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Zou X, Zhang Z, Lu H, Zhao W, Pan L, Chen Y. Functional effects of drugs and toxins interacting with Na V1.4. Front Pharmacol 2024; 15:1378315. [PMID: 38725668 PMCID: PMC11079311 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2024.1378315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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NaV1.4 is a voltage-gated sodium channel subtype that is predominantly expressed in skeletal muscle cells. It is essential for producing action potentials and stimulating muscle contraction, and mutations in NaV1.4 can cause various muscle disorders. The discovery of the cryo-EM structure of NaV1.4 in complex with β1 has opened new possibilities for designing drugs and toxins that target NaV1.4. In this review, we summarize the current understanding of channelopathies, the binding sites and functions of chemicals including medicine and toxins that interact with NaV1.4. These substances could be considered novel candidate compounds or tools to develop more potent and selective drugs targeting NaV1.4. Therefore, studying NaV1.4 pharmacology is both theoretically and practically meaningful.
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- Xinyi Zou
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Resources Protection and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Food and Health, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Resources Protection and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Food and Health, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Resources Protection and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Food and Health, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Resources Protection and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Food and Health, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Artificial Organs and Computational Medicine in Zhejiang Province, Shulan International Medical College, Zhejiang Shuren University, Hangzhou, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Resources Protection and Innovation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Food and Health, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
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De Bellis M, Boccanegra B, Cerchiara AG, Imbrici P, De Luca A. Blockers of Skeletal Muscle Na v1.4 Channels: From Therapy of Myotonic Syndrome to Molecular Determinants of Pharmacological Action and Back. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24010857. [PMID: 36614292 PMCID: PMC9821513 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24010857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 12/28/2022] [Accepted: 12/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The voltage-gated sodium channels represent an important target for drug discovery since a large number of physiological processes are regulated by these channels. In several excitability disorders, including epilepsy, cardiac arrhythmias, chronic pain, and non-dystrophic myotonia, blockers of voltage-gated sodium channels are clinically used. Myotonia is a skeletal muscle condition characterized by the over-excitability of the sarcolemma, resulting in delayed relaxation after contraction and muscle stiffness. The therapeutic management of this disorder relies on mexiletine and other sodium channel blockers, which are not selective for the Nav1.4 skeletal muscle sodium channel isoform. Hence, the importance of deepening the knowledge of molecular requirements for developing more potent and use-dependent drugs acting on Nav1.4. Here, we review the available treatment options for non-dystrophic myotonia and the structure-activity relationship studies performed in our laboratory with a focus on new compounds with potential antimyotonic activity.
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Flecainide, a cardiac class 1C blocker of the surface membrane sodium channel (NaV1.5), has also been reported to reduce cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR2)-mediated sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ release. It has been introduced as a clinical antiarrhythmic agent for catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), a condition most commonly associated with gain-of-function RyR2 mutations. Current debate concerns both cellular mechanisms of its antiarrhythmic action and molecular mechanisms of its RyR2 actions. At the cellular level, it targets NaV1.5, RyR2, Na+/Ca2+ exchange (NCX), and additional proteins involved in excitation-contraction (EC) coupling and potentially contribute to the CPVT phenotype. This Viewpoint primarily addresses the various direct molecular actions of flecainide on isolated RyR2 channels in artificial lipid bilayers. Such studies demonstrate different, multifarious, flecainide binding sites on RyR2, with voltage-dependent binding in the channel pore or voltage-independent binding at distant peripheral sites. In contrast to its single NaV1.5 pore binding site, flecainide may bind to at least four separate inhibitory sites on RyR2 and one activation site. None of these binding sites have been specifically located in the linear RyR2 sequence or high-resolution structure. Furthermore, it is not clear which of the inhibitory sites contribute to flecainide's reduction of spontaneous Ca2+ release in cellular studies. A confounding observation is that flecainide binding to voltage-dependent inhibition sites reduces cation fluxes in a direction opposite to physiological Ca2+ flow from SR lumen to cytosol. This may suggest that, rather than directly blocking Ca2+ efflux, flecainide can reduce Ca2+ efflux by blocking counter currents through the pore which otherwise limit SR membrane potential change during systolic Ca2+ efflux. In summary, the antiarrhythmic effects of flecainide in CPVT seem to involve multiple components of EC coupling and multiple actions on RyR2. Their clarification may identify novel specific drug targets and facilitate flecainide's clinical utilization in CPVT.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Eccles Institute of Neuroscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Acton, Australia
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Ghovanloo MR, Ruben PC. Cannabidiol and Sodium Channel Pharmacology: General Overview, Mechanism, and Clinical Implications. Neuroscientist 2021; 28:318-334. [PMID: 34027742 PMCID: PMC9344566 DOI: 10.1177/10738584211017009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channels initiate action potentials in excitable tissues. Altering these channels' function can lead to many pathophysiological conditions. Nav channels are composed of several functional and structural domains that could be targeted pharmacologically as potential therapeutic means against various neurological conditions. Mutations in Nav channels have been suggested to underlie various clinical syndromes in different tissues and in association with conditions ranging from epileptic to muscular problems. Treating those mutations that increase the excitability of Nav channels requires inhibitors that could effectively reduce channel firing. The main non-psychotropic constituent of the cannabis plant, cannabidiol (CBD), has recently gained interest as a viable compound to treat some of the conditions that are associated with Nav malfunctions. In this review, we discuss an overview of Nav channels followed by an in-depth description of the interactions of CBD and Nav channels. We conclude with some clinical implications of CBD use against Nav hyperexcitability based on a series of preclinical studies published to date, with a focus on Nav/CBD interactions.
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- Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo
- Department of Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.,Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.,Center for Neuroscience & Regeneration Research, Yale University, West Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Ghovanloo MR, Choudhury K, Bandaru TS, Fouda MA, Rayani K, Rusinova R, Phaterpekar T, Nelkenbrecher K, Watkins AR, Poburko D, Thewalt J, Andersen OS, Delemotte L, Goodchild SJ, Ruben PC. Cannabidiol inhibits the skeletal muscle Nav1.4 by blocking its pore and by altering membrane elasticity. J Gen Physiol 2021; 153:211970. [PMID: 33836525 PMCID: PMC8042605 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202012701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Revised: 12/13/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Cannabidiol (CBD) is the primary nonpsychotropic phytocannabinoid found in Cannabis sativa, which has been proposed to be therapeutic against many conditions, including muscle spasms. Among its putative targets are voltage-gated sodium channels (Navs), which have been implicated in many conditions. We investigated the effects of CBD on Nav1.4, the skeletal muscle Nav subtype. We explored direct effects, involving physical block of the Nav pore, as well as indirect effects, involving modulation of membrane elasticity that contributes to Nav inhibition. MD simulations revealed CBD's localization inside the membrane and effects on bilayer properties. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) confirmed these results, showing CBD localizing below membrane headgroups. To determine the functional implications of these findings, we used a gramicidin-based fluorescence assay to show that CBD alters membrane elasticity or thickness, which could alter Nav function through bilayer-mediated regulation. Site-directed mutagenesis in the vicinity of the Nav1.4 pore revealed that removing the local anesthetic binding site with F1586A reduces the block of INa by CBD. Altering the fenestrations in the bilayer-spanning domain with Nav1.4-WWWW blocked CBD access from the membrane into the Nav1.4 pore (as judged by MD). The stabilization of inactivation, however, persisted in WWWW, which we ascribe to CBD-induced changes in membrane elasticity. To investigate the potential therapeutic value of CBD against Nav1.4 channelopathies, we used a pathogenic Nav1.4 variant, P1158S, which causes myotonia and periodic paralysis. CBD reduces excitability in both wild-type and the P1158S variant. Our in vitro and in silico results suggest that CBD may have therapeutic value against Nav1.4 hyperexcitability.
