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Buswinka CJ, Rosenberg DB, Simikyan RG, Osgood RT, Fernandez K, Nitta H, Hayashi Y, Liberman LW, Nguyen E, Yildiz E, Kim J, Jarysta A, Renauld J, Wesson E, Wang H, Thapa P, Bordiga P, McMurtry N, Llamas J, Kitcher SR, López-Porras AI, Cui R, Behnammanesh G, Bird JE, Ballesteros A, Vélez-Ortega AC, Edge ASB, Deans MR, Gnedeva K, Shrestha BR, Manor U, Zhao B, Ricci AJ, Tarchini B, Basch ML, Stepanyan R, Landegger LD, Rutherford MA, Liberman MC, Walters BJ, Kros CJ, Richardson GP, Cunningham LL, Indzhykulian AA. Large-scale annotated dataset for cochlear hair cell detection and classification. Sci Data 2024; 11:416. [PMID: 38653806 PMCID: PMC11039649 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03218-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Our sense of hearing is mediated by cochlear hair cells, of which there are two types organized in one row of inner hair cells and three rows of outer hair cells. Each cochlea contains 5-15 thousand terminally differentiated hair cells, and their survival is essential for hearing as they do not regenerate after insult. It is often desirable in hearing research to quantify the number of hair cells within cochlear samples, in both pathological conditions, and in response to treatment. Machine learning can be used to automate the quantification process but requires a vast and diverse dataset for effective training. In this study, we present a large collection of annotated cochlear hair-cell datasets, labeled with commonly used hair-cell markers and imaged using various fluorescence microscopy techniques. The collection includes samples from mouse, rat, guinea pig, pig, primate, and human cochlear tissue, from normal conditions and following in-vivo and in-vitro ototoxic drug application. The dataset includes over 107,000 hair cells which have been identified and annotated as either inner or outer hair cells. This dataset is the result of a collaborative effort from multiple laboratories and has been carefully curated to represent a variety of imaging techniques. With suggested usage parameters and a well-described annotation procedure, this collection can facilitate the development of generalizable cochlear hair-cell detection models or serve as a starting point for fine-tuning models for other analysis tasks. By providing this dataset, we aim to give other hearing research groups the opportunity to develop their own tools with which to analyze cochlear imaging data more fully, accurately, and with greater ease.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christopher J Buswinka
- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology graduate program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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- Section on Sensory Cell Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Vienna General Hospital and Medical University of Vienna, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
- Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40536, USA
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- Section on Sensory Physiology and Biophysics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Section on Sensory Physiology and Biophysics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA
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- Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
- Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
- Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, 04609, USA
- Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, 02111, MA, USA
- Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE), University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Vienna General Hospital and Medical University of Vienna, 1090, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8115, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology graduate program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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- Section on Sensory Cell Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
- Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology graduate program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
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Derudas M, O’Reilly M, Kirkwood NK, Kenyon EJ, Grimsey S, Kitcher SR, Workman S, Bull JC, Ward SE, Kros CJ, Richardson GP. Charge and lipophilicity are required for effective block of the hair-cell mechano-electrical transducer channel by FM1-43 and its derivatives. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11:1247324. [PMID: 37900280 PMCID: PMC10601989 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1247324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023] Open
Abstract
The styryl dye FM1-43 is widely used to study endocytosis but behaves as a permeant blocker of the mechano-electrical transducer (MET) channel in sensory hair cells, loading rapidly and specifically into the cytoplasm of hair cells in a MET channel-dependent manner. Patch clamp recordings of mouse outer hair cells (OHCs) were used to determine how a series of structural modifications of FM1-43 affect MET channel block. Fluorescence microscopy was used to assess how the modifications influence hair-cell loading in mouse cochlear cultures and zebrafish neuromasts. Cochlear cultures were also used to evaluate otoprotective potential of the modified FM1-43 derivatives. Structure-activity relationships reveal that the lipophilic tail and the cationic head group of FM1-43 are both required for MET channel block in mouse cochlear OHCs; neither moiety alone is sufficient. The extent of MET channel block is augmented by increasing the lipophilicity/bulkiness of the tail, by reducing the number of positive charges in the head group from two to one, or by increasing the distance between the two charged head groups. Loading assays with zebrafish neuromasts and mouse cochlear cultures are broadly in accordance with these observations but reveal a loss of hair-cell specific labelling with increasing lipophilicity. Although FM1-43 and many of its derivatives are generally cytotoxic when tested on cochlear cultures in the presence of an equimolar concentration of the ototoxic antibiotic gentamicin (5 µM), at a 10-fold lower concentration (0.5 µM), two of the derivatives protect OHCs from cell death caused by 48 h-exposure to 5 µM gentamicin.
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- Marco Derudas
- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Department of Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
- School of Medicine, Institute of Life Sciences, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Section on Neuronal Circuitry, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Department of Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Medicines Discovery Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Buswinka CJ, Rosenberg DB, Simikyan RG, Osgood RT, Fernandez K, Nitta H, Hayashi Y, Liberman LW, Nguyen E, Yildiz E, Kim J, Jarysta A, Renauld J, Wesson E, Thapa P, Bordiga P, McMurtry N, Llamas J, Kitcher SR, López-Porras AI, Cui R, Behnammanesh G, Bird JE, Ballesteros A, Vélez-Ortega AC, Edge AS, Deans MR, Gnedeva K, Shrestha BR, Manor U, Zhao B, Ricci AJ, Tarchini B, Basch M, Stepanyan RS, Landegger LD, Rutherford M, Liberman MC, Walters BJ, Kros CJ, Richardson GP, Cunningham LL, Indzhykulian AA. Large-scale annotated dataset for cochlear hair cell detection and classification. bioRxiv 2023:2023.08.30.553559. [PMID: 37693382 PMCID: PMC10491224 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.30.553559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
Abstract
Our sense of hearing is mediated by cochlear hair cells, localized within the sensory epithelium called the organ of Corti. There are two types of hair cells in the cochlea, which are organized in one row of inner hair cells and three rows of outer hair cells. Each cochlea contains a few thousands of hair cells, and their survival is essential for our perception of sound because they are terminally differentiated and do not regenerate after insult. It is often desirable in hearing research to quantify the number of hair cells within cochlear samples, in both pathological conditions, and in response to treatment. However, the sheer number of cells along the cochlea makes manual quantification impractical. Machine learning can be used to overcome this challenge by automating the quantification process but requires a vast and diverse dataset for effective training. In this study, we present a large collection of annotated cochlear hair-cell datasets, labeled with commonly used hair-cell markers and imaged using various fluorescence microscopy techniques. The collection includes samples from mouse, human, pig and guinea pig cochlear tissue, from normal conditions and following in-vivo and in-vitro ototoxic drug application. The dataset includes over 90'000 hair cells, all of which have been manually identified and annotated as one of two cell types: inner hair cells and outer hair cells. This dataset is the result of a collaborative effort from multiple laboratories and has been carefully curated to represent a variety of imaging techniques. With suggested usage parameters and a well-described annotation procedure, this collection can facilitate the development of generalizable cochlear hair cell detection models or serve as a starting point for fine-tuning models for other analysis tasks. By providing this dataset, we aim to supply other groups within the hearing research community with the opportunity to develop their own tools with which to analyze cochlear imaging data more fully, accurately, and with greater ease.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christopher J Buswinka
- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology graduate program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Section on Sensory Cell Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Vienna General Hospital and Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dept. of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
- Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40536, USA
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- Section on Sensory Physiology and Biophysics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA; Myology Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA; Myology Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Section on Sensory Physiology and Biophysics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA
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- Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
- Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, 04609, USA
- Department of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, 02111, MA, USA
- Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE), University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Vienna General Hospital and Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8115, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology graduate program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dept. of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Section on Sensory Cell Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20814, USA
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- Eaton Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology graduate program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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Carlton AJ, Jeng J, Grandi FC, De Faveri F, Ceriani F, De Tomasi L, Underhill A, Johnson SL, Legan KP, Kros CJ, Richardson GP, Mustapha M, Marcotti W. A critical period of prehearing spontaneous Ca 2+ spiking is required for hair-bundle maintenance in inner hair cells. EMBO J 2023; 42:e112118. [PMID: 36594367 PMCID: PMC9929643 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2022112118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2022] [Revised: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Sensory-independent Ca2+ spiking regulates the development of mammalian sensory systems. In the immature cochlea, inner hair cells (IHCs) fire spontaneous Ca2+ action potentials (APs) that are generated either intrinsically or by intercellular Ca2+ waves in the nonsensory cells. The extent to which either or both of these Ca2+ signalling mechansims are required for IHC maturation is unknown. We find that intrinsic Ca2+ APs in IHCs, but not those elicited by Ca2+ waves, regulate the maturation and maintenance of the stereociliary hair bundles. Using a mouse model in which the potassium channel Kir2.1 is reversibly overexpressed in IHCs (Kir2.1-OE), we find that IHC membrane hyperpolarization prevents IHCs from generating intrinsic Ca2+ APs but not APs induced by Ca2+ waves. Absence of intrinsic Ca2+ APs leads to the loss of mechanoelectrical transduction in IHCs prior to hearing onset due to progressive loss or fusion of stereocilia. RNA-sequencing data show that pathways involved in morphogenesis, actin filament-based processes, and Rho-GTPase signaling are upregulated in Kir2.1-OE mice. By manipulating in vivo expression of Kir2.1 channels, we identify a "critical time period" during which intrinsic Ca2+ APs in IHCs regulate hair-bundle function.
