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Lee J, Fernandez K, Cunningham LL. Hear and Now: Ongoing Clinical Trials to Prevent Drug-Induced Hearing Loss. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol 2024; 64:211-230. [PMID: 37562496 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-033123-114106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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Each year over half a million people experience permanent hearing loss caused by treatment with therapeutic drugs with ototoxic side effects. There is a major unmet clinical need for therapies that protect against this hearing loss without reducing the therapeutic efficacy of these lifesaving drugs. At least 17 clinical trials evaluating 10 therapeutics are currently underway for therapies aimed at preventing aminoglycoside- and/or cisplatin-induced ototoxicity. This review describes the preclinical and clinical development of each of these approaches, provides updates on the status of ongoing trials, and highlights the importance of appropriate outcome measures in trial design and the value of reporting criteria in the dissemination of results.
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- John Lee
- Laboratory of Hearing Biology and Therapeutics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;
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- Laboratory of Hearing Biology and Therapeutics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;
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- Laboratory of Hearing Biology and Therapeutics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;
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Buswinka CJ, Osgood RT, Simikyan RG, Rosenberg DB, Indzhykulian AA. The hair cell analysis toolbox is a precise and fully automated pipeline for whole cochlea hair cell quantification. PLoS Biol 2023; 21:e3002041. [PMID: 36947567 PMCID: PMC10069775 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Revised: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023] Open
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Our sense of hearing is mediated by sensory hair cells, precisely arranged and highly specialized cells subdivided into outer hair cells (OHCs) and inner hair cells (IHCs). Light microscopy tools allow for imaging of auditory hair cells along the full length of the cochlea, often yielding more data than feasible to manually analyze. Currently, there are no widely applicable tools for fast, unsupervised, unbiased, and comprehensive image analysis of auditory hair cells that work well either with imaging datasets containing an entire cochlea or smaller sampled regions. Here, we present a highly accurate machine learning-based hair cell analysis toolbox (HCAT) for the comprehensive analysis of whole cochleae (or smaller regions of interest) across light microscopy imaging modalities and species. The HCAT is a software that automates common image analysis tasks such as counting hair cells, classifying them by subtype (IHCs versus OHCs), determining their best frequency based on their location along the cochlea, and generating cochleograms. These automated tools remove a considerable barrier in cochlear image analysis, allowing for faster, unbiased, and more comprehensive data analysis practices. Furthermore, HCAT can serve as a template for deep learning-based detection tasks in other types of biological tissue: With some training data, HCAT's core codebase can be trained to develop a custom deep learning detection model for any object on an image.
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- Christopher J Buswinka
- Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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cAMP and voltage modulate rat auditory mechanotransduction by decreasing the stiffness of gating springs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2107567119. [PMID: 35858439 PMCID: PMC9335186 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2107567119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Regulation of auditory sensitivity contributes to the precision, dynamic range, and protection of the auditory system. Regulation of the hair cell mechanotransduction channel is a major contributor to controlling the sensitivity of the auditory transduction process. The gating spring is a critical piece of the mechanotransduction machinery because it opens and closes the mechanotransduction channel, and its stiffness regulates the sensitivity of the mechanotransduction process. In the present work, we characterize the effect of the second-messenger signaling molecule cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and identify that it reduces gating spring stiffness likely through an exchange protein directly activated by cAMP (EPAC)-mediated pathway. This is a unique physiologic mechanism to regulate gating spring stiffness. Hair cells of the auditory and vestibular systems transform mechanical input into electrical potentials through the mechanoelectrical transduction process (MET). Deflection of the mechanosensory hair bundle increases tension in the gating springs that open MET channels. Regulation of MET channel sensitivity contributes to the auditory system’s precision, wide dynamic range and, potentially, protection from overexcitation. Modulating the stiffness of the gating spring modulates the sensitivity of the MET process. Here, we investigated the role of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in rat outer hair cell MET and found that cAMP up-regulation lowers the sensitivity of the channel in a manner consistent with decreasing gating spring stiffness. Direct measurements of the mechanical properties of the hair bundle confirmed a decrease in gating spring stiffness with cAMP up-regulation. In parallel, we found that prolonged depolarization mirrored the effects of cAMP. Finally, a limited number of experiments implicate that cAMP activates the exchange protein directly activated by cAMP to mediate the changes in MET sensitivity. These results reveal that cAMP signaling modulates gating spring stiffness to affect auditory sensitivity.
