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Effects of Sleep and Wake on Oligodendrocytes and Their Precursors

Michele Bellesi, Martha Pfister-Genskow, Stephanie Maret, Sunduz Keles, Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli
Journal of Neuroscience 4 September 2013, 33 (36) 14288-14300; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5102-12.2013
Michele Bellesi
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Sunduz Keles
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    CNP-eGFP expression is specific for oligodendrocytes. A, CNP-eGFP+ cell distribution in frontal cortex and white matter (WM). Roman numerals indicate cortical layers. Scale bar, 45 μm. B, Double-labeling studies showing colocalization (arrows) of CNP-eGFP (green) and the oligodendrocyte marker CNP (red). C, D, Double-labeling studies showing the absence of colocalization between CNP-eGFP (green) and the astrocytic marker GFAP (red) or the neuronal marker NeuN (red). B–D, Scale bar, 15 μm.

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    Sleep/wake pattern and response to sleep deprivation in CNP-eGFP-L10a mice. A, Representative EEG recordings (frontal cortex) of a CNP-eGFP-L10a mouse during wake, NREM sleep, and REM sleep. B, Twenty-four hour sleep and wake patterns. In this and the next panels, white and black bars indicate the light and dark period, respectively. Values are mean ± SEM. C, Twenty-four hour wake, NREM sleep, and REM sleep EEG power density spectra (0–20 Hz) in CNP-eGFP-L10a mice (0.25 Hz frequency bin). D, Hypnogram, SWA time course, and motion activity in a representative CNP-eGFP-L10a mouse during baseline (BSL, top) and after 4 h of sleep deprivation (SD, bottom). E, F, Twenty-four hour time course of NREM duration and SWA for BSL and SD. *p < 0.05, significant increase during the first 2 h of recovery sleep after SD relative to BSL (paired t test).

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    Enrichment analysis of CNP-eGFP-L10a IP samples. A, qPCR expression (mean ± SD, n = 18, 6 per group) of the cell-specific marker for oligodendrocytes (Mbp) is consistently enriched in the IP RNA across all groups (W, S, and SD), whereas the negative controls (Gfap for astrocytes, Syt1 for neurons) are consistently enriched in the UB samples. B, Scatter plots show normalized mean expression values for IP (x-axis, n = 18, 6 per group) and UB (y-axis, n = 18, 6 per group) samples of S, W, and SD groups. The middle diagonal red line indicates equal expression, and the black lines to each side indicate one log-fold enrichment or depletion. Left column, in all three experimental groups, the top 200 genes identified by Cahoy et al. (2008) as specific for mature oligodendrocytes (yellow) are enriched in IP samples, whereas the top 200 genes specific for astrocytes (red) and neurons (blue) are enriched in S, W, and SD UB samples. The remaining columns show enrichment based on the top 500 genes identified by Cahoy et al. (2008) as specific for OPCs (green), premyelinating oligodendrocytes (orange, preOLs), and mature oligodendrocytes (yellow, OLs). C, Histogram shows the percentage (mean ± SD) of eGFP+ cells that colocalize with PDGFRα, O4, and CNP. D, qPCR expression (mean ± SD, n = 18, 6 per group) of the OPC marker Pdgfrα is consistently enriched in the UB RNA across all groups (W, S, and SD). E, Histogram shows the percentage (mean ± SD) of eGFP+ cells that colocalize with PDGFRα and CNP in S (n = 3) and SD mice (n = 3).

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    Functional characterization of genes differentially expressed in sleep (S) and wake (W + SD). A, Right, Heat diagrams show the probe set intensity for each individual animal in the three experimental groups. Left, A total of 286 genes for S and 379 genes for W + SD were recognized and mapped for functional annotation analysis (DAVID default settings, except for final group > 4 and multiple linkage threshold = 0.25). Top 10 functional annotation clusters in order of enrichment score are shown for S (top) and W + SD (bottom). B, Functional characterization of genes regulated in S and W + SD relative to genes preferentially expressed in OPCs, premyelinating oligodendrocytes (preOLs), and mature oligodendrocytes (OLs) (DAVID default settings, except for multiple linkage threshold = 0.25). Top 5 functional annotation clusters in order of enrichment score are shown for S (top) and W + SD (bottom).

