The temporal characteristics of Ca entry through L-type and T-type Ca channels shape exocytosis efficiency in chick auditory hair cells during development
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Levic S, Dulon D. The temporal characteristics of Ca entry through L-type and T-type Ca channels shape exocytosis efficiency in chick auditory hair cells during development. J Neurophysiol 108: 3116–3123, 2012. First published September 12, 2012; doi:10.1152/jn.00555.2012.— During development, synaptic exocytosis by cochlear hair cells is first initiated by patterned spontaneous Ca spikes and, at the onset of hearing, by sound-driven graded depolarizing potentials. The molecular reorganization occurring in the hair cell synaptic machinery during this developmental transition still remains elusive. We characterized the changes in biophysical properties of voltage-gated Ca currents and exocytosis in developing auditory hair cells of a precocial animal, the domestic chick. We found that immature chick hair cells (embryonic days 10–12) use two types of Ca currents to control exocytosis: low-voltage-activating, rapidly inactivating (mibefradil sensitive) T-type Ca currents and high-voltage-activating, noninactivating (nifedipine sensitive) L-type currents. Exocytosis evoked by T-type Ca current displayed a fast release component (RRP) but lacked the slow sustained release component (SRP), suggesting an inefficient recruitment of distant synaptic vesicles by this transient Ca current. With maturation, the participation of L-type Ca currents to exocytosis largely increased, inducing a highly Ca efficient recruitment of an RRP and an SRP component. Notably, L-type-driven exocytosis in immature hair cells displayed higher Ca efficiency when triggered by prerecorded native action potentials than by voltage steps, whereas similar efficiency for both protocols was found in mature hair cells. This difference likely reflects a tighter coupling between release sites and Ca channels in mature hair cells. Overall, our results suggest that the temporal characteristics of Ca entry through T-type and L-type Ca channels greatly influence synaptic release by hair cells during cochlear development.
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