Characterisation of δ-Conotoxin TxVIA as a Mammalian T-Type Calcium Channel Modulator

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Wang, Dan
Himaya, SWA
Giacomotto, Jean
Hasan, Md Mahadhi
Cardoso, Fernanda C
Ragnarsson, Lotten
Lewis, Richard J
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2020
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The 27-amino acid (aa)-long δ-conotoxin TxVIA, originally isolated from the mollusc-hunting cone snail Conus textile, slows voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channel inactivation in molluscan neurons, but its mammalian ion channel targets remain undetermined. In this study, we confirmed that TxVIA was inactive on mammalian NaV1.2 and NaV1.7 even at high concentrations (10 µM). Given the fact that invertebrate NaV channel and T-type calcium channels (CaV3.x) are evolutionarily related, we examined the possibility that TxVIA may act on CaV3.x. Electrophysiological characterisation of the native TxVIA on CaV3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 revealed that TxVIA preferentially inhibits CaV3.2 current (IC50 = 0.24 μM) and enhances CaV3.1 current at higher concentrations. In fish bioassays TxVIA showed little effect on zebrafish behaviours when injected intramuscular at 250 ng/100 mg fish. The binding sites for TxVIA at NaV1.7 and CaV3.1 revealed that their channel binding sites contained a common epitope.

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Marine Drugs

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18

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7

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Wang, D; Himaya, SWA; Giacomotto, J; Hasan, MM; Cardoso, FC; Ragnarsson, L; Lewis, RJ, Characterisation of δ-Conotoxin TxVIA as a Mammalian T-Type Calcium Channel Modulator, Marine Drugs, 2020, 18 (7), pp. 343

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