Bmal1 knockout mice by using floxed Bmal1 and pan-neuronal Cre lines. The forebrain knockout mice showed >90% deletion of BMAL1 in the SCN and exhibited an immediate and complete loss of circadian behavior in constant conditions. Circadian rhythms in peripheral tissues persisted, but became desynchronized and damped in constant darkness. The loss of synchrony was rescued by light/dark cycles, and partially by restricted feeding (only in the liver and kidney but not in the other tissues) in a distinct manner. These results suggest that the forebrain/SCN is essential for internal temporal order of robust circadian programs in peripheral clocks and that individual peripheral clocks are affected differently by light and feeding in the absence of a functional oscillator in the forebrain.

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  1. Mariko Izumo

    Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States
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  2. Martina Pejchal

    Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  3. Andrew C Schook

    Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  4. Ryan P Lange

    Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  5. Jacqueline A Walisser

    McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
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  6. Takashi R Sato

    Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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  7. Xiaozhong Wang

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  8. Christopher A Bradfield

    McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
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  9. Joseph S Takahashi

    Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States
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  1. Louis Ptáček, University of California, San Francisco, United States

Ethics

Animal experimentation: All animal care and use procedures were in accordance with guidelines of the Northwestern University (Protocol 2006-0035) and UT Southwestern Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (Protocols 2009-0054 and 2012-0090).

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  1. Received: September 9, 2014
  2. Accepted: December 18, 2014
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: December 19, 2014 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: January 21, 2015 (version 2)

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© 2014, Izumo et al.

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  1. Mariko Izumo
  2. Martina Pejchal
  3. Andrew C Schook
  4. Ryan P Lange
  5. Jacqueline A Walisser
  6. Takashi R Sato
  7. Xiaozhong Wang
  8. Christopher A Bradfield
  9. Joseph S Takahashi
(2014)
Differential effects of light and feeding on circadian organization of peripheral clocks in a forebrain Bmal1 mutant
eLife 3:e04617.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04617

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