S T Nevin, N Lawrence, A Nicke, R J Lewis, D J Adams
{"title":"Functional modulation of the human voltage-gated sodium channel Na<sub>V</sub>1.8 by auxiliary β subunits.","authors":"S T Nevin, N Lawrence, A Nicke, R J Lewis, D J Adams","doi":"10.1080/19336950.2020.1860399","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19336950.2020.1860399","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The voltage-gated sodium channel Na<sub>v</sub>1.8 mediates the tetrodotoxin-resistant (TTX-R) Na<sup>+</sup> current in nociceptive primary sensory neurons, which has an important role in the transmission of painful stimuli. Here, we describe the functional modulation of the human Na<sub>v</sub>1.8 α-subunit in <i>Xenopus</i> oocytes by auxiliary β subunits. We found that the β3 subunit down-regulated the maximal Na<sup>+</sup> current amplitude and decelerated recovery from inactivation of hNa<sub>v</sub>1.8, whereas the β1 and β2 subunits had no such effects. The specific regulation of Na<sub>v</sub>1.8 by the β3 subunit constitutes a potential novel regulatory mechanism of the TTX-R Na<sup>+</sup> current in primary sensory neurons with potential implications in chronic pain states. In particular, neuropathic pain states are characterized by a down-regulation of Na<sub>v</sub>1.8 accompanied by increased expression of the β3 subunit. Our results suggest that these two phenomena may be correlated, and that increased levels of the β3 subunit may directly contribute to the down-regulation of Na<sub>v</sub>1.8. To determine which domain of the β3 subunit is responsible for the specific regulation of hNa<sub>v</sub>1.8, we created chimeras of the β1 and β3 subunits and co-expressed them with the hNa<sub>v</sub>1.8 α-subunit in <i>Xenopus</i> oocytes. The intracellular domain of the β3 subunit was shown to be responsible for the down-regulation of maximal Na<sub>v</sub>1.8 current amplitudes. In contrast, the extracellular domain mediated the effect of the β3 subunit on hNa<sub>v</sub>1.8 recovery kinetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":72555,"journal":{"name":"Channels (Austin, Tex.)","volume":" ","pages":"79-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7781643/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38369854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jun Li, Jiaheng Xie, Dan Wu, Liang Chen, Zetian Gong, Rui Wu, Yiming Hu, Jiangning Zhao, Yetao Xu
{"title":"A pan-cancer analysis revealed the role of the SLC16 family in cancer.","authors":"Jun Li, Jiaheng Xie, Dan Wu, Liang Chen, Zetian Gong, Rui Wu, Yiming Hu, Jiangning Zhao, Yetao Xu","doi":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1965422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19336950.2021.1965422","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cancer is one of the serious diseases that endanger human health and bring a heavy burden to world economic development. Although the current targeted therapy and immunotherapy have achieved initial results, the emergence of drug resistance shows that the existing research is far from enough. In recent years, the tumor microenvironment has been found to be an important condition for tumor development and has profound research value. The SLC16 family is a group of monocarboxylic acid transporters involved in cancer metabolism and the formation of the tumor microenvironment. However, there have been no generalized cancer studies in the SLC16 family. In this study, we conducted a pan-cancer analysis of the SLC16 family. The results showed that multiple members of the SLC16 family could be used as prognostic indicators for many tumors, and were associated with immune invasion and tumor stem cells. Therefore, the SLC16 family has extensive exploration value in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":72555,"journal":{"name":"Channels (Austin, Tex.)","volume":" ","pages":"528-540"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8386723/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39339144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiaheng Xie, Zhechen Zhu, Yuan Cao, Shujie Ruan, Ming Wang, Jingping Shi
{"title":"Solute carrier transporter superfamily member SLC16A1 is a potential prognostic biomarker and associated with immune infiltration in skin cutaneous melanoma.","authors":"Jiaheng Xie, Zhechen Zhu, Yuan Cao, Shujie Ruan, Ming Wang, Jingping Shi","doi":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1953322","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1953322","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Melanoma is a type of cancer with a relatively poor prognosis. The development of immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with melanoma has drawn considerable attention in recent years. It is of great clinical significance to identify novel promising prognostic biomarkers and to explore their roles in the immune microenvironment. The solute carrier (SLC) superfamily is a group of transporters predominantly expressed on the cell membrane and are involved in substance transport. SLC16A1 is a member of the SLC family, participating in the transport of lactate, pyruvate, amino acids, ketone bodies, etc. The role of SLC16A1 in tumor immunity has been recently elucidated, while its role in melanoma remains unclear. In this study, bioinformatics analysis was performed to explore the role of SLC16A1 in melanoma. The results showed that high SLC16A1 expression was correlated with decreased overall survival in patients with melanoma. The genes co-expressed with SLC16A1 were significantly enriched in metabolic regulation, protein ubiquitination, and substance localization. Moreover, SLC16A1 was correlated with the infiltration of immune cells. In conclusion, SLC16A1 is a robust prognostic biomarker for melanoma and may be used as a novel target in immunotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":72555,"journal":{"name":"Channels (Austin, Tex.)","volume":" ","pages":"483-495"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/5b/07/KCHL_15_1953322.PMC8279094.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39178900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Quanquan Wang, Zhe Zhao, Hongrui Shen, Qi Bing, Nan Li, Jing Hu