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- Sofia Waissbluth
- Department of Otolaryngology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Fettiplace R, Kim KX. The physiology of mechanoelectrical transduction channels in hearing. Physiol Rev 2014; 94:951-86. [PMID: 24987009 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00038.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Much is known about the mechanotransducer (MT) channels mediating transduction in hair cells of the vertrbrate inner ear. With the use of isolated preparations, it is experimentally feasible to deliver precise mechanical stimuli to individual cells and record the ensuing transducer currents. This approach has shown that small (1-100 nm) deflections of the hair-cell stereociliary bundle are transmitted via interciliary tip links to open MT channels at the tops of the stereocilia. These channels are cation-permeable with a high selectivity for Ca(2+); two channels are thought to be localized at the lower end of the tip link, each with a large single-channel conductance that increases from the low- to high-frequency end of the cochlea. Ca(2+) influx through open channels regulates their resting open probability, which may contribute to setting the hair cell resting potential in vivo. Ca(2+) also controls transducer fast adaptation and force generation by the hair bundle, the two coupled processes increasing in speed from cochlear apex to base. The molecular intricacy of the stereocilary bundle and the transduction apparatus is reflected by the large number of single-gene mutations that are linked to sensorineural deafness, especially those in Usher syndrome. Studies of such mutants have led to the discovery of many of the molecules of the transduction complex, including the tip link and its attachments to the stereociliary core. However, the MT channel protein is still not firmly identified, nor is it known whether the channel is activated by force delivered through accessory proteins or by deformation of the lipid bilayer.
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- Robert Fettiplace
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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Santos-Cortez RLP, Lee K, Giese AP, Ansar M, Amin-Ud-Din M, Rehn K, Wang X, Aziz A, Chiu I, Hussain Ali R, Smith JD, Shendure J, Bamshad M, Nickerson DA, Ahmed ZM, Ahmad W, Riazuddin S, Leal SM. Adenylate cyclase 1 (ADCY1) mutations cause recessive hearing impairment in humans and defects in hair cell function and hearing in zebrafish. Hum Mol Genet 2014; 23:3289-98. [PMID: 24482543 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cyclic AMP (cAMP) production, which is important for mechanotransduction within the inner ear, is catalyzed by adenylate cyclases (AC). However, knowledge of the role of ACs in hearing is limited. Previously, a novel autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing impairment locus DFNB44 was mapped to chromosome 7p14.1-q11.22 in a consanguineous family from Pakistan. Through whole-exome sequencing of DNA samples from hearing-impaired family members, a nonsense mutation c.3112C>T (p.Arg1038*) within adenylate cyclase 1 (ADCY1) was identified. This stop-gained mutation segregated with hearing impairment within the family and was not identified in ethnically matched controls or within variant databases. This mutation is predicted to cause the loss of 82 amino acids from the carboxyl tail, including highly conserved residues within the catalytic domain, plus a calmodulin-stimulation defect, both of which are expected to decrease enzymatic efficiency. Individuals who are homozygous for this mutation had symmetric, mild-to-moderate mixed hearing impairment. Zebrafish adcy1b morphants had no FM1-43 dye uptake and lacked startle response, indicating hair cell dysfunction and gross hearing impairment. In the mouse, Adcy1 expression was observed throughout inner ear development and maturation. ADCY1 was localized to the cytoplasm of supporting cells and hair cells of the cochlea and vestibule and also to cochlear hair cell nuclei and stereocilia. Ex vivo studies in COS-7 cells suggest that the carboxyl tail of ADCY1 is essential for localization to actin-based microvilli. These results demonstrate that ADCY1 has an evolutionarily conserved role in hearing and that cAMP signaling is important to hair cell function within the inner ear.
