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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 107, Issue 29, Pages 13051-13056Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004520107
Keywords
spiral ganglion neuron; syndromic congenital deafness; tyrosine kinase
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology [19390168, 20406003, 18790738, 20791232, S0801055]
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Rohto Awards
- Chubu University
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18790738, 20791232, 19390168, 20406003] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A significantly increased risk for dominant sensorineural deafness in patients who have Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) caused by endothelin receptor type B and SOX10 has been reported. Despite the fact that c-RET is the most frequent causal gene of HSCR, it has not been determined whether impairments of c-Ret and c-RET cause congenital deafness in mice and humans. Here, we show that impaired phosphorylation of c-Ret at tyrosine 1062 causes HSCR-linked syndromic congenital deafness in c-Ret knockin (KI) mice. The deafness involves neurodegeneration of spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) with not only impaired phosphorylation of Akt and NF-kappa B but decreased expression of calbindin D28k in inner ears. The congenital deafness involving neurodegeneration of SGNs in c-Ret KI mice was rescued by introducing constitutively activated RET. Taken together with our results for three patients with congenital deafness with c-RET-mediated severe HSCR, our results indicate that c-Ret and c-RET are a deafness-related molecule in mice and humans.
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