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- Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo
- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.,Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry/Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry/Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Desaphy JF, Altamura C, Vicart S, Fontaine B. Targeted Therapies for Skeletal Muscle Ion Channelopathies: Systematic Review and Steps Towards Precision Medicine. J Neuromuscul Dis 2021; 8:357-381. [PMID: 33325393 PMCID: PMC8203248 DOI: 10.3233/jnd-200582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Skeletal muscle ion channelopathies include non-dystrophic myotonias (NDM), periodic paralyses (PP), congenital myasthenic syndrome, and recently identified congenital myopathies. The treatment of these diseases is mainly symptomatic, aimed at reducing muscle excitability in NDM or modifying triggers of attacks in PP. OBJECTIVE This systematic review collected the evidences regarding effects of pharmacological treatment on muscle ion channelopathies, focusing on the possible link between treatments and genetic background. METHODS We searched databases for randomized clinical trials (RCT) and other human studies reporting pharmacological treatments. Preclinical studies were considered to gain further information regarding mutation-dependent drug effects. All steps were performed by two independent investigators, while two others critically reviewed the entire process. RESULTS For NMD, RCT showed therapeutic benefits of mexiletine and lamotrigine, while other human studies suggest some efficacy of various sodium channel blockers and of the carbonic anhydrase inhibitor (CAI) acetazolamide. Preclinical studies suggest that mutations may alter sensitivity of the channel to sodium channel blockers in vitro, which has been translated to humans in some cases. For hyperkalemic and hypokalemic PP, RCT showed efficacy of the CAI dichlorphenamide in preventing paralysis. However, hypokalemic PP patients carrying sodium channel mutations may have fewer benefits from CAI compared to those carrying calcium channel mutations. Few data are available for treatment of congenital myopathies. CONCLUSIONS These studies provided limited information about the response to treatments of individual mutations or groups of mutations. A major effort is needed to perform human studies for designing a mutation-driven precision medicine in muscle ion channelopathies.
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- Jean-François Desaphy
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre de Recherche en Myologie-UMR 974, Reference center in neuro-muscular channelopathies, Institute of Myology, Hôpital Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre de Recherche en Myologie-UMR 974, Reference center in neuro-muscular channelopathies, Institute of Myology, Hôpital Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Modoni A, D'Amico A, Primiano G, Capozzoli F, Desaphy JF, Lo Monaco M. Long-Term Safety and Usefulness of Mexiletine in a Large Cohort of Patients Affected by Non-dystrophic Myotonias. Front Neurol 2020; 11:300. [PMID: 32655465 PMCID: PMC7326038 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Objective: The aim of our study was to evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of mexiletine in 112 patients affected by genetically confirmed non-dystrophic myotonias. The study was performed at the Neurophysiologic Division of Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Rome and the Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome. Methods: The treatment was accepted by 59 patients according to clinical severity, individual needs, and concerns about a chronic medication. Forty-three patients were affected by recessive congenita myotonia, 11 by sodium channel myotonia, and five by dominant congenital myotonia. They underwent clinical examination before and after starting therapy, and Electromyography (EMG). A number of recessive myotonia patients underwent a protocol of repetitive nerve stimulations, for detecting and quantifying the transitory weakness, and a modified version of the Timed Up and Go test, to document and quantify the gait impairment. Results: Treatment duration ranged from 1 month to 20 years and the daily dosages in adults ranged between 200 and 600 mg. No patient developed cardiac arrhythmias causing drug discontinuation. Mexiletine was suspended in 13 cases (22%); in three patients, affected by Sodium Channel myotonia, because flecainide showed better efficacy; in one patient because of a gastric cancer antecedent treatment; in four patients because of untreatable dyspepsia; and five patients considered the treatment not necessary. Conclusions: In our experience, mexiletine is very useful and not expensive. We did not observe any hazarding cardiac arrhythmias. Dyspepsia was the most frequent dose-limiting side effect.
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- Anna Modoni
- Department of Geriatric, Neurologic, Orthopedics and Head-Neck Science, Area of Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Department of Neurosciences, Bambino Gesú Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Geriatric, Neurologic, Orthopedics and Head-Neck Science, Area of Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Polyclinic, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Geriatric, Neurologic, Orthopedics and Head-Neck Science, Area of Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.,MiA Onlus ("Miotonici in Associazione"), Portici, Italy
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Desaphy JF, Farinato A, Altamura C, De Bellis M, Imbrici P, Tarantino N, Caccia C, Melloni E, Padoani G, Vailati S, Keywood C, Carratù MR, De Luca A, Conte D, Pierno S. Safinamide's potential in treating nondystrophic myotonias: Inhibition of skeletal muscle voltage-gated sodium channels and skeletal muscle hyperexcitability in vitro and in vivo. Exp Neurol 2020; 328:113287. [PMID: 32205118 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2020.113287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2019] [Revised: 03/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The antiarrhythmic sodium-channel blocker mexiletine is used to treat patients with myotonia. However, around 30% of patients do not benefit from mexiletine due to poor tolerability or suboptimal response. Safinamide is an add-on therapy to levodopa for Parkinson's disease. In addition to MAOB inhibition, safinamide inhibits neuronal sodium channels, conferring anticonvulsant activity in models of epilepsy. Here, we investigated the effects of safinamide on skeletal muscle hNav1.4 sodium channels and in models of myotonia, in-vitro and in-vivo. Using patch-clamp, we showed that safinamide reversibly inhibited sodium currents in HEK293T cells transfected with hNav1.4. At the holding potential (hp) of -120 mV, the half-maximum inhibitory concentrations (IC50) were 160 and 33 μM at stimulation frequencies of 0.1 and 10 Hz, respectively. The calculated affinity constants of safinamide were dependent on channel state: 420 μM for closed channels and 9 μM for fast-inactivated channels. The p.F1586C mutation in hNav1.4 greatly impaired safinamide inhibition, suggesting that the drug binds to the local anesthetic receptor site in the channel pore. In a condition mimicking myotonia, i.e. hp. of -90 mV and 50-Hz stimulation, safinamide inhibited INa with an IC50 of 6 μM, being two-fold more potent than mexiletine. Using the two-intracellular microelectrodes current-clamp method, action potential firing was recorded in vitro in rat skeletal muscle fibers in presence of the chloride channel blocker, 9-anthracene carboxylic acid (9-AC), to increase excitability. Safinamide counteracted muscle fiber hyperexcitability with an IC50 of 13 μM. In vivo, oral safinamide was tested in the rat model of myotonia. In this model, intraperitoneal injection of 9-AC greatly increased the time of righting reflex (TRR) due to development of muscle stiffness. Safinamide counteracted 9-AC induced TRR increase with an ED50 of 1.2 mg/kg, which is 7 times lower than that previously determined for mexiletine. In conclusion, safinamide is a potent voltage and frequency dependent blocker of skeletal muscle sodium channels. Accordingly, the drug was able to counteract abnormal muscle hyperexcitability induced by 9-AC, both in vitro and in vivo. Thus, this study suggests that safinamide may have potential in treating myotonia and warrants further preclinical and human studies to fully evaluate this possibility.