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Center for Statistical Genetics and
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- Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Center for Statistical Genetics and Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Center for Statistical Genetics and
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- Bobby R. Alford Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan
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- Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Center for Statistical Genetics and
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The very large G protein coupled receptor (Vlgr1) is a member of adhesion receptors or large N-terminal family B-7 transmembrane helixes (LNB7TM) receptors within the seven trans-membrane receptor superfamily. Vlgr1 is the largest GPCR identified to date; its mRNA spans 19 kb and encodes 6,300 amino acids. Vlgr1 is a core component of ankle-link complex in inner ear hair cells. Knock-out and mutation mouse models show that loss of Vlgr1 function leads to abnormal stereociliary development and hearing loss, indicating crucial roles of Vlgr1 in hearing transduction or auditory system development. Over the past 10 or so years, human genetics data suggested that Vlgr1 mutations cause Usher syndromes and seizures. Although significant progresses have been made, the details of Vlgr1's function in hair cells, its signaling cascade, and the mechanisms underlying causative effects of Vlgr1 mutations in human diseases remain elusive and ask for further investigation.
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Stria vascularis and vestibular dark cells: characterisation of main structures responsible for inner-ear homeostasis, and their pathophysiological relations. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology 2008; 123:151-62. [DOI: 10.1017/s0022215108002624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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AbstractThe regulation of inner-ear fluid homeostasis, with its parameters volume, concentration, osmolarity and pressure, is the basis for adequate response to stimulation. Many structures are involved in the complex process of inner-ear homeostasis. The stria vascularis and vestibular dark cells are the two main structures responsible for endolymph secretion, and possess many similarities. The characteristics of these structures are the basis for regulation of inner-ear homeostasis, while impaired function is related to various diseases. Their distinct morphology and function are described, and related to current knowledge of associated inner-ear diseases. Further research on the distinct function and regulation of these structures is necessary in order to develop future clinical interventions.
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Michalski N, Michel V, Bahloul A, Lefèvre G, Barral J, Yagi H, Chardenoux S, Weil D, Martin P, Hardelin JP, Sato M, Petit C. Molecular characterization of the ankle-link complex in cochlear hair cells and its role in the hair bundle functioning. J Neurosci 2007; 27:6478-88. [PMID: 17567809 PMCID: PMC6672440 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0342-07.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Several lines of evidence indicate that very large G-protein-coupled receptor 1 (Vlgr1) makes up the ankle links that connect the stereocilia of hair cells at their base. Here, we show that the transmembrane protein usherin, the putative transmembrane protein vezatin, and the PDZ (postsynaptic density-95/Discs large/zona occludens-1) domain-containing submembrane protein whirlin are colocalized with Vlgr1 at the stereocilia base in developing cochlear hair cells and are absent in Vlgr1-/- mice that lack the ankle links. Direct in vitro interactions between these four proteins further support their involvement in a molecular complex associated with the ankle links and scaffolded by whirlin. In addition, the delocalization of these proteins in myosin VIIa defective mutant mice as well as the myosin VIIa tail direct interactions with vezatin, whirlin, and, we show, Vlgr1 and usherin, suggest that myosin VIIa conveys proteins of the ankle-link complex to the stereocilia. Adenylyl cyclase 6, which was found at the base of stereocilia, was both overexpressed and mislocated in Vlgr1-/- mice. In postnatal day 7 Vlgr1-/- mice, mechanoelectrical transduction currents evoked by displacements of the hair bundle toward the tallest stereocilia (i.e., in the excitatory direction) were reduced in outer but not inner hair cells. In both cell types, stimulation of the hair bundle in the opposite direction paradoxically resulted in significant transduction currents. The absence of ankle-link-mediated cohesive forces within hair bundles lacking Vlgr1 may account for the electrophysiological results. However, because some long cadherin-23 isoforms could no longer be detected in Vlgr1-/- mice shortly after birth, the loss of some apical links could be involved too. The premature disappearance of these cadherin isoforms in the Vlgr1-/- mutant argues in favor of a signaling function of the ankle links in hair bundle differentiation.
