TY - JOUR
T1 - Proprioceptive Coupling within Motor Neurons Drives C. elegans Forward Locomotion
AU - Wen, Quan
AU - Po, Michelle D.
AU - Hulme, Elizabeth
AU - Chen, Sway
AU - Liu, Xinyu
AU - Kwok, Sen Wai
AU - Gershow, Marc
AU - Leifer, Andrew M.
AU - Butler, Victoria
AU - Fang-Yen, Christopher
AU - Kawano, Taizo
AU - Schafer, William R.
AU - Whitesides, George
AU - Wyart, Matthieu
AU - Chklovskii, Dmitri B.
AU - Zhen, Mei
AU - Samuel, Aravinthan D.T.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Christopher Gabel, Cornelia Bargmann, L. Mahadevan, and Yun Zhang for useful discussions; Gal Haspel and Netta Cohen for reading the manuscript; Mason Klein for the help with spinning disk confocal microscopy; and Edward Pym and Zengcai Guo for sharing their strains. This work was supported by NIH Pioneer Award, NSF, and Harvard-MIT Innovation Fund.
PY - 2012/11/21
Y1 - 2012/11/21
N2 - Locomotion requires coordinated motor activity throughout an animal@s body. In both vertebrates and invertebrates, chains of coupled central pattern generators (CPGs) are commonly evoked to explain local rhythmic behaviors. In C. elegans, we report that proprioception within the motor circuit is responsible for propagating and coordinating rhythmic undulatory waves from head to tail during forward movement. Proprioceptive coupling between adjacent body regions transduces rhythmic movement initiated near the head into bending waves driven along the body by a chain of reflexes. Using optogenetics and calcium imaging to manipulate and monitor motor circuit activity of moving C. elegans held in microfluidic devices, we found that the B-type cholinergic motor neurons transduce the proprioceptive signal. In C. elegans, a sensorimotor feedback loop operating within a specific type of motor neuron both drives and organizes body movement.
AB - Locomotion requires coordinated motor activity throughout an animal@s body. In both vertebrates and invertebrates, chains of coupled central pattern generators (CPGs) are commonly evoked to explain local rhythmic behaviors. In C. elegans, we report that proprioception within the motor circuit is responsible for propagating and coordinating rhythmic undulatory waves from head to tail during forward movement. Proprioceptive coupling between adjacent body regions transduces rhythmic movement initiated near the head into bending waves driven along the body by a chain of reflexes. Using optogenetics and calcium imaging to manipulate and monitor motor circuit activity of moving C. elegans held in microfluidic devices, we found that the B-type cholinergic motor neurons transduce the proprioceptive signal. In C. elegans, a sensorimotor feedback loop operating within a specific type of motor neuron both drives and organizes body movement.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.08.039
DO - 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.08.039
M3 - Article
C2 - 23177960
AN - SCOPUS:84869773058
SN - 0896-6273
VL - 76
SP - 750
EP - 761
JO - Neuron
JF - Neuron
IS - 4
ER -