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- Jean-François Desaphy
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
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- Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Open R&D Department, Zambon S.p.A., Bresso, MI, Italy
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- Open R&D Department, Zambon S.p.A., Bresso, MI, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Pharmacogenetics of myotonic hNav1.4 sodium channel variants situated near the fast inactivation gate. Pharmacol Res 2019; 141:224-235. [DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2019.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 01/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Terracciano C, Farina O, Esposito T, Lombardi L, Napolitano F, Blasiis PD, Ciccone G, Todisco V, Tuccillo F, Bernardini S, Di Iorio G, Melone MAB, Sampaolo S. Successful long-term therapy with flecainide in a family with paramyotonia congenita. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2018; 89:1232-1234. [PMID: 29487168 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2017-317615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2017] [Revised: 01/15/2018] [Accepted: 01/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Chiara Terracciano
- Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Division of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma, Lazio, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Metabolic and Aging Science, Reference Center for Neurological and Neuromuscular Rare Disease, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Campania, Italy
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- Molecular Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Adriano Buzzati Traverso, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Naples, Italy.,IRCCS, INM Neuromed, Pozzilli, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Metabolic and Aging Science, Reference Center for Neurological and Neuromuscular Rare Disease, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Campania, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Metabolic and Aging Science, Reference Center for Neurological and Neuromuscular Rare Disease, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Campania, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Metabolic and Aging Science, Reference Center for Neurological and Neuromuscular Rare Disease, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Campania, Italy
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- Division of Neurology, Local Health Unit of South Naples 3, Napoli, Campania, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Metabolic and Aging Science, Reference Center for Neurological and Neuromuscular Rare Disease, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Campania, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Metabolic and Aging Science, Reference Center for Neurological and Neuromuscular Rare Disease, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Campania, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Division of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Roma, Lazio, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Metabolic and Aging Science, Reference Center for Neurological and Neuromuscular Rare Disease, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Campania, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Metabolic and Aging Science, Reference Center for Neurological and Neuromuscular Rare Disease, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Campania, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Metabolic and Aging Science, Reference Center for Neurological and Neuromuscular Rare Disease, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Campania, Italy
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SCN4A as modifier gene in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 2. Sci Rep 2018; 8:11058. [PMID: 30038349 PMCID: PMC6056531 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29302-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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A patient with an early severe myotonia diagnosed for Myotonic Dystrophy type 2 (DM2) was found bearing the combined effects of DM2 mutation and Nav1.4 S906T substitution. To investigate the mechanism underlying his atypical phenotype,whole-cell patch-clamp in voltage- and current-clamp mode was performed in myoblasts and myotubes obtained from his muscle biopsy. Results characterizing the properties of the sodium current and of the action potentials have been compared to those obtained in muscle cells derived from his mother, also affected by DM2, but without the S906T polymorphism. A faster inactivation kinetics and a +5 mV shift in the availability curve were found in the sodium current recorded in patient’s myoblasts compared to his mother. 27% of his myotubes displayed spontaneous activity. Patient’s myotubes showing a stable resting membrane potential had a lower rheobase current respect to the mother’s while the overshoot and the maximum slope of the depolarizing phase of action potential were higher. These findings suggest that SCN4A polymorphisms may be responsible for a higher excitability of DM2 patients sarcolemma, supporting the severe myotonic phenotype observed. We suggest SCN4A as a modifier factor and that its screening should be performed in DM2 patients with uncommon clinical features.
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Cavalli M, Fossati B, Vitale R, Brigonzi E, Ricigliano VAG, Saraceno L, Cardani R, Pappone C, Meola G. Flecainide-Induced Brugada Syndrome in a Patient With Skeletal Muscle Sodium Channelopathy: A Case Report With Critical Therapeutical Implications and Review of the Literature. Front Neurol 2018; 9:385. [PMID: 29899727 PMCID: PMC5988887 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2018] [Accepted: 05/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Skeletal muscle sodium channelopathies are a group of neuromuscular disorders associated with mutations in the SCN4A gene. Because principal sodium channel isoforms expressed in the skeletal muscles and the heart are distinct one from the other, this condition usually spares cardiac functioning. Nonetheless, evidence on a possible link between skeletal muscle and cardiac sodium channelopathies has emerged in recent years. To date, eight patients bearing pathogenetic mutations in the SCN4A gene and manifesting cardiac electrophysiological alterations have been reported in literature. Among these patients, three presented a phenotype compatible with Brugada syndrome. We report the case of a 29-year-old patient affected by non-dystrophic myotonia associated with a p.G1306E mutation in the SCN4A gene, who presented symptoms of syncope and palpitation after the introduction of flecainide as an anti-myotonic agent. ECG and ajmaline challenge were consistent with the diagnosis of Brugada syndrome, leading to the implantation of a cardioverter defibrillator. No mutation in causative genes for Brugada syndrome was detected. Mexiletine treatment reduced myotonia without any cardiac adverse events. This case report highlights the clinical relevance of the recognition of cardiac electrophysiological alterations in skeletal muscle sodium channelopathies. The discovery of a possible pathogenetic linkage between skeletal muscle and cardiac sodium channelopathies may have significant implications in patients' management, also in light of the fact that class 1C anti-arrhythmics are potential triggers for life-threatening arrhythmias in patients with Brugada syndrome.
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- Michele Cavalli
- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Neurology, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
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- Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology Department, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Laboratory of Muscle Histopathology and Molecular Biology, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
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- Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology Department, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.,Department of Neurology, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
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Ghovanloo MR, Abdelsayed M, Peters CH, Ruben PC. A Mixed Periodic Paralysis & Myotonia Mutant, P1158S, Imparts pH-Sensitivity in Skeletal Muscle Voltage-gated Sodium Channels. Sci Rep 2018; 8:6304. [PMID: 29674667 PMCID: PMC5908869 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-24719-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Skeletal muscle channelopathies, many of which are inherited as autosomal dominant mutations, include myotonia and periodic paralysis. Myotonia is defined by a delayed relaxation after muscular contraction, whereas periodic paralysis is defined by episodic attacks of weakness. One sub-type of periodic paralysis, known as hypokalemic periodic paralysis (hypoPP), is associated with low potassium levels. Interestingly, the P1158S missense mutant, located in the third domain S4-S5 linker of the "skeletal muscle", Nav1.4, has been implicated in causing both myotonia and hypoPP. A common trigger for these conditions is physical activity. We previously reported that Nav1.4 is relatively insensitive to changes in extracellular pH compared to Nav1.2 and Nav1.5. Given that intense exercise is often accompanied by blood acidosis, we decided to test whether changes in pH would push gating in P1158S towards either phenotype. Our results suggest that, unlike in WT-Nav1.4, low pH depolarizes the voltage-dependence of activation and steady-state fast inactivation, decreases current density, and increases late currents in P1185S. Thus, P1185S turns the normally pH-insensitive Nav1.4 into a proton-sensitive channel. Using action potential modeling we predict a pH-to-phenotype correlation in patients with P1158S. We conclude that activities which alter blood pH may trigger the noted phenotypes in P1158S patients.
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- Mohammad-Reza Ghovanloo
- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.