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- School of BiosciencesUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- School of BiosciencesUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
- Neuroscience InstituteUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- School of Life SciencesUniversity of Sussex, FalmerBrightonUK
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- School of Life SciencesUniversity of Sussex, FalmerBrightonUK
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- School of BiosciencesUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
- Neuroscience InstituteUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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- School of BiosciencesUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
- Neuroscience InstituteUniversity of SheffieldSheffieldUK
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Abstract
Cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in humans is more predominant in the cochlea than in the vestibule. Neither definite nor substantial vestibular dysfunction after cisplatin treatment has been consistently reported in the current literature. Inner ear hair cells seem to have intrinsic characteristics that make them susceptible to direct exposure to cisplatin. The existing literature suggests, however, that cisplatin might have different patterns of drug trafficking across the blood-labyrinth-barrier, or different degrees of cisplatin uptake to the hair cells in the cochlear and vestibular compartments. This review proposes an explanation for the preferential cochleotoxicity of cisplatin based on current evidence as well as the anatomy and physiology of the inner ear. The endocochlear potential, generated by the stria vascularis, acting as the driving force for hair cell mechanoelectrical transduction might also augment cisplatin entry into cochlear hair cells. Better understanding of the stria vascularis might shed new light on cochleotoxic mechanisms and inform the development of otoprotective interventions to moderate cisplatin associated ototoxicity.
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- Pattarawadee Prayuenyong
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand.,Hearing Sciences, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Hearing Sciences, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.,National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom.,Nottingham Audiology Services, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Translational Hearing Center, Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, United States
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Kenyon EJ, Kirkwood NK, Kitcher SR, Goodyear RJ, Derudas M, Cantillon DM, Baxendale S, de la Vega de León A, Mahieu VN, Osgood RT, Wilson CD, Bull JC, Waddell SJ, Whitfield TT, Ward SE, Kros CJ, Richardson GP. Identification of a series of hair-cell MET channel blockers that protect against aminoglycoside-induced ototoxicity. JCI Insight 2021; 6:145704. [PMID: 33735112 PMCID: PMC8133782 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.145704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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To identify small molecules that shield mammalian sensory hair cells from the ototoxic side effects of aminoglycoside antibiotics, 10,240 compounds were initially screened in zebrafish larvae, selecting for those that protected lateral-line hair cells against neomycin and gentamicin. When the 64 hits from this screen were retested in mouse cochlear cultures, 8 protected outer hair cells (OHCs) from gentamicin in vitro without causing hair-bundle damage. These 8 hits shared structural features and blocked, to varying degrees, the OHC's mechano-electrical transducer (MET) channel, a route of aminoglycoside entry into hair cells. Further characterization of one of the strongest MET channel blockers, UoS-7692, revealed it additionally protected against kanamycin and tobramycin and did not abrogate the bactericidal activity of gentamicin. UoS-7692 behaved, like the aminoglycosides, as a permeant blocker of the MET channel; significantly reduced gentamicin-Texas red loading into OHCs; and preserved lateral-line function in neomycin-treated zebrafish. Transtympanic injection of UoS-7692 protected mouse OHCs from furosemide/kanamycin exposure in vivo and partially preserved hearing. The results confirmed the hair-cell MET channel as a viable target for the identification of compounds that protect the cochlea from aminoglycosides and provide a series of hit compounds that will inform the design of future otoprotectants.
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- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, School of Life Sciences, and
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- Global Health and Infection, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
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- Global Health and Infection, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Medicines Discovery Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Sowden JC, Kros CJ, Sirimanna T, Pagarkar W, Oluonye N, Henderson RH. Impact of sight and hearing loss in patients with Norrie disease: advantages of Dual Sensory clinics in patient care. BMJ Paediatr Open 2020; 4:e000781. [PMID: 33225082 PMCID: PMC7670942 DOI: 10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Revised: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Norrie disease (ND) is a rare, X-linked condition of visual and auditory impairment, often presenting with additional neurological features and developmental delays of varying severity. While all affected patients are born blind, or lose their vision in infancy, progressive sensorineural hearing loss develops in the majority of cases and is typically detected in the second decade of life. A range of additional symptoms of ND, such as seizure disorders, typically appear from a young age, but it is difficult to predict the range of symptoms ND patients will experience. After growing up without vision, hearing loss represents the greatest worry for many patients with ND, as they may lose the ability to participate in previously enjoyed activities or to communicate with others. Dual sensory loss has a physical, psychosocial and financial impact on both patients with ND and their families. Routine monitoring of the condition is required in order to identify, treat and provide support for emerging health problems, leading to a large burden of medical appointments. Many patients need to travel long distances to meet with specialists, representing a further burden on time and finances. Additionally, the rare nature of dual sensory impairment in children means that few clinical environments are designed to meet their needs. Dual Sensory clinics are multidisciplinary environments designed for sensory-impaired children and have been suggested to alleviate the impact of diseases involving sensory loss such as ND. Here, we discuss the diagnosis, monitoring and management of ND and the impact it has on paediatric patients and their caregivers. We describe the potential for dual sensory clinics to reduce disease burden through providing an appropriate clinical environment, access to multiple clinical experts in one visit, and ease of monitoring for patients with ND.
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- Jane C Sowden
- Developmental Biology and Cancer Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, London, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, UK
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- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, London, UK
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- Wolfson Neurodisability Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, London, UK
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Jeng JY, Ceriani F, Hendry A, Johnson SL, Yen P, Simmons DD, Kros CJ, Marcotti W. Hair cell maturation is differentially regulated along the tonotopic axis of the mammalian cochlea. J Physiol 2019; 598:151-170. [PMID: 31661723 PMCID: PMC6972525 DOI: 10.1113/jp279012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Key points Outer hair cells (OHCs) enhance the sensitivity and the frequency tuning of the mammalian cochlea. Similar to the primary sensory receptor, the inner hair cells (IHCs), the mature functional characteristics of OHCs are acquired before hearing onset. We found that OHCs, like IHCs, fire spontaneous Ca2+‐induced action potentials (APs) during immature stages of development, which are driven by CaV1.3 Ca2+ channels. We also showed that the development of low‐ and high‐frequency hair cells is differentially regulated during pre‐hearing stages, with the former cells being more strongly dependent on experience‐independent Ca2+ action potential activity.
Abstract Sound amplification within the mammalian cochlea depends upon specialized hair cells, the outer hair cells (OHCs), which possess both sensory and motile capabilities. In various altricial rodents, OHCs become functionally competent from around postnatal day 7 (P7), before the primary sensory inner hair cells (IHCs), which become competent at about the onset of hearing (P12). The mechanisms responsible for the maturation of OHCs and their synaptic specialization remain poorly understood. We report that spontaneous Ca2+ activity in the immature cochlea, which is generated by CaV1.3 Ca2+ channels, differentially regulates the maturation of hair cells along the cochlea. Under near‐physiological recording conditions we found that, similar to IHCs, immature OHCs elicited spontaneous Ca2+ action potentials (APs), but only during the first few postnatal days. Genetic ablation of these APs in vivo, using CaV1.3−/− mice, prevented the normal developmental acquisition of mature‐like basolateral membrane currents in low‐frequency (apical) hair cells, such as IK,n (carried by KCNQ4 channels), ISK2 and IACh (α9α10nAChRs) in OHCs and IK,n and IK,f (BK channels) in IHCs. Electromotility and prestin expression in OHCs were normal in CaV1.3−/− mice. The maturation of high‐frequency (basal) hair cells was also affected in CaV1.3−/− mice, but to a much lesser extent than apical cells. However, a characteristic feature in CaV1.3−/− mice was the reduced hair cell size irrespective of their cochlear location. We conclude that the development of low‐ and high‐frequency hair cells is differentially regulated during development, with apical cells being more strongly dependent on experience‐independent Ca2+ APs. Outer hair cells (OHCs) enhance the sensitivity and the frequency tuning of the mammalian cochlea. Similar to the primary sensory receptor, the inner hair cells (IHCs), the mature functional characteristics of OHCs are acquired before hearing onset. We found that OHCs, like IHCs, fire spontaneous Ca2+‐induced action potentials (APs) during immature stages of development, which are driven by CaV1.3 Ca2+ channels. We also showed that the development of low‐ and high‐frequency hair cells is differentially regulated during pre‐hearing stages, with the former cells being more strongly dependent on experience‐independent Ca2+ action potential activity.
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- Jing-Yi Jeng
- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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Ototoxicity refers to damage of inner ear structures (i.e., the cochlea and vestibule) and their function (hearing and balance) following exposure to specific in-hospital medications (i.e., aminoglycoside antibiotics, platinum-based drugs), as well as a variety of environmental or occupational exposures (e.g., metals and solvents). This review provides a narrative derived from relevant papers describing factors contributing to (or increasing the risk of) aminoglycoside and cisplatin-induced ototoxicity. We also review current strategies to protect against ototoxicity induced by these indispensable pharmacotherapeutic treatments for life-threatening infections and solid tumors. We end by highlighting several interventional strategies that are currently in development, as well as the diverse challenges that still need to be overcome to prevent drug-induced hearing loss.
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- Corné J Kros
- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, United Kingdom
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- Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239.,National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, Oregon 97239
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O’Reilly M, Young L, Kirkwood NK, Richardson GP, Kros CJ, Moore AL. Gentamicin Affects the Bioenergetics of Isolated Mitochondria and Collapses the Mitochondrial Membrane Potential in Cochlear Sensory Hair Cells. Front Cell Neurosci 2019; 13:416. [PMID: 31572129 PMCID: PMC6753894 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2019.00416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Aminoglycoside antibiotics are widely prescribed to treat a variety of serious bacterial infections. They are extremely useful clinical tools, but have adverse side effects such as oto- and nephrotoxicity. Once inside a cell they are thought to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, subsequently leading to apoptotic cell death due to an increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. Here we present evidence of a direct effect of gentamicin (the most commonly prescribed aminoglycoside) on the respiratory activities of isolated rat liver and kidney mitochondria. We show that gentamicin stimulates state 4 and inhibits state 3u respiratory rates, thereby reducing the respiratory control ratio (RCR) whilst simultaneously causing a collapse of the mitochondrial membrane potential (MtMP). We propose that gentamicin behaves as an uncoupler of the electron transport chain (ETC) - a hypothesis supported by our evidence that it reduces the production of mitochondrial ROS (MtROS). We also show that gentamicin collapses the MtMP in the sensory hair cells (HCs) of organotypic mouse cochlear cultures.
