Abstract

Homeostatic and circadian processes collaborate to appropriately time and consolidate sleep and wake. To understand how these processes are integrated, we scheduled brief sleep deprivation at different times of day in Drosophila and find elevated morning rebound compared to evening. These effects depend on discrete morning and evening clock neurons, independent of their roles in circadian locomotor activity. In the R5 ellipsoid body sleep homeostat, we identified elevated morning expression of activity dependent and presynaptic gene expression as well as the presynaptic protein BRUCHPILOT consistent with regulation by clock circuits. These neurons also display elevated calcium levels in response to sleep loss in the morning, but not the evening consistent with the observed time-dependent sleep rebound. These studies reveal the circuit and molecular mechanisms by which discrete circadian clock neurons program a homeostatic sleep center.

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  1. Tomas Andreani

    Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  2. Clark Rosensweig

    Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  3. Shiju Sisobhan

    Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  4. Emmanuel Ogunlana

    Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  5. William Kath

    Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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  6. Ravi Allada

    Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States
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National Institutes of Health (R01NS106955)

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Army Research Office (W911NF1610584)

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National Science Foundation (DMS-1764421)

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Simons Foundation (597491-RWC)

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  • Ravi Allada

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2022, Andreani et al.

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  1. Tomas Andreani
  2. Clark Rosensweig
  3. Shiju Sisobhan
  4. Emmanuel Ogunlana
  5. William Kath
  6. Ravi Allada
(2022)
Circadian programming of the ellipsoid body sleep homeostat in Drosophila
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