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LEHMANN-HORN FRANK, D’AMICO ADELE, BERTINI ENRICO, LOMONACO MAURO, MERLINI LUCIANO, NELSON KEVINR, PHILIPPI HEIKE, SICILIANO GABRIELE, SPAANS FRANK, JURKAT-ROTT KARIN. Myotonia permanens with Nav1.4-G1306E displays varied phenotypes during course of life. ACTA MYOLOGICA : MYOPATHIES AND CARDIOMYOPATHIES : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETY OF MYOLOGY 2017; 36:125-134. [PMID: 29774303 PMCID: PMC5953224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Myotonia permanens due to Nav1.4-G1306E is a rare sodium channelopathy with potentially life-threatening respiratory complications. Our goal was to study phenotypic variability throughout life. METHODS Clinical neurophysiology and genetic analysis were performed. Using existing functional expression data we determined the sodium window by integration. RESULTS In 10 unrelated patients who were believed to have epilepsy, respiratory disease or Schwartz-Jampel syndrome, we made the same prima facie diagnosis and detected the same heterologous Nav1.4-G1306E channel mutation as for our first myotonia permanens patient published in 1993. Eight mutations were de-novo, two were inherited from the affected parent each. Seven patients improved with age, one had a benign phenotype from birth, and two died of respiratory complications. The clinical features age-dependently varied with severe neonatal episodic laryngospasm in childhood and myotonia throughout life. Weakness of varying degrees was present. The responses to cold, exercise and warm-up were different for lower than for upper extremities. Spontaneous membrane depolarization increased frequency and decreased size of action potentials; self-generated repolarization did the opposite. The overlapping of steady-state activation and inactivation curves generated a 3.1-fold window area for G1306E vs. normal channels. DISCUSSION Residue G1306 Neonatal laryngospasm and unusual distribution of myotonia, muscle hypertrophy, and weakness encourage direct search for the G1306E mutation, a hotspot for de-novo mutations. Successful therapy with the sodium channel blocker flecainide is due to stabilization of the inactivated state and special effectiveness for enlarged window currents. Our G1306E collection is the first genetically clarified case series from newborn period to adulthood and therefore helpful for counselling.
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- Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Cell Biology, Instituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
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- Frankfurt University, Sozialpädiatrisches Zentrum, Epilepsieambulanz, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Neurological Unit, University of Pisa, Italy
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- Clinical Neurophysiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Increased sodium channel use-dependent inhibition by a new potent analogue of tocainide greatly enhances in vivo antimyotonic activity. Neuropharmacology 2016; 113:206-216. [PMID: 27743929 PMCID: PMC5154332 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2016.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2016] [Revised: 10/08/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Although the sodium channel blocker, mexiletine, is the first choice drug in myotonia, some myotonic patients remain unsatisfied due to contraindications, lack of tolerability, or incomplete response. More therapeutic options are thus needed for myotonic patients, which require clinical trials based on solid preclinical data. In previous structure-activity relationship studies, we identified two newly-synthesized derivatives of tocainide, To040 and To042, with greatly enhanced potency and use-dependent behavior in inhibiting sodium currents in frog skeletal muscle fibers. The current study was performed to verify their potential as antimyotonic agents. Patch-clamp experiments show that both compounds, especially To042, are greatly more potent and use-dependent blockers of human skeletal muscle hNav1.4 channels compared to tocainide and mexiletine. Reduced effects on F1586C hNav1.4 mutant suggest that the compounds bind to the local anesthetic receptor, but that the increased hindrance and lipophilia of the N-substituent may further strengthen drug-receptor interaction and use-dependence. Compared to mexiletine, To042 was 120 times more potent to block hNav1.4 channels in a myotonia-like cellular condition and 100 times more potent to improve muscle stiffness in vivo in a previously-validated rat model of myotonia. To explore toxicological profile, To042 was tested on hERG potassium currents, motor coordination using rotarod, and C2C12 cell line for cytotoxicity. All these experiments suggest a satisfactory therapeutic index for To042. This study shows that, owing to a huge use-dependent block of sodium channels, To042 is a promising candidate drug for myotonia and possibly other membrane excitability disorders, warranting further preclinical and human studies. To040 and To042 are potent use-dependent hNav1.4 sodium channel blockers. The compounds strengthen the molecular interaction at the local anesthetic receptor. To042 is 120-fold more potent than mexiletine in vitro in myotonia-like conditions. To042 is 100-fold more potent than mexiletine in vivo in a rat model of myotonia. To042 is a promising antimyotonic drug deserving further investigation.
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Imbrici P, Liantonio A, Camerino GM, De Bellis M, Camerino C, Mele A, Giustino A, Pierno S, De Luca A, Tricarico D, Desaphy JF, Conte D. Therapeutic Approaches to Genetic Ion Channelopathies and Perspectives in Drug Discovery. Front Pharmacol 2016; 7:121. [PMID: 27242528 PMCID: PMC4861771 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2016.00121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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In the human genome more than 400 genes encode ion channels, which are transmembrane proteins mediating ion fluxes across membranes. Being expressed in all cell types, they are involved in almost all physiological processes, including sense perception, neurotransmission, muscle contraction, secretion, immune response, cell proliferation, and differentiation. Due to the widespread tissue distribution of ion channels and their physiological functions, mutations in genes encoding ion channel subunits, or their interacting proteins, are responsible for inherited ion channelopathies. These diseases can range from common to very rare disorders and their severity can be mild, disabling, or life-threatening. In spite of this, ion channels are the primary target of only about 5% of the marketed drugs suggesting their potential in drug discovery. The current review summarizes the therapeutic management of the principal ion channelopathies of central and peripheral nervous system, heart, kidney, bone, skeletal muscle and pancreas, resulting from mutations in calcium, sodium, potassium, and chloride ion channels. For most channelopathies the therapy is mainly empirical and symptomatic, often limited by lack of efficacy and tolerability for a significant number of patients. Other channelopathies can exploit ion channel targeted drugs, such as marketed sodium channel blockers. Developing new and more specific therapeutic approaches is therefore required. To this aim, a major advancement in the pharmacotherapy of channelopathies has been the discovery that ion channel mutations lead to change in biophysics that can in turn specifically modify the sensitivity to drugs: this opens the way to a pharmacogenetics strategy, allowing the development of a personalized therapy with increased efficacy and reduced side effects. In addition, the identification of disease modifiers in ion channelopathies appears an alternative strategy to discover novel druggable targets.
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- Paola Imbrici
- Department of Pharmacy - Drug Sciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy - Drug Sciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy - Drug Sciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy - Drug Sciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sense Organs, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy - Drug Sciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy - Drug Sciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy - Drug Sciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy - Drug Sciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy - Drug Sciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" Bari, Italy
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Desaphy JF, Carbonara R, D'Amico A, Modoni A, Roussel J, Imbrici P, Pagliarani S, Lucchiari S, Lo Monaco M, Conte Camerino D. Translational approach to address therapy in myotonia permanens due to a new SCN4A mutation. Neurology 2016; 86:2100-8. [PMID: 27164696 PMCID: PMC4891212 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000002721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2015] [Accepted: 02/19/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Objective: We performed a clinical, functional, and pharmacologic characterization of the novel p.P1158L Nav1.4 mutation identified in a young girl presenting a severe myotonic phenotype. Methods: Wild-type hNav1.4 channel and P1158L mutant were expressed in tsA201 cells for functional and pharmacologic studies using patch-clamp. Results: The patient shows pronounced myotonia, slowness of movements, and generalized muscle hypertrophy. Because of general discomfort with mexiletine, she was given flecainide with satisfactory response. In vitro, mutant channels show a slower current decay and a rightward shift of the voltage dependence of fast inactivation. The voltage dependence of activation and slow inactivation were not altered. Mutant channels were less sensitive to mexiletine, whereas sensitivity to flecainide was not altered. The reduced inhibition of mutant channels by mexiletine was also observed using clinically relevant drug concentrations in a myotonic-like condition. Conclusions: Clinical phenotype and functional alterations of P1158L support the diagnosis of myotonia permanens. Impairment of fast inactivation is consistent with the possible role of the channel domain III S4-S5 loop in the inactivation gate docking site. The reduced sensitivity of P1158L to mexiletine may have contributed to the unsatisfactory response of the patient. The success of flecainide therapy underscores the usefulness of in vitro functional studies to help in the choice of the best drug for each individual.
