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SUBMITTER: Damulewicz M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3769360 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Damulewicz Milena M Rosato Ezio E Pyza Elzbieta E
PloS one 20130910 9
We investigated the diurnal oscillation in abundance of the catalytic α subunit of the sodium/potassium pump (ATPα) in the brain of Drosophila melanogaster. This rhythm is bimodal and is particularly robust in the glia cells of the lamina, the first optic neuropil. We observed loss of ATPα cycling in lamina glia in behaviourally arrhythmic per(01) and tim(01) mutants and in flies overexpressing the pro-apoptotic gene hid in the PDF-positive clock neurons. Moreover, the rhythm of ATPα abundance w ...[more]