Distribution of the octopamine receptor AmOA1 in the honey bee brain.
Octopamine plays an important role in many behaviors in invertebrates. It acts via binding to G protein coupled receptors located on the plasma membrane of responsive cells. Several distinct subtypes of octopamine receptors have been found in invertebrates, yet little is known about the expression pattern of these different receptor subtypes and how each subtype may contribute to different behaviors. One honey bee (Apis mellifera) octopamine receptor, AmOA1, was recently cloned and characterized. Here we continue to characterize the AmOA1 receptor by investigating its distribution in the honey bee brain. We used two independent antibodies produced against two distinct peptides in the carboxyl-terminus to study the distribution of the AmOA1 receptor in the honey bee brain. We found that both anti-AmOA1 antibodies revealed labeling of cell body clusters throughout the brain and within the following brain neuropils: the antennal lobes; the calyces, pedunculus, vertical (alpha, gamma) and medial (beta) lobes of the mushroom body; the optic lobes; the subesophageal ganglion; and the central complex. Double immunofluorescence staining using anti-GABA and anti-AmOA1 receptor antibodies revealed that a population of inhibitory GABAergic local interneurons in the antennal lobes express the AmOA1 receptor in the cell bodies, axons and their endings in the glomeruli. In the mushroom bodies, AmOA1 receptors are expressed in a subpopulation of inhibitory GABAergic feedback neurons that ends in the visual (outer half of basal ring and collar regions) and olfactory (lip and inner basal ring region) calyx neuropils, as well as in the collar and lip zones of the vertical and medial lobes. The data suggest that one effect of octopamine via AmOA1 in the antennal lobe and mushroom body is to modulate inhibitory neurons.
Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America.
Irina
I
Sinakevitch
Julie A
JA
Mustard
Brian H
BH
Smith
D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies; D001516:Bees / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007395:Interneurons; D024521:Mushroom Bodies; D009433:Neural Inhibition; D019581:Neuropil; D017982:Receptors, Biogenic Amine / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
D000906:Antibodies; D017982:Receptors, Biogenic Amine; C027604:norsynephrine receptor; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
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