The role of Nav1.7 in human nociceptors: insights from human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived sensory neurons of erythromelalgia patients

Autor: Roman Goetzke, Herdit M. Schüler, Marc Rogers, Ellen Jørum, Angelika Lampert, Martin Hampl, Elisangela Bressan, Anthony M. Rush, Martin Zenke, Zacharias Kohl, Clara M. Kerth, Thi Kim Chi Le, Barbara Namer, Alec Foerster, Petra Hautvast, Martin Schmelz, Corinna Rösseler, Wolfgang Wagner, Kim Le Cann, Inge Petter Kleggetveit, Beate Winner, Jannis E. Meents, Stephanie Sontag
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Patch-Clamp Techniques
Action potential
Action Potentials
Membrane Potentials
0302 clinical medicine
030202 anesthesiology
Ganglia
Spinal

pharmacology [Tetrodotoxin]
pain
Induced pluripotent stem cell
Prepulse inhibition
genetics [NAV1.7 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel]
NAV1.7 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel
Nociceptors
Afterhyperpolarization
cytology [Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells]
Erythromelalgia
metabolism [NAV1.7 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel]
iPS cells
Neurology
genetics [Pain]
genetics [Erythromelalgia]
Nociceptor
sodium channel
Research Paper
physiology [Nociceptors]
Sensory Receptor Cells
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Pain
Sensory system
Tetrodotoxin
physiopathology [Erythromelalgia]
patch clamp
03 medical and health sciences
methods [Patch-Clamp Techniques]
stem cells
medicine
Voltage-gated sodium channel
metabolism [Sensory Receptor Cells]
Humans
ddc:610
business.industry
drug effects [Action Potentials]
cytology [Ganglia
Spinal]

Sodium channel
drug effects [Membrane Potentials]
medicine.disease
diagnosis [Pain]
Electric Stimulation
methods [Electric Stimulation]
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
nervous system
Neurology (clinical)
Inherited pain syndrome
business
Action potential firing
Neuroscience
Patch-clamp
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Pain
Pain : the journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain 160(6), 1327-1341 (2019). doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001511
Pain 160(6), 1327-1341 (2019). doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001511
ISSN: 1872-6623
0304-3959
DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001511
Popis: Supplemental Digital Content is Available in the Text. Human sodium channel NaV1.7 in induced pluripotent stem cell–derived sensory neurons sets the action potential threshold but does not support subthreshold depolarizations.
The chronic pain syndrome inherited erythromelalgia (IEM) is attributed to mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel (NaV) 1.7. Still, recent studies targeting NaV1.7 in clinical trials have provided conflicting results. Here, we differentiated induced pluripotent stem cells from IEM patients with the NaV1.7/I848T mutation into sensory nociceptors. Action potentials in these IEM nociceptors displayed a decreased firing threshold, an enhanced upstroke, and afterhyperpolarization, all of which may explain the increased pain experienced by patients. Subsequently, we investigated the voltage dependence of the tetrodotoxin-sensitive NaV activation in these human sensory neurons using a specific prepulse voltage protocol. The IEM mutation induced a hyperpolarizing shift of NaV activation, which leads to activation of NaV1.7 at more negative potentials. Our results indicate that NaV1.7 is not active during subthreshold depolarizations, but that its activity defines the action potential threshold and contributes significantly to the action potential upstroke. Thus, our model system with induced pluripotent stem cell–derived sensory neurons provides a new rationale for NaV1.7 function and promises to be valuable as a translational tool to profile and develop more efficacious clinical analgesics.
Databáze: OpenAIRE