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The Journal of Neuroscience, October 15, 2002, 22(20):9078-9085
A Lateral Excitatory Network in the Escape Circuit of Crayfish
Jens Herberholz, Brian L. Antonsen, and Donald H. Edwards Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4010
ABSTRACT
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
A phasic stimulus directed to the rear of a crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) creates mechanosensory input to the lateral giant (LG) interneuron, a command neuron for escape. A single LG spike is necessary and sufficient to produce a highly stereotyped tail flip that thrusts the animal away from the source of stimulation. Here we describe a lateral excitatory network among primary afferent axons in the last abdominal ganglion of crayfish that produces nonlinear amplification of the sensory input to the command circuitry for escape. The lateral excitation is mediated by electrical synapses between central terminals of primary mechanosensory afferents. The network enables stimulated afferents to recruit unstimulated afferents that contribute additional input to LG and to mechanosensory interneurons that also converge on LG. When depolarized, the LG neuron increases its own inputs from primary afferents and primary interneurons by facilitating the recruitment of both. Conversely, hyperpolarization of LG reduces the excitability of primary afferents and primary interneurons. The crayfish's decision to escape, previously thought to lie exclusively in the synaptic integrative properties of LG, is now seen to depend on the interactions between LG dendritic postsynaptic potentials and the responses of primary afferent terminals in the lateral excitatory network.
Key words: crayfish; escape; lateral giant neuron; afferents; interneurons; lateral excitation
INTRODUCTION
Lateral inhibition among arrays of primary afferents or low-order interneurons is ubiquitous in sensory systems of vertebrates and invertebrates and serves to enhance spatial and temporal contrast (Hartline and Ratliff, 1957
; Shepherd and Brayton, 1979
We have found a lateral excitatory network among the mechanosensory afferents to the lateral giant (LG) interneuron in crayfish, a command neuron for tailflip escape (Edwards et al., 1999
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) of both sexes and between 3.5 and 5 cm were obtained from commercial suppliers and kept in communal tanks for not >2 weeks before experiments. Animals were anesthetized on ice for 20-30 min, and the ventral nerve cords were exposed by removing the dorsal exoskeleton, viscera, and axial musculature. The saline used for all procedures was of the following composition (in mM): 202 NaCl, 5.37 KCl, 13.53 CaCl2, 2.6 MgCl2, and 2.4 HEPES, pH 7.4.
Anatomy. Dye coupling between LG and other members of the circuit was demonstrated by picospritzing (PV820 PicoPump; World Precision Instruments, Sarasota, FL) a mixture of 2% Neurobiotin (NB) (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA) and 0.7% 10,000 molecular weight (MW) dextran-linked Texas Red (TR) (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR) in 0.3 M KCl into the LG axon immediately rostral to A6 (Fig. 1). Desheathing of the A5-A6 connective was necessary to allow penetration of the low resistance (5-10 M
) picospritzing electrodes. After filling the cell, the tissue was placed in 4% paraformaldehyde fixative in saline, pH 7.4, at 4°C for 16 hr. After fixation, tissues were washed in three changes for 1 hr each of 0.1 M phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, with 0.1% Triton-X 100 (PBTX) at 4°C, then placed in a 1:50 dilution of streptavidin-linked Alexa Fluor 488 (Molecular Probes) in PBTX for 16 hr at 4°C. After this, they were washed in four changes of PBTX for 1 hr each and dehydrated. To visualize dye coupling between afferents, LG was filled via picospritzing 0.7% dextran-linked TR, and single afferents shown to be electrophysiologically connected to LG were filled with NB by iontophoresis. Lucifer Yellow (LY) (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) was iontophoresed into either LG or individual afferents in some preparations to confirm the NB dye-coupling results. All preparations were imaged on a Zeiss LSM 510 confocal microscope using 20× Fluor air interface and 63× C-Apochromat water interface lenses. Full images of all labeled structures were acquired using the 20× objective and interslice intervals between 4 and 4.1 µm. Details of some preparations were imaged with the 63× objective and intervals of 2.0-2.1 µm. All images were captured using full resolution (2048X2048) and were stored with false colors based on the emission of the fluorophores. Projections of confocal stacks were made using Adobe Photoshop 6 software with TIFF images exported from the Zeiss software.
