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FM1-43 dye behaves as a permeant blocker of the hair-cell mechanotransducer channel

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posted on 2023-06-07, 21:31 authored by J E Gale, W Marcotti, H J Kennedy, Corne Kros, Guy Richardson
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°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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Journal of Neuroscience

ISSN

0270-6474

Issue

18

Volume

21

Page range

7013-7025

Pages

13.0

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  • Neuroscience Publications

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GPR and CJK directed the research and were joint corresponding authors. The paper is the first to show that the styryl dye FM1-43 enters hair cells through their mechanotransducer channels and provides the basis for a method now widely used for rapidly monitoring for the presence of functional hair cells. Note that JE Gale was a postodc in my lab when this work was done

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2012-02-06

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-03-22

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2016-08-17

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