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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2016

A link between planar polarity and staircase-like bundle architecture in hair cells.

Basile Tarchini, Abigail L D Tadenev, Nicholas Devanney, Michel Cayouette

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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56 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Basile TarchiniThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA basile.tarchini@jax.org michel.cayouette@ircm.qc.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-2708-6273
Abigail L D TadenevThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA.
Nicholas DevanneyThe Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA.
Michel CayouetteCellular Neurobiology Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2W 1R7 basile.tarchini@jax.org michel.cayouette@ircm.qc.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-4655-9048

Funding

Hair Cell Polarization and Sensory Bundle DevelopmentR01DC015242 · NIDCD · JACKSON LABORATORY · PI Basile Robin Tarchini · 2017 to 2026
$5.4M
CIHR MOP-102584NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC015242
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensory perception in the inner ear relies on the hair bundle, the highly polarized brush of movement detectors that crowns hair cells. We previously showed that, in the mouse cochlea, the edge of the forming bundle is defined by the 'bare zone', a microvilli-free sub-region of apical membrane specified by the Insc-LGN-Gαi protein complex. We now report that LGN and Gαi also occupy the very tip of stereocilia that directly abut the bare zone. We demonstrate that LGN and Gαi are both essential for promoting the elongation and differential identity of stereocilia across rows. Interestingly, we also reveal that total LGN-Gαi protein amounts are actively balanced between the bare zone and stereocilia tips, suggesting that early planar asymmetry of protein enrichment at the bare zone confers adjacent stereocilia their tallest identity. We propose that LGN and Gαi participate in a long-inferred signal that originates outside the bundle to model its staircase-like architecture, a property that is essential for direction sensitivity to mechanical deflection and hearing.

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Body PatterningCell PolarityAnimalsCarrier ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsCochleaDeafnessEmbryo, MammalianGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-GoHair Cells, AuditoryMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicCarrier ProteinsCell Cycle ProteinsGnai1 protein, mouseGTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-GoLGN protein, mouseGαiHair bundleHair cellLGN/Gpsm2MouseStaircase-like organizationStereocilia

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PMID27660326
PMCPMC6514398

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