Otoferlin acts as a Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion and vesicle pool replenishment at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses

Hearing relies on rapid, temporally precise, and sustained neurotransmitter release at the ribbon synapses of sensory cells, the inner hair cells (IHCs). This process requires otoferlin, a six C2-domain, Ca2+-binding transmembrane protein of synaptic vesicles. To decipher the role of otoferlin in th...

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Main Authors: Nicolas Michalski, Juan D Goutman, Sarah Marie Auclair, Jacques Boutet de Monvel, Margot Tertrais, Alice Emptoz, Alexandre Parrin, Sylvie Nouaille, Marc Guillon, Martin Sachse, Danica Ciric, Amel Bahloul, Jean-Pierre Hardelin, Roger Bryan Sutton, Paul Avan, Shyam S Krishnakumar, James E Rothman, Didier Dulon, Saaid Safieddine, Christine Petit
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/31013
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Jacques Boutet de Monvel
Margot Tertrais
Alice Emptoz
Alexandre Parrin
Sylvie Nouaille
Marc Guillon
Martin Sachse
Danica Ciric
Amel Bahloul
Jean-Pierre Hardelin
Roger Bryan Sutton
Paul Avan
Shyam S Krishnakumar
James E Rothman
Didier Dulon
Saaid Safieddine
Christine Petit
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Juan D Goutman
Sarah Marie Auclair
Jacques Boutet de Monvel
Margot Tertrais
Alice Emptoz
Alexandre Parrin
Sylvie Nouaille
Marc Guillon
Martin Sachse
Danica Ciric
Amel Bahloul
Jean-Pierre Hardelin
Roger Bryan Sutton
Paul Avan
Shyam S Krishnakumar
James E Rothman
Didier Dulon
Saaid Safieddine
Christine Petit
Otoferlin acts as a Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion and vesicle pool replenishment at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses
eLife
deafness
neurotransmitter release
synaptic exocytotic machinery
synaptopathy
temporal precision
inner hair cell
author_facet Nicolas Michalski
Juan D Goutman
Sarah Marie Auclair
Jacques Boutet de Monvel
Margot Tertrais
Alice Emptoz
Alexandre Parrin
Sylvie Nouaille
Marc Guillon
Martin Sachse
Danica Ciric
Amel Bahloul
Jean-Pierre Hardelin
Roger Bryan Sutton
Paul Avan
Shyam S Krishnakumar
James E Rothman
Didier Dulon
Saaid Safieddine
Christine Petit
author_sort Nicolas Michalski
title Otoferlin acts as a Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion and vesicle pool replenishment at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses
title_short Otoferlin acts as a Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion and vesicle pool replenishment at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses
title_full Otoferlin acts as a Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion and vesicle pool replenishment at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses
title_fullStr Otoferlin acts as a Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion and vesicle pool replenishment at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses
title_full_unstemmed Otoferlin acts as a Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion and vesicle pool replenishment at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses
title_sort otoferlin acts as a ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion and vesicle pool replenishment at auditory hair cell ribbon synapses
publisher eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
series eLife
issn 2050-084X
publishDate 2017-11-01
description Hearing relies on rapid, temporally precise, and sustained neurotransmitter release at the ribbon synapses of sensory cells, the inner hair cells (IHCs). This process requires otoferlin, a six C2-domain, Ca2+-binding transmembrane protein of synaptic vesicles. To decipher the role of otoferlin in the synaptic vesicle cycle, we produced knock-in mice (Otof Ala515,Ala517/Ala515,Ala517) with lower Ca2+-binding affinity of the C2C domain. The IHC ribbon synapse structure, synaptic Ca2+ currents, and otoferlin distribution were unaffected in these mutant mice, but auditory brainstem response wave-I amplitude was reduced. Lower Ca2+ sensitivity and delay of the fast and sustained components of synaptic exocytosis were revealed by membrane capacitance measurement upon modulations of intracellular Ca2+ concentration, by varying Ca2+ influx through voltage-gated Ca2+-channels or Ca2+ uncaging. Otoferlin thus functions as a Ca2+ sensor, setting the rates of primed vesicle fusion with the presynaptic plasma membrane and synaptic vesicle pool replenishment in the IHC active zone.
