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EMBO Mol Med ; 11(9): e10288, 2019 09.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31448880

ABSTRACT

Hearing relies on mechanically gated ion channels present in the actin-rich stereocilia bundles at the apical surface of cochlear hair cells. Our knowledge of the mechanisms underlying the formation and maintenance of the sound-receptive structure is limited. Utilizing a large-scale forward genetic screen in mice, genome mapping and gene complementation tests, we identified Clrn2 as a new deafness gene. The Clrn2clarinet/clarinet mice (p.Trp4* mutation) exhibit a progressive, early-onset hearing loss, with no overt retinal deficits. Utilizing data from the UK Biobank study, we could show that CLRN2 is involved in human non-syndromic progressive hearing loss. Our in-depth morphological, molecular and functional investigations establish that while it is not required for initial formation of cochlear sensory hair cell stereocilia bundles, clarin-2 is critical for maintaining normal bundle integrity and functioning. In the differentiating hair bundles, lack of clarin-2 leads to loss of mechano-electrical transduction, followed by selective progressive loss of the transducing stereocilia. Together, our findings demonstrate a key role for clarin-2 in mammalian hearing, providing insights into the interplay between mechano-electrical transduction and stereocilia maintenance.


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Hearing Loss/metabolism , Stereocilia/metabolism , Adult , Aged , Animals , Cohort Studies , Female , Hair Cells, Auditory/metabolism , Hearing , Hearing Loss/genetics , Hearing Loss/physiopathology , Humans , Male , Mice , Mice, Inbred C3H , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Middle Aged , Stereocilia/genetics
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Nat Commun ; 7: 12444, 2016 08 18.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27534441

ABSTRACT

Determining the genetic bases of age-related disease remains a major challenge requiring a spectrum of approaches from human and clinical genetics to the utilization of model organism studies. Here we report a large-scale genetic screen in mice employing a phenotype-driven discovery platform to identify mutations resulting in age-related disease, both late-onset and progressive. We have utilized N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea mutagenesis to generate pedigrees of mutagenized mice that were subject to recurrent screens for mutant phenotypes as the mice aged. In total, we identify 105 distinct mutant lines from 157 pedigrees analysed, out of which 27 are late-onset phenotypes across a range of physiological systems. Using whole-genome sequencing we uncover the underlying genes for 44 of these mutant phenotypes, including 12 late-onset phenotypes. These genes reveal a number of novel pathways involved with age-related disease. We illustrate our findings by the recovery and characterization of a novel mouse model of age-related hearing loss.


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Aging/genetics , Genetic Testing , Mutagenesis/genetics , Animals , Cochlea/metabolism , Disease Models, Animal , Epithelium/ultrastructure , Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem/physiology , Female , Hearing/genetics , Male , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Mutation/genetics , Pedigree , Phenotype
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