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- Jean-François Desaphy
- From the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (J.-F.D.) and Pharmacy & Drug Sciences (R.C., J.R., P.I., D.C.C.), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (A.D.), Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome; Departments of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, and Orthopedics (A.M., M.L.M.), Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Dino Ferrari Centre (S.P., S.L.), Neuroscience Section, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan; and Neurology Unit (S.P., S.L.), IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
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- From the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (J.-F.D.) and Pharmacy & Drug Sciences (R.C., J.R., P.I., D.C.C.), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (A.D.), Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome; Departments of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, and Orthopedics (A.M., M.L.M.), Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Dino Ferrari Centre (S.P., S.L.), Neuroscience Section, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan; and Neurology Unit (S.P., S.L.), IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- From the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (J.-F.D.) and Pharmacy & Drug Sciences (R.C., J.R., P.I., D.C.C.), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (A.D.), Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome; Departments of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, and Orthopedics (A.M., M.L.M.), Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Dino Ferrari Centre (S.P., S.L.), Neuroscience Section, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan; and Neurology Unit (S.P., S.L.), IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- From the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (J.-F.D.) and Pharmacy & Drug Sciences (R.C., J.R., P.I., D.C.C.), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (A.D.), Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome; Departments of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, and Orthopedics (A.M., M.L.M.), Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Dino Ferrari Centre (S.P., S.L.), Neuroscience Section, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan; and Neurology Unit (S.P., S.L.), IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- From the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (J.-F.D.) and Pharmacy & Drug Sciences (R.C., J.R., P.I., D.C.C.), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (A.D.), Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome; Departments of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, and Orthopedics (A.M., M.L.M.), Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Dino Ferrari Centre (S.P., S.L.), Neuroscience Section, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan; and Neurology Unit (S.P., S.L.), IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- From the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (J.-F.D.) and Pharmacy & Drug Sciences (R.C., J.R., P.I., D.C.C.), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (A.D.), Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome; Departments of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, and Orthopedics (A.M., M.L.M.), Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Dino Ferrari Centre (S.P., S.L.), Neuroscience Section, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan; and Neurology Unit (S.P., S.L.), IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- From the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (J.-F.D.) and Pharmacy & Drug Sciences (R.C., J.R., P.I., D.C.C.), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (A.D.), Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome; Departments of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, and Orthopedics (A.M., M.L.M.), Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Dino Ferrari Centre (S.P., S.L.), Neuroscience Section, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan; and Neurology Unit (S.P., S.L.), IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- From the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (J.-F.D.) and Pharmacy & Drug Sciences (R.C., J.R., P.I., D.C.C.), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (A.D.), Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome; Departments of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, and Orthopedics (A.M., M.L.M.), Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Dino Ferrari Centre (S.P., S.L.), Neuroscience Section, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan; and Neurology Unit (S.P., S.L.), IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- From the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (J.-F.D.) and Pharmacy & Drug Sciences (R.C., J.R., P.I., D.C.C.), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (A.D.), Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome; Departments of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, and Orthopedics (A.M., M.L.M.), Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Dino Ferrari Centre (S.P., S.L.), Neuroscience Section, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan; and Neurology Unit (S.P., S.L.), IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- From the Departments of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology (J.-F.D.) and Pharmacy & Drug Sciences (R.C., J.R., P.I., D.C.C.), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari; Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (A.D.), Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome; Departments of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, and Orthopedics (A.M., M.L.M.), Institute of Neurology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Dino Ferrari Centre (S.P., S.L.), Neuroscience Section, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation (DEPT), University of Milan; and Neurology Unit (S.P., S.L.), IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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Portaro S, Rodolico C, Sinicropi S, Musumeci O, Valenzise M, Toscano A. Flecainide-Responsive Myotonia Permanens With SNEL Onset: A New Case and Literature Review. Pediatrics 2016; 137:peds.2015-3289. [PMID: 26944947 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-3289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Sodium channel myotonias are inherited muscle diseases linked to mutations in the voltage-gated sodium channel. These diseases may also affect newborns with variable symptoms. More recently, severe neonatal episodic laryngospasm (SNEL) has been described in a small number of patients. A timely diagnosis of SNEL is crucial because a specific treatment is now available that will likely reduced laryngospasm and improve vital and cerebral outcomes. We report here on an 8-year-old girl who had presented, at birth, with SNEL who subsequently developed myotonia permanens starting at age 3 years. Results of molecular analysis revealed a de novo SCN4A G1306E mutation. The girl was treated with carbamazepine, acetazolamide, and mexiletine, with little improvement; after switching her treatment to flecainide, she experienced a dramatic reduction in muscle stiffness and myotonic symptoms as well as an improvement in behavior.
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- Simona Portaro
- IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino Pulejo", SS113, via Palermo, c.da Casazza, Messina, Italy;
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Pediatric, Gynecological, Microbiological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- IRCCS Centro Neurolesi "Bonino Pulejo", SS113, via Palermo, c.da Casazza, Messina, Italy; Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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Desaphy JF, Carbonara R, Costanza T, Conte Camerino D. Preclinical evaluation of marketed sodium channel blockers in a rat model of myotonia discloses promising antimyotonic drugs. Exp Neurol 2014; 255:96-102. [PMID: 24613829 PMCID: PMC4004800 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2014.02.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2014] [Revised: 02/17/2014] [Accepted: 02/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Although the sodium channel blocker mexiletine is considered the first-line drug in myotonia, some patients experiment adverse effects, while others do not gain any benefit. Other antimyotonic drugs are thus needed to offer mexiletine alternatives. In the present study, we used a previously-validated rat model of myotonia congenita to compare six marketed sodium channel blockers to mexiletine. Myotonia was induced in the rat by injection of anthracen-9-carboxylic acid, a muscle chloride channel blocker. The drugs were given orally and myotonia was evaluated by measuring the time of righting reflex. The drugs were also tested on sodium currents recorded in a cell line transfected with the human skeletal muscle sodium channel hNav1.4 using patch-clamp technique. In vivo, carbamazepine and propafenone showed antimyotonic activity at doses similar to mexiletine (ED50 close to 5mg/kg); flecainide and orphenadrine showed greater potency (ED50 near 1mg/kg); lubeluzole and riluzole were the more potent (ED50 near 0.1mg/kg). The antimyotonic activity of drugs in vivo was linearly correlated with their potency in blocking hNav1.4 channels in vitro. Deviation was observed for propafenone and carbamazepine, likely due to pharmacokinetics and multiple targets. The comparison of the antimyotonic dose calculated in rats with the current clinical dose in humans strongly suggests that all the tested drugs may be used safely for the treatment of human myotonia. Considering the limits of mexiletine tolerability and the occurrence of non-responders, this study proposes an arsenal of alternative drugs, which may prove useful to increase the quality of life of individuals suffering from non-dystrophic myotonia. Further clinical trials are warranted to confirm these results.
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- Jean-François Desaphy
- Section of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari-Aldo Moro, Bari I-70125, Italy.
