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ArticleNeurobiology of disease2016

A CaV2.1 N-terminal fragment relieves the dominant-negative inhibition by an Episodic ataxia 2 mutant.

Shehrazade Dahimene, Karen M Page, Manuela Nieto-Rostro, Wendy S Pratt, Marianna D'Arco, Annette C Dolphin

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Article in Neurobiology of disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Zebrafish as a Model System for the Study of Severe CaFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2019
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  4. Ubiquitin Ligase RNF138 Promotes Episodic Ataxia Type 2-Associated Aberrant Degradation of Human CaThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shehrazade DahimeneDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. Electronic address: s.dahimene@ucl.ac.uk.
Karen M PageDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Manuela Nieto-RostroDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Wendy S PrattDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Marianna D'ArcoDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Annette C DolphinDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. Electronic address: a.dolphin@ucl.ac.uk.
University College London · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0901758Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 098360/Z/12/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Episodic ataxia 2 (EA2) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutations in the gene CACNA1A that encodes the pore-forming CaV2.1 calcium channel subunit. The majority of EA2 mutations reported so far are nonsense or deletion/insertion mutations predicted to form truncated proteins. Heterologous expression of wild-type CaV2.1, together with truncated constructs that mimic EA2 mutants, significantly suppressed wild-type calcium channel function, indicating that the truncated protein produces a dominant-negative effect (Jouvenceau et al., 2001; Page et al., 2004). A similar finding has been shown for CaV2.2 (Raghib et al., 2001). We show here that a highly conserved sequence in the cytoplasmic N-terminus is involved in this process, for both CaV2.1 and CaV2.2 channels. Additionally, we were able to interfere with the suppressive effect of an EA2 construct by mutating key N-terminal residues within it. We postulate that the N-terminus of the truncated channel plays an essential part in its interaction with the full-length CaV2.1, which prevents the correct folding of the wild-type channel. In agreement with this, we were able to disrupt the interaction between EA2 and the full length channel by co-expressing a free N-terminal peptide.

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AnimalsAtaxiaCalcium Channels, N-TypeCells, CulturedMembrane PotentialsMutationNystagmus, PathologicPatch-Clamp TechniquesRabbitsRats, Sprague-DawleyCalcium Channels, N-TypeDominant negative suppressionEpisodic ataxia-2Misfolded proteinN-terminusP/Q-type calcium channel

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PMID27260834
PMCPMC4940211
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