Quick-freeze, Deep-etch Visualization of the 'cytoskeletal Spring' of Cochlear Outer Hair Cells

Overview

Journal Cell Tissue Res

Specialties Anatomy & Histology
Cell Biology

Date 1991 Jan 1

PMID 2009555

Citations 12

Authors

T Arima

A Kuraoka

R Toriya

Y Shibata

T Uemura

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Abstract

The lateral membrane system of the cochlear outer hair cell, consisting of the lateral plasma membrane, pillars, filamentous lattice and subsurface cisternae, is considered to be involved in the contractile movement of the isolated cochlear outer hair cell. The filamentous lattice, called the cytoskeletal spring, has been identified in the demembranated cochlear outer hair cell treated with the detergent Triton X-100. In this study, the quick-freeze, deep-etch method was applied to demonstrate the three-dimensional organization of both the filamentous and membranous structures of the lateral membrane system of cochlear outer hair cells. Treatment with saponin revealed that the inner leaflet of the lateral plasma membrane of the cochlear outer hair cell possesses more membrane particles than the outer leaflets, and that the pillars are closely associated with membrane particles in the inner leaflet of the lateral membrane. The presence of filamentous bridges between the filamentous lattice and the subsurface cisternae was also detected. We propose that the lateral membrane system in the cochlear outer hair cell may play an important role in the tuning mechanisms within the cochlea in normal hearing.

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