Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Tbx2 is essential for cochlear inner hair cell development and regeneration
doi: 10.1101/2022.05.05.490782
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A-A’’’) Triple staining of Myo7a, Tdtomato and Sox2 in control cochleae of Plp1-Ai9 mice that are administered with TMX (red arrows) and TMP (blue arrows), and analyzed at P7. Orange arrows mark one IBC/IPh that is Tdtomato+/Sox2+/Myo7a-. (B) The simple cartoon illustrating the genetic model to conditionally induce transient Atoh1 and permanent Tbx2. Please also refer to for details. (C-F’’’) Triple staining of HA (Atoh1), Tdtomato and V5 (Tbx2) in Plp1-TAT mice that are subjected to different treatment procedures and analyzed at different ages, as illustrated on the right sides. Orange arrows in (C-C’’’) label one IBC/IPh that expresses high protein levels of Tdtomato and Tbx2, but weak Atoh1. Differently, orange arrows in (D-D’’’) point to one IBC/IPh expressing high protein levels of Tdtomato, Tbx2 as well as Atoh1 because Atoh1 is stabilized with additional TMP treatment. Atoh1 is reversed to a weak level in Tdtomato+/Tbx2+ cells (orange arrows in E-E’’’) if mice are analyzed at P7 (3 days after TMP), but can be recovered to a high level in Tdtomato+/Tbx2+ cells (orange arrows in F-F’’’) if the third TMP is given 3 hours before final analyzing at P7. (G-G’’’) Triple staining of Myo7a, Tdtomato and Sox2 in cochleae of Plp1-TAT mice at P42. Arrows point to the Tdtomato+/Sox2+ cell that does not express Myo7a and is defined as IBC/IPh failing to become HCs. Scale bar: 20 μm (A’’’, F’’’ and G’’’).
Article Snippet: The following primary antibodies were used in this study: anti-HA (rat, 1:200, 11867423001, Roche), anti-V5 (mouse, 1:500, MCA1360, Bio-rad), anti-Prestin (goat, 1:1000, sc-22692, Santa Cruz), anti-vGlut3 (rabbit, 1:500, 135203, Synaptic Systems), anti-Otoferlin (mouse, 1:500, ab53233, Abcam), anti-Myo7a (rabbit, 1:500, 25-6790, Proteus Bioscience), anti-Ctbp2 (mouse, 1:200, 612044, BD Biosciences), anti-Sox2 (goat, 1:1000, sc-17320, Santa Cruz), anti-Myo6 (rabbit, 1:500, 25-6791, proteus-biosciences), anti-Slc7a14 (rabbit, 1:500, HPA045929, Sigma-Aldrich).
Techniques: Staining, Expressing