Antunes Aurélie, Montnach Jérôme, Khakh Kuldip, Lopez Ludivine, Thomas Baptiste, Ribeiro Oliveira-Mendes Barbara, Jaquillard Lucie, Servent Denis, Béroud Rémy, Cohen Charles J, Benoit Evelyne, De Waard Michel
Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Département Médicaments et Technologies pour la Santé (DMTS), Service d'Ingénierie Moléculaire pour la Santé (SIMoS), EMR Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Smartox Biotechnology, Saint-Egrève, France.
Front Pharmacol. 2025 Apr 10;16:1566312. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1566312. eCollection 2025.
The venom of spider has been extensively investigated, thereby allowing the identification of numerous new natural peptides. Many of these peptides are active on ion channels and several of them occur from post-translational processing. In order to further identify new entities, we screened this venom against five different human voltage-gated sodium (hNa) channels. We illustrate the unusual richness of this venom in targeting this wide variety of hNa channels. We confirm the identity of previously discovered peptides active on these ion channels type (huwentoxin (HwTx)-I, HwTx-II and HwTx-IV), indicating the efficacy of the screening process by automated patch-clamp. We also identified a novel analogue of HwTx-IV that differs by the absence of amidation and the presence of an extra C-terminal Gly residue. Interestingly, this analogue is less potent than HwTx-IV itself in blocking hNa1.7 in cell lines, but turns out to be significantly more potent in TTX-sensitive dorsal root ganglia neurons. Because of this unexpected finding, this novel analogue turns out to be a more potent analgesic than HwTx-IV itself without presenting most of the Na1.6-related toxic effects of HwTx-IV.
蜘蛛毒液已得到广泛研究,从而得以鉴定出众多新的天然肽。这些肽中有许多对离子通道具有活性,其中一些是翻译后加工产生的。为了进一步鉴定新的物质,我们用这种毒液针对五种不同的人类电压门控钠(hNa)通道进行了筛选。我们展示了这种毒液在靶向多种hNa通道方面具有非同寻常的丰富性。我们确认了之前发现的对这些离子通道类型有活性的肽(虎纹毒素(HwTx)-I、HwTx-II和HwTx-IV)的身份,表明了通过自动膜片钳进行筛选过程的有效性。我们还鉴定出了一种HwTx-IV的新型类似物,它的不同之处在于没有酰胺化且C末端有一个额外的甘氨酸残基。有趣的是,这种类似物在细胞系中阻断hNa1.7的效力比HwTx-IV本身要低,但在对河豚毒素敏感的背根神经节神经元中却明显更有效。由于这一意外发现,这种新型类似物成为了一种比HwTx-IV本身更有效的镇痛药,且没有呈现出HwTx-IV的大多数与Na1.6相关的毒性作用。