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    OPC proliferation and differentiation are affected by sleep and wake. A, Left, Double-labeling studies showing a colocalization of PDGFRα+ cell (green) and a BrdU+ cell in a representative microscopic field from a sleeping animal. Scale bar, 25 μm. Right, Number of PDGFRα+/BrdU+ cells in S (n = 6 mice), W (n = 6), and SD (n = 6). Values are mean ± SD. *p < 0.05 (Tukey's post hoc test). B, Left, Examples of PDGFRα+ cells (green) in S and SD. The framed regions representing two examples of cell doublet are enlarged in B′ and B″; cell nuclei were counterstained with propidium-iodide (blue). Scale bar, 20 μm. Right, PDGFRα+ cells forming a doublet in frontal cortex of sleeping (S, n = 6), sleep-deprived (SD, n = 6), spontaneously awake (W, n = 6), and recovering sleep after sleep deprivation (RS, n = 6) mice. Values are mean ± SD. *p < 0.01 (Tukey's post hoc test). **p < 0.001 (Tukey's post hoc test). C, Correlation of the number of PDGFRα+/BrdU+ cells with duration of REM sleep (r indicates Pearson coefficient). D, Quantitative analysis of PDGFRα+ cells in frontal cortex of S (n = 6), SD (n = 6), W (n = 6), and RS (n = 6) mice. Values are mean ± SD. *p < 0.05 (Tukey's post hoc test). Cells forming a doublet are indicated in gray bars. E, Western blotting results from three independent experiments (exp I-III), showing an increase of PDGFRα expression in S relative to SD (n = 12, 4 S, and 4 SD/experiment). Values are mean ± SD. *p < 0.05 (t test). F, Left, Examples of O4+ cells (green) in S and SD; cell nuclei were counterstained with propidium-iodide (blue). Arrowheads indicate the cells scored as O4+. Scale bar, 20 μm. Right, Relative quantitative analysis of O4+ cells in frontal cortex of S (n = 6) and SD (n = 5) mice. Values are mean ± SD. *p < 0.05 (t test).

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Effects of Sleep and Wake on Oligodendrocytes and Their Precursors
Michele Bellesi, Martha Pfister-Genskow, Stephanie Maret, Sunduz Keles, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli
Journal of Neuroscience 4 September 2013, 33 (36) 14288-14300; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5102-12.2013

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  • INSIGHTS ON THE LINK AMONG MYELIN SHEATH PROLIFERATION AND SLEEP
    Isabella Panfoli
    Published on: 08 September 2013
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    In this study Authors report that oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPCs) proliferation and differentiation preferentially occur during sleep and wake, respectively. In particular, genes involved in myelination are transcribed preferentially during sleep, so that OPC proliferation doubles during sleep. This is a very well constructed and significant study. We would like to comment on the fact that that these results are con...

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    In this study Authors report that oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPCs) proliferation and differentiation preferentially occur during sleep and wake, respectively. In particular, genes involved in myelination are transcribed preferentially during sleep, so that OPC proliferation doubles during sleep. This is a very well constructed and significant study. We would like to comment on the fact that that these results are consistent with our previous reports. These showed that myelin sheath plays an energetic role (Morelli et al., 2011a), which may coincide with its trophic role in long-term axonal survival. We had also proposed that Myelin Basic Protein, whose role is not completely understood, may act as a proton (H+) sink during sleep to allowing myelin to handle H+ for oxidative phosphorylation during wake (Morelli et al., 2011b). Pointing at a role of OPCs and myelin in sleep, the paper from Bellesi et al., represents a step further towards our understanding of the phenomenon of sleep, one of the mysteries of biology. This is true especially considering that the traditionally accepted idea that synapses and spines are formed during sleep was surprisingly challenged by the same authors (Maret et al., 2011).

    CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Authors decare no Conflict of Interest

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    Maret S, Faraguna U, Nelson AB, Cirelli C, Tononi G (2011) Sleep and waking modulate spine turnover in the adolescent mouse cortex. Nat Neurosci 14:1418-1420. Morelli A, Ravera S, Panfoli I (2011a) Hypothesis of an Energetic Function for Myelin. Cell Biochem Biophys. Morelli A, Ravera S, Panfoli I (2011b) Myelin sheath: a new possible role in sleep mechanism. Sleep Med 12:199.

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