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Prototypical pacemaker neurons interact with the resident microbiota

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Kaucka,  Marketa
Max Planck Research Group Craniofacial Biology (Kaucka Petersen), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Society;

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Klimovich, A., Giacomello, S., Björklund, Å., Faure, L., Kaucka, M., Giez, C., et al. (2020). Prototypical pacemaker neurons interact with the resident microbiota. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(30), 17854-17863. doi:10.1073/pnas.1920469117.


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Abstract
Here, we discover prototypical pacemaker neurons in the ancient cnidarian Hydra and provide evidence for a direct interaction of these neurons with the commensal microbiota. We uncover a remarkable gene-expression program conservation between the Hydra pacemaker neurons and pacemaker cells in Caenorhabditis elegans and the mammalian gut. We suggest that prototypical pacemaker cells emerged as neurons using components of innate immunity to interact with the microbial environment and ion channels to generate rhythmic contractions. The communication of pacemaker neurons with the microbiota represents a mechanistic link between the gut microbiota and gut motility. Our discoveries improve the understanding of the archetypical properties of the enteric nervous systems, which are perturbed in human dysmotility-related conditions.Pacemaker neurons exert control over neuronal circuit function by their intrinsic ability to generate rhythmic bursts of action potential. Recent work has identified rhythmic gut contractions in human, mice, and hydra to be dependent on both neurons and the resident microbiota. However, little is known about the evolutionary origin of these neurons and their interaction with microbes. In this study, we identified and functionally characterized prototypical ANO/SCN/TRPM ion channel-expressing pacemaker cells in the basal metazoan Hydra by using a combination of single-cell transcriptomics, immunochemistry, and functional experiments. Unexpectedly, these prototypical pacemaker neurons express a rich set of immune-related genes mediating their interaction with the microbial environment. Furthermore, functional experiments gave a strong support to a model of the evolutionary emergence of pacemaker cells as neurons using components of innate immunity to interact with the microbial environment and ion channels to generate rhythmic contractions.scRNA-seq data generated in this study have been deposited on the National Center for Biotechnology Information Sequence Read Archive database under the BioProject accession codes PRJNA614614 and PRJNA614611. Expression count matrices, corresponding metadata, and analytical pipelines are available as Mendeley dataset DOI: 1017632/ctdfn57ds2.1. Custom scripts are available at https://github.com/stefaniagiacomello/Hydra_scRNA-seq.