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- Molly O’Reilly
- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Biochemistry and Biomedicine, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Biochemistry and Biomedicine, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Kitcher SR, Kirkwood NK, Camci ED, Wu P, Gibson RM, Redila VA, Simon JA, Rubel EW, Raible DW, Richardson GP, Kros CJ. ORC-13661 protects sensory hair cells from aminoglycoside and cisplatin ototoxicity. JCI Insight 2019; 4:126764. [PMID: 31391343 PMCID: PMC6693895 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.126764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Aminoglycoside (AG) antibiotics are widely used to prevent life-threatening infections, and cisplatin is used in the treatment of various cancers, but both are ototoxic and result in loss of sensory hair cells from the inner ear. ORC-13661 is a new drug that was derived from PROTO-1, a compound first identified as protective in a large-scale screen utilizing hair cells in the lateral line organs of zebrafish larvae. Here, we demonstrate, in zebrafish larvae and in mouse cochlear cultures, that ORC-13661 provides robust protection of hair cells against both ototoxins, the AGs and cisplatin. ORC-13661 also prevents both hearing loss in a dose-dependent manner in rats treated with amikacin and the loading of neomycin-Texas Red into lateral line hair cells. In addition, patch-clamp recordings in mouse cochlear cultures reveal that ORC-13661 is a high-affinity permeant blocker of the mechanoelectrical transducer (MET) channel in outer hair cells, suggesting that it may reduce the toxicity of AGs by directly competing for entry at the level of the MET channel and of cisplatin by a MET-dependent mechanism. ORC-13661 is therefore a promising and versatile protectant that reversibly blocks the hair cell MET channel and operates across multiple species and toxins. Candidate drug ORC-13661 robustly protects against ototoxicity by aminoglycoside antibiotics and cisplatin by reversibly blocking mechanotransduction of sensory hair cells.
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- Siân R Kitcher
- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.,Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.,Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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O'Reilly M, Kirkwood NK, Kenyon EJ, Huckvale R, Cantillon DM, Waddell SJ, Ward SE, Richardson GP, Kros CJ, Derudas M. Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of a New Series of Carvedilol Derivatives That Protect Sensory Hair Cells from Aminoglycoside-Induced Damage by Blocking the Mechanoelectrical Transducer Channel. J Med Chem 2019; 62:5312-5329. [PMID: 31083995 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Aminoglycosides (AGs) are broad-spectrum antibiotics used for the treatment of serious bacterial infections but have use-limiting side effects including irreversible hearing loss. Here, we assessed the otoprotective profile of carvedilol in mouse cochlear cultures and in vivo zebrafish assays and investigated its mechanism of protection which, we found, may be mediated by a block of the hair cell's mechanoelectrical transducer (MET) channel, the major entry route for the AGs. To understand the full otoprotective potential of carvedilol, a series of 18 analogues were prepared and evaluated for their effect against AG-induced damage as well as their affinity for the MET channel. One derivative was found to confer greater protection than carvedilol itself in cochlear cultures and also to bind more tightly to the MET channel. At higher concentrations, both carvedilol and this derivative were toxic in cochlear cultures but not in zebrafish, suggesting a good therapeutic window under in vivo conditions.
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research, Brighton and Sussex Medical School , University of Sussex , Falmer , Brighton BN1 9PX , U.K
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research, Brighton and Sussex Medical School , University of Sussex , Falmer , Brighton BN1 9PX , U.K
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- Medicines Discovery Institute , Cardiff University , Park Place , Cardiff CF10 3AT , U.K
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Ceriani F, Hendry A, Jeng JY, Johnson SL, Stephani F, Olt J, Holley MC, Mammano F, Engel J, Kros CJ, Simmons DD, Marcotti W. Coordinated calcium signalling in cochlear sensory and non-sensory cells refines afferent innervation of outer hair cells. EMBO J 2019; 38:embj.201899839. [PMID: 30804003 PMCID: PMC6484507 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201899839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2018] [Revised: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Outer hair cells (OHCs) are highly specialized sensory cells conferring the fine‐tuning and high sensitivity of the mammalian cochlea to acoustic stimuli. Here, by genetically manipulating spontaneous Ca2+ signalling in mice in vivo, through a period of early postnatal development, we find that the refinement of OHC afferent innervation is regulated by complementary spontaneous Ca2+ signals originating in OHCs and non‐sensory cells. OHCs fire spontaneous Ca2+ action potentials during a narrow period of neonatal development. Simultaneously, waves of Ca2+ activity in the non‐sensory cells of the greater epithelial ridge cause, via ATP‐induced activation of P2X3 receptors, the increase and synchronization of the Ca2+ activity in nearby OHCs. This synchronization is required for the refinement of their immature afferent innervation. In the absence of connexin channels, Ca2+ waves are impaired, leading to a reduction in the number of ribbon synapses and afferent fibres on OHCs. We propose that the correct maturation of the afferent connectivity of OHCs requires experience‐independent Ca2+ signals from sensory and non‐sensory cells.
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- Federico Ceriani
- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Center for Integrative Physiology and Molecular Medicine (CIPMM), Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei", University of Padua, Padova, Italy.,Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Italian National Research Council, Monterotondo, Italy
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- Center for Integrative Physiology and Molecular Medicine (CIPMM), Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Kros CJ. Wake up your ears! ATP sculpts development along the auditory system. J Physiol 2018; 595:1019-1020. [PMID: 28198016 DOI: 10.1113/jp273722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Corné J Kros
- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK
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Kenyon EJ, Kirkwood NK, Kitcher SR, O'Reilly M, Derudas M, Cantillon DM, Goodyear RJ, Secker A, Baxendale S, Bull JC, Waddell SJ, Whitfield TT, Ward SE, Kros CJ, Richardson GP. Identification of ion-channel modulators that protect against aminoglycoside-induced hair cell death. JCI Insight 2017; 2:96773. [PMID: 29263311 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.96773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Aminoglycoside antibiotics are used to treat life-threatening bacterial infections but can cause deafness due to hair cell death in the inner ear. Compounds have been described that protect zebrafish lateral line hair cells from aminoglycosides, but few are effective in the cochlea. As the aminoglycosides interact with several ion channels, including the mechanoelectrical transducer (MET) channels by which they can enter hair cells, we screened 160 ion-channel modulators, seeking compounds that protect cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) from aminoglycoside-induced death in vitro. Using zebrafish, 72 compounds were identified that either reduced loading of the MET-channel blocker FM 1-43FX, decreased Texas red-conjugated neomycin labeling, or reduced neomycin-induced hair cell death. After testing these 72 compounds, and 6 structurally similar compounds that failed in zebrafish, 13 were found that protected against gentamicin-induced death of OHCs in mouse cochlear cultures, 6 of which are permeant blockers of the hair cell MET channel. None of these compounds abrogated aminoglycoside antibacterial efficacy. By selecting those without adverse effects at high concentrations, 5 emerged as leads for developing pharmaceutical otoprotectants to alleviate an increasing clinical problem.
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- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, School of Life Sciences, and
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Bateson Centre and Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Bateson Centre and Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, School of Life Sciences, and.,Medicines Discovery Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Corns LF, Jeng JY, Richardson GP, Kros CJ, Marcotti W. TMC2 Modifies Permeation Properties of the Mechanoelectrical Transducer Channel in Early Postnatal Mouse Cochlear Outer Hair Cells. Front Mol Neurosci 2017; 10:326. [PMID: 29093662 PMCID: PMC5651230 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2017.00326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Accepted: 09/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
The ability of cochlear hair cells to convert sound into receptor potentials relies on the mechanoelectrical transducer (MET) channels present in their stereociliary bundles. There is strong evidence implying that transmembrane channel-like protein (TMC) 1 contributes to the pore-forming subunit of the mature MET channel, yet its expression is delayed (~>P5 in apical outer hair cells, OHCs) compared to the onset of mechanotransduction (~P1). Instead, the temporal expression of TMC2 coincides with this onset, indicating that it could be part of the immature MET channel. We investigated MET channel properties from OHCs of homo- and heterozygous Tmc2 knockout mice. In the presence of TMC2, the MET channel blocker dihydrostreptomycin (DHS) had a lower affinity for the channel, when the aminoglycoside was applied extracellularly or intracellularly, with the latter effect being more pronounced. In Tmc2 knockout mice OHCs were protected from aminoglycoside ototoxicity during the first postnatal week, most likely due to their small MET current and the lower saturation level for aminoglycoside entry into the individual MET channels. DHS entry through the MET channels of Tmc2 knockout OHCs was lower during the first than in the second postnatal week, suggestive of a developmental change in the channel pore properties independent of TMC2. However, the ability of TMC2 to modify the MET channel properties strongly suggests it contributes to the pore-forming subunit of the neonatal channel. Nevertheless, we found that TMC2, different from TMC1, is not necessary for OHC development. While TMC2 is required for mechanotransduction in mature vestibular hair cells, its expression in the immature cochlea may be an evolutionary remnant.
