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(A) Tret1-1 is transcriptionally upregulated upon starvation since the Tret1-1 reporter Tret1-1>stgGFP is significantly upregulated in brains of starved compared to fed larvae as seen in western blots. Shown are images of representative western blots for anti-GFP and anti-tubulin (loading control). n=3 (A`) Quantification of Western blots. N=3. (B) Tret1-1 protein is significantly upregulated upon starvation in Tret1-1>stgGFP animals. Quantified is the GFP fluorescence normalized to DAPI in individual nuclei. N=5 , n > 34.
(A, B`) Tret1-1 staining of the ventral nerve cord of starved and fed control (repo>>mCherry-dsRNA, A, A`) and alk knockdown (repo>>alkGD42, B, B`) animals. (B`) Tret1-1 upregulation is still induced in starved alk knockdown animals.
Since Put has been implicated in regulating carbohydrate homeostasis, we asked if Put-dependent TGF-β signaling could also play a role in carbohydrate-dependent Tret1-1 regulation. Thus, we expressed dsRNA constructs against put in a glia-specific manner and analyzed Tret1-1 levels in the perineurial glial cells of fed and starved animals (Figure 7B,B`,C,C`). Indeed, starvation-dependent upregulation of Tret1-1 was completely abolished upon put knockdown in glial cells using either putKK102676 or putGD2545. Quantification shows no upregulation of Tret1-1 upon starvation in put knockdown animals (Figure 7J). In contrast, knockdown of wit using witKK100911 did not affect Tret1-1 upregulation upon starvation (Figure 7D,D`). This data suggests that Put-dependent TGF-β signaling in glia is essential for starvation-induced upregulation of Tret1-1.
TGF-β signaling has been shown to be involved in metabolic regulation in vertebrates and invertebrates (Andersson et al., 2008; Bertolino et al., 2008; Ghosh and O'Connor, 2014; Zamani and Brown, 2011). In Drosophila, the Activin-like ligand Dawdle (Daw) as well as the BMP ligand Glass-bottom boat (Gbb) have been implicated in metabolic regulation (reviewed in Upadhyay et al., 2017). Daw seems to be one of the primary players in the conserved ChREBP/MondoA-Mlx complex-dependent sugar-sensing pathway (Mattila et al., 2015). However, since the activin-like branch of TGF-β signaling does not play a role in Tret1-1 regulation, it does not seem to affect carbohydrate uptake into the nervous system. The BMP ligand Gbb, on the other hand, has been implicated in nutrient storage regulation. gbb mutants show expression defects of several starvation response genes (Ballard et al., 2010). Furthermore, the fat body of fed gbb mutants resembles that of starved wild-type animals by its nutrient storage and morphology (Ballard et al., 2010). Gbb seems to regulate nutrient storage in the fat body and control fat body morphology in a cell-autonomous manner. Additionally, since gbb mutants display increased nutrient uptake rates, gbb signaling also has systemic effects that are not yet completely understood (Ballard et al., 2010; Hong et al., 2016). We show here that upon starvation-elevated levels of Gbb signaling in the VNC induce an upregulation of Tret1-1 expression in perineurial glial cells (Figure 8). Gbb signals via Tkv and Put to regulate Tret1-1 expression upon starvation (Figure 7). Gbb was shown to act as proliferation factor in neuroblasts and also as a paracrine survival signal in perineurial glia (Kanai et al., 2018). However, we report here that Gbb is also expressed in other glial subtypes (Figure 8). Interestingly, it has been shown that BMP signaling induces transcriptional upregulation of GLUT1 in chondrocytes during murine skeletal development (Lee et al., 2018). Thus, TGF-β-dependent regulation of carbohydrate transport at the BBB may be based on the same mechanisms and consequently be evolutionarily conserved.
1. In the absence of Tret-1, there is a lack of (or an attenuation in) the protection of the brain from the starved condition. How they assay the protection of the brain could be via size of the brain, reactivation of NBs, or any other means they thought robust and sensitive.
The authors seem to suggest that in the starved condition not only does Tret-1 transcription increase, but it also gets re-localized from intracellular vesicles to the plasma membrane. The subcellular localization is interesting because I presume for Tret-1 to act as a transporter of glucose it must localize to the membrane. However, this point is not addressed in the rest of the story (I am not suggesting this as a necessary experiment), and the altered localization was not obvious to me. Could the authors quantify the localisation changes in some manner? And maybe discuss how they think starvation might result in the relocalisation? Or is it possible that membrane localization is present in both conditions, but the increased levels of Tret-1 in the starved condition just shows membrane localization more clearly?
Quantified is the ratio of Tret1-1 fluorescence intensities in starved larval VNCs vs. VNCs of fed animals. Knockdown of TOR expressing using either TOR33951 or TOR35578 in glial cells shows a comparable upregulation of Tret1-1 to the control. N=5 n >9.
Thank you for this suggestion. We tried to measure the size of the brains of starved wild type and Tret1-1- knockdown animals. We did this using comparable confocal slices of each brain and measuring the area of the brain (2D) in those slices. When doing this the difference between control brains and Tret1-1 knockdown brains is not significant, even though there is a tendency towards being smaller in Tret1-1 knockdown brains. To analyze brain differences in brain volume (3D), which most likely will show a bigger difference, we would need many additional scans of starved brains for both genotypes. Due to restricted access to the lab, we were unfortunately not able to conduct those additional experiments. These pandemic-induced restrictions unfortunately also prevented us from analyzing NB reactivation.
To answer this question, that was also raised by reviewer I, we expressed Tret1-1dsRNA in glial cells and measured glucose uptake into the brains of those animals under standard conditions and upon starvation. Tret1-1 knockdown abolishes the increase of glucose uptake upon starvation. We added this data to the manuscript (Figure 5 and corresponding text). The glucose uptake under fed conditions increases slightly upon Tret1-1 knockdown. This effect is most likely caused by overcompensation via other sugar transporters that are expressed in the BBB (McMullen et al., 2021). It seems however that such compensation cannot rescue glucose uptake in starved animals. This increase in glucose uptake, thus, is specifically caused by an increased expression of Tret1-1.
Was there a reason why the authors did not do a quantitative PCR to determine transcriptional changes in tret-1 in response to starvation? Instead, they use a reporter-based assay for this. They do show a Western in figure 3, but I am concerned that the level of tubulin are very different in the fed and starved conditions. Particularly because in 3B they use a ratiometric quantification to show enhanced levels of the protein, the ratiometric quantification will show an exaggerated difference in the starved condition if the tubulin levels are low.
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