Lipid raft disruption inhibits the activation of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1, but not TRP Melastatin 3 and the voltage-gated L-type calcium channels in sensory neurons

Maja Payrits, Balázs Zoltán Zsidó, Andrea Kinga Nehr-Majoros, Rita Börzsei, Zsuzsanna Helyes, Csaba Hetényi, Éva Szőke · 2024

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Maja Payrits and co-authors test whether fat rafts in cell skins gate pain channels in a 2024 study. Two heat and pain channels, TRPV1 and TRPM3, sit in cholesterol rich raft zones of sense nerves. The team broke those rafts with two agents and watched channel replies in grown nerve cells and trachea nerve ends.

Breaking rafts left TRPM3 and L type calcium channel starts untouched in both setups. TRPV1 starts, by contrast, were curbed by raft loss, as the title states. Computer modeling gave a first structural read on why cholesterol near each channel counts so unevenly. The split hints at raft based pain control that spares kin channels.

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CREATORMaja Payrits, Balázs Zoltán Zsidó, Andrea Kinga Nehr-Majoros, Rita Börzsei, Zsuzsanna Helyes, Csaba Hetényi, Éva Szőke
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE43 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11638188

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