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ArticleThe Journal of general physiology2023

Cold and warmth intensify pain-linked sodium channel gating effects and persistent currents.

Sophia Kriegeskorte, Raya Bott, Martin Hampl, Alon Korngreen, Ralf Hausmann, Angelika Lampert

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Article in The Journal of general physiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sophia KriegeskorteUniversity Hospital , RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Neurophysiology, Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4326-1417
Raya BottUniversity Hospital , RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Neurophysiology, Aachen, Germany.
Martin HamplNanion Technologies GmbH , München, Germany.ORCID 0009-0004-0184-8879
Alon KorngreenThe Leslie and Susan Gonda multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-2036-6160
Ralf HausmannUniversity Hospital , RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0130-110X
Angelika LampertUniversity Hospital , RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Neurophysiology, Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6319-6272
Universitätsklinikum Aachen · DEBar-Ilan University · ILNanion (Germany) · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav) are key players in excitable tissues with the capability to generate and propagate action potentials. Mutations in the genes encoding Navs can lead to severe inherited diseases, and some of these so-called channelopathies show temperature-sensitive phenotypes, for example, paramyotonia congenita, Brugada syndrome, febrile seizure syndromes, and inherited pain syndromes like erythromelalgia (IEM) and paroxysmal extreme pain disorder (PEPD). Nevertheless, most investigations of mutation-induced gating effects have been conducted at room temperature, and thus the role of cooling or warming in channelopathies remains poorly understood. Here, we investigated the temperature sensitivity of four Nav subtypes: Nav1.3, Nav1.5, Nav1.6, and Nav1.7, and two mutations in Nav1.7 causing IEM (Nav1.7/L823R) and PEPD (Nav1.7/I1461T) expressed in cells of the human embryonic kidney cell line using an automated patch clamp system. Our experiments at 15°C, 25°C, and 35°C revealed a shift of the voltage dependence of activation to more hyperpolarized potentials with increasing temperature for all investigated subtypes. Nav1.3 exhibited strongly slowed inactivation kinetics compared with the other subtypes that resulted in enhanced persistent current, especially at 15°C, indicating a possible role in cold-induced hyperexcitability. Impaired fast inactivation of Nav1.7/I1461T was significantly enhanced by a cooling temperature of 15°C. The subtype-specific modulation as well as the intensified mutation-induced gating changes stress the importance to consider temperature as a regulator for channel gating and its impact on cellular excitability as well as disease phenotypes.

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ChannelopathiesErythromelalgiaHumansMutationNAV1.7 Voltage-Gated Sodium ChannelPainRectumNAV1.7 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel

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PMID37531097
PMCPMC10397059
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