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- Laura F. Corns
- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Kirkwood NK, O'Reilly M, Derudas M, Kenyon EJ, Huckvale R, van Netten SM, Ward SE, Richardson GP, Kros CJ. d-Tubocurarine and Berbamine: Alkaloids That Are Permeant Blockers of the Hair Cell's Mechano-Electrical Transducer Channel and Protect from Aminoglycoside Toxicity. Front Cell Neurosci 2017; 11:262. [PMID: 28928635 PMCID: PMC5591855 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2017] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Aminoglycoside antibiotics are widely used for the treatment of life-threatening bacterial infections, but cause permanent hearing loss in a substantial proportion of treated patients. The sensory hair cells of the inner ear are damaged following entry of these antibiotics via the mechano-electrical transducer (MET) channels located at the tips of the hair cell's stereocilia. d-Tubocurarine (dTC) is a MET channel blocker that reduces the loading of gentamicin-Texas Red (GTTR) into rat cochlear hair cells and protects them from gentamicin treatment. Berbamine is a structurally related alkaloid that reduces GTTR labeling of zebrafish lateral-line hair cells and protects them from aminoglycoside-induced cell death. Both compounds are thought to reduce aminoglycoside entry into hair cells through the MET channels. Here we show that dTC (≥6.25 μM) or berbamine (≥1.55 μM) protect zebrafish hair cells in vivo from neomycin (6.25 μM, 1 h). Protection of zebrafish hair cells against gentamicin (10 μM, 6 h) was provided by ≥25 μM dTC or ≥12.5 μM berbamine. Hair cells in mouse cochlear cultures are protected from longer-term exposure to gentamicin (5 μM, 48 h) by 20 μM berbamine or 25 μM dTC. Berbamine is, however, highly toxic to mouse cochlear hair cells at higher concentrations (≥30 μM) whilst dTC is not. The absence of toxicity in the zebrafish assays prompts caution in extrapolating results from zebrafish neuromasts to mammalian cochlear hair cells. MET current recordings from mouse outer hair cells (OHCs) show that both compounds are permeant open-channel blockers, rapidly and reversibly blocking the MET channel with half-blocking concentrations of 2.2 μM (dTC) and 2.8 μM (berbamine) in the presence of 1.3 mM Ca2+ at −104 mV. Berbamine, but not dTC, also blocks the hair cell's basolateral K+ current, IK,neo, and modeling studies indicate that berbamine permeates the MET channel more readily than dTC. These studies reveal key properties of MET-channel blockers required for the future design of successful otoprotectants.
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- Nerissa K Kirkwood
- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexBrighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexBrighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexBrighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexBrighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexBrighton, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands
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- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexBrighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexBrighton, United Kingdom
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexBrighton, United Kingdom
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Inflammation due to bacterial infection exacerbates hearing loss caused by aminoglycoside antibiotic treatment in a mouse model of sepsis (Koo et al.).
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- Corné J Kros
- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, Netherlands.
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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Marcotti W, Corns LF, Goodyear RJ, Rzadzinska AK, Avraham KB, Steel KP, Richardson GP, Kros CJ. The acquisition of mechano-electrical transducer current adaptation in auditory hair cells requires myosin VI. J Physiol 2016; 594:3667-81. [PMID: 27111754 PMCID: PMC4929313 DOI: 10.1113/jp272220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 04/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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KEY POINTS The transduction of sound into electrical signals occurs at the hair bundles atop sensory hair cells in the cochlea, by means of mechanosensitive ion channels, the mechano-electrical transducer (MET) channels. The MET currents decline during steady stimuli; this is termed adaptation and ensures they always work within the most sensitive part of their operating range, responding best to rapidly changing (sound) stimuli. In this study we used a mouse model (Snell's waltzer) for hereditary deafness in humans that has a mutation in the gene encoding an unconventional myosin, myosin VI, which is present in the hair bundles. We found that in the absence of myosin VI the MET current fails to acquire its characteristic adaptation as the hair bundles develop. We propose that myosin VI supports the acquisition of adaptation by removing key molecules from the hair bundle that serve a temporary, developmental role. ABSTRACT Mutations in Myo6, the gene encoding the (F-actin) minus end-directed unconventional myosin, myosin VI, cause hereditary deafness in mice (Snell's waltzer) and humans. In the sensory hair cells of the cochlea, myosin VI is expressed in the cell bodies and along the stereocilia that project from the cells' apical surface. It is required for maintaining the structural integrity of the mechanosensitive hair bundles formed by the stereocilia. In this study we investigate whether myosin VI contributes to mechano-electrical transduction. We report that Ca(2+) -dependent adaptation of the mechano-electrical transducer (MET) current, which serves to keep the transduction apparatus operating within its most sensitive range, is absent in outer and inner hair cells from homozygous Snell's waltzer mutant mice, which fail to express myosin VI. The operating range of the MET channels is also abnormal in the mutants, resulting in the absence of a resting MET current. We found that cadherin 23, a component of the hair bundle's transient lateral links, fails to be downregulated along the length of the stereocilia in maturing Myo6 mutant mice. MET currents of heterozygous littermates appear normal. We propose that myosin VI, by removing key molecules from developing hair bundles, is required for the development of the MET apparatus and its Ca(2+) -dependent adaptation.
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- Walter Marcotti
- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK.,Department of Biomedical Science, Addison Building, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Addison Building, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK
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- Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK.,Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London, SE1 1UL, UK
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK
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- Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK.,Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Quick K, Zhao J, Eijkelkamp N, Linley JE, Rugiero F, Cox JJ, Raouf R, Gringhuis M, Sexton JE, Abramowitz J, Taylor R, Forge A, Ashmore J, Kirkwood N, Kros CJ, Richardson GP, Freichel M, Flockerzi V, Birnbaumer L, Wood JN. TRPC3 and TRPC6 are essential for normal mechanotransduction in subsets of sensory neurons and cochlear hair cells. Open Biol 2013; 2:120068. [PMID: 22724068 PMCID: PMC3376737 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.120068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2012] [Accepted: 04/16/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels TRPC3 and TRPC6 are expressed in both sensory neurons and cochlear hair cells. Deletion of TRPC3 or TRPC6 in mice caused no behavioural phenotype, although loss of TRPC3 caused a shift of rapidly adapting (RA) mechanosensitive currents to intermediate-adapting currents in dorsal root ganglion sensory neurons. Deletion of both TRPC3 and TRPC6 caused deficits in light touch and silenced half of small-diameter sensory neurons expressing mechanically activated RA currents. Double TRPC3/TRPC6 knock-out mice also showed hearing impairment, vestibular deficits and defective auditory brain stem responses to high-frequency sounds. Basal, but not apical, cochlear outer hair cells lost more than 75 per cent of their responses to mechanical stimulation. FM1-43-sensitive mechanically gated currents were induced when TRPC3 and TRPC6 were co-expressed in sensory neuron cell lines. TRPC3 and TRPC6 are thus required for the normal function of cells involved in touch and hearing, and are potential components of mechanotransducing complexes.
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- Kathryn Quick
- Molecular Nociception Group, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Alagramam KN, Goodyear RJ, Geng R, Furness DN, van Aken AFJ, Marcotti W, Kros CJ, Richardson GP. Mutations in protocadherin 15 and cadherin 23 affect tip links and mechanotransduction in mammalian sensory hair cells. PLoS One 2011; 6:e19183. [PMID: 21532990 PMCID: PMC3080917 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Accepted: 03/29/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Immunocytochemical studies have shown that protocadherin-15 (PCDH15) and cadherin-23 (CDH23) are associated with tip links, structures thought to gate the mechanotransducer channels of hair cells in the sensory epithelia of the inner ear. The present report describes functional and structural analyses of hair cells from Pcdh15av3J (av3J), Pcdh15av6J (av6J) and Cdh23v2J (v2J) mice. The av3J and v2J mice carry point mutations that are predicted to introduce premature stop codons in the transcripts for Pcdh15 and Cdh23, respectively, and av6J mice have an in-frame deletion predicted to remove most of the 9th cadherin ectodomain from PCDH15. Severe disruption of hair-bundle morphology is observed throughout the early-postnatal cochlea in av3J/av3J and v2J/v2J mice. In contrast, only mild-to-moderate bundle disruption is evident in the av6J/av6J mice. Hair cells from av3J/av3J mice are unaffected by aminoglycosides and fail to load with [3H]-gentamicin or FM1-43, compounds that permeate the hair cell's mechanotransducer channels. In contrast, hair cells from av6J/av6J mice load with both FM1-43 and [3H]-gentamicin, and are aminoglycoside sensitive. Transducer currents can be recorded from hair cells of all three mutants but are reduced in amplitude in all mutants and have abnormal directional sensitivity in the av3J/av3J and v2J/v2J mutants. Scanning electron microscopy of early postnatal cochlear hair cells reveals tip-link like links in av6J/av6J mice, substantially reduced numbers of links in the av3J/av3J mice and virtually none in the v2J/v2J mice. Analysis of mature vestibular hair bundles reveals an absence of tip links in the av3J/av3J and v2J/v2J mice and a reduction in av6J/av6J mice. These results therefore provide genetic evidence consistent with PCDH15 and CDH23 being part of the tip-link complex and necessary for normal mechanotransduction.
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- Kumar N. Alagramam
- Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (CJK); (GPR)
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (CJK); (GPR)
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Roux I, Hosie S, Johnson SL, Bahloul A, Cayet N, Nouaille S, Kros CJ, Petit C, Safieddine S. Myosin VI is required for the proper maturation and function of inner hair cell ribbon synapses. Hum Mol Genet 2009; 18:4615-28. [PMID: 19744958 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddp429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The ribbon synapses of auditory inner hair cells (IHCs) undergo morphological and electrophysiological transitions during cochlear development. Here we report that myosin VI (Myo6), an actin-based motor protein involved in genetic forms of deafness, is necessary for some of these changes to occur. By using post-embedding immunogold electron microscopy, we showed that Myo6 is present at the IHC synaptic active zone. In Snell's waltzer mutant mice, which lack Myo6, IHC ionic currents and ribbon synapse maturation proceeded normally until at least post-natal day 6. In adult mutant mice, however, the IHCs displayed immature potassium currents and still fired action potentials, as normally only observed in immature IHCs. In addition, the number of ribbons per IHC was reduced by 30%, and 30% of the remaining ribbons were morphologically immature. Ca2+-dependent exocytosis probed by capacitance measurement was markedly reduced despite normal Ca2+ currents and the large proportion of morphologically mature synapses, which suggests additional defects, such as loose Ca2+-exocytosis coupling or inefficient vesicular supply. Finally, we provide evidence that Myo6 and otoferlin, a putative Ca2+ sensor of synaptic exocytosis also involved in a genetic form of deafness, interact at the IHC ribbon synapse, and we suggest that this interaction is involved in the recycling of synaptic vesicles. Our findings thus uncover essential roles for Myo6 at the IHC ribbon synapse, in addition to that proposed in membrane turnover and anchoring at the apical surface of the hair cells.
