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Lipid Raft Destabilization Impairs Mouse TRPA1 Responses to Cold and Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms21113826

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mouse TRPA1; cholesterol; sphingolipids; lipid rafts; LPS; cold

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  1. Research Council of the KU Leuven [GOA/14/011, C14/18/086]
  2. Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO) [G070212N, G0C7715N, G0D0417N]

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The Transient Receptor Potential ankyrin 1 cation channel (TRPA1) is expressed in nociceptive sensory neurons and epithelial cells, where it plays key roles in the detection of noxious stimuli. Recent reports showed that mouse TRPA1 (mTRPA1) localizes in lipid rafts and that its sensitivity to electrophilic and non-electrophilic agonists is reduced by cholesterol depletion from the plasma membrane. Since effects of manipulating membrane cholesterol levels on other TRP channels are known to vary across different stimuli we here tested whether the disruption of lipid rafts also affects mTRPA1 activation by cold or bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS). Cooling to 12 degrees C, E. coli LPS and allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) induced robust Ca2+ responses in CHO-K1 cells stably transfected with mTRPA1. The amplitudes of the responses to these stimuli were significantly lower in cells treated with the cholesterol scavenger methyl beta-cyclodextrin (MCD) or with the sphingolipids hydrolyzer sphingomyelinase (SMase). This effect was more prominent with higher concentrations of the raft destabilizers. Our data also indicate that reduction of cholesterol does not alter the expression of mTRPA1 in the plasma membrane in the CHO-K1 stable expression system, and that the most salient effect is that on the channel gating. Our findings further indicate that the function of mTRPA1 is regulated by the local lipid environment and suggest that targeting lipid-TRPA1 interactions may be a strategy for the treatment of pain and neurogenic inflammation.

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