Mutations in TMEM43 cause autosomal dominant auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder via interaction with connexin-mediated passive conductance channels

Abstract Genes that are primarily expressed in cochlear glia-like supporting cells (GLSs) have never been clearly associated with progressive deafness. Herein, we present a novel deafness locus mapped to chromosome 3p25.1 and a new auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) gene TMEM43 mainly expressed in GLSs. We identify p.R372X of TMEM43 by linkage analysis and exome sequencing in two large Asian families. The knock-in (KI) mouse with p.R372X mutation recapitulates a progressive hearing loss with histological abnormalities exclusively in GLSs. Mechanistically, TMEM43 interacts with Cx26 and Cx30 gap junction channels, disrupting the passive conductance current in GLSs in a dominant-negative fashion when the p.R372X mutation is introduced. Based on the mechanistic insights, cochlear implant was performed on two patients and speech discrimination was successfully restored. Our study highlights a pathological role of cochlear GLSs by identifying a novel deafness gene and its causal relationship with ANSD..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jang, Minwoo Wendy [VerfasserIn]
Oh, Doo-Yi [VerfasserIn]
Yi, Eunyoung [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xuezhong [VerfasserIn]
Ling, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Nayoung [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Kushal [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Tai Young [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Seungmin [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Ah-Reum [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Min Young [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Min-A [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Mingyu [VerfasserIn]
Han, Jin-Hee [VerfasserIn]
Han, Jae Joon [VerfasserIn]
Park, Hye-Rim [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Bong Jik [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Sang-Yeon [VerfasserIn]
Woo, Dong Ho [VerfasserIn]
Oh, Jayoung [VerfasserIn]
Oh, Soo-Jin [VerfasserIn]
Du, Tingting [VerfasserIn]
Koo, Ja-Won [VerfasserIn]
Oh, Seung Ha [VerfasserIn]
Shin, Hyun Woo [VerfasserIn]
Seong, Moon-Woo [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Kyu Yup [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Un-Kyung [VerfasserIn]
Shin, Jung Bum [VerfasserIn]
Sang, Shushan [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Xinzhang [VerfasserIn]
Mei, Lingyun [VerfasserIn]
He, Chufeng [VerfasserIn]
Blanton, Susan H. [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Zheng-Yi [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Hongsheng [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xianlin [VerfasserIn]
Nourbakhsh, Aida [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Zaohua [VerfasserIn]
Park, Woong-Yang [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Yong [VerfasserIn]
Lee, C. Justin [VerfasserIn]
Choi, Byung Yoon [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2020.07.27.222323

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XBI018454089