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MESH Headings
- Adenylyl Cyclases/metabolism
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Carrier Proteins/metabolism
- Chelating Agents/pharmacology
- Cilia/physiology
- Cochlea/cytology
- Egtazic Acid/analogs & derivatives
- Egtazic Acid/pharmacology
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Extracellular Matrix Proteins/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/physiology
- Hair Cells, Auditory/metabolism
- Hair Cells, Auditory/ultrastructure
- Mechanotransduction, Cellular/genetics
- Mechanotransduction, Cellular/physiology
- Membrane Potentials/drug effects
- Membrane Potentials/physiology
- Membrane Potentials/radiation effects
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning/methods
- Organ Culture Techniques
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/deficiency
- Subtilisin/pharmacology
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- Nicolas Michalski
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé 587, Collège de France, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé 587, Collège de France, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé 587, Collège de France, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé 587, Collège de France, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 168, Institut Curie, 75248 Paris cedex 05, France
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- Division of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Department of Morphological and Physiological Sciences, Research and Education Program for Life Science, University of Fukui, Eiheiji, Fukui 910-1193, Japan, and
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé 587, Collège de France, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé 587, Collège de France, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 168, Institut Curie, 75248 Paris cedex 05, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé 587, Collège de France, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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- Division of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Department of Morphological and Physiological Sciences, Research and Education Program for Life Science, University of Fukui, Eiheiji, Fukui 910-1193, Japan, and
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé 587, Collège de France, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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Chambard JM, Ashmore JF. Regulation of the voltage-gated potassium channel KCNQ4 in the auditory pathway. Pflugers Arch 2005; 450:34-44. [PMID: 15660259 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-004-1366-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2004] [Accepted: 10/21/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The potassium channel KCNQ4, expressed in the mammalian cochlea, has been associated tentatively with an outer hair cell (OHC) potassium current, I(K,n), a current distinguished by an activation curve shifted to exceptionally negative potentials. Using CHO cells as a mammalian expression system, we have examined the properties of KCNQ4 channels under different phosphorylation conditions. The expressed current showed the typical KCNQ4 voltage-dependence, with a voltage for half-maximal activation (V(1/2)) of -25 mV, and was blocked almost completely by 200 microM linopirdine. Application of 8-bromo-cAMP or the catalytic sub-unit of PKA shifted V(1/2) by approximately -10 and -20 mV, respectively. Co-expression of KCNQ4 and prestin, the OHC motor protein, altered the voltage activation by a further -15 mV. Currents recorded with less than 1 nM Ca(2+) in the pipette ran down slowly (12% over 5 min). Buffering the pipette Ca(2+) to 100 nM increased the run-down rate sevenfold. Exogenous PKA in the pipette prevented the effect of elevated [Ca(2+)](i) on run-down. Inhibition of the calcium binding proteins calmodulin or calcineurin by W-7 or cyclosporin A, respectively, also prevented the calcium-dependent rapid run-down. We suggest that KCNQ4 phosphorylation via PKA and coupling to a complex that may include prestin can lead to the negative activation and the negative resting potential found in adult OHCs.
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- J-M Chambard
- Department of Physiology and Centre for Auditory Research, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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Tremblay F, Abdel-Majid R, Neumann PE. Electroretinographic oscillatory potentials are reduced in adenylyl cyclase type I deficient mice. Vision Res 2002; 42:1715-25. [PMID: 12127105 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6989(02)00113-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Electroretinography (ERG) of adult Adcy1(brl) mutant mice, which are deficient in adenylyl cyclase type 1 (AC1) activity, revealed decreased amplitude of the oscillatory potentials (OP) and of the primary rising phase of the b-wave intensity-response function in scotopic conditions. These abnormalities were less discernable in 3-6 week old mutants. No abnormalities were detected in the ERG signal obtained in photopic conditions or in the dark adaptation dynamics. The mutants displayed no histologic evidence of retinal degeneration. Retinal output, as measured by visual evoked potentials, was not different from heterozygous control mice. AC1-dependent pathways contribute to the generation of the retinal response to light. They may be necessary for the maintenance of the neural generators of the ERG OP.
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- François Tremblay
- Department of Ophthalmology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4H7.
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