Tan Zhi-Yong, Priest Birgit T, Krajewski Jeffrey L, Knopp Kelly L, Nisenbaum Eric S, Cummins Theodore R
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis, IN 46285, USA.
FEBS Lett. 2014 Nov 3;588(21):3964-9. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.09.011. Epub 2014 Sep 19.
Resurgent sodium currents likely play a role in modulating neuronal excitability. Here we studied whether protein kinase C (PKC) activation can increase resurgent currents produced by the human sodium channel hNav1.7. We found that a PKC agonist significantly enhanced hNav1.7-mediated resurgent currents and this was prevented by PKC antagonists. The enhancing effects were replicated by two phosphorylation-mimicking mutations and were prevented by a phosphorylation-deficient mutation at a conserved PKC phosphorylation site (Serine 1479). Our results suggest that PKC can increase sodium resurgent currents through phosphorylation of a conserved Serine residue located in the domain III-IV linker of sodium channels.
复苏钠电流可能在调节神经元兴奋性中发挥作用。在此,我们研究了蛋白激酶C(PKC)激活是否能增加人钠通道hNav1.7产生的复苏电流。我们发现PKC激动剂显著增强了hNav1.7介导的复苏电流,而PKC拮抗剂可阻止这种增强。两种模拟磷酸化的突变复制了增强作用,而在保守的PKC磷酸化位点(丝氨酸1479)的磷酸化缺陷突变则阻止了这种增强。我们的结果表明,PKC可通过磷酸化位于钠通道结构域III-IV连接区的保守丝氨酸残基来增加钠复苏电流。