Transgenic Tg(Kcnj10-ZsGreen) fluorescent reporter mice allow visualization of intermediate cells in the stria vascularis.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
06 Feb 2024
Historique:
received: 27 09 2023
accepted: 22 01 2024
medline: 7 2 2024
pubmed: 7 2 2024
entrez: 6 2 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The stria vascularis (SV) is a stratified epithelium in the lateral wall of the mammalian cochlea, responsible for both endolymphatic ion homeostasis and generation of the endocochlear potential (EP) critical for normal hearing. The SV has three layers consisting predominantly of basal, intermediate, and marginal cells. Intermediate and marginal cells form an intricate interdigitated network of cell projections making discrimination of the cells challenging. To enable intermediate cell visualization, we engineered by BAC transgenesis, reporter mouse lines expressing ZsGreen fluorescent protein under the control of Kcnj10 promoter and regulatory sequences. Kcnj10 encodes KCNJ10 protein (also known as Kir4.1 or Kir1.2), an ATP-sensitive inwardly-rectifying potassium channel critical to EP generation, highly expressed in SV intermediate cells. In these transgenic mice, ZsGreen fluorescence mimics Kcnj10 endogenous expression in the cochlea and was detected in the intermediate cells of the SV, in the inner phalangeal cells, Hensen's, Deiters' and pillar cells, in a subset of spiral ganglion neurons, and in glial cells. We show that expression of the transgene in hemizygous mice does not alter auditory function, nor EP. These transgenic Tg(Kcnj10-ZsGreen) mice allow live and fixed tissue visualization of ZsGreen-expressing intermediate cells and will facilitate future studies of stria vascularis cell function.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38321040
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-52663-7
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-52663-7
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eng

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Organisme : NIH HHS
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Pays : United States
Organisme : Intramural NIH HHS
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Pays : United States

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Auteurs

Dillon Strepay (D)

Auditory Development and Restoration Program, Neurotology Branch, National Institute On Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, 35 Convent Dr., Room 1F-226, Bethesda, MD, 20892-3745, USA.

Rafal T Olszewski (RT)

Auditory Development and Restoration Program, Neurotology Branch, National Institute On Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, 35 Convent Dr., Room 1F-226, Bethesda, MD, 20892-3745, USA.

Sydney Nixon (S)

Auditory Development and Restoration Program, Neurotology Branch, National Institute On Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, 35 Convent Dr., Room 1F-226, Bethesda, MD, 20892-3745, USA.

Soumya Korrapati (S)

Auditory Development and Restoration Program, Neurotology Branch, National Institute On Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, 35 Convent Dr., Room 1F-226, Bethesda, MD, 20892-3745, USA.

Samuel Adadey (S)

Auditory Development and Restoration Program, Neurotology Branch, National Institute On Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, 35 Convent Dr., Room 1F-226, Bethesda, MD, 20892-3745, USA.

Andrew J Griffith (AJ)

Otolaryngology Branch, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Yijun Su (Y)

Advanced Imaging and Microscopy Resource, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Jiamin Liu (J)

Advanced Imaging and Microscopy Resource, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Harshad Vishwasrao (H)

Advanced Imaging and Microscopy Resource, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Shoujun Gu (S)

Auditory Development and Restoration Program, Neurotology Branch, National Institute On Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, 35 Convent Dr., Room 1F-226, Bethesda, MD, 20892-3745, USA.

Thomas Saunders (T)

Transgenic Animal Model Core, Biomedical Research Core Facility, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Isabelle Roux (I)

Otolaryngology Branch, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.

Michael Hoa (M)

Auditory Development and Restoration Program, Neurotology Branch, National Institute On Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, 35 Convent Dr., Room 1F-226, Bethesda, MD, 20892-3745, USA. michael.hoa@nih.gov.

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