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LIFE-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/life13091791
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nucleoporins; ion channels; membrane excitability; voltage-gated sodium channels; neuronal activity; neurodegenerative disease; patch-clamp
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Nucleoporins (NUPs) are proteins that make up the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) and play a significant role in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). This study found that downregulation of Nup358 can modify cell-membrane excitability and contribute to neuronal activity regulation.
Nucleoporins (NUPs) are proteins that comprise the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). The NPC spans the nuclear envelope of a cell and provides a channel through which RNA and proteins move between the nucleus and the cytoplasm and vice versa. NUP and NPC disruptions have a great impact on the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs). Although the downregulation of Nup358 leads to a reduction in the scaffold protein ankyrin-G at the axon initial segment (AIS) of mature neurons, the function of Nup358 in the cytoplasm of neurons remains elusive. To investigate whether Nup358 plays any role in neuronal activity, we downregulated Nup358 in non-pathological mouse cortical neurons and measured their active and passive bioelectrical properties. We identified that Nup358 downregulation is able to produce significant modifications of cell-membrane excitability via voltage-gated sodium channel kinetics. Our findings suggest that Nup358 contributes to neuronal excitability through a functional stabilization of the electrical properties of the neuronal membrane. Hypotheses will be discussed regarding the alteration of this active regulation as putatively occurring in the pathophysiology of NDDs.
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