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    Treatment of autosomal dominant hearing loss by in vivo delivery of genome editing agents
    (2018) Gao, Xue; Tao, Yong; Lamas, Veronica; Huang, Mingqian; Yeh, Wei-Hsi; Pan, Bifeng; Hu, Yu-Juan; Hu, Johnny; Thompson, David; Shu, Yilai; Li, Yamin; Wang, Hongyang; Yang, Shiming; Xu, Qiaobing; Polley, Daniel; Liberman, M.; Kong, Wei-Jia; Holt, Jeffrey; Chen, Zheng-Yi; Liu, David
    Although genetic factors contribute to almost half of all deafness cases, treatment options for genetic deafness are limited1–5. We developed a genome editing approach to target a dominantly inherited form of genetic deafness. Here we show that cationic lipid-mediated in vivo delivery of Cas9:guide RNA complexes can ameliorate hearing loss in a mouse model of human genetic deafness. We designed and validated in vitro and in primary fibroblasts genome editing agents that preferentially disrupt the dominant deafness-associated allele in the Tmc1 (transmembrane channel-like 1) Beethoven (Bth) mouse model, even though the mutant Bth allele differs from the wild-type allele at only a single base pair. Injection of Cas9:guide RNA:lipid complexes targeting the Bth allele into the cochlea of neonatal Bth/+ mice substantially reduced progressive hearing loss. We observed higher hair cell survival rates and lower auditory brainstem response (ABR) thresholds in injected ears compared with uninjected ears or ears injected with complexes that target an unrelated gene. Enhanced acoustic reflex responses were observed among injected compared to uninjected Bth/+ animals. These findings suggest protein:RNA complex delivery of target gene-disrupting agents in vivo as a potential strategy for the treatment of some autosomal dominant hearing loss diseases.
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    Myc and Fgf Are Required for Zebrafish Neuromast Hair Cell Regeneration
    (Public Library of Science, 2016) Lee, Sang; Huang, Mingqian; Obholzer, Nikolaus D.; Sun, Shan; Li, Wenyan; Petrillo, Marco; Dai, Pu; Zhou, Yi; Cotanche, Douglas A.; Megason, Sean; Li, Huawei; Chen, Zheng-Yi
    Unlike mammals, the non-mammalian vertebrate inner ear can regenerate the sensory cells, hair cells, either spontaneously or through induction after hair cell loss, leading to hearing recovery. The mechanisms underlying the regeneration are poorly understood. By microarray analysis on a chick model, we show that chick hair cell regeneration involves the activation of proliferation genes and downregulation of differentiation genes. Both MYC and FGF are activated in chick hair cell regeneration. Using a zebrafish lateral line neuromast hair cell regeneration model, we show that the specific inhibition of Myc or Fgf suppresses hair cell regeneration, demonstrating that both pathways are essential to the process. Rapid upregulation of Myc and delayed Fgf activation during regeneration suggest a role of Myc in proliferation and Fgf in differentiation. The dorsal-ventral pattern of fgfr1a in the neuromasts overlaps with the distribution of hair cell precursors. By laser ablation, we show that the fgfr1a-positive supporting cells are likely the hair cell precursors that directly give rise to new hair cells; whereas the anterior-posterior fgfr1a-negative supporting cells have heightened proliferation capacity, likely to serve as more primitive progenitor cells to replenish lost precursors after hair cell loss. Thus fgfr1a is likely to mark compartmentalized supporting cell subtypes with different capacities in renewal proliferation and hair cell regeneration. Manipulation of c-MYC and FGF pathways could be explored for mammalian hair cell regeneration.