期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 26, 期 24, 页码 6543-6553出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0693-06.2006
关键词
cochlea; hair cell; Usher syndrome; knock-out mice; GPCR; retina
资金
- NEI NIH HHS [EY016247, EY05235] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDCD NIH HHS [R01 DC005439-05, DC005439, R01 DC005439, DC004566, DC004662] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust [071394/Z/03/Z] Funding Source: Medline
Sensory hair bundles in the inner ear are composed of stereocilia that can be interconnected by a variety of different link types, including tip links, horizontal top connectors, shaft connectors, and ankle links. The ankle link antigen is an epitope specifically associated with ankle links and the calycal processes of photoreceptors in chicks. Mass spectrometry and immunoblotting were used to identify this antigen as the avian ortholog of the very large G-protein-coupled receptor VLGR1, the product of the Usher syndrome USH2C (Mass1) locus. Like ankle links, Vlgr1 is expressed transiently around the base of developing hair bundles in mice. Ankle links fail to form in the cochleae of mice carrying a targeted mutation in Vlgr1 (Vlgr1/del7TM), and the bundles become disorganized just after birth. FM1-43 [N-(3-triethylammonium) propyl)-4-(4-(dibutylamino)styryl) pyridinium dibromide] dye loading and whole- cell recordings indicate mechanotransduction is impaired in cochlear, but not vestibular, hair cells of early postnatal Vlgr1/del7TM mutant mice. Auditory brainstem recordings and distortion product measurements indicate that these mice are severely deaf by the third week of life. Hair cells from the basal half of the cochlea are lost in 2-month-old Vlgr1/del7TM mice, and retinal function is mildly abnormal in aged mutants. Our results indicate that Vlgr1 is required for formation of the ankle link complex and the normal development of cochlear hair bundles.
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