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- Section of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari-Aldo Moro, Bari I-70125, Italy
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- Section of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari-Aldo Moro, Bari I-70125, Italy
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- Section of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy & Drug Sciences, University of Bari-Aldo Moro, Bari I-70125, Italy
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Functional characterization of ClC-1 mutations from patients affected by recessive myotonia congenita presenting with different clinical phenotypes. Exp Neurol 2013; 248:530-40. [PMID: 23933576 PMCID: PMC3781327 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2013.07.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2013] [Revised: 07/18/2013] [Accepted: 07/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Myotonia congenita (MC) is caused by loss-of-function mutations of the muscle ClC-1 chloride channel. Clinical manifestations include the variable association of myotonia and transitory weakness. We recently described a cohort of recessive MC patients showing, at a low rate repetitive nerves stimulation protocol, different values of compound muscle action potential (CMAP) transitory depression, which is considered the neurophysiologic counterpart of transitory weakness. From among this cohort, we studied the chloride currents generated by G190S (associated with pronounced transitory depression), F167L (little or no transitory depression), and A531V (variable transitory depression) hClC-1 mutants in transfected HEK293 cells using patch-clamp. While F167L had no effect on chloride currents, G190S dramatically shifts the voltage dependence of channel activation and A531V reduces channel expression. Such variability in molecular mechanisms observed in the hClC-1 mutants may help to explain the different clinical and neurophysiologic manifestations of each ClCN1 mutation. In addition we examined five different mutations found in compound heterozygosis with F167L, including the novel P558S, and we identified additional molecular defects. Finally, the G190S mutation appeared to impair acetazolamide effects on chloride currents in vitro. Myotonia congenita is a muscle disorder due to mutations in ClC-1 chloride channel. Eight ClC-1 channel mutants were studied using patch-clamp technique. Mutations induce a variety of molecular defects in ClC-1 channel function. We discuss the relationship between genotype and clinical phenotype.
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Desaphy JF, Carbonara R, Costanza T, Lentini G, Cavalluzzi MM, Bruno C, Franchini C, Camerino DC. Molecular Dissection of Lubeluzole Use–Dependent Block of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels Discloses New Therapeutic Potentials. Mol Pharmacol 2012; 83:406-15. [DOI: 10.1124/mol.112.080804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Dramatic improvement of myotonia permanens with flecainide: a two-case report of a possible bench-to-bedside pharmacogenetics strategy. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 2012; 69:1037-9. [PMID: 23052413 PMCID: PMC3621996 DOI: 10.1007/s00228-012-1414-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2012] [Accepted: 09/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Desaphy JF, Costanza T, Carbonara R, Conte Camerino D. In vivo evaluation of antimyotonic efficacy of β-adrenergic drugs in a rat model of myotonia. Neuropharmacology 2012; 65:21-7. [PMID: 23000075 PMCID: PMC3546166 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2012] [Revised: 07/27/2012] [Accepted: 09/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The sodium channel blocker mexiletine is considered the first-line drug in myotonic syndromes, a group of muscle disorders characterized by membrane over-excitability. We previously showed that the β-adrenoceptor modulators, clenbuterol and propranolol, block voltage-gated sodium channels in a manner reminiscent to mexiletine, whereas salbutamol and nadolol do not. We now developed a pharmacological rat model of myotonia congenita to perform in vivo preclinical test of antimyotonic drugs. Myotonia was induced by i.p. injection of 30 mg/kg of anthracene-9-carboxylic acid (9-AC), a muscle chloride channel blocker, and evaluated by measuring the time of righting reflex (TRR). The TRR was prolonged from <0.5 s in control conditions to a maximum of ∼4 s, thirty minutes after 9-AC injection, then gradually recovered in a few hours. Oral administration of mexiletine twenty minutes after 9-AC injection significantly hampered the TRR prolongation, with an half-maximum efficient dose (ED(50)) of 12 mg/kg. Both propranolol and clenbuterol produced a dose-dependent antimyotonic effect similar to mexiletine, with ED(50) values close to 20 mg/kg. Antimyotonic effects of 40 mg/kg mexiletine and propranolol lasted for 2 h. We also demonstrated, using patch-clamp methods, that both propranolol enantiomers exerted a similar block of skeletal muscle hNav1.4 channels expressed in HEK293 cells. The two enantiomers (15 mg/kg) also showed a similar antimyotonic activity in vivo in the myotonic rat. Among the drugs tested, the R(+)-enantiomer of propranolol may merit further investigation in humans, because it exerts antimyotonic effect in the rat model, while lacking of significant activity on the β-adrenergic pathway. This study provides a new and useful in vivo preclinical model of myotonia congenita in order to individuate the most promising antimyotonic drugs to be tested in humans.
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- Jean-François Desaphy
- Section of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacy, University of Bari-Aldo Moro, Via Orabona 4 - Campus, 70125 Bari, Italy.
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Desaphy JF, Dipalma A, Costanza T, Carbonara R, Dinardo MM, Catalano A, Carocci A, Lentini G, Franchini C, Camerino DC. Molecular Insights into the Local Anesthetic Receptor within Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels Using Hydroxylated Analogs of Mexiletine. Front Pharmacol 2012; 3:17. [PMID: 22403541 PMCID: PMC3279704 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2012.00017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2011] [Accepted: 01/30/2012] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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We previously showed that the β-adrenoceptor modulators, clenbuterol and propranolol, directly blocked voltage-gated sodium channels, whereas salbutamol and nadolol did not (Desaphy et al., 2003), suggesting the presence of two hydroxyl groups on the aromatic moiety of the drugs as a molecular requisite for impeding sodium channel block. To verify such an hypothesis, we synthesized five new mexiletine analogs by adding one or two hydroxyl groups to the aryloxy moiety of the sodium channel blocker and tested these compounds on hNav1.4 channels expressed in HEK293 cells. Concentration–response relationships were constructed using 25-ms-long depolarizing pulses at −30 mV applied from an holding potential of −120 mV at 0.1 Hz (tonic block) and 10 Hz (use-dependent block) stimulation frequencies. The half-maximum inhibitory concentrations (IC50) were linearly correlated to drug lipophilicity: the less lipophilic the drug, minor was the block. The same compounds were also tested on F1586C and Y1593C hNav1.4 channel mutants, to gain further information on the molecular interactions of mexiletine with its receptor within the sodium channel pore. In particular, replacement of Phe1586 and Tyr1593 by non-aromatic cysteine residues may help in the understanding of the role of π–π or π–cation interactions in mexiletine binding. Alteration of tonic block suggests that the aryloxy moiety of mexiletine may interact either directly or indirectly with Phe1586 in the closed sodium channel to produce low-affinity binding block, and that this interaction depends on the electrostatic potential of the drug aromatic tail. Alteration of use-dependent block suggests that addition of hydroxyl groups to the aryloxy moiety may modify high-affinity binding of the drug amine terminal to Phe1586 through cooperativity between the two pharmacophores, this effect being mainly related to drug lipophilicity. Mutation of Tyr1593 further impaired such cooperativity. In conclusion, these results confirm our former hypothesis by showing that the presence of hydroxyl groups to the aryloxy moiety of mexiletine greatly reduced sodium channel block, and provide molecular insights into the intimate interaction of local anesthetics with their receptor.