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Figure 1. Schematic drawing of the crayfish's terminal ganglion (A6) and the peripheral sensory nerves (N1-N5) in which all experiments were performed. The following parts of the LG escape circuit are shown: LG (black), primary mechanosensory interneuron (dark gray), and primary afferent (light gray). Extracellular and intracellular electrodes are shown in their typical positions.
Electrophysiology. Individual animals were firmly pinned in a Petri dish lined with Sylgard (Dow Corning, Midland, MI) and bathed in saline. One suction electrode was placed on the nerve cord rostral to the terminal ganglion to monitor the activity of ascending interneurons and to stimulate LG. One or two suction electrodes were placed on peripheral nerves of A6 to evoke afferent volleys (Fig. 1). Intracellular microelectrodes for recording and current injection had resistances of 15-35 M
Neuronal modeling. A multicompartment electrical circuit model was used to simulate responses and interactions in the lateral excitatory network. The model was built and tested using the program NEURON8J developed by Donald H. Edwards. The program uses a 5th-order Runge-Kutta-Feldberg numerical integration procedure. The reversal potentials for the three cell types were: afferents: ENa = +45 V, EK =
70 mV, EL =
s)s e
t/
s, where Vpost is the postsynaptic membrane potential, Esyn = 0 mV (~70 mV above rest potential), Gsynmax = 0.15 µS, s = 0.5, and
RESULTS
Dye coupling
The LG is dye-coupled to primary afferents (Zucker, 1972
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Figure 2. LG and neurons dye-coupled to LG in the terminal ganglion. LG was pressure-injected with two dyes, 10,000 MW dextran-linked TR and NB. A, Projected stack of confocal images of LG and dye-coupled afferents. The major yellow dendrite is the projecting LG; yellow results from superposition of the TR (red) and NB (green) fluorescence. The green axons that project out of the ganglionic nerves are primary afferent neurons; the green-stained somata are from dye-coupled motor neurons whose axons are out of the plane of focus. B, Single afferent axons dye coupled to terminal dendritic branches. Coupling appears to be mediated by the fine, vine-like dendritic processes that wrap around the cylindrical afferent axons (arrowhead). A, B, Results from two different experiments.
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Figure 3. Coupling between primary afferents and between afferents and LG. A, Projected stack of confocal micrographs of LG, injected with TR alone, and primary afferents, one of which was injected with NB alone (solid arrow indicates the injection site). The NB spread into five other primary afferent axons. The contact point between the injected afferent and LG appears to occur at the tip of an LG dendrite (open arrow). Although the axons of the primary afferents appear to come together at this point in this projected stack, there is separation in the Z-plane. B, Enlargement of boxed area in A, showing only the primary afferents; the solid arrow indicates the injected afferent, and arrowheads indicate the coupled afferents, some of which are only weakly filled and partially overlap other filled afferents. The coupling site with LG (open arrow) is proximal to the coupling site between primary afferents (open arrowhead). C, Orthodromic transmission between a primary afferent (1oA) (spike evoked by injection of depolarizing current) and LG. D, Mutual synaptic interactions between primary afferent axons. Depolarizing current injection into 1oA (2) evokes a depolarization and train of spikes that produce a smaller depolarization and corresponding EPSPs in 1oA (1).
Electrical coupling
Stimulation of a single afferent evokes a small, phasic EPSP in LG as recorded in the initial segment (Fig. 3C); dendritic EPSPs are much larger (Zucker, 1972
Evidence for direct electrical and synaptic coupling between afferents in the same nerve that contact LG was obtained when depolarizing current injected into one afferent depolarized the cell and evoked a train of spikes and a corresponding smaller depolarization and train of EPSPs in a second afferent (Fig. 3D). A reciprocal response occurred when the same current was applied to the other cell (data not shown). LG did not fire in either case.
