Lmo4 Deficiency Enhances Susceptibility to Cisplatin-Induced Cochlear Apoptosis and Hearing Loss

Cisplatin, a potent chemotherapeutic drug, induces ototoxicity, which limits its clinical utility. Cisplatin-induced oxidative stress plays a causal role in cochlear apoptosis while the consequent nitrative stress leads to the nitration of LIM domain only 4 (LMO4), a transcriptional regulator, and decreases its cochlear expression levels. Here, we show a direct link between cochlear LMO4 and cisplatin-induced hearing loss by employing a Lmo4 conditional knockout mouse model (Lmo4lox/lox; Gfi1Cre/+). Hair cell-specific deletion of Lmo4 did not alter cochlear morphology or affect hearing thresholds and otoacoustic emissions, in the absence of apoptotic stimuli. Cisplatin treatment significantly elevated the auditory brainstem response thresholds of conditional knockouts, across all frequencies. Moreover, deletion of Lmo4 compromised the activation of STAT3, a downstream target that regulates anti-apoptotic machinery. Immunostaining indicated that the expression of phosphorylated STAT3 was significantly decreased while the expression of activated caspase 3 was significantly increased in Lmo4 deficient hair cells, post-cisplatin treatment. These findings suggest an otoprotective role of LMO4 as cisplatin-induced decrease in cochlear LMO4 could compromise the LMO4/STAT3 cellular defense mechanism to induce ototoxicity.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:58

Enthalten in:

Molecular neurobiology - 58(2021), 5 vom: 07. Mai, Seite 2019-2029

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rosati, Rita [VerfasserIn]
Shahab, Monazza [VerfasserIn]
Ramkumar, Vickram [VerfasserIn]
Jamesdaniel, Samson [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
Cisplatin
Cochlea
Hearing loss
Journal Article
LIM Domain Proteins
LMO4
Lmo4 protein, mouse
Ototoxicity
Q20Q21Q62J
STAT3

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Date Completed 19.11.2021

Date Revised 03.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s12035-020-02226-4

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319750329