The actions of calcium on hair bundle mechanics in mammalian cochlear hair cells

Biophysical Journal
Maryline BeurgRobert Fettiplace

Abstract

Sound stimuli excite cochlear hair cells by vibration of each hair bundle, which opens mechanotransducer (MT) channels. We have measured hair-bundle mechanics in isolated rat cochleas by stimulation with flexible glass fibers and simultaneous recording of the MT current. Both inner and outer hair-cell bundles exhibited force-displacement relationships with a nonlinearity that reflects a time-dependent reduction in stiffness. The nonlinearity was abolished, and hair-bundle stiffness increased, by maneuvers that diminished calcium influx through the MT channels: lowering extracellular calcium, blocking the MT current with dihydrostreptomycin, or depolarizing to positive potentials. To simulate the effects of Ca(2+), we constructed a finite-element model of the outer hair cell bundle that incorporates the gating-spring hypothesis for MT channel activation. Four calcium ions were assumed to bind to the MT channel, making it harder to open, and, in addition, Ca(2+) was posited to cause either a channel release or a decrease in the gating-spring stiffness. Both mechanisms produced Ca(2+) effects on adaptation and bundle mechanics comparable to those measured experimentally. We suggest that fast adaptation and force generation by the ...Continue Reading

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