Afferent recruitment by the lateral excitatory network
Short-latency EPSPs also appeared in an afferent axon in response to electrical stimulation of the sensory nerve containing the axon (Fig. 3). This occurred when the stimulus directly excited the axons of afferents that presumably were coupled to the recorded afferent. Increased stimulus intensities recruited larger EPSPs in the recorded afferent and in LG (Fig. 4A). The EPSP increases in afferents were discontinuous with the rise in stimulus voltage, as though single elements were recruited at discrete stimulus thresholds. Up to six such distinguishable EPSP levels occurred in each recorded afferent before the afferent was stimulated directly by shock to the sensory nerve (Fig. 4A). The number of recorded EPSPs is dependent on the stimulus threshold of the recorded afferent relative to those of the afferents coupled to it; threshold is influenced in part by inherent properties of the afferents concerned as well as the relative position of the stimulating electrode. The number of recorded EPSPs therefore differed from the anatomical results. In the example of Figure 4B, a smaller stimulus (light gray) evoked EPSPs in both the primary afferent and LG, and a larger stimulus (dark gray) evoked a larger afferent EPSP that brought the cell to threshold. The appearance of the recruited afferent action potential coincided with an incremental increase in the compound EPSP in LG. A further increase in the nerve stimulus (black) evoked the afferent spike directly and so shortened the latencies of both the afferent spike and the added EPSP in LG. Afferents that we could not demonstrate to contact LG, ~12% (14 of 120), still received EPSPs from other afferents.
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Figure 4. Responses of LG (top) and a 1oA (bottom) to electrical stimulation of the nerve containing the 1oA axon. A, Increasing stimulus amplitudes elicited several increasing EPSPs in LG and in the 1oA before reaching the stimulus threshold (black) of the 1oA. B, Increasing stimulus amplitudes evoked an EPSP (light gray), a recruited 1oA spike (dark gray), and a directly evoked spike (black) in the 1oA and corresponding EPSPs in LG. A, B, Results from two different experiments.
LG depolarization and afferent, interneuron recruitment
The response of the afferent to synaptic input from other afferents could be modulated by changes in the membrane potential of LG (Fig. 5A). Sensory nerve stimuli that evoked a subthreshold EPSP in an afferent became superthreshold when the LG was depolarized by ~15 mV (between 10 and 20 mV) at the initial segment by direct current injection there. Conversely, larger sensory nerve stimuli that evoked superthreshold EPSPs in the afferent when LG was at rest potential were made subthreshold by hyperpolarization of LG (Fig. 5B). The spread of current from LG into the afferent (causing a potential change of up to ±1 mV) was apparent in recordings made from sites near the LG-afferent contact point (data not shown); the very small potential changes shown in Figure 5 were recorded from a site distant from LG.
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Figure 5. Effect of LG depolarization and hyperpolarization on recruitment of primary afferents. A, Response of a 1oA (top traces and inset) to a consistent subthreshold sensory nerve stimulation when LG (middle traces) is at rest (light gray) and when LG is increasingly depolarized (darker grays, then black) by injected current (LG-I, bottom traces). B, Response of a 1oA (top traces and inset) to normally suprathreshold sensory nerve stimulation when LG (middle traces) is at rest (light gray) and when LG is increasingly hyperpolarized (darker grays, then black) by injected current (LG-I, bottom traces).
Depolarization of LG by a similar amount also helped recruit first-order mechanosensory interneurons that excite LG, including interneuron A (Int A, also known as 6B1) (Sigvardt et al., 1982
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Figure 6. Effect of LG depolarization and hyperpolarization on interneuron A recruitment. A, Response of Int A (top and inset) to normally subthreshold sensory nerve stimulation when LG (middle traces) is at rest (gray) and when LG is depolarized (black) by injected current (LG-I, bottom traces). B, Response of Int A (top traces and inset) to normally suprathreshold sensory nerve stimulation when LG (middle traces) is at rest (gray) and when LG is hyperpolarized (black) by injected current (LG-I, bottom traces).
LG depolarization and LG recruitment
Finally, the same depolarization of LG that helped a sensory nerve shock recruit afferents and first-order interneurons also increased synaptic inputs to LG and brought the cell to threshold (Fig. 7). The
component of the LG EPSP, which results from interneuron inputs, increased when LG was depolarized by injected current (Fig. 7A) and, with sufficient current, brought LG to threshold. The depolarizing current increases the excitability of LG (note the delayed rectification in the LG response to the current), and it recruits additional inputs, particularly from interneurons, to LG. The evidence of these inputs was obtained when LG responses evoked by the same stimuli were measured under two-electrode voltage clamp and the synaptic currents produced by primary interneurons also increased (Fig. 7B).
