National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
United States
Citation
Journal: Front Cell Neurosci / Year: 2019 Title: 3D Ultrastructure of the Cochlear Outer Hair Cell Lateral Wall Revealed By Electron Tomography. Authors: William Jeffrey Triffo / Hildur Palsdottir / Junha Song / David Gene Morgan / Kent L McDonald / Manfred Auer / Robert M Raphael / Abstract: Outer Hair Cells (OHCs) in the mammalian cochlea display a unique type of voltage-induced mechanical movement termed electromotility, which amplifies auditory signals and contributes to the ...Outer Hair Cells (OHCs) in the mammalian cochlea display a unique type of voltage-induced mechanical movement termed electromotility, which amplifies auditory signals and contributes to the sensitivity and frequency selectivity of mammalian hearing. Electromotility occurs in the OHC lateral wall, but it is not fully understood how the supramolecular architecture of the lateral wall enables this unique form of cellular motility. Employing electron tomography of high-pressure frozen and freeze-substituted OHCs, we visualized the 3D structure and organization of the membrane and cytoskeletal components of the OHC lateral wall. The subsurface cisterna (SSC) is a highly prominent feature, and we report that the SSC membranes and lumen possess hexagonally ordered arrays of particles. We also find the SSC is tightly connected to adjacent actin filaments by short filamentous protein connections. Pillar proteins that join the plasma membrane to the cytoskeleton appear as variable structures considerably thinner than actin filaments and significantly more flexible than actin-SSC links. The structurally rich organization and rigidity of the SSC coupled with apparently weaker mechanical connections between the plasma membrane (PM) and cytoskeleton reveal that the membrane-cytoskeletal architecture of the OHC lateral wall is more complex than previously appreciated. These observations are important for our understanding of OHC mechanics and need to be considered in computational models of OHC electromotility that incorporate subcellular features.
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Average (Standard dev.)
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Supplemental data
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Sample components
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Entire : Cochlea
Entire
Name: Cochlea
Components
Tissue: Cochlea
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Supramolecule #1: Cochlea
Supramolecule
Name: Cochlea / type: tissue / ID: 1 / Parent: 0
Source (natural)
Organism: Cavia porcellus (domestic guinea pig)
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Experimental details
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Structure determination
Method
negative staining, cryo EM
Processing
electron tomography
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tissue
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Sample preparation
Buffer
pH: 7
Staining
Type: POSITIVE / Material: Uranyl Acetate
Sugar embedding
Material: Epon
Grid
Details: unspecified
Vitrification
Cryogen name: NITROGEN
High pressure freezing
Instrument: OTHER Details: The value given for _emd_high_pressure_freezing.instrument is BALTEC. This is not in a list of allowed values set(['LEICA EM PACT2', 'LEICA EM PACT', 'EMS-002 RAPID IMMERSION FREEZER', ...Details: The value given for _emd_high_pressure_freezing.instrument is BALTEC. This is not in a list of allowed values set(['LEICA EM PACT2', 'LEICA EM PACT', 'EMS-002 RAPID IMMERSION FREEZER', 'OTHER', 'LEICA EM HPM100', 'BAL-TEC HPM 010']) so OTHER is written into the XML file.
Sectioning
Ultramicrotomy - Instrument: Leica EM UC6 / Ultramicrotomy - Temperature: 298 K / Ultramicrotomy - Final thickness: 100 nm
Fiducial marker
Manufacturer: Electron Microscopy Sciences / Diameter: 5 nm
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Electron microscopy
Microscope
FEI/PHILIPS CM200FEG
Image recording
Film or detector model: TVIPS TEMCAM-F216 (2k x 2k) / Average electron dose: 10.0 e/Å2
Electron beam
Acceleration voltage: 200 kV / Electron source: FIELD EMISSION GUN
Electron optics
Illumination mode: FLOOD BEAM / Imaging mode: BRIGHT FIELD
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Image processing
Final reconstruction
Number images used: 130
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