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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2025

Candidate Key Proteins of Tinnitus in the Auditory and Motor Systems of the Thalamus.

Johann Gross, Marlies Knipper, Birgit Mazurek

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Johann GrossTinnitus Center, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Marlies KnipperLeibniz Society of Sciences Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Birgit MazurekTinnitus Center, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9587-6632

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Deutsche Stiftung Tinnitus & Hören Charité Berliner Volksbank IBAN: DE31 1009 0000 7017 0170 17
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Abstract

To determine candidate key proteins involved in synaptic transmission in the thalamus in tinnitus, we used bioinformatic methods by analyzing protein-protein interaction networks under different conditions of acoustic activity. The motor system was used to analyze the specificity of the response reaction in the auditory system. The databases GeneCard, STRING-, DAVID-, and Cytoscape version 3.9.1 were applied to identify the top three high-degree proteins, their high-score interaction proteins and the gene ontology-biological processes (GO-BPs) associated in the thalamus with synaptic transmission in tinnitus. Under normal hearing conditions, a balanced state of functional connectivity was observed for both systems, the auditory system and the motor system of the thalamus. Under conditions of acoustic stimulation, the GO-BP-enrichment analyses suggest that in the auditory system, tinnitus-related proteins may be involved in responses typically associated with "xenobiotic stimuli"; in the motor system, the activation of the dopaminergic system was observed. Under conditions of tinnitus in the auditory system, key proteins and the GO-BPs indicate the regulation of different developmental processes and regulation by microRNA transcription; in the motor system, tinnitus is also identified as "xenobiotic" but responded with GO-BPs, corresponding to various signaling systems, e.g., tachykinin. Key proteins and their interactions with neurotransmitter receptors may be useful indicators for tinnitus-associated changes in synaptic transmission in the thalamic auditory system.

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ThalamusTinnitusAcoustic StimulationComputational BiologyGene OntologyHumansProtein Interaction MapsSynaptic Transmissionauditory perceptionbiomarkersynaptic transmissionthalamustinnitus

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PMID40565265
PMCPMC12193441

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