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. 2017 Oct 6;6:e26519. doi: 10.7554/eLife.26519

Figure 4. A single pair of dFB neurons expressing 5HT2b.

(A) Schematic illustration of different brain regions regulating sleep (above). dFB, dorsal fan-shaped body; DN1, dorsal neurons 1; lLNv, large ventral lateral clock neurons; MB, mushroom body; PI, pars intercerebralis. Sleep in flies expressing different Gal4-driven 5HT2b RNAi lines (below). (B) Brain of UAS-mCD8GFP; 23E10-Gal4 flies, immunostained with the anti-GFP antibody (green) and the nc82 antibody (red). (C) Brain of UAS-DenMark,UAS-sytGFP; 23E10-Gal4 fly, immunostained with the anti-GFP antibody (green), the anti-RFP antibody (red) and the neuropil marker nc82 antibody (blue). (D and E) Intersectional neurons of 23E10 and 5HT2b. Brain of 23E10-LexA/UAS-FRT-mCD8GFP-FRT; LexAop-Flp/Trh::Gal4 fly, immunostained with the anti-GFP antibody (green) and the neuropil marker nc82 antibody (red). Two intersectional neurons were labeled (E). (F–H) One pair of 5HT2b and 23E10 co-stained neurons. 5HT2b-LexA driven LexAop-tdTomato labelled 5HT2b neurons after anti-RFP immunostaining, and 23E10-Gal4 driven UAS-stingerGFP labelled 23E10 neurons after anti-GFP immunostaining. (F1, G1, and H1) Whole-mount staining. (F2, G2, and H2) Cell bodies of two co-stained neurons. NC82 fluorescences blue. Arrows indicate the cell bodies of co-stained neurons. (I–K) Immunostainings of 5HT2bsfGFP and serotonin. 5HT2bsfGFP labelled green, 5-HT labelled red and NC82 labelled blue as background. (I1, J1, and K1) Whole-mount staining. (I2, J2, and K2) Slice of FB region staining. (L–N) Immunostaining of 5HT2bsfGFP at dFB and serotonin. UAS-5HT2bsfGFP driven by 23E10 labelled green, 5HT labelled red and NC82 labelled blue as background. (L1, M1, and N1) Whole-mount staining. (L2, M2, and N2) Slice of FB region.

Figure 4.

Figure 4—figure supplement 1. Intersections of 5HT2b neurons with different brain regions.

Figure 4—figure supplement 1.

(A) qRT-PCR validation of UAS-5HT2b-RNAi efficiency. (B) Intersectional neurons of 5HT2b and brain regions labelled by different Gal4s. Brain of 5HT2b-LexA/UAS-FRT-mCD8GFP-FRT; LexAop-Flp/X-Gal4 flies, immunostained with the anti-GFP antibody (green) and the neuropil marker nc82 antibody (red).