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- Isabelle Roux
- Inserm UMRS587, Unité de Génétique et Physiologie de l'Audition, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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van Netten SM, Meulenberg CJW, Lennan GWT, Kros CJ. Pairwise coupling of hair cell transducer channels links auditory sensitivity and dynamic range. Pflugers Arch 2008; 458:273-81. [DOI: 10.1007/s00424-008-0617-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2008] [Accepted: 11/04/2008] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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van Aken AFJ, Atiba-Davies M, Marcotti W, Goodyear RJ, Bryant JE, Richardson GP, Noben-Trauth K, Kros CJ. TRPML3 mutations cause impaired mechano-electrical transduction and depolarization by an inward-rectifier cation current in auditory hair cells of varitint-waddler mice. J Physiol 2008; 586:5403-18. [PMID: 18801844 PMCID: PMC2655368 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.156992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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TRPML3 (mucolipin-3) belongs to one of the transient-receptor-potential (TRP) ion channel families. Mutations in the Trpml3 gene cause disorganization of the stereociliary hair bundle, structural aberrations in outer and inner hair cells and stria vascularis defects, leading to deafness in the varitint-waddler (Va) mouse. Here we refined the stereociliary localization of TRPML3 and investigated cochlear hair cell function in varitint-waddler (Va(J)) mice carrying the TRPML3<I362T/A419P> mutations. Using a TRPML3-specific antibody we detected a approximately 68 kDa protein with near-equal expression levels in cochlea and vestibule of wild-type and Va(J) mutants. At postnatal days 3 and 5, we observed abundant localization of TRPML3 at the base of stereocilia near the position of the ankle links. This stereociliary localization domain was absent in Va(J) heterozygotes and homozygotes. Electrophysiological recordings revealed reduced mechano-electrical transducer currents in hair cells from Va(J)/+ and Va(J)/Va(J) mice. Furthermore, FM1-43 uptake and [(3)H]gentamicin accumulation were decreased in hair cells in cultured organs of Corti from Va(J)/+ and Va(J)/Va(J) mice. We propose that TRPML3 plays a critical role at the ankle-link region during hair-bundle growth and that an adverse effect of mutant TRPML3 on bundle development and mechano-electrical transduction is the main cause of hearing loss in Va(J)/+ mutant mice. Outer hair cells of Va(J)/Va(J) mice additionally had depolarized resting potentials due to an inwardly rectifying leak conductance formed by the mutant channels, leading over time to hair-cell degeneration and contributing to their deafness. Our findings argue against TRPML3 being a component of the hair-cell transducer channel.
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Helyer R, Cacciabue-Rivolta D, Davies D, Rivolta MN, Kros CJ, Holley MC. A model for mammalian cochlear hair cell differentiation in vitro: effects of retinoic acid on cytoskeletal proteins and potassium conductances. Eur J Neurosci 2007; 25:957-73. [PMID: 17331193 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05338.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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We have established a model for the in-vitro differentiation of mouse cochlear hair cells and have used it to explore the influence of retinoic acid on proliferation, cytoskeletal proteins and voltage-gated potassium conductances. The model is based on the conditionally immortal cell line University of Sheffield/ventral otocyst-epithelial cell line clone 36 (US/VOT-E36), derived from ventral otic epithelial cells of the mouse at embryonic day 10.5 and transfected with a reporter for myosin VIIa. Retinoic acid did not increase cell proliferation but led to up-regulation of myosin VIIa and formation of prominent actin rings that gave rise to numerous large, linear actin bundles. Cells expressing myosin VIIa had larger potassium conductances and did not express the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27(kip1). US/VOT-E36 endogenously expressed the voltage-gated potassium channel alpha-subunits Kv1.3 and Kv2.1, which we subsequently identified in embryonic and neonatal hair cells in both auditory and vestibular sensory epithelia in vivo. These subunits could underlie the embryonic and neonatal delayed-rectifiers recorded in nascent hair cells in vivo. Kv2.1 was particularly prominent on the basolateral membrane of cochlear inner hair cells. Kv1.3 was distributed throughout all hair cells but tended to be localized to the cuticular plates. US/VOT-E36 recapitulates a coherent pattern of cell differentiation under the influence of retinoic acid and will provide a convenient model for screening the effects of other extrinsic factors on the differentiation of cochlear epithelial cell types in vitro.
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- R Helyer
- Department of Biomedical Science, Addison Building, Western Bank, Sheffield, UK
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van Netten SM, Kros CJ. Insights into the Pore of the Hair Cell Transducer Channel from Experiments with Permeant Blockers. Mechanosensitive Ion Channels, Part B 2007; 59:375-98. [DOI: 10.1016/s1063-5823(06)59013-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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During their development inner hair cells (IHCs), the primary sensory receptors in the mammalian cochlea, undergo a meticulously orchestrated series of changes in the expression of ion channels and in their presynaptic function. This review considers what we currently know about these changes in IHCs of mice and rats, which start hearing 10-12 days after birth. Just after terminal mitosis the IHCs are electrically quiescent and functionally isolated, expressing only small and slow outward K(+) currents in their basolateral membranes. By the first postnatal week the cells have acquired inward Ca(2+) and Na(+) currents that enable them to fire spontaneous action potentials at a time when the cochlea can not yet be stimulated by sound. These action potentials may be essential for normal development and survival of the IHCs themselves and of the afferent nerve fibres that synapse with them. At the onset of hearing the transition to a functionally mature sensory receptor comes about by the expression of a large and fast BK current, I(K,f), a KCNQ4 current, I(K,n), and by changes in the exocytotic machinery. Some implications of this complex developmental programme for the ideal of hair-cell regeneration in the mature mammalian cochlea are discussed.
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- Corné J Kros
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.
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- Corné J Kros
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK.
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Marcotti W, Erven A, Johnson SL, Steel KP, Kros CJ. Tmc1 is necessary for normal functional maturation and survival of inner and outer hair cells in the mouse cochlea. J Physiol 2006; 574:677-98. [PMID: 16627570 PMCID: PMC1817746 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.095661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The deafness (dn) and Beethoven (Bth) mutant mice are models for profound congenital deafness (DFNB7/B11) and progressive hearing loss (DFNA36), respectively, caused by recessive and dominant mutations of transmembrane cochlear-expressed gene 1 (TMC1), which encodes a transmembrane protein of unknown function. In the mouse cochlea Tmc1 is expressed in both outer (OHCs) and inner (IHCs) hair cells from early stages of development. Immature hair cells of mutant mice seem normal in appearance and biophysical properties. From around P8 for OHCs and P12 for IHCs, mutants fail to acquire (dn/dn) or show reduced expression (Bth/Bth and, to a lesser extent Bth/+) of the K+ currents which contribute to their normal functional maturation (the BK-type current IK,f in IHCs, and the delayed rectifier IK,n in both cell types). Moreover, the exocytotic machinery in mutant IHCs does not develop normally as judged by the persistence of immature features of the Ca2+ current and exocytosis into adulthood. Mutant mice exhibited progressive hair cell damage and loss. The compound action potential (CAP) thresholds of Bth/+ mice were raised and correlated with the degree of hair cell loss. Homozygous mutants (dn/dn and Bth/Bth) never showed CAP responses, even at ages where many hair cells were still present in the apex of the cochlea, suggesting their hair cells never function normally. We propose that Tmc1 is involved in trafficking of molecules to the plasma membrane or serves as an intracellular regulatory signal for differentiation of immature hair cells into fully functional auditory receptors.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Proliferation
- Cell Survival
- Cells, Cultured
- Cochlea/cytology
- Cochlea/physiology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/cytology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/physiology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/cytology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/physiology
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
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- Walter Marcotti
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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Marcotti W, van Netten SM, Kros CJ. The aminoglycoside antibiotic dihydrostreptomycin rapidly enters mouse outer hair cells through the mechano-electrical transducer channels. J Physiol 2005; 567:505-21. [PMID: 15994187 PMCID: PMC1474200 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.085951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 268] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2005] [Accepted: 06/27/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The most serious side-effect of the widely used aminoglycoside antibiotics is irreversible intracellular damage to the auditory and vestibular hair cells of the inner ear. The mechanism of entry into the hair cells has not been unequivocally resolved. Here we report that extracellular dihydrostreptomycin not only blocks the mechano-electrical transducer channels of mouse outer hair cells at negative membrane potentials, as previously shown, but also enters the cells through these channels, which are located in the cells' mechanosensory hair bundles. The voltage-dependent blocking kinetics indicate an open-channel block mechanism, which can be well described by a two barrier-one binding site model, quantifying the antibiotic's block of the channel as well as its permeation in terms of the associated rate constants. The results identify the open transducer channels as the main route for aminoglycoside entry. Intracellularly applied dihydrostreptomycin also blocks the transducer channels, but at positive membrane potentials. However, the potency of the block was two orders of magnitude lower than that due to extracellular dihydrostreptomycin. Extracellular Ca2+ increases the free energy of the barrier nearest the extracellular side and of the binding site for dihydrostreptomycin. This reduces both the entry of dihydrostreptomycin into the channel and the channel's affinity for the drug. In vivo, where the extracellular Ca2+ concentration in the endolymph surrounding the hair bundles is < 100 microM, we predict that some 9000 dihydrostreptomycin molecules per second enter each hair cell at therapeutic drug concentrations.
