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A Deafness Mechanism Of Digenic Cx26 (Gjb2) And Cx30 (Gjb6) Mutations: Reduction Of Endocochlear Potential By Impairment Of Heterogeneous Gap Junctional Function In The Cochlear Lateral Wall, Ling Mei, Jin Chen, Liang Zong, Yan Zhu, Chun Liang, Raleigh O. Jones, Hong-Bo Zhao
A Deafness Mechanism Of Digenic Cx26 (Gjb2) And Cx30 (Gjb6) Mutations: Reduction Of Endocochlear Potential By Impairment Of Heterogeneous Gap Junctional Function In The Cochlear Lateral Wall, Ling Mei, Jin Chen, Liang Zong, Yan Zhu, Chun Liang, Raleigh O. Jones, Hong-Bo Zhao
Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery Faculty Publications
Digenic Connexin26 (Cx26, GJB2) and Cx30 (GJB6) heterozygous mutations are the second most frequent cause of recessive deafness in humans. However, the underlying deafness mechanism remains unclear. In this study, we created different double Cx26 and Cx30 heterozygous (Cx26+/−/Cx30+/−) mouse models to investigate the underlying pathological changes and deafness mechanism. We found that double Cx26+/−/Cx30+/− heterozygous mice had hearing loss. Endocochlear potential (EP), which is a driving force for hair cells producing auditory receptor current, was reduced. However, unlike Cx26 homozygous knockout (Cx26−/−) mice, the cochlea in Cx26 …
P2x2 Dominant Deafness Mutations Have No Negative Effect On Wild-Type Isoform: Implications For Functional Rescue And In Deafness Mechanism, Yan Zhu, Juline Beudez, Ning Yu, Thomas Grutter, Hong-Bo Zhao
P2x2 Dominant Deafness Mutations Have No Negative Effect On Wild-Type Isoform: Implications For Functional Rescue And In Deafness Mechanism, Yan Zhu, Juline Beudez, Ning Yu, Thomas Grutter, Hong-Bo Zhao
Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery Faculty Publications
The P2X2 receptor is an ATP-gated ion channel, assembled by three subunits. Recently, it has been found that heterozygous mutations of P2X2 V60L and G353R can cause autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. The fact that heterozygous mutations cause deafness suggests that the mutations may have dominant-negative effect (DNE) on wild-type (WT) P2X2 isoforms and/or other partners leading to hearing loss. In this study, the effect of these dominant deafness P2X2 mutations on WT P2X2 was investigated. We found that sole transfection of both V60L and G353R deafness mutants could efficiently target to the plasma …
Hypothesis Of K+-Recycling Defect Is Not A Primary Deafness Mechanism For Cx26 (Gjb2) Deficiency, Hong-Bo Zhao
Hypothesis Of K+-Recycling Defect Is Not A Primary Deafness Mechanism For Cx26 (Gjb2) Deficiency, Hong-Bo Zhao
Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery Faculty Publications
K+-recycling defect is a long-standing hypothesis for deafness mechanism of Connexin26 (Cx26, GJB2) mutations, which cause the most common hereditary deafness and are responsible for >50% of nonsyndromic hearing loss. The hypothesis states that Cx26 deficiency may disrupt inner ear gap junctions and compromise sinking and recycling of expelled K+ ions after hair cell excitation, causing accumulation of K+-ions in the extracellular space around hair cells producing K+-toxicity, which eventually induces hair cell degeneration and hearing loss. However, this hypothesis has never been directly evidenced, even though it has been widely referred …