Neurons Provide a Link Between Sleep Homeostat and Circadian Clock Neurons

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2021 Nov 16

PMID 34782479

Citations 8

Authors

Jessica E Schwarz

Anna N King

Cynthia T Hsu

Annika F Barber

Amita Sehgal

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Abstract

Sleep is controlled by homeostatic mechanisms, which drive sleep after wakefulness, and a circadian clock, which confers the 24-h rhythm of sleep. These processes interact with each other to control the timing of sleep in a daily cycle as well as following sleep deprivation. However, the mechanisms by which they interact are poorly understood. We show here that neurons, previously identified as neurons that function downstream of the clock to regulate rhythms of locomotor activity, are also targets of the sleep homeostat. Sleep deprivation decreases activity of neurons, likely to suppress circadian-driven activity during recovery sleep, and ablation of neurons promotes sleep increases generated by activation of the homeostatic sleep locus, the dorsal fan-shaped body (dFB). Also, mutations in peptides produced by the locus increase recovery sleep following deprivation. Transsynaptic mapping reveals that neurons feed back onto central clock neurons, which also show decreased activity upon sleep loss, in a Hugin peptide-dependent fashion. We propose that neurons integrate circadian and sleep signals to modulate circadian circuitry and regulate the timing of sleep.

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