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- Jean-François Desaphy
- Section of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacobiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Bari Bari, Italy
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Desaphy JF, Dipalma A, Costanza T, Bruno C, Lentini G, Franchini C, George A, Conte Camerino D. Molecular determinants of state-dependent block of voltage-gated sodium channels by pilsicainide. Br J Pharmacol 2010; 160:1521-33. [PMID: 20590641 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.2010.00816.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Pilsicainide, an anti-arrhythmic drug used in Japan, is described as a pure sodium channel blocker. We examined the mechanisms by which it is able to block open channels, because these properties may be especially useful to reduce hyperexcitability in pathologies characterized by abnormal sodium channel opening. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH The effects of pilsicainide on various heterologously expressed human sodium channel subtypes and mutants were investigated using the patch clamp technique. KEY RESULTS Pilsicainide exhibited tonic and use-dependent effects comparable to those of mexiletine and flecainide on hNav1.4 channels. These use-dependent effects were abolished in the mutations F1586C and Y1593C within segment 6 of domain IV, suggesting that the interaction of pilsicainide with these residues is critical for its local anaesthetic action. Its affinity constants for closed channels (K(R)) and channels inactivated from the closed state (K(I)) were high, suggesting that its use-dependent block (UDB) requires the channel to be open for it to reach a high-affinity blocking site. Accordingly, basic pH, which slightly increased the proportion of neutral drug, dramatically decreased K(R) and K(I) values. Effects of pilsicainide were similar on skeletal muscle hNav1.4, brain hNav1.1 and heart hNav1.5 channels. The myotonic R1448C and G1306E hNav1.4 mutants were more and less sensitive to pilsicainide, respectively, due to mutation-induced gating modifications. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS Although therapeutic concentrations of pilsicainide may have little effect on resting and closed-state inactivated channels, it induces a strong UDB due to channel opening, rendering the drug ideally suited for inhibition of high-frequency action potential firing.
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- J-F Desaphy
- Department of Pharmacobiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
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Ghelardini C, Desaphy JF, Muraglia M, Corbo F, Matucci R, Dipalma A, Bertucci C, Pistolozzi M, Nesi M, Norcini M, Franchini C, Camerino DC. Effects of a new potent analog of tocainide on hNav1.7 sodium channels and in vivo neuropathic pain models. Neuroscience 2010; 169:863-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2010] [Revised: 04/16/2010] [Accepted: 05/09/2010] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Desaphy JF, Dipalma A, De Bellis M, Costanza T, Gaudioso C, Delmas P, George AL, Camerino DC. Involvement of voltage-gated sodium channels blockade in the analgesic effects of orphenadrine. Pain 2009; 142:225-235. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2008] [Revised: 12/18/2008] [Accepted: 01/09/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Li Q, Huang H, Liu G, Lam K, Rutberg J, Green MS, Birnie DH, Lemery R, Chahine M, Gollob MH. Gain-of-function mutation of Nav1.5 in atrial fibrillation enhances cellular excitability and lowers the threshold for action potential firing. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2009; 380:132-7. [PMID: 19167345 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.01.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2008] [Accepted: 01/13/2009] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Genetic mutations of the cardiac sodium channel (SCN5A) specific only to the phenotype of atrial fibrillation have recently been described. However, data on the biophysical properties of SCN5A variants associated with atrial fibrillation are scarce. In a mother and son with lone atrial fibrillation, we identified a novel SCN5A coding variant, K1493R, which altered a highly conserved residue in the DIII-IV linker and was located six amino acids downstream from the fast inactivation motif of sodium channels. Biophysical studies of K1493R in tsA201 cells demonstrated a significant positive shift in voltage-dependence of inactivation and a large ramp current near resting membrane potential, indicating a gain-of-function. Enhanced cellular excitability was observed in transfected HL-1 atrial cardiomyocytes, including spontaneous action potential depolarizations and a lower threshold for action potential firing. These novel biophysical observations provide molecular evidence linking cellular "hyperexcitability" as a mechanism inducing vulnerability to this common arrhythmia.
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- Qiuju Li
- Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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Camerino DC, Desaphy JF, Tricarico D, Pierno S, Liantonio A. Therapeutic Approaches to Ion Channel Diseases. ADVANCES IN GENETICS 2008; 64:81-145. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2660(08)00804-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Seda M, Pinto FM, Wray S, Cintado CG, Noheda P, Buschmann H, Candenas L. Functional and molecular characterization of voltage-gated sodium channels in uteri from nonpregnant rats. Biol Reprod 2007; 77:855-63. [PMID: 17671266 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.063016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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We investigated the function and expression of voltage-gated Na(+) channels (VGSC) in the uteri of nonpregnant rats using organ bath techniques, intracellular [Ca(2+)] fluorescence measurements, and RT-PCR. In longitudinally arranged whole-tissue uterine strips, veratridine, a VGSC activator, caused the rapid appearance of phasic contractions of irregular frequency and amplitude. After 50-60 min in the continuous presence of veratridine, rhythmic contractions of very regular frequency and slightly increasing amplitude occurred and were sustained for up to 12 h. Both the early and late components of the contractile response to veratridine were inhibited in a concentration-dependent manner by tetrodotoxin (TTX). In small strips dissected from the uterine longitudinal smooth muscle layer and loaded with Fura-2, veratridine also caused rhythmic contractions, accompanied by transient increases in [Ca(2+)](i), which were abolished by treatment with 0.1 microM TTX. Using end-point and real-time quantitative RT-PCR, we detected the presence of the VGSC alpha subunits Scn2a1, Scn3a, Scn5a, and Scn8a in the cDNA from longitudinal muscle. The mRNAs of the auxiliary beta subunits Scbn1b, Scbn2b, Scbn4b, and traces of Scn3b were also present. These data show for the first time that Scn2a1, Scn3a, Scn5a, and Scn8a, as well as all VGSC beta subunits are expressed in the longitudinal smooth muscle layer of the rat myometrium. In addition, our data show that TTX-sensitive VGSC are able to mediate phasic contractions maintained over long periods of time in the uteri of nonpregnant rats.
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- Marian Seda
- Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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Because ion channels are involved in many cellular processes, drugs acting on ion channels have long been used for the treatment of many diseases, especially those affecting electrically excitable tissues. The present review discusses the pharmacology of voltage-gated and neurotransmitter-gated ion channels involved in neurologic diseases, with emphasis on neurologic channelopathies. With the discovery of ion channelopathies, the therapeutic value of many basic drugs targeting ion channels has been confirmed. The understanding of the genotype-phenotype relationship has highlighted possible action mechanisms of other empirically used drugs. Moreover, other ion channels have been pinpointed as potential new drug targets. With regards to therapy of channelopathies, experimental investigations of the intimate drug-channel interactions have demonstrated that channel mutations can either increase or decrease affinity for the drug, modifying its potential therapeutic effect. Together with the discovery of channel gene polymorphisms that may affect drug pharmacodynamics, these findings highlight the need for pharmacogenetic research to allow identification of drugs with more specific effects on channel isoforms or mutants, to increase efficacy and reduce side effects. With a greater understanding of channel genetics, structure, and function, together with the identification of novel primary and secondary channelopathies, the number of ion channel drugs for neurologic channelopathies will increase substantially.