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MESH Headings
- Aminoglycosides/administration & dosage
- Animals
- Anti-Bacterial Agents/administration & dosage
- Cells, Cultured
- Dihydrostreptomycin Sulfate/administration & dosage
- Dihydrostreptomycin Sulfate/pharmacokinetics
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/metabolism
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/pathology
- Ion Channel Gating/drug effects
- Ion Channel Gating/physiology
- Ion Channels/drug effects
- Ion Channels/physiology
- Mechanotransduction, Cellular/drug effects
- Mechanotransduction, Cellular/physiology
- Membrane Potentials/drug effects
- Metabolic Clearance Rate
- Mice
- Models, Biological
- Models, Chemical
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- Walter Marcotti
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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- K Gegenfurtner
- Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany.
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Michel V, Goodyear RJ, Weil D, Marcotti W, Perfettini I, Wolfrum U, Kros CJ, Richardson GP, Petit C. Cadherin 23 is a component of the transient lateral links in the developing hair bundles of cochlear sensory cells. Dev Biol 2005; 280:281-94. [PMID: 15882573 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2004] [Revised: 01/10/2005] [Accepted: 01/11/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cadherin 23 is required for normal development of the sensory hair bundle, and recent evidence suggests it is a component of the tip links, filamentous structures thought to gate the hair cells' mechano-electrical transducer channels. Antibodies against unique peptide epitopes were used to study the properties of cadherin 23 and its spatio-temporal expression patterns in developing cochlear hair cells. In the rat, intra- and extracellular domain epitopes are readily detected in the developing hair bundle between E18 and P5, and become progressively restricted to the distal tip of the hair bundle. From P13 onwards, these epitopes are no longer detected in hair bundles, but immunoreactivity is observed in the apical, vesicle-rich, pericuticular region of the hair cell. In the P2-P3 mouse cochlea, immunogold labeling reveals cadherin 23 is associated with kinocilial links and transient lateral links located between and within stereociliary rows. At this stage, the cadherin 23 ectodomain epitope remains on the hair bundle following BAPTA or La(3+) treatment, but is lost following exposure to the protease subtilisin. In contrast, mechano-electrical transduction is abolished by BAPTA but unaffected by subtilisin. These results suggest cadherin 23 is associated with transient lateral links that have properties distinct from those of the tip-link.
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- Vincent Michel
- Unité de Génétique des Déficits Sensoriels, INSERM U587, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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The hair bundles of outer hair cells in the mature mouse cochlea possess three distinct cell-surface specializations: tip links, horizontal top connectors, and tectorial membrane attachment crowns. Electron microscopy was used to study the appearance and maturation of these link types and examine additional structures transiently associated with the developing hair bundle. At embryonic day 17.5 (E17.5), the stereocilia are interconnected by fine lateral links and have punctate elements distributed over their surface. Oblique tip links are also seen at this stage. By postnatal day 2 (P2), outer hair cell bundles have a dense cell coat, but have lost many of the lateral links seen at E17.5. At P2, ankle links appear around the base of the bundle and tectorial membrane attachment crowns are seen at the stereociliary tips. Ankle links become less apparent by P9 and are completely lost by P12. The appearance of horizontal top connectors, which persist into adulthood, occurs concomitant with this loss of ankle links. Treatment with the calcium chelator BAPTA or the protease subtilisin enabled these links to be further distinguished. Ankle links are susceptible to both treatments, tip links are only sensitive to BAPTA, and tectorial membrane attachment crowns are removed by subtilisin but not BAPTA. The cell-coat material is partially sensitive to subtilisin alone, while horizontal top connectors resist both treatments. These results indicate there is a rich, rapidly changing array of different links covering the developing hair bundle that becomes progressively refined to generate the mature complement by P19.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Chelating Agents/pharmacology
- Cochlea/embryology
- Cochlea/growth & development
- Cochlea/ultrastructure
- Egtazic Acid/analogs & derivatives
- Egtazic Acid/pharmacology
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/embryology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/growth & development
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/ultrastructure
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/embryology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/growth & development
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/ultrastructure
- In Vitro Techniques
- Mice
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning/methods
- Subtilisin/pharmacology
- Tectorial Membrane/drug effects
- Tectorial Membrane/growth & development
- Tectorial Membrane/ultrastructure
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- Richard J Goodyear
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, United Kingdom.
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Developmental changes in the coupling between Ca2+ entry and exocytosis were studied in mouse inner hair cells (IHCs) which, together with the afferent endings, form the primary synapse of the mammalian auditory system. Ca2+ currents (ICa) and changes in membrane capacitance (DeltaCm) were recorded using whole-cell voltage clamp from cells maintained at body temperature, using physiological (1.3 mM) extracellular Ca2+. The magnitudes of both ICa and DeltaCm increased with maturation from embryonic stages until postnatal day 6 (P6). Subsequently, ICa gradually declined to a steady level of about -100 pA from P13 while the Ca2+-induced DeltaCm remained relatively constant, indicating a developmental increase in the Ca2+ efficiency of exocytosis. Although the size of ICa changed during development, its activation properties did not, suggesting the presence of a homogeneous population of Ca2+ channels in IHCs throughout development. The Ca2+ dependence of exocytosis changed with maturation from a fourth power relation in immature cells to an approximately linear relation in mature cells. This change applies to the release of both a readily releasable pool (RRP) and a slower secondary pool of vesicles, implying a common release mechanism for these two kinetically distinct pools that becomes modified during development. The increased Ca2+ efficiency and linear Ca2+ dependence of mature IHC exocytosis, especially over the physiological range of intracellular Ca2+, could improve the high-fidelity transmission of both brief and long-lasting stimulation. These properties make the mature cell ideally suited for fine intensity discrimination over a wide dynamic range.
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- Stuart L Johnson
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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Helyer RJ, Kennedy HJ, Davies D, Holley MC, Kros CJ. Development of outward potassium currents in inner and outer hair cells from the embryonic mouse cochlea. Audiol Neurootol 2004; 10:22-34. [PMID: 15486441 DOI: 10.1159/000081545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2003] [Accepted: 06/07/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We recorded K(+) currents in inner (IHCs) and outer (OHCs) hair cells from mice at embryonic days 16 and 18 and on the day of birth (PO) to characterize their early physiological differentiation. In both cell types, outward currents increased in size during late embryonic development, in cells situated in both the apical and basal coils of the cochlea. Currents increased up to six-fold, with current density increasing four-fold. Currents in basal cells were generally larger than in the apex, and currents in IHCs were larger than in OHCs at any given stage. In OHCs, they were initially non-inactivating but gained the partial inactivation characteristic of the K(+) current of neonatal mouse cochlear hair cells, I(K,neo), by day 18 in the base and by P0 in the apex. In IHCs, there was little change, other than in amplitude, with partial inactivation already evident in the base by embryonic day 16. These results suggest that changes in the channel complement of OHCs occur within a few days of terminal mitosis, whereas in IHCs any such development would occur earlier. The progressive development of K(+) currents correlates with a developmental delay of around 2 days from the base to the apex of the cochlea.
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- Richard J Helyer
- Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Marcotti W, Johnson SL, Kros CJ. A transiently expressed SK current sustains and modulates action potential activity in immature mouse inner hair cells. J Physiol 2004; 560:691-708. [PMID: 15331671 PMCID: PMC1665291 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.072868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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From just after birth, mouse inner hair cells (IHCs) expressed a Ca(2+)-activated K(+) current that was reduced by intracellular BAPTA at concentrations >or= 1 mM. The block of this current by nifedipine suggests the direct involvement of Ca(v)1.3 Ca(2+) channels in its activation. On the basis of its high sensitivity to apamin (K(D) 360 pM) it was identified as a small-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) current (SK), probably SK2. A similar current was also found in outer hair cells (OHCs) from the beginning of the second postnatal week. In both cell types the appearance of the SK current coincided with their becoming responsive to acetylcholine (ACh), the main efferent neurotransmitter in the cochlea. The effect of ACh on IHCs was abolished when they were simultaneously superfused with strychnine, consistent with the presence of nicotinic ACh receptors (nAChRs). Extracellular Ca(2+) either potentiated or blocked the nAChR current depending on its concentration, as previously reported for the recombinant alpha9alpha10 nAChR. Outward currents activated by ACh were reduced by blocking the SK current with apamin or by preventing SK current activation with intracellular BAPTA (>or= 10 mM). The endogenous mobile Ca(2+) buffer concentration was estimated to be equivalent to about 1 mM BAPTA, suggesting that in physiological conditions the SK channel is significantly activated by Ca(2+) influx through both Ca(v)1.3 Ca(2+) channels and alpha9alpha10 nAChRs. Current clamp experiments showed that in IHCs the SK current is required for sustaining a train of action potentials and also modulates their frequency when activated by ACh.
