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Permeation of Fluorophore-Conjugated Phalloidin into Live Hair Cells of the Inner Ear Is Modulated by P2Y Receptors

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Phalloidin, a toxin isolated from the death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides, binds to filamentous actin with high affinity, and this has made fluorophore-conjugated phalloidin a useful tool in cellular imaging. Hepatocytes take up phalloidin via the liver-specific organic anion transporting polypeptide 1b2, but phalloidin does not permeate most living cells. Rapid entry of styryl dyes into live hair cells has been used to evaluate function, but the usefulness of those fluorescence dyes is limited by broad and fixed absorption spectra. Since phalloidin can be conjugated to fluorophores with various spectra, we investigated whether it would permeate living hair cells. When we incubated mouse utricles in 66 nM phalloidin-CF488A and followed that by washes in phalloidin-free medium, we observed that it entered a subset of hair cells and labeled entire hair bundles fluorescently after 20 min. Incubations of 90 min labeled nearly all the hair bundles. When phalloidin-treated utricles were cultured for 24 h after washout, the label disappeared from the hair cells and progressively but heterogeneously labeled filamentous actin in the supporting cells. We investigated how phalloidin may enter hair cells and found that P2 receptor antagonists, pyridoxalphosphate-6-azophenyl-2′, 4′-disulfonic acid and suramin, blocked phalloidin entry, while the P2Y receptor ligands, uridine-5’-diphosphate and uridine-5’-triphosphaste, stimulated uptake. Consistent with that, the P2Y6 receptor antagonist, MRS 2578, decreased phalloidin uptake. The results show that phalloidin permeates live hair cells through a pathway that requires metabotropic P2Y receptor signaling and suggest that phalloidin can be transferred from hair cells to supporting cells in culture.

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We thank Jeffrey Holt for helpful advice, discussion, and technical assistance. We thank Douglas Bayliss for discussion and critical comments. This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health DC000200 (J.T.C), DC012485 (B.R.T), and T32 GM007055 (B.R.T), and the Lions of Virginia Hearing Research Foundation (J.T.C).

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Thiede, B.R., Corwin, J.T. Permeation of Fluorophore-Conjugated Phalloidin into Live Hair Cells of the Inner Ear Is Modulated by P2Y Receptors. JARO 15, 13–30 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-013-0425-9

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