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Gha Yeon Park,1,2,5 Geehyun Lee,1,2,5 Jongmin Yoon,1,2 Jisoo Han,3 Pyonggang Choi,3 Minjae Kim,1,2 Sungho Lee,1,2 Chaeri Park,1,2 Zhaofa Wu,4 Yulong Li,4 and Myunghwan Choi 1,2,6,*
1School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
2The Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
3Korea Brain Research Institute, Daegu 41062, Republic of Korea
4State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Peking University School of Life Sciences, Beijing 100871, China
5These authors contributed equally
6Lead contact
*Corresponding author: correspondence to Myunghwan Choi
Abstract
The sense of taste generally shows diminishing sensitivity to prolonged sweet stimuli, referred to as sweet adaptation. Yet, its mechanistic landscape remains incomplete. Here, we report that glia-like type I cells provide a distinct mode of sweet adaptation via intercellular crosstalk with chemosensory type II cells. Using the microfluidic-based intravital tongue imaging system, we found that sweet adaptation is facilitated along the synaptic transduction from type II cells to gustatory afferent nerves, while type I cells display temporally delayed and prolonged activities. We identified that type I cells receive purinergic input from adjacent type II cells via P2RY2 and provide inhibitory feedback to the synaptic transduction of sweet taste. Aligning with our cellular-level findings, purinergic activation of type I cells attenuated sweet licking behavior, and P2RY2 knockout mice showed decelerated adaptation behavior. Our study highlights a veiled intercellular mode of sweet adaptation, potentially contributing to the efficient encoding of prolonged sweetness.
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