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The Journal of Neuroscience, September 15, 2001, 21(18):7013-7025
FM1-43 Dye Behaves as a Permeant Blocker of the Hair-Cell
Mechanotransducer Channel
J. E.
Gale1,
W.
Marcotti1, 2,
H. J.
Kennedy2,
C. J.
Kros1, 2, and
G. P.
Richardson1
1 School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex,
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, United Kingdom, and 2 School of
Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, United
Kingdom
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.
Key words:
hair cell; cochlea; mechanotransduction; ion channel; endocytosis; aminoglycosides; myosin VIIA; FM1-43
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21187013-13$05.00/0
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