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Figure 7. Modulation of LG synaptic inputs by LG depolarization. A, EPSPs in LG (top) evoked by nerve stimulation when LG was at rest or depolarized by current injection (bottom). B, EPSCs in the same LG (bottom) evoked by the same nerve stimulation when LG was voltage clamped to rest potential and to depolarized levels (top). Right, Baseline corrected voltage responses (top) and current responses (bottom). The - and
A model of the lateral excitatory network
The operation of the network depends on simultaneous current flows between primary afferents, LG, and interneurons. To understand these interactions, we constructed a multicompartment model of the network that represents the basic pattern of neuronal connectivity and synaptic properties in the network, but in the interest of simplicity ignores cellular anatomy and much biophysical detail. The model network consists of an array of 10 single model compartments that represent primary afferents, two single compartment model interneurons, and a two-compartment model LG (Fig. 8). The primary afferent models are electrically coupled through 6.25 M
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Figure 8. Electrical circuit model of the lateral excitatory network and LG. A, Each model compartment was characterized by reversal potentials and maximal conductances for sodium, potassium, and leakage currents. In all the compartments except LGD, which was passive, the sodium and potassium conductances were voltage- and time-dependent, as described by Hodgkin and Huxley (1952)
To simulate the afferent responses to sensory nerve shock, depolarizing current pulses (300 nA, 0.3 msec) were applied simultaneously to individual afferent compartments. Simultaneous stimulation of three model afferents at one end of the array led to the recruitment of an adjacent afferent and an interneuron that was excited by all four afferents (Fig. 8B1). LG responded with small EPSPs in both the dendritic and initial segment compartments. Responses to increased stimulus strength were simulated by adding three more afferents at the other end of the array to those receiving simultaneous stimulation. Stimulation of these six afferents caused two more afferents to be recruited, followed by both interneurons (Fig. 8B2). The responses of LG were again below threshold. When two more afferents were added to the group of six receiving simultaneous stimulation, the remaining two afferents were recruited at short latency, followed by the interneurons and then LG (Fig. 8B3). LG could also be brought to threshold if the previous pattern of stimulation of six afferents (Fig. 8B2) occurred during a period of depolarization induced by injection of a constant 12.5 nA of current into the initial segment compartment (Fig. 8B4). The depolarizing current caused the last afferent to be recruited and it caused each of the recruited afferents and interneurons to fire earlier. The earlier and greater synaptic inputs and the increase in the excitability produced by the direct depolarization of LG were sufficient to bring LG to threshold. Finally, the recruitment of afferents and interneurons was reduced when the afferent stimulation occurred while the LG was hyperpolarized by injection of
As in the experimental preparations, recruitment of unstimulated afferents depends on the coupling between them and the stimulated afferents and on antidromic current from the LG dendrites into the unstimulated afferents. The importance of the antidromic current in this simulation is shown in Figure 8B6, in which the stimulus pattern of Figure 8B2 was repeated, first under the original conditions (continuous lines), and second when the rectifying electrical synapses between all but one of the afferents and the LGD compartment were removed (dashed lines). In the first case, the converging inputs from the stimulated afferents evoked a fast-rising EPSP (pink continuous trace) in LGD that exceeded the smaller EPSP in the unstimulated afferent (black continuous trace). As a result, the current through the rectifying electrical synapse that connects the unstimulated afferent and LGD compartments was initially positive, in the antidromic direction from LGD to the afferent (red continuous line). This current contributed to the afferent EPSP and helped bring the afferent to threshold. The resulting afferent spike then produced a much larger orthodromic (i.e., negative in Fig. 8B6) synaptic current that contributed to the EPSP of the LG. In the second simulation, the EPSP in LGD (pink dashed line in the top panel) was made much smaller by removing the synapses to LG from all but the recorded afferent. As a result, the larger afferent EPSP drove current in the orthodromic direction (red dashed line, bottom panel), and so transferred charge from the afferent to LGD. As a result, the afferent EPSP (dashed black trace in the top panel) reached threshold later than when the full LG EPSP occurred.