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MESH Headings
- Action Potentials/physiology
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Apamin/pharmacology
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Egtazic Acid/analogs & derivatives
- Egtazic Acid/pharmacology
- Embryo, Mammalian
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/growth & development
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/physiology
- In Vitro Techniques
- Mice
- Organ of Corti/drug effects
- Organ of Corti/growth & development
- Organ of Corti/physiology
- Potassium Channels, Calcium-Activated/physiology
- Small-Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels
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- Walter Marcotti
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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Marcotti W, Johnson SL, Kros CJ. Effects of intracellular stores and extracellular Ca(2+) on Ca(2+)-activated K(+) currents in mature mouse inner hair cells. J Physiol 2004; 557:613-33. [PMID: 15064328 PMCID: PMC1665097 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.060137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Ca(2+)-activated K(+) currents were studied in inner hair cells (IHCs) of mature mice. I(K,f), the large-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) current (BK) characteristic of mature IHCs, had a fast activation time constant (0.4 ms at -25 mV at room temperature) and did not inactivate during 170 ms. Its amplitude, measured at -25 mV, and activation time constant were similar between IHCs in the apical and basal regions of the cochlea. I(K,f) was selectively blocked by 30 nm IbTx but was unaffected by superfusion of Ca(2+)-free solution, nifedipine or Bay K 8644, excluding the direct involvement of voltage-gated Ca(2+) channels in I(K,f) activation. Increasing the intracellular concentration of the Ca(2+) chelator BAPTA from 0.1 mm to 30 mm reduced the amplitude of I(K,f) at -25 mV and shifted its activation by 37 mV towards more depolarized potentials. A reduction in the size of I(K,f) and a depolarizing shift of its activation were also seen when either thapsigargin and caffeine or ryanodine were added intracellularly, suggesting that I(K,f) is modulated by voltage-dependent release from intracellular Ca(2+) stores. Mature IHCs had a small additional Ca(2+)-activated K(+) current (I(K(Ca))), activated by Ca(2+) flowing through L-type Ca(2+) channels. This current was still present during superfusion of either IbTx (60 nm) or apamin (300 nm) but was abolished in Cs(+)-based intracellular solution or during superfusion of 5 mm TEA, suggesting the presence of an additional BK-channel type. Current clamp experiments at body temperature show that I(K,f), but not I(K(Ca)), is essential for fast voltage responses of mature IHCs.
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MESH Headings
- 3-Pyridinecarboxylic acid, 1,4-dihydro-2,6-dimethyl-5-nitro-4-(2-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-, Methyl ester/pharmacology
- Animals
- Apamin/pharmacology
- Calcium/pharmacology
- Calcium/physiology
- Calcium Channel Agonists/pharmacology
- Calcium Channel Blockers/pharmacology
- Egtazic Acid/analogs & derivatives
- Egtazic Acid/pharmacology
- Electric Conductivity
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/metabolism
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/physiology
- In Vitro Techniques
- Indoles/pharmacology
- Membrane Potentials/drug effects
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Nifedipine/pharmacology
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
- Peptides/pharmacology
- Potassium Channel Blockers/pharmacology
- Potassium Channels, Calcium-Activated/drug effects
- Potassium Channels, Calcium-Activated/physiology
- Pyridines/pharmacology
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Affiliation(s)
- Walter Marcotti
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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Spreadbury IC, Kros CJ, Meech RW. Effects of trypsin on large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels of guinea-pig outer hair cells. Hear Res 2004; 190:115-27. [PMID: 15051134 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-5955(03)00376-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2003] [Accepted: 11/13/2003] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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High-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) (BK(Ca)) channels from isolated adult guinea-pig outer hair cells were studied in inside-out membrane patches. They had a 300 pS unitary conductance and were inhibited by tetraethyl ammonium (1 mM), iberiotoxin (33 nM) and charybdotoxin (50 nM). In symmetrical 144 mM KCl their K(+) permeability (P(K)) was 5.4 x 10(-13) cm(3)/s; this was reduced to around 4.5 x 10(-13) cm(3)/s with 160 mM Na(+) in place of K(+) on either internal or external membrane surface. BK(Ca) channels from trypsin-isolated hair cells had a high open probability, that depended on both membrane voltage (16 mV/e-fold change) and the concentration of calcium ions at their intracellular surface ([Ca(2+)](i)). The Hill coefficient was 3-4. About 50% of BK(Ca) channels from mechanically isolated outer hair cells had similar characteristics; the remainder had the same high conductance but a low open probability. Trypsin (<0.5 mg/ml) applied to the intracellular face of these 'inactive' channels markedly increased their open probability. It is possible that exposure to trypsin during cell isolation removes an inactivating beta subunit. This would account for the absence of 'inactive' BK(Ca) channels in trypsin-isolated cells.
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- I C Spreadbury
- Neurosciences Group, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.
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Goodyear RJ, Legan PK, Wright MB, Marcotti W, Oganesian A, Coats SA, Booth CJ, Kros CJ, Seifert RA, Bowen-Pope DF, Richardson GP. A receptor-like inositol lipid phosphatase is required for the maturation of developing cochlear hair bundles. J Neurosci 2003; 23:9208-19. [PMID: 14534255 PMCID: PMC6740823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023] Open
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A screen for protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) expressed in the chick inner ear yielded a high proportion of clones encoding an avian ortholog of protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor Q (Ptprq), a receptor-like PTP. Ptprq was first identified as a transcript upregulated in rat kidney in response to glomerular nephritis and has recently been shown to be active against inositol phospholipids. An antibody to the intracellular domain of Ptprq, anti-Ptprq, stains hair bundles in mice and chicks. In the chick ear, the distribution of Ptprq is almost identical to that of the 275 kDa hair-cell antigen (HCA), a component of hair-bundle shaft connectors recognized by a monoclonal antibody (mAb) that stains inner-ear hair bundles and kidney glomeruli. Furthermore, anti-Ptprq immunoblots a 275 kDa polypeptide immunoprecipitated by the anti-HCA mAb from the avian inner ear, indicating that the HCA and Ptprq are likely to be the same molecule. In two transgenic mouse strains with different mutations in Ptprq, anti-Ptprq immunoreactivity cannot be detected in the ear. Shaft connectors are absent from mutant vestibular hair bundles, but the stereocilia forming the hair bundle are not splayed, indicating that shaft connectors are not necessary to hold the stereocilia together; however, the mice show rapid postnatal deterioration in cochlear hair-bundle structure, associated with smaller than normal transducer currents with otherwise normal adaptation properties, a progressive loss of basal-coil cochlear hair cells, and deafness. These results reveal that Ptprq is required for formation of the shaft connectors of the hair bundle, the normal maturation of cochlear hair bundles, and the long-term survival of high-frequency auditory hair cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Surface/metabolism
- Cell Separation
- Cell Survival/genetics
- Chickens
- Cilia/enzymology
- Cilia/ultrastructure
- Cochlea/cytology
- Cochlea/embryology
- Cochlea/enzymology
- Deafness/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Hair Cells, Auditory/cytology
- Hair Cells, Auditory/enzymology
- Hair Cells, Auditory/ultrastructure
- Mechanotransduction, Cellular/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
- Phalloidine
- Phosphatidylinositols/metabolism
- Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases/genetics
- Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases/metabolism
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/genetics
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 3
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- R J Goodyear
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, United Kingdom
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Marcotti W, Johnson SL, Holley MC, Kros CJ. Developmental changes in the expression of potassium currents of embryonic, neonatal and mature mouse inner hair cells. J Physiol 2003; 548:383-400. [PMID: 12588897 PMCID: PMC2342842 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.034801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Developmental changes in electrophysiological membrane properties of mouse cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs) were studied from just after terminal differentiation up to functional maturity. As early as embryonic day 14.5 (E14.5) newly differentiated IHCs express a very small outward K+ current that is largely insensitive to 4-aminopyridine (4-AP). One day later the inward rectifier, IK1, is first observed. These immature cells initially exhibit only slow graded voltage responses under current clamp. From E17.5 spontaneous action potentials occur. During the first week of postnatal development, the outward K+ current steadily increases in size and a progressively larger fraction of the current is sensitive to 4-AP. During the second postnatal week, the activation of the 4-AP-sensitive current, by now contributing about half of the outward K+ current, shifts in the hyperpolarizing direction. Together with an increase in size of IK1, this hyperpolarizes the cell, thus inhibiting the spontaneous spike activity, although spikes could still be evoked upon depolarizing current injection. Starting at about the onset of hearing (postnatal day 12, P12) immature IHCs make the final steps towards fully functional sensory receptors with fast graded voltage responses. This is achieved mainly by the expression of the large-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ current IK,f, but also of a current indistinguishable from the negatively activating IK,n previously described in mature outer hair cells (OHCs). The 4-AP-sensitive current continues to increase after the onset of hearing to form the major part of the mature delayed rectifier, IK,s. By P20 IHCs appear mature in terms of their complement of K+ conductances.
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MESH Headings
- 4-Aminopyridine/pharmacology
- Algorithms
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn/metabolism
- Calcium Channels/drug effects
- Calcium Channels/metabolism
- Cochlea/cytology
- Cochlea/embryology
- Cochlea/growth & development
- Electrophysiology
- Female
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/embryology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/growth & development
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/metabolism
- Indoles/pharmacology
- Large-Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels
- Membrane Potentials/physiology
- Mice
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
- Potassium Channel Blockers/pharmacology
- Potassium Channels/biosynthesis
- Potassium Channels, Calcium-Activated/drug effects
- Potassium Channels, Calcium-Activated/metabolism
- Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying/drug effects
- Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying/metabolism
- Pregnancy
- Pyridines/pharmacology
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- Walter Marcotti
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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Vreugde S, Erven A, Kros CJ, Marcotti W, Fuchs H, Kurima K, Wilcox ER, Friedman TB, Griffith AJ, Balling R, Hrabé De Angelis M, Avraham KB, Steel KP. Beethoven, a mouse model for dominant, progressive hearing loss DFNA36. Nat Genet 2002; 30:257-8. [PMID: 11850623 DOI: 10.1038/ng848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Despite recent progress in identifying genes underlying deafness, there are still relatively few mouse models of specific forms of human deafness. Here we describe the phenotype of the Beethoven (Bth) mouse mutant and a missense mutation in Tmc1 (transmembrane cochlear-expressed gene 1). Progressive hearing loss (DFNA36) and profound congenital deafness (DFNB7/B11) are caused by dominant and recessive mutations of the human ortholog, TMC1 (ref. 1), for which Bth and deafness (dn) are mouse models, respectively.
