Article (Scientific journals)
Ephrin-A5/EphA4 signalling controls specific afferent targeting to cochlear hair cells.
Defourny, Jean; Poirrier, Anne-Lise; Lallemend, Francois et al.
2013In Nature Communications, 4, p. 1438
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
 

Files


Full Text
Nature comm (2013) - defourny.pdf
Publisher postprint (4.14 MB)
Download

All documents in ORBi are protected by a user license.

Send to



Details



Keywords :
Afferent Pathways/metabolism; Animals; Auditory Threshold; Ephrin-A5/deficiency/genetics/metabolism; Gene Expression Regulation; Growth Cones/metabolism; Hair Cells, Auditory, Inner/metabolism; Immunohistochemistry; Mice; Microscopy, Confocal; Models, Biological; Receptor, EphA4/genetics/metabolism; Signal Transduction; Spiral Ganglion/cytology/innervation/metabolism; Synaptic Transmission
Abstract :
[en] Hearing requires an optimal afferent innervation of sensory hair cells by spiral ganglion neurons in the cochlea. Here we report that complementary expression of ephrin-A5 in hair cells and EphA4 receptor among spiral ganglion neuron populations controls the targeting of type I and type II afferent fibres to inner and outer hair cells, respectively. In the absence of ephrin-A5 or EphA4 forward signalling, a subset of type I projections aberrantly overshoot the inner hair cell layer and invade the outer hair cell area. Lack of type I afferent synapses impairs neurotransmission from inner hair cells to the auditory nerve. By contrast, radial shift of type I projections coincides with a gain of presynaptic ribbons that could enhance the afferent signalling from outer hair cells. Ephexin-1, cofilin and myosin light chain kinase act downstream of EphA4 to induce type I spiral ganglion neuron growth cone collapse. Our findings constitute the first identification of an Eph/ephrin-mediated mutual repulsion mechanism responsible for specific sorting of auditory projections in the cochlea.
Research center :
Giga-Neurosciences - ULiège
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Otolaryngology
Author, co-author :
Defourny, Jean  
Poirrier, Anne-Lise  
Lallemend, Francois
Mateo Sanchez, Susana ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Neurologie
Neef, Jakob
Vanderhaeghen, Pierre
Soriano, Eduardo
Peuckert, Christiane
Kullander, Klas
Fritzsch, Bernd
Nguyen, Laurent  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > GIGA - Neurosciences
Moonen, Gustave  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Département des sciences cliniques
Moser, Tobias
Malgrange, Brigitte  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > GIGA - Neurosciences
More authors (4 more) Less
Language :
English
Title :
Ephrin-A5/EphA4 signalling controls specific afferent targeting to cochlear hair cells.
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Nature Communications
eISSN :
2041-1723
Publisher :
Nature Publishing Group, United Kingdom
Volume :
4
Pages :
1438
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
FRIA - Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture [BE]
Fonds Léon Fredericq [BE]
Available on ORBi :
since 03 July 2013

Statistics


Number of views
127 (33 by ULiège)
Number of downloads
65 (5 by ULiège)

Scopus citations®
 
67
Scopus citations®
without self-citations
51
OpenCitations
 
74

Bibliography


Similar publications



Contact ORBi