Dual color optogenetic tool enables heart arrest, bradycardic, and tachycardic pacing in Drosophila melanogaster

Autor: Elena Gracheva, Yuxuan Wang, Jiantao Zhu, Fei Wang, Abigail Matt, Matthew Fishman, Hongwu Liang, Chao Zhou
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Communications Biology, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2399-3642
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06703-7
Popis: Abstract In order to facilitate cardiovascular research to develop non-invasive optical heart pacing methods, we have generated a double-transgenic Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) model suitable for optogenetic pacing. We created a fly stock with both excitatory H134R-ChR2 and inhibitory eNpHR2.0 opsin transgenes. Opsins were expressed in the fly heart using the Hand-GAL4 driver. Here we describe Hand > H134R-ChR2; eNpHR2.0 model characterization including bi-directional heart control (activation and inhibition) upon illumination of light with distinct wavelengths. Optical control and real-time visualization of the heart function were achieved non-invasively using an integrated light stimulation and optical coherence microscopy (OCM) system. OCM produced high-speed and high-resolution imaging; simultaneously, the heart function was modulated by blue (470 nm) or red (617 nm) light pulses causing tachycardia, bradycardia and restorable cardiac arrest episodes in the same animal. The irradiance power levels and illumination schedules were optimized to achieve successful non-invasive bi-directional heart pacing in Drosophila larvae and pupae.
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