MECHANISMS OF RETINAL DEGENERATION IN USHER SYNDROME TYPE IIA

IIA 型 Usher 综合征视网膜变性的机制

• 批准号: 8360396
• 负责人: You-Wei Peng
• 金额: $ 29.45万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8360396
• 关键词: Affect; Animal Model; Apoptosis; Arrestins; Basement membrane; Binding; Blindness; Cells; Dark Adaptation; Data; Defect; Funding; Genetic; Grant; Health; Human; Integrins; Knockout Mice; Light; Mediating; Membrane Proteins; Metabolism; Molecular Biology; Mus; Mutation; National Center for Research Resources; Pathology; Photoreceptors; Principal Investigator; Protein Isoforms; Protein translocation; Research; Research Infrastructure; Resources; Retina; Retinal; Retinal Degeneration; Signal Transduction; Source; Structure of retinal pigment epithelium; Synapses; System; Testing; Transducin; United States National Institutes of Health; Usher Syndrome; cost; deafness; malformation; mutant; neurosurgery; photoreceptor degeneration; response; retinal rods

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. Usher syndrome type IIa is the most common of the Usher syndromes, making it the single most important genetic cause of combined deafness and blindness in the world. We have definitive evidence that the short isoform of usherin is a basement membrane protein that specifically interacts with ¿1¿1 integrin on retinal pigment epithelial cells. We also show that some mutations found in humans with Ush2a destroy the ability of usherin to interact with ¿1¿1 integrin. Both integrin ¿1 null mice and usherin hypomorph mice develop retinal degeneration associated with matrix accumulation in the basement membrane of Bruch's layer, which is the binding interface of ¿1¿1 integrin on RPE cells with basement membrane usherin. Collectively these data suggest that binding of usherin to ¿1¿1 integrin on RPE cells is essential for the RPE to function properly, and thus a principal underlying cause for retinal pathology associated with Usher syndrome type IIa. The specific aim of this research is to test the hypothesis that a central mechanism for retinal degeneration in Usher syndrome type IIa is the absence of usherin-mediated activation of ¿1¿1 integrin on retinal pigment epithelial cells. The resulting dysfunctional cell signaling directly affects basement membrane metabolism and photoreceptor cell health, culminating in synaptic malformations and photoreceptor apoptosis. In our initial studies, we have shown that both the usherin hypomorph mouse and ¿1 integrin null mouse have a very similar course of progressive retinal degeneration. In both animal models, rod photoreceptors show delayed translocation of transducin and arrestin in response to light/dark adaptation. In both cases, the translocation abnormalities were noted prior to evidence of photoreceptor degeneration, but concurrent with functional abnormalities detectable by ERG. Similar defects of rod protein translocation were also detected in two other Usher Syndrome animal models: Ames Waltzer mouse and Shaker mouse. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that increased light exposure produces more rapid photoreceptor degeneration in the mutant retinas.

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