{"title":"The clinical and genetic heterogeneity analysis of five families with primary periodic paralysis.","authors":"Quanquan Wang, Zhe Zhao, Hongrui Shen, Qi Bing, Nan Li, Jing Hu","doi":"10.1080/19336950.2020.1857980","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19336950.2020.1857980","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To explore the clinical and genetic characteristics of five families with primary periodic paralysis (PPP). We reviewed clinical manifestations, laboratory results, electrocardiogram, electromyography, muscle biopsy, and genetic analysis from five families with PPP. Five families with PPP included: hypokalemic periodic paralysis type 1 (HypoPP1, <i>CACNA1S</i>, 1/5), hypokalemic periodic paralysis type 2 (HypoPP2, <i>SCN4A</i>, 2/5), normokalemic periodic paralysis (NormoPP, <i>SCN4A</i>, 1/5), and Andersen-Tawil syndrome (ATS, <i>KCNJ2</i>, 1/5). The basic clinical manifestations of five families were consistent with PPP, presenting with paroxysmal muscle weakness, with or without abnormal serum potassium. ATS was accompanied by ventricular arrhythmias, and skeletal and craniofacial anomalies, developing with a permanent fixed myopathy later. The electromyography showed diffuse myopathic discharge, and muscle biopsy showed tubular aggregates. Genetic testing revealed five families with PPP carried <i>CACNA1S</i> (R1242S), <i>SCN4A</i> (R675Q, T704M), and <i>KCNJ2</i> (R218Q) respectively. The novel heterozygous R1242S mutation in <i>CACNA1S</i> caused a conformational change in the protein structure, and the amino acid of this mutation site was highly conserved among different species. <i>SCN4A</i> mutations led to two phenotypes of HypoPP2 and NormoPP. PPPs are autosomal dominant disorders of ion channel dysfunction characterized by episodic flaccid muscle weakness secondary to abnormal sarcolemmal excitability. PPPs are caused by mutations in skeletal muscle calcium channel Ca<sub>V</sub>1.1 gene (<i>CACNA1S</i>), sodium channel Na<sub>V</sub>1.4 gene (<i>SCN4A</i>), and potassium channels Kir2.1, Kir3.4 genes (<i>KCNJ2, KCNJ5</i>), including HypoPP1, HypoPP2, NormoPP, HyperPP, and ATS, which have significant clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Diagnosis is based on the characteristic clinical presentation then confirmed by genetic testing.</p>","PeriodicalId":72555,"journal":{"name":"Channels (Austin, Tex.)","volume":" ","pages":"20-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7757828/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38738679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potassium channels as molecular targets of endocannabinoids.","authors":"Yu-Fung Lin","doi":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1910461","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1910461","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Endocannabinoids are a group of endogenous mediators derived from membrane lipids, which are implicated in a wide variety of physiological functions such as blood pressure regulation, immunity, pain, memory, reward, perception, reproduction, and sleep. <i>N</i>-Arachidonoylethanolamine (anandamide; AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) represent two major endocannabinoids in the human body and they exert many of their cellular and organ system effects by activating the G<sub>i/o</sub> protein-coupled, cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) and type 2 (CB2) receptors. However, not all effects of cannabinoids are ascribable to their interaction with CB1 and CB2 receptors; indeed, macromolecules like other types of receptors, ion channels, transcription factors, enzymes, transporters, and cellular structure have been suggested to mediate the functional effects of cannabinoids. Among the proposed molecular targets of endocannabinoids, potassium channels constitute an intriguing group, because these channels not only are crucial in shaping action potentials and controlling the membrane potential and cell excitability, thereby regulating a wide array of physiological processes, but also serve as potential therapeutic targets for the treatment of cancer and metabolic, neurological and cardiovascular disorders. This review sought to survey evidence pertaining to the CB1 and CB2 receptor-independent actions of endocannabinoids on ion channels, with an emphasis on AEA and potassium channels. To better understand the functional roles as well as potential medicinal uses of cannabinoids in human health and disease, further mechanistic studies to delineate interactions between various types of cannabinoids and ion channels, including members in the potassium channel superfamily, are warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":72555,"journal":{"name":"Channels (Austin, Tex.)","volume":" ","pages":"408-423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8293965/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39201623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rou-Mu Hu, Evelyn J Song, David J Tester, Isabelle Deschenes, Michael J Ackerman, Jonathan C Makielski, Bi-Hua Tan
