BK channel regulation in auditory hair cells

听觉毛细胞中的 BK 通道调节

• 批准号: 7713994
• 负责人: ROBERT K DUNCAN
• 金额: $ 35.95万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-12-15 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7713994
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Affinity; Age; Alternative Splicing; Apical; Asses; Auditory; Auditory Physiology; Behavior; Biological Models; Botulinum Toxins; Calcium; Calcium Channel; Cell physiology; Cell surface; Cells; Chickens; Cleaved cell; Cochlea; Code; Complement component C1s; Coupled; Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases; Cyclodextrins; Data; Development; Diffuse; Distant; Dominant-Negative Mutation; Electrophysiology (science); Embryo; Endoplasmic Reticulum; Estrogens; Exhibits; Exons; Functional disorder; Gated Ion Channel; Generations; Genes; Goals; Golgi Apparatus; Hair Cells; Hearing; Immunohistochemistry; In Situ Hybridization; Ion Channel; Kinetics; Label; Lead; Maintenance; Membrane Microdomains; Messenger RNA; Molecular; Muscle; Neurons; Potassium; Potassium Channel; Prevalence; Probability; Property; Protein Isoforms; Proteins; RNA Splicing; Receptor Cell; Regulation; Regulatory Pathway; Research; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Secretory Cell; Sensory; Sensory Process; Sensory Receptors; Shapes; Source; Soyasaponin; Staging; Surface; Synapses; System; Techniques; Testing; Therapeutic; Toxin; Variant; Vertebrates; base; insight; interest; large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels; nervous system disorder; neurotransmission; prevent; research study; syntaxin; syntaxin 1; syntaxin 1A; trafficking; voltage

Our long-term goal is to understand how voltage-gated ion channels regulate hair cell excitability, influence sensory processing in the cochlea, and contribute to normal and abnormal auditory function. Calcium-sensitive potassium (BK) channels are widely distributed in neurons, muscle, and secretory cells. In neurons and sensory receptor cells, these channels constrain Ca2+ flux and influence Ca2+-triggered neurotransmission. In the cochlea, diminished BK channel function leads to profound auditory deficits. Therefore, the molecular mechanisms underlying proper channel function are of primary interest. The chicken cochlea provides a model system where we have shown that BK channel Ca2+ affinity and kinetics vary in a graded manner along the tonotopic axis. However, the mechanisms underlying this tonotopic variation, as well as the developmental acquisition and high Ca2+ sensitivity of hair cell BK currents, are poorly understood. Ion channel regulation is accomplished by a variety of means. In this proposal, we will explore BK regulation by alternative splicing (Aim 1), co-assembly with auxiliary (3 subunits (Aim 2), interaction with synaptic proteins (Aim 3), and trafficking to specific cellular microdomains (Aim 4). Quantitative molecular techniques, immunohistology, and electrophysiology will be used to identify the molecular determinants of hair cell BK channel behavior. These experiments will provide fundamental insight into the molecular physiology of auditory hair cells and may provide a window into the generation and maintenance of functional gradients along the cochlea. Errant ion channel function underlies numerous neurological disorders. Our proposal addresses the ways in which an important potassium channel variety (BK) is regulated in auditory sensory cells. This research provides the framework for understanding how changes in ion channel behavior affect normal and abnormal auditory function, leading to therapeutic strategies that target hair cell excitability through BK channel modulation.

我们的长期目标是了解电压门控离子通道如何调节毛细胞兴奋性， 影响耳蜗中的感觉处理，并促进正常和异常的听觉功能。 钙敏感的钾（BK）通道广泛分布在神经元，肌肉和分泌细胞中。在 神经元和感觉受体细胞，这些通道限制了Ca2+通量并影响Ca2+触发 神经传递。在耳蜗中，BK通道功能的降低导致了深远的听觉缺陷。 因此，适当的通道功能的基于的分子机制是主要感兴趣的。这 Chicken Cochlea提供了一个模型系统，我们证明BK通道Ca2+亲和力和动力学 沿着吨位轴的分级方式变化。但是，这种吨位的机制 变异以及毛细胞BK电流的发育习得和高Ca2+灵敏度是 理解不佳。离子通道调节是通过多种手段来完成的。在此提案中，我们将 通过替代剪接（AIM 1），与辅助（3个亚基（AIM 2），2），探索BK调节（AIM 1） 与突触蛋白（AIM 3）的相互作用，并运输到特定的细胞微域（AIM 4）。 定量分子技术，免疫组织学和电生理学将用于鉴定 毛细胞BK通道行为的分子决定因素。这些实验将提供基本 深入了解听觉毛细胞的分子生理学，并可能提供进入一代的窗口， 维持沿着耳蜗的功能梯度。 错误的离子通道功能是许多神经系统疾病的基础。我们的提议解决了 在听觉感觉细胞中调节重要的钾通道品种（BK）的方式。这 研究提供了了解离子渠道行为的变化如何影响正常和的框架 异常听觉功能，导致通过BK靶向毛细胞兴奋性的治疗策略 通道调制。