Recruitment of afferents is also facilitated by the rise in resistance presented by the rectifying electrical synapses when the LG response exceeds the afferent response. In the present model, the resistance of the synapses at rest was 5.4 M
DISCUSSION
The lateral excitatory network
Earlier work demonstrated that the LG neuron is both directly excited by an array of primary mechanosensory afferents and indirectly excited by those same afferents through a set of mechanosensory interneurons that contact LG (for review, see Edwards et al., 1999
The coupling between afferents is mediated by what appear to be nonrectifying electrical synapses. Because the coupling is primarily confined to afferents within single nerves, it acts to amplify stimuli that affect discrete areas of the tailfan innervated by those afferents. Recruitment of unstimulated afferents requires stimulation of a critical density of afferents to provide sufficient convergent, synchronous inputs to coupled unstimulated afferents. These criteria being met would lead in turn to excitation of other afferents and first-order mechanosensory interneurons. Such a chain reaction mechanism could amplify responses to stimuli above a critical intensity by recruiting a large fraction of the coupled afferents and first-order interneurons.
Similar electrical coupling occurs among retinal cones (Hsu et al., 2000
Additionally, synaptic coupling among neighboring afferents of the excitatory neurons of single cortical barrels in the mouse, each of which receives projections from a single whisker, forms an excitatory network that is primarily confined to the barrel (Petersen and Sakmann, 2000
Feedback modulation by LG
The ability of the membrane potential of LG to modulate the excitability of the afferents and primary interneurons creates a positive feedback that amplifies the lateral excitation. Although we have demonstrated this effect by depolarizing LG with injected current, the natural source of depolarization is the EPSP produced in the LG dendrite by the same set of stimulated afferents. In this mechanism, the LG EPSPs would amplify themselves by helping to recruit additional afferents that excite LG.
Two mechanisms may allow LG depolarization to increase the excitability of presynaptic primary afferents. The first is the flow of antidromic current that depolarizes the afferent axon. Unlike the tonic depolarization of LG imposed by injected current, dendritic LG EPSPs are both large and brief, and the expected antidromic currents should have the same character. Such phasic antidromic currents should have a greater effect on the excitability of the afferent axon than did the tonic currents produced by imposed depolarization of LG (Fig. 5). The simulations of Figure 8B6 show that the antidromic synaptic current can advance the recruitment of afferents; larger dendritic EPSPs would presumably have greater effects. The EPSPs in the LGD compartment were 25 mV in amplitude; larger EPSPs have been recorded in LG dendrites (Zucker, 1972
The second mechanism results from the rectifying nature of the synapses that link the afferents to LG (Edwards et al., 1991
The balance of these effects depends on the nature of the rectifying electrical synapses between the afferents and LG. Formal analysis of these synapses is made difficult by the remoteness of recording and current injection sites from the synapses in both presynaptic and postsynaptic cells. Our results suggest, however, that significant differences exist between these synapses and the giant motor synapse (GMS) that LG makes with the giant motor neuron. Unlike the GMS, where the resting transynaptic conductance is low, here between the afferents and LG it appears to be high. Hyperpolarizing current is readily passed antidromically, and depolarizing current can also pass, although not as easily (J. Herberholz and D. Edwards, unpublished observations). Although our model rectifying electrical synapses are based on descriptions of the GMS (Jaslove and Brink, 1986
From these results and examples, it is apparent that a lateral excitatory network creates a chain reaction that helps amplify inputs and discriminate signal from noise. We have shown that the density of primary afferents that are excited within one sensory nerve is critical for further activation of the network by the membrane potential of LG and for the subsequent amplification of sensory inputs onto LG. The network is tuned to amplify only strong inputs that activate a high number of afferents and to discriminate against weak inputs. In this way, the network, with the integral participation of LG, would act as a coincidence detector for activity within a local population of neurons. The selective responsiveness to phasic stimulation of LG is conditional on its short time constant. Activation of the network provides amplification and synchronization of such sensory inputs that occur within a brief period of time.
The largest effect of both the lateral excitatory network and its modulation by LG EPSPs may be on the recruitment of mechanosensory interneurons that drive the decisive
The escape command
Previous work suggested that the decision mechanism lay exclusively in the LG, where converging inputs created dendritic currents that converged on the spike initiation zone (Olson and Krasne, 1981
FOOTNOTES Received May 17, 2002; revised July 24, 2002; accepted Aug. 15, 2002.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant NS26457.
Correspondence should be addressed to Jens Herberholz, Department of Biology, Georgia State University, 24 Peachtree Center Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30302-4010. E-mail: biojhh{at}panther.gsu.edu.
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