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Localized inhibition in the Drosophila mushroom body.


ABSTRACT: Many neurons show compartmentalized activity, in which activity does not spread readily across the cell, allowing input and output to occur locally. However, the functional implications of compartmentalized activity for the wider neural circuit are often unclear. We addressed this problem in the Drosophila mushroom body, whose principal neurons, Kenyon cells, receive feedback inhibition from a non-spiking interneuron called the anterior paired lateral (APL) neuron. We used local stimulation and volumetric calcium imaging to show that APL inhibits Kenyon cells' dendrites and axons, and that both activity in APL and APL's inhibitory effect on Kenyon cells are spatially localized (the latter somewhat less so), allowing APL to differentially inhibit different mushroom body compartments. Applying these results to the Drosophila hemibrain connectome predicts that individual Kenyon cells inhibit themselves via APL more strongly than they inhibit other individual Kenyon cells. These findings reveal how cellular physiology and detailed network anatomy can combine to influence circuit function.

SUBMITTER: Amin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7541083 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Localized inhibition in the <i>Drosophila</i> mushroom body.

Amin Hoger H   Apostolopoulou Anthi A AA   Suárez-Grimalt Raquel R   Vrontou Eleftheria E   Lin Andrew C AC  

eLife 20200921


Many neurons show compartmentalized activity, in which activity does not spread readily across the cell, allowing input and output to occur locally. However, the functional implications of compartmentalized activity for the wider neural circuit are often unclear. We addressed this problem in the <i>Drosophila</i> mushroom body, whose principal neurons, Kenyon cells, receive feedback inhibition from a non-spiking interneuron called the anterior paired lateral (APL) neuron. We used local stimulati  ...[more]

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