Figure 2. Chemotaxis Analysis of gcy Mutants and Expression and Ca2+ Imaging of
gcy-14 (A) Alkaline pH chemotaxis of mutants defective in gcy genes expressed in ASE (n = 12 assays each). (B) Specific expression of the
gcy-14p::gfp reporter construct in ASEL, but not in ASER. Neurons stained with DiI are shown in magenta. ASE cell positions are indicated by arrows. Scale bars represent 10 mm. (C) Subcellular localization of GCY-14::GFP. The arrow indicates the cell body of ASEL. Open and filled arrowheads indicate the distal end of a dendrite and a sensory cilium of ASEL, respectively. The scale bar represents 10 mm. (D) Ca2+ transients in ASEL of
gcy-14(
pe1102) upon a pH up-step at t = 30 s. Ca2+ transients in ASEL of the wild-type in Figure 1D are also shown as a reference. (E) Ca2+ transients in ASER of wild-type, gcy- 14
(pe1102),
gcy-14 animals expressing the wildtype
gcy-14 gene specifically in ASEL, and
unc-13(
e450) in response to a pH up-step from 6.8 to 9.1. pH up-steps were at t = 10 s. (F) Mean fluorescence intensity increases in ASER of wild-type and mutant animals shown in (E). Data were calculated from mean values of relative DF/F0 (%) at their peaks. **p < 0.01, Dunnett test compared to the wild-type in (B) and Mann-Whitney U test in (F). NS, not significant. Numbers of recordings are shown in parentheses. Error bars and gray bands in Ca2+ transient traces indicate the SEM. See also Figure S2.