{"title":"Expression defect of the rare variant/Brugada mutation R1512W depends upon the SCN5A splice variant background and can be rescued by mexiletine and the common polymorphism H558R.","authors":"Rou-Mu Hu, Evelyn J Song, David J Tester, Isabelle Deschenes, Michael J Ackerman, Jonathan C Makielski, Bi-Hua Tan","doi":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1875645","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1875645","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i><b>Background</b></i> : Mutations in SCN5A that decrease Na current underlie arrhythmia syndromes such as the Brugada syndrome (BrS). <i>SCN5A</i> in humans has two splice variants, one lacking a glutamine at position 1077 (Q1077del) and one containing Q1077. We investigated the effect of splice variant background on loss-of-function and rescue for R1512W, a mutation reported to cause BrS. <i><b>Methods and results</b></i> : We made the mutation in both variants and expressed them in HEK-293 cells for voltage-clamp study. After 24 hours of transfection, the current expression level of R1512W was reduced by ~50% in both Q1077del and Q1077 compared to the wild-type (WT) channel, respectively. The activation and inactivation midpoint were not different between WT and mutant channels in both splice variant backgrounds. However, slower time constants of recovery and enhanced intermediate inactivation were observed for R1512W/Q1077 compared with WT-Q1077, while the recovery and intermediate inactivation parameters of R1512W/Q1077del were similar to WT-Q1077del. Furthermore, both mexiletine and the common polymorphism H558R restored peak sodium current (<i>I</i><sub>Na</sub>) amplitude of the mutant channel by increasing the cell surface expression of SCN5A. <i><b>Conclusion</b></i> : These findings provide further evidence that the splice variant affects the molecular phenotype with implications for the clinical phenotype, and they provide insight into the expression defect mechanisms and potential treatment in BrS.</p>","PeriodicalId":72555,"journal":{"name":"Channels (Austin, Tex.)","volume":" ","pages":"253-261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7872018/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25328840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wentong Long, Janyne Johnson, Subha Kalyaanamoorthy, Peter Light
{"title":"TRPV1 channels as a newly identified target for vitamin D.","authors":"Wentong Long, Janyne Johnson, Subha Kalyaanamoorthy, Peter Light","doi":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1905248","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1905248","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vitamin D is known to elicit many biological effects in diverse tissue types and is thought to act almost exclusively upon its canonical receptor within the nucleus, leading to gene transcriptional changes and the subsequent cellular response. However, not all the observed effects of vitamin D can be attributed to this sole mechanism, and other cellular targets likely exist but remain to be identified. Our recent discovery that vitamin D is a partial agonist of the Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid family 1 (TRPV1) channel may provide new insights as to how this important vitamin exerts its biological effects either independently or in addition to the nuclear vitamin D receptor. In this review, we discuss the literature surrounding this apparent discrepancy in vitamin D signaling and compare vitamin D with known TRPV1 ligands with respect to their binding to TRPV1. Furthermore, we provide evidence supporting the notion that this novel vitamin D/TRPV1 axis may explain some of the beneficial actions of this vitamin in disease states where TRPV1 expression and vitamin D deficiency are known to overlap. Finally, we discuss whether vitamin D may also act on other members of the TRP family of ion channels.</p>","PeriodicalId":72555,"journal":{"name":"Channels (Austin, Tex.)","volume":"15 1","pages":"360-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8032246/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10296011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meisheng Yu, Yuan Wei, Yanfang Zheng, Lili Yang, Long Meng, Jiawei Lin, Peisheng Xu, Sanaa Ahmed Nagi Abdu Mahdy, Linyan Zhu, Shuang Peng, Lixin Chen, Liwei Wang
{"title":"17β-Estradiol activates Cl<sup>-</sup> channels via the estrogen receptor α pathway in human thyroid cells.","authors":"Meisheng Yu, Yuan Wei, Yanfang Zheng, Lili Yang, Long Meng, Jiawei Lin, Peisheng Xu, Sanaa Ahmed Nagi Abdu Mahdy, Linyan Zhu, Shuang Peng, Lixin Chen, Liwei Wang","doi":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1957627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19336950.2021.1957627","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Estradiol regulates thyroid function, and chloride channels are involved in the regulation of thyroid function. However, little is known about the role of chloride channels in the regulation of thyroid functions by estrogen. In this study, the effects of estrogen on chloride channel activities in human thyroid Nthy-ori3-1 cells were therefore investigated using the whole cell patch-clamp technique. The results showed that the extracellular application of 17β-estradiol (E2) activated Cl<sup>-</sup> currents, which reversed at a potential close to Cl<sup>-</sup> equilibrium potential and showed remarkable outward rectification and an anion permeability of I<sup>-</sup> > Br<sup>-</sup> > Cl<sup>-</sup> > gluconate. The Cl<sup>-</sup> currents were inhibited by the chloride channel blockers, NPPB and tamoxifen. Quantitative Real-time PCR results demonstrated that ClC-3 expression was highest in ClC family member in