Nieto-Rostro, Manuela;
Patel, Ryan;
Dickenson, Anthony H;
Dolphin, Annette C;
(2022)
Nerve injury increases native CaV2.2 trafficking in dorsal root ganglion mechanoreceptors.
Pain
10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002846.
(In press).
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Abstract
Neuronal N-type (CaV2.2) voltage-gated calcium channels are essential for neurotransmission from primary afferent terminals in the dorsal horn. In this study we have utilized a knock-in mouse expressing CaV2.2 with an inserted extracellular hemagglutinin-tag (CaV2.2_HA), to visualise the distribution of endogenous CaV2.2 in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons and their primary afferents in the dorsal horn. We examined the effect of partial sciatic nerve ligation (PSNL) and found an increase in CaV2.2_HA only in large and medium dorsal root ganglion neurons, and also in deep dorsal-horn synaptic terminals. Furthermore, there is a parallel increase in co-expression with GFRα1, present in a population of low threshold mechanoreceptors, both in large DRG neurons and in their terminals. The increased expression of CaV2.2_HA in these DRG neurons and their terminals is dependent on the presence of the auxiliary subunit α2δ-1, which is required for channel trafficking to the cell surface and to synaptic terminals, and likely contributes to enhanced synaptic transmission at these synapses following PSNL. In contrast the increase of GFRα1 is not altered in α2δ-1 knockout mice. We also found following PSNL there is patchy loss of glomerular synapses immunoreactive for CaV2.2_HA and CGRP or IB4, restricted to the superficial layers of the dorsal horn. This reduction is not dependent on α2δ-1, and likely reflects partial deafferentation of C-nociceptor presynaptic terminals. Therefore, we can distinguish in this pain model two different events affecting specific DRG terminals, with opposite consequences for CaV2.2_HA expression and function in the dorsal horn.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Nerve injury increases native CaV2.2 trafficking in dorsal root ganglion mechanoreceptors |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002846 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002846 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Neuro, Physiology and Pharmacology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10162103 |
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