Ca V 3.2 calcium channels: new players in facial pain.
Ca V 3.2 calcium channels: new players in facial pain.
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10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002652
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2022-12-01
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7.4
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Trigeminal neuralgia is the most common type of neuropathic pain involving the craniofacial region. Trigeminal neuralgia is defined as sudden and brief recurrent episodes of stabbing pain in one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve. 13 Recent studies have linked trigeminal neuralgia to dysfunctions in voltage-gated calcium channels. 3, 4 For instance, a CACNA1A (CaV2. 1 or P/Q-type voltage-gated calcium channel) variant (P2455H) was reported in a patient with trigeminal neuralgia3 and caused both gain of function (GoF) and loss of function (LoF) of the channels’ activity, 6 suggesting that associated changes in CaV2. 1 function in the trigeminal system may contribute to the development of trigeminal neuralgia. In CACNA1H (ie, the CaV3. 2 T-type voltagegated calcium channel), 19 damaging variants have been predicted; however, no study to date has specifically investigated the functional role of any of these CaV3. 2 channel variants in trigeminal neuralgia. In the current issue of PAIN, Gambeta et al. 7 address this gap in knowledge. Using electrophysiological recordings, biochemistry, and animal behavior assays, the authors uncovered a novel role of CaV3. 2 in trigeminal orofacial pain syndromes.Although CaV3. 2 channels have been implicated in pain hypersensitivity, 1 most of this research has centered around the roles of these channels in regulating dorsal root ganglia and spinal dorsal horn neuron excitability in numerous inflammatory and neuropathic pain models. 1 In this study, the authors show that CaV3. 2 missense mutations linked to trigeminal neuralgia in humans affect the functional activity of recombinant CaV3. 2 channels expressed in human embryonic kidney cells. Of the 19 CACNA1H mutations reported by Dong et al., 4 4 variants were selected for this study and their effect on the biophysical properties of CaV3. 2 channels were interrogated using the exon 26 (human) or 25 (mouse) variant. One mutation (E286K) is located within the pore loop of domain I, and the other 3 mutations (H526Y, G563R, and P566T) are in the intracellular loop I-II of the channel (Fig. 1A, B). Among the 4 mutations analyzed, 2 of them (G563R and P566T) produced a significant increase in macroscopic CaV3. 2 Ca21 currents, consistent with a GoF of the channel’s variants. By contrast, the E286K mutation resulted in a slight LoF, while no changes were seen with the H526Y mutation. The observed effects were independent of the expression level of the channels at the membrane. These results raise the question of how 2 opposite mechanisms—LoF and
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