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- Diana Conte Camerino
- Pharmacology Division, Department of Pharmacobiology, School of Pharmacy, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
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Lentini G, Bruno C, Catalano A, Desaphy JF, M. Cavalluzzi M, Carocci A, Dipalma A, Franchini C, Conte Camerino D, Tortorella V. Pilsicainide and Its Oxymethylene Analog: Facile Alternative Syntheses and in vitro Testing on Human Skeletal Muscle Sodium Channels. HETEROCYCLES 2007. [DOI: 10.3987/com-07-11096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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McKay OM, Krishnan AV, Davis M, Kiernan MC. Activity-induced weakness in recessive myotonia congenita with a novel (696+1G>A) mutation. Clin Neurophysiol 2006; 117:2064-8. [PMID: 16854622 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2006] [Revised: 05/09/2006] [Accepted: 05/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the cause of the transient weakness that occurs in recessive myotonia congenita (RMC) following sustained muscle contraction. METHODS Nerve excitability studies were performed on a 35-year-old male with RMC due to a novel 696+1G>A CLCN1 mutation. The median nerve was stimulated at the wrist and compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) were recorded from abductor pollicis brevis (APB). Stimulus-response behaviour using two stimulus durations, threshold electrotonus to 100-ms polarizing currents, a current threshold relationship and the recovery of excitability following supramaximal stimulation were recorded at rest. Excitability parameters were also recorded before and after maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) of APB against resistance for 60s. Results were compared to data obtained from 12 normal controls. RESULTS Baseline axonal excitability parameters were all normal, indicating that axonal function was normal at the point of stimulation. Following one minute of MVC, excitability parameters demonstrated a significant increase in threshold when compared to controls (RMC 54.9%; controls 15.5+/-3.1%). In the RMC patient, this increase in threshold was associated with a 39% reduction in the amplitude of the maximal CMAP, which remained unaffected in controls. CONCLUSIONS The reduction in maximal CMAP is likely to represent muscle activation failure due to depolarization block, with the increase in threshold possibly reflecting a compensatory attempt by motor axons to overcome prolonged contraction-induced changes in the muscle membrane. SIGNIFICANCE The prolonged recovery of excitability following sustained muscle contraction is likely to be a contributing factor to symptoms of weakness and fatigue experienced by RMC patients.
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- Owen M McKay
- Faculty of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Aoike F, Takahashi MP, Sakoda S. Class Ic antiarrhythmics block human skeletal muscle Na channel during myotonia-like stimulation. Eur J Pharmacol 2006; 532:24-31. [PMID: 16473348 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2005.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2005] [Revised: 11/30/2005] [Accepted: 12/12/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Flecainide, a class Ic antiarrhythmic drug, has been anecdotally reported to improve myotonia, but little is known about its kinetics on human skeletal muscle sodium channels applicable in vivo. Here we explored the anti-myotonic action of flecainide for human skeletal muscle sodium channels heterologously expressed in cultured cells. Flecainide blocked sodium channels in a highly state-dependent manner with 20-fold difference in IC(50) between use-dependent and tonic blocks. When pulses of brief depolarization simulating myotonia were applied from a holding potential of -90 mV, flecainide at therapeutic concentrations significantly blocked sodium currents. Flecainide slowed the time course of recovery but most channels recovered from block within 10-20 s. In contrast to mexiletine, flecainide did not markedly block sodium current during prolonged depolarization, suggesting an open-channel blocking action. Considering the slow recovery from block and the specific action against repetitive depolarization, flecainide may represent a potent therapeutic agent for myotonia.
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- Futoshi Aoike
- Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine D-4, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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A variety of inherited human disorders affecting skeletal muscle contraction, heart rhythm, and nervous system function have been traced to mutations in genes encoding voltage-gated sodium channels. Clinical severity among these conditions ranges from mild or even latent disease to life-threatening or incapacitating conditions. The sodium channelopathies were among the first recognized ion channel diseases and continue to attract widespread clinical and scientific interest. An expanding knowledge base has substantially advanced our understanding of structure-function and genotype-phenotype relationships for voltage-gated sodium channels and provided new insights into the pathophysiological basis for common diseases such as cardiac arrhythmias and epilepsy.
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- Alfred L George
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-0275, USA.
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Mohammadi B, Jurkat-Rott K, Alekov A, Dengler R, Bufler J, Lehmann-Horn F. Preferred mexiletine block of human sodium channels with IVS4 mutations and its pH-dependence. Pharmacogenet Genomics 2005; 15:235-44. [PMID: 15864116 DOI: 10.1097/01213011-200504000-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The effects of extracellular pH (6.2, 7.4 and 8.2) and 0.1 mM mexiletine, a channel blocker of the lidocaine type, are studied on two mutations of the fourth voltage sensor of the Nav1.4 sodium channel, R1448H/C. The fast inactivated channel state to which mexiletine preferentially binds is destabilized by the mutations. By contrast to the expected low response of R1448H/C carriers, mexiletine is particularly effective in preventing exercise-induced stiffness and paralysis from which these patients suffer. Our measurements performed in the whole-cell mode on stably transfected HEK cells show for the first time that the mutations strikingly accelerate closed-state inactivation and, as steady-state fast inactivation is shifted to more negative potentials, stabilize the fast inactivated channel state in the potential range around the resting potential. At pH 7.4 and 8.2, the phasic mexiletine block is larger for R1448C (55%) and R1448H (47%) than for wild-type channels (31%) due to slowed recovery from block (tau is approximately 520 ms for R1448C versus 270 ms for wild-type at pH 7.4) although the recovery from inactivation is slightly faster for the mutants (tau is approximately 1.9 ms for R1448C versus 3.8 ms for wild-type at pH 7.4). At pH 6.2, recovery from block is relatively fast (tau is approximately 35 ms for R1448H/C and 14 ms for wild-type) and thus shows no use-dependence. We conclude that enhanced closed-state inactivation expands the concept of a mutation-induced uncoupling of channel inactivation from activation to a new potential range and that the higher mexiletine efficacy in R1448H/C carriers compared to other myotonic patients offers a pharmacogenetic strategy for mutation-specific treatment.
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- Bahram Mohammadi
- Department of Neurology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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Flecainide is a Class I antiarrhythmic drug and a potent inhibitor of the cardiac (Nav1.5) sodium channel. Although the flecainide inhibition of Nav1.5 is typically enhanced by depolarization, the contributions of the open and inactivated states to flecainide binding and inhibition remain controversial. We further investigated the state-dependent binding of flecainide by examining its inhibition of rapidly inactivating and non-inactivating mutants of Nav1.5 expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Applying flecainide while briefly depolarizing from a relatively negative holding potential resulted in a low-affinity inhibition of the channel (IC(50) = 345 microM). Increasing the frequency of stimulation potentiated the flecainide inhibition (IC(50) = 7.4 microM), which progressively increased over the range of voltages where Nav1.5 channels activated. This contrasts with sustained depolarizations that effectively stabilize the channels in inactivated states, which failed to promote significant flecainide inhibition. The voltage sensitivity and strong dependence of the flecainide inhibition on repetitive depolarization suggests that flecainide binding is facilitated by channel opening and that the drug does not directly bind to closed or inactivated channels. The binding of flecainide to open channels was further investigated in a non-inactivating mutant of Nav1.5. Flecainide produced a time-dependent decay in the current of the non-inactivating mutant that displayed kinetics consistent with a simple pore blocking mechanism (K(D) = 11 microM). At hyperpolarized voltages, flecainide slowed the recovery of both the rapidly inactivating (tau = 81 +/- 3 s) and non-inactivating (tau = 42 +/- 3 s) channels. Mutation of a conserved isoleucine of the D4S6 segment (I1756C) creates an alternative pathway that permits the rapid diffusion of anaesthetics out of the Nav1.5 channel. The I1756C mutation accelerated the recovery of both the rapidly inactivating (tau = 12.6 +/- 0.4 s) and non-inactivating (tau = 7.4 +/- 0.1 s) channels, suggesting that flecainide is trapped and not tightly bound within the pore when the channels are closed or inactivated. The data indicate that flecainide rapidly gains access to its binding site when the channel is open and inhibits Na(+) current by a pore blocking mechanism. Closing of either the activation or the inactivation gate traps flecainide within the pore resulting in the slow recovery of the drug-modified channels at hyperpolarized voltages.
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- Eugene Ramos
- Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Jefferson Medical College, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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