topic deafness
neurotransmitter release
synaptic exocytotic machinery
synaptopathy
temporal precision
inner hair cell
url https://elifesciences.org/articles/31013
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spelling doaj-0573827227564a46bbf876f5400e53e12021-05-05T13:55:11ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2017-11-01610.7554/eLife.31013Otoferlin acts as a Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion and vesicle pool replenishment at auditory hair cell ribbon synapsesNicolas Michalski0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1287-2709Juan D Goutman1Sarah Marie Auclair2Jacques Boutet de Monvel3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6182-3527Margot Tertrais4Alice Emptoz5Alexandre Parrin6Sylvie Nouaille7Marc Guillon8Martin Sachse9Danica Ciric10https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0098-6258Amel Bahloul11https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7042-4616Jean-Pierre Hardelin12https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1815-7909Roger Bryan Sutton13Paul Avan14Shyam S Krishnakumar15https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6148-3251James E Rothman16https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8653-8650Didier Dulon17Saaid Safieddine18https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6159-0572Christine Petit19https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9069-002XUnité de Génétique et Physiologie de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; UMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Complexité du Vivant, Paris, FranceInstituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDepartment of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, United StatesUnité de Génétique et Physiologie de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; UMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Complexité du Vivant, Paris, FranceUMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie de la Synapse Auditive, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FranceUnité de Génétique et Physiologie de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; UMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Complexité du Vivant, Paris, FranceUnité de Génétique et Physiologie de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; UMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Complexité du Vivant, Paris, FranceUnité de Génétique et Physiologie de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; UMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Complexité du Vivant, Paris, FranceWave Front Engineering Microscopy Group, Neurophotonics Laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 8250, University Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, FranceCenter for Innovation & Technological Research, Ultrapole, Institut Pasteur, Paris, FranceUnité de Génétique et Physiologie de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; UMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Complexité du Vivant, Paris, FranceUnité de Génétique et Physiologie de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; UMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Complexité du Vivant, Paris, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FranceUnité de Génétique et Physiologie de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; UMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Complexité du Vivant, Paris, FranceDepartment of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, United States; Center for Membrane Protein Research, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, United StatesLaboratoire de Biophysique Sensorielle, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France; UMR 1107, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Clermont-Ferrand, France; Centre Jean Perrin, Clermont-Ferrand, FranceDepartment of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, United States; Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United KingdomDepartment of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, United States; Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United KingdomUMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie de la Synapse Auditive, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FranceUnité de Génétique et Physiologie de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; UMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Complexité du Vivant, Paris, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FranceUnité de Génétique et Physiologie de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; UMRS 1120, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, Complexité du Vivant, Paris, France; Syndrome de Usher et Autres Atteintes Rétino-Cochléaires, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France; Collège de France, Paris, FranceHearing relies on rapid, temporally precise, and sustained neurotransmitter release at the ribbon synapses of sensory cells, the inner hair cells (IHCs). This process requires otoferlin, a six C2-domain, Ca2+-binding transmembrane protein of synaptic vesicles. To decipher the role of otoferlin in the synaptic vesicle cycle, we produced knock-in mice (Otof Ala515,Ala517/Ala515,Ala517) with lower Ca2+-binding affinity of the C2C domain. The IHC ribbon synapse structure, synaptic Ca2+ currents, and otoferlin distribution were unaffected in these mutant mice, but auditory brainstem response wave-I amplitude was reduced. Lower Ca2+ sensitivity and delay of the fast and sustained components of synaptic exocytosis were revealed by membrane capacitance measurement upon modulations of intracellular Ca2+ concentration, by varying Ca2+ influx through voltage-gated Ca2+-channels or Ca2+ uncaging. Otoferlin thus functions as a Ca2+ sensor, setting the rates of primed vesicle fusion with the presynaptic plasma membrane and synaptic vesicle pool replenishment in the IHC active zone.https://elifesciences.org/articles/31013deafnessneurotransmitter releasesynaptic exocytotic machinerysynaptopathytemporal precisioninner hair cell