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- Sarah Vreugde
- Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Johnson SL, Thomas MV, Kros CJ. Membrane capacitance measurement using patch clamp with integrated self-balancing lock-in amplifier. Pflugers Arch 2002; 443:653-63. [PMID: 11907834 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-001-0763-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2001] [Accepted: 11/07/2001] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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A lock-in amplifier was incorporated directly into the resistance and capacitance compensation circuitry of a patch clamp set-up, to allow exocytosis to be monitored in the whole-cell mode by measuring changes in cell membrane capacitance. The integration of these two systems enabled us to provide a novel operating mode, which we term the "track-in" mode, where the output signals from the lock-in amplifier are used to make compensating electronic adjustments of the resistance and capacitance control settings. The lock-in amplifier outputs remain near zero, and the control voltages generated by the feedback circuits provide linear and calibrated resistance and capacitance measurements. Results obtained from model cells and mouse inner hair cells show that this is achieved without loss of sensitivity or of significant time resolution compared with the conventional lock-in amplifier technique, whereas the sensitivity to switching phase errors is effectively eliminated. An automatic phase tracking system using a low-frequency dithering of the resistance control setting can nevertheless be used to preserve the correct switching phase if required. The track-in approach has considerable advantages over software implementations in terms of economy and convenience, since the resistance and capacitance signals can be recorded directly on any general-purpose data-acquisition system.
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- Stuart L Johnson
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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Kros CJ, Marcotti W, van Netten SM, Self TJ, Libby RT, Brown SDM, Richardson GP, Steel KP. Reduced climbing and increased slipping adaptation in cochlear hair cells of mice with Myo7a mutations. Nat Neurosci 2002; 5:41-7. [PMID: 11753415 DOI: 10.1038/nn784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Mutations in Myo7a cause hereditary deafness in mice and humans. We describe the effects of two mutations, Myo7a(6J) and Myo7a(4626SB), on mechano-electrical transduction in cochlear hair cells. Both mutations result in two major functional abnormalities that would interfere with sound transduction. The hair bundles need to be displaced beyond their physiological operating range for mechanotransducer channels to open. Transducer currents also adapt more strongly than normal to excitatory stimuli. We conclude that myosin VIIA participates in anchoring and holding membrane-bound elements to the actin core of the stereocilium. Myosin VIIA is therefore required for the normal gating of transducer channels.
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MESH Headings
- Actins/metabolism
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Cilia/physiology
- Cilia/ultrastructure
- Deafness/genetics
- Dihydrostreptomycin Sulfate/pharmacology
- Dyneins
- Electrophysiology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/physiology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/ultrastructure
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/physiology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/ultrastructure
- Humans
- Ion Channel Gating
- Ion Channels/physiology
- Mice
- Molecular Motor Proteins/physiology
- Mutation
- Myosin VIIa
- Myosins/genetics
- Myosins/physiology
- Organ Culture Techniques
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
- Physical Stimulation
- Sound
- Vanadates/pharmacology
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- C J Kros
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.
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Gale JE, Marcotti W, Kennedy HJ, Kros CJ, Richardson GP. FM1-43 dye behaves as a permeant blocker of the hair-cell mechanotransducer channel. J Neurosci 2001; 21:7013-25. [PMID: 11549711 PMCID: PMC6762973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023] Open
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Hair cells in mouse cochlear cultures are selectively labeled by brief exposure to FM1-43, a styryl dye used to study endocytosis and exocytosis. Real-time confocal microscopy indicates that dye entry is rapid and via the apical surface. Cooling to 4 degrees C and high extracellular calcium both reduce dye loading. Pretreatment with EGTA, a condition that breaks tip links and prevents mechanotransducer channel gating, abolishes subsequent dye loading in the presence of calcium. Dye loading recovers after calcium chelation with a time course similar to that described for tip-link regeneration. Myo7a mutant hair cells, which can transduce but have all mechanotransducer channels normally closed at rest, do not label with FM1-43 unless the bundles are stimulated by large excitatory stimuli. Extracellular perfusion of FM1-43 reversibly blocks mechanotransduction with half-blocking concentrations in the low micromolar range. The block is reduced by high extracellular calcium and is voltage dependent, decreasing at extreme positive and negative potentials, indicating that FM1-43 behaves as a permeant blocker of the mechanotransducer channel. The time course for the relief of block after voltage steps to extreme potentials further suggests that FM1-43 competes with other cations for binding sites within the pore of the channel. FM1-43 does not block the transducer channel from the intracellular side at concentrations that would cause complete block when applied extracellularly. Calcium chelation and FM1-43 both reduce the ototoxic effects of the aminoglycoside antibiotic neomycin sulfate, suggesting that FM1-43 and aminoglycosides enter hair cells via the same pathway.
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- J E Gale
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, United Kingdom
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- M G Evans
- MacKay Institute of Communication and Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffs ST5 5BG, UK
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Little is known of the molecular basis of normal auditory function. In contrast to the visual or olfactory senses, in which reasonable amounts of sensory tissue can be gathered, the auditory system has proven difficult to access through biochemical routes, mainly because such small amounts of tissue are available for analysis. Key molecules, such as the transduction channel, may be present in only a few tens of copies per sensory hair cell, compounding the difficulty. Moreover, fundamental differences in the mechanism of stimulation and, most importantly, the speed of response of audition compared with other senses means that we have no well-understood models to provide good candidate molecules for investigation. For these reasons, a genetic approach is useful for identifying the key components of auditory transduction, as it makes no assumptions about the nature or expression level of molecules essential for hearing. We review here some of the major advances in our understanding of auditory function resulting from the recent rapid progress in identification of genes involved in deafness.
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- K P Steel
- Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
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We quantified the molecular energies and forces involved in opening and closing of mechanoelectrical transducer channels in hair cells using a novel generally applicable method. It relies on a thermodynamic description of the free energy of an ion channel in terms of its open probability. The molecular gating force per channel as reflected in hair bundle mechanics is shown to equal kT/I(X) x dI(X)/dX, where I is the transducer current and X the deflection of the hair bundle. We applied the method to previously measured I(X) curves in mouse outer hair cells (OHCs) and vestibular hair cells (VHCs). Contrary to current models of transduction, gating of the transducer channel was found to involve only a finite range of free energy (< 10 kT), a consequence of our observation that the channel has a finite minimum open probability of ca. 1% for inhibitory bundle deflections. The maximum gating forces per channel of both cell types were found to be comparable (ca. 300-500 fN). Because of differences in passive restoring forces, gating forces result in very limited mechanical nonlinearity in OHC bundles compared to that in VHC bundles. A kinetic model of channel activation is proposed that accounts for the observed transducer currents and gating forces. It also predicts adaptation-like effects and spontaneous bundle movements ensuing from changes in state energy gaps possibly related to interactions of the channel with calcium ions.
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- S M van Netten
- Department of Neurobiophysics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Marcotti W, Géléoc GS, Lennan GW, Kros CJ. Transient expression of an inwardly rectifying potassium conductance in developing inner and outer hair cells along the mouse cochlea. Pflugers Arch 1999; 439:113-22. [PMID: 10651007 DOI: 10.1007/s004249900157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Inwardly rectifying K+ currents in inner and outer hair cells (IHCs, OHCs) were studied during post-natal development of the mouse cochlea. Hyperpolarizing steps from a holding potential of -64 mV induced a rapidly activating current in both cell types. This current showed strong inward rectification around the K+ equilibrium potential and, at potentials negative to -130 mV, partial inactivation. The activation range varied with extracellular K+ concentration. External application of Ba2+ and Cs+ reversibly blocked the elicited current. The results are consistent with the presence of an IK1-type inwardly rectifying potassium conductance in these cells. The maximum current was 60% larger in IHCs than in OHCs. In OHCs, but not IHCs, the amplitude of IK1 varied significantly with the cells' position along the cochlea. IK1 was maximal in cells located in the most basal region of the cochlea and its amplitude decreased in the apical coil. IK1 disappeared upon functional maturation: in OHCs at the end of the first postnatal week, and in IHCs at the onset of auditory function 12 days after birth. The current is active at the resting potential of the cells and plays a role in regulating the spiking behaviour characteristic of developing hair cells.
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MESH Headings
- Algorithms
- Animals
- Barium/pharmacology
- Cesium/pharmacology
- Cochlea/metabolism
- Electric Stimulation
- Electrophysiology
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/growth & development
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/metabolism
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/drug effects
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/growth & development
- Hair Cells, Auditory, Outer/metabolism
- In Vitro Techniques
- Male
- Membrane Potentials/physiology
- Mice
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
- Potassium Channel Blockers
- Potassium Channels/biosynthesis
- Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
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- W Marcotti
- Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
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Richardson GP, Forge A, Kros CJ, Marcotti W, Becker D, Williams DS, Thorpe J, Fleming J, Brown SD, Steel KP. A missense mutation in myosin VIIA prevents aminoglycoside accumulation in early postnatal cochlear hair cells. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1999; 884:110-24. [PMID: 10842588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Myosin VIIA is expressed by sensory hair cells in the inner ear and proximal tubule cells in the kidney, the two primary targets of aminoglycoside antibiotics. Using cochlear cultures prepared from early postnatal Myo7a6J mice with a missense mutation in the head region of the myosin VIIA molecule we show that this myosin is required for aminoglycoside accumulation in cochlear hair cells. Hair cells in homozygous mutant Myo7a6J cochlear cultures have disorganized hair bundles, but are otherwise morphologically normal and transduce. However, and in contrast to hair cells from heterozygous Myo7a6J cultures, the homozygous Myo7a6J hair cells do not accumulate [3H]gentamicin and do not exhibit an ototoxic response on exposure to aminoglycoside. Possible roles for myosin VIIA in the process of aminoglycoside accumulation are discussed.
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- G P Richardson
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.
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