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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2017

Calcineurin Dysregulation Underlies Spinal Cord Injury-Induced K

Benjamin M Zemel, Tanziyah Muqeem, Eric V Brown, Miguel Goulão, Mark W Urban, Stephen R Tymanskyj, Angelo C Lepore, Manuel Covarrubias

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Molecular mechanism governing the plasticity of use-dependent spike broadening in dorsal root ganglion neurons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Olfactory ensheathing cells and neuropathic pain.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
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  9. KFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2020
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  11. Nociceptor Signalling through ion Channel Regulation via GPCRs.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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  13. Regulation of Nociceptive Glutamatergic Signaling by Presynaptic Kv3.4 Channels in the Rat Spinal Dorsal Horn.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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  14. A-Type KFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Benjamin M ZemelDepartment of Neuroscience and Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and.
Tanziyah MuqeemDepartment of Neuroscience and Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and.ORCID 0000-0002-8236-6529
Eric V BrownDepartment of Neuroscience and Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and.
Miguel GoulãoDepartment of Neuroscience and Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and.ORCID 0000-0002-8648-7678
Mark W UrbanDepartment of Neuroscience and Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and.
Stephen R TymanskyjDepartment of Neuroscience and Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and.
Angelo C LeporeDepartment of Neuroscience and Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and.
Manuel CovarrubiasDepartment of Neuroscience and Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and Manuel.Covarrubias@jefferson.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0881-4143
Thomas Jefferson University · USNeuroscience Institute · IT

Funding

Neuromodulation of Kv3.4 channels in nociceptorsR21NS079855 · NINDS · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI COVARRUBIAS, MANUEL L · 2013 to 2014
$441k
Modulation Pathways of the Kv3.4 channel in Sensory Neurons.F31NS090689 · NINDS · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI ZEMEL, BENJAMIN · 2014 to 2016
$126k
NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS090689NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS079855
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dysfunction of the fast-inactivating Kv3.4 potassium current in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons contributes to the hyperexcitability associated with persistent pain induced by spinal cord injury (SCI). However, the underlying mechanism is not known. In light of our previous work demonstrating modulation of the Kv3.4 channel by phosphorylation, we investigated the role of the phosphatase calcineurin (CaN) using electrophysiological, molecular, and imaging approaches in adult female Sprague Dawley rats. Pharmacological inhibition of CaN in small-diameter DRG neurons slowed repolarization of the somatic action potential (AP) and attenuated the Kv3.4 current. Attenuated Kv3.4 currents also exhibited slowed inactivation. We observed similar effects on the recombinant Kv3.4 channel heterologously expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells, supporting our findings in DRG neurons. Elucidating the molecular basis of these effects, mutation of four previously characterized serines within the Kv3.4 N-terminal inactivation domain eliminated the effects of CaN inhibition on the Kv3.4 current. SCI similarly induced concurrent Kv3.4 current attenuation and slowing of inactivation. Although there was little change in CaN expression and localization after injury, SCI induced upregulation of the native regulator of CaN 1 (RCAN1) in the DRG at the transcript and protein levels. Consistent with CaN inhibition resulting from RCAN1 upregulation, overexpression of RCAN1 in naive DRG neurons recapitulated the effects of pharmacological CaN inhibition on the Kv3.4 current and the AP. Overall, these results demonstrate a novel regulatory pathway that links CaN, RCAN1, and Kv3.4 in DRG neurons. Dysregulation of this pathway might underlie a peripheral mechanism of pain sensitization induced by SCI.

Indexed as

AnimalsCalcineurinCalcineurin InhibitorsCells, CulturedCervical VertebraeCHO CellsCricetinaeCricetulusFemaleGanglia, SpinalNeuronsPotassium Channels, Voltage-GatedRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyShaw Potassium ChannelsSpinal Cord InjuriesCalcineurinCalcineurin InhibitorsKcnc4 protein, ratPotassium Channels, Voltage-GatedShaw Potassium ChannelscalcineurinKv3.4painRCAN1spinal cord injury

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PMID28751455
PMCPMC5566871
OpenAlexW2740449580

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