PUBLICATION

Fluorescent aminoglycosides reveal intracellular trafficking routes in mechanosensory hair cells

Authors
Hailey, D.W., Esterberg, R., Linbo, T.H., Rubel, E.W., Raible, D.W.
ID
ZDB-PUB-161220-3
Date
2017
Source
The Journal of Clinical Investigation   127(2): 472-486 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Linbo, Tor, Raible, David
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Aminoglycosides*/pharmacokinetics
  • Aminoglycosides*/toxicity
  • Animals
  • Biological Transport, Active/drug effects
  • Cell Death/drug effects
  • Cell Death/genetics
  • Fluorescent Dyes*/pharmacokinetics
  • Fluorescent Dyes*/toxicity
  • Hair Cells, Vestibular/metabolism*
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish/metabolism*
PubMed
27991862 Full text @ Journal of Clin. Invest.
Abstract
Aminoglycosides (AGs) are broad-spectrum antibiotics that are associated with kidney damage, balance disorders, and permanent hearing loss. This damage occurs primarily by killing of proximal tubule kidney cells and mechanosensory hair cells, though the mechanisms underlying cell death are not clear. Imaging molecules of interest in living cells can elucidate how molecules enter cells, traverse intracellular compartments, and interact with sites of activity. Here, we have imaged fluorescently labeled AGs in live zebrafish mechanosensory hair cells. We determined that AGs enter hair cells via both nonendocytic and endocytic pathways. Both routes deliver AGs from the extracellular space to lysosomes, and structural differences between AGs alter the efficiency of this delivery. AGs with slower delivery to lysosomes were immediately toxic to hair cells, and impeding lysosome delivery increased AG-induced death. Therefore, pro-death cascades induced at early time points of AG exposure do not appear to derive from the lysosome. Our findings help clarify how AGs induce hair cell death and reveal properties that predict toxicity. Establishing signatures for AG toxicity may enable more efficient evaluation of AG treatment paradigms and structural modifications to reduce hair cell damage. Further, this work demonstrates how following fluorescently labeled drugs at high resolution in living cells can reveal important details about how drugs of interest behave.
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Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping