Project description:Purpose: To comprehensively identify the gene expression changes that occur after acute sleep deprivation. Method: We performed total RNA sequencing after 5hours of sleep deprivation. Results: Using total RNA-sequencing, we show that acute sleep deprivation causes dramatic gene expression changes in the mouse hippocampus. Conclusion: This study provides insight into the biological impact of acute sleep deprivation.
Project description:Inadequate sleep prevails in modern society and it impairs the circadian transcriptome. However, whether acute sleep deprivation has impact on the circadian rhythms is not clear. Here, we show that in mouse lung, a 10-hour acute sleep deprivation can alter the circadian expression of approximally 3,000 genes. We found that circadian rhythm disappears in genes related to metabolism and signaling pathways regulating protein phosphorylation after acute sleep deprivation, while the core circadian regulators do not change much in rhythmicity. Importantly, the strong positive correlation between mean expression and amplitude (E-A correlation) of cycling genes has been validated in both control and sleep deprivation conditions, supporting the energetic cost optimization model of circadian gene expression. Thus, we reveal that acute sleep deprivation leads to a profound change in the circadian gene transcription that influences the biological functions in lung.
Project description:Despite an established link between sleep deprivation and epigenetic processes in humans, it remains unclear to what extent sleep deprivation modulates DNA methylation. We performed a within subject randomized blinded study with 16 healthy subjects to examine the effect of one night of total acute sleep deprivation (TSD) on the genome wide methylation profile in blood compared to normal sleep. Genome-wide differences in methylation between both conditions were assessed by applying a paired regression model that corrected for monocyte subpopulations (neutrophil/leukocyte ratio). Additionally, the correlations between the methylation of genes detected to be modulated by TSD and gene expression were examined in a separate, publicly available cohort of ten healthy male donors (E-GEOD-49065). Sleep deprivation significantly affected the DNA methylation profile both independently and in dependency of shifts in monocyte composition. Our study detected differential methylation of 269 probes. Notably, one CpG site was located 69bp upstream of ING5, which has been shown to be differentially expressed following sleep deprivation. Gene set enrichment analysis detected the Notch and Wnt signaling pathways to be enriched among the differentially methylated genes. These results provide evidence that total acute sleep deprivation alters the methylation profile in healthy human subjects. This is, to our knowledge, the first study that systematically investigated the impact of total acute sleep deprivation on genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in blood and related the epigenomic findings to the expression data.
Project description:<p>Chronic sleep loss profoundly impacts metabolic health and shortens lifespan, but studies of the mechanisms involved have focused largely on acute sleep deprivation. To identify metabolic consequences of chronically reduced sleep, we conducted unbiased metabolomics on heads of three adult Drosophila short-sleeping mutants with very different mechanisms of sleep loss: fumin (fmn), redeye (rye), and sleepless (sss). Common features included elevated ornithine and polyamines, with lipid, acyl-carnitine, and TCA cycle changes suggesting mitochondrial dysfunction. Studies of excretion demonstrate inefficient nitrogen elimination in adult sleep mutants, likely contributing to their polyamine accumulation. Increasing levels of polyamines, particularly putrescine, promote sleep in control flies but poison sleep mutants. This parallels the broadly enhanced toxicity of high dietary nitrogen load from protein in chronically sleep-restricted Drosophila, including both sleep mutants and flies with hyper-activated wake-promoting neurons. Together, our results implicate nitrogen stress as a novel mechanism linking chronic sleep loss to adverse health outcomes-and perhaps for linking food and sleep homeostasis at the cellular level in healthy organisms.</p>
Project description:Study objectives: Acute sleep deprivation affects both central and peripheral biological processes. Prior research has mainly focused on specific proteins or biological pathways that are dysregulated in the setting of sustained wakefulness. This pilotexploratory study’s objective wasaimed to provide a comprehensive view of the biological processes and proteins impacted by acute sleep deprivation in both plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Methods: We collected plasma and CSF from human participants during one night of sleep deprivation and control normal sleep conditions. 1300 proteins were measured at hour 0 and hour 24 using a high-scale aptamer-based proteomics platform (SOMAomascan) and a systematics biological database tool (Metascape) was used to reveal dysregulated biological pathways. Results: Acute sleep deprivation lead to opposite effects in plasma and CSF, decreasingdecreased the number of upregulated and downregulated differential protein expression and biological pathways and proteins in plasma but increased upregulated and downregulated protein and biological pathwayssing them in CSF. Predominantly affected pProteins and n pathways were associated with that were predominantly affected by sleep deprivation included immune response, inflammation, phosphorylation, membrane signaling, cell-cell adhesion, and extracellular matrix organization. Conclusions: The identified modification across biofluids adds to evidence that acute sleep deprivation has important impacts on biological pathways and proteins that can negatively affect human health. As a hypothesis-driving study, these findings may help with the exploration of novel mechanisms that mediate sleep loss and associated conditions, drive the discovery of new sleep loss biomarkers, and ultimately aid in the identification of new targets for intervention to human diseases.
Project description:Dysregulation of sleep has widespread health consequences and represents an enormous health burden. Short-sleeping individuals are predisposed to the effects of neurodegeneration, suggesting a critical role for sleep in the maintenance of neuronal health. While the effects of sleep on cellular function are not completely understood, growing evidence has identified an association between sleep loss and DNA damage, raising the possibility that sleep facilitates efficient DNA repair. The Mexican tetra fish,Astyanax mexicanusprovides a model to investigate the evolutionary basis for changes in sleep and the consequences of sleep loss. Multiple cave-adapted populations of these fish have evolved to sleep for substantially less time compared to surface populations of the same species without identifiable impacts on healthspan or longevity. To investigate whether the evolved sleep loss is associated with DNA damage and cellular stress, we compared the DNA Damage Response (DDR) and oxidative stress levels betweenA. mexicanuspopulations. We measured markers of chronic sleep loss and discovered elevated levels of the DNA damage marker γH2AX in the brain, and increased oxidative stress in the gut of cavefish, consistent with chronic sleep deprivation. Notably, we found that acute UV-induced DNA damage elicited an increase in sleep in surface fish but not in cavefish. On a transcriptional level, only the surface fish activated the photoreactivation repair pathway following UV damage. These findings suggest a reduction of the DDR in cavefish compared to surface fish that coincides with elevated DNA damage in cavefish. To examine DDR pathways at a cellular level, we created an embryonic fibroblast cell line from the two populations ofA. mexicanus. We observed that both the DDR and DNA repair were diminished in the cavefish cells, corroborating thein vivofindings and suggesting that the acute response to DNA damage is lost in cavefish. To investigate the long-term impact of these changes, we compared the transcriptome in the brain and gut of aged surface fish and cavefish. Strikingly, many genes that are differentially expressed between young and old surface fish do not transcriptionally vary by age in cavefish. Taken together, these findings suggest that have developed resilience to sleep loss, despite possessing cellular hallmarks of chronic sleep deprivation.
Project description:Every day, we sleep for a third of the day. Sleep is important for cognition, brain waste clearance, metabolism, and immune responses. Homeostatic regulation of sleep is maintained by progressively rising sleep need during wakefulness, which then dissipates during sleep. The molecular mechanisms governing sleep are largely unknown. Here, we used a combination of single-cell RNA sequencing and cell-type specific proteomics to interrogate the molecular and functional underpinnings of sleep. Different cell-types in the brain regions show similar transcriptional response to sleep need whereas sleep deprivation changes overall expression indicative of altered antigen processing, synaptic transmission and cellular metabolism in brainstem, cortex and hypothalamus, respectively. Increased sleep need enhances expression of transcription factor Sox2, Mafb, and Zic1 in brainstem; Hlf, Cebpb and Sox9 in cortex, and Atf3, Fosb and Mef2c in hypothalamus. Results from cell-type proteome analysis suggest that sleep deprivation changes abundance of proteins in cortical neurons indicative of altered synaptic vesicle cycles and glucose metabolism whereas in astrocytes it alters the abundance of proteins associated with fatty acid degradation. Similarly, phosphoproteomics of each cell type demonstrates large shifts in site-specific protein phosphorylation in neurons and astrocytes of sleep deprived mice. Our results indicate that sleep deprivation regulates transcriptional, translational and post-translational responses in a cell-specific manner and advances our understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern sleep-wake homeostasis in mammals.
Project description:The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, suppresses sleep in response to acute food deprivation, presumably to forage for food. This process is dependent on a single pair of neurons, termed the Lateral Horn Leucokinin (LHLK) neurons, that secrete the neuropeptide Leucokinin. These neurons signal to insulin producing cells and suppress sleep under periods of starvation. Here, we use single-cell sequencing of LHLK neurons to examine the transcriptional responses to starvation.
Project description:Purpose: To determine the specific effects of 6 hours sleep deprivation after a learning event on the transcriptomes of microglia. Sleep deprivation can generate inflammatory responses in the neuronal environment. In turn, this inflammation increases sleep drive, leading to a rebound in sleep duration. Microglia, a type of support cell found exclusively in the brain, have previously been found to release of inflammatory signals and exhibit altered characteristics in response to sleep deprivation. Together, this suggests microglia may be partially responsible for the brain’s response to sleep deprivation through their inflammatory activity. In this study, we fully and selectively ablated microglia from the mouse brain and assessed resulting sleep, circadian, and sleep deprivation phenotypes. We find microglia are dispensable for both homeostatic sleep and circadian function and the sleep rebound response to sleep deprivation. However, we uncover a phenomenon by which microglia appear to be essential for the protection of synapses and associated memories formed during a period of sleep deprivation, further expanding the list of known functions for microglia in synaptic modulation.
Project description:Molecular profiles in sleep and sleep deprivation in peripheral tissues using microarrays Time point study. Mice were sacrificed by cervical dislocaton following 3, 6, 9, and 12 h of total sleep deprivation (n = 8 or 9 at each time point). Deprivation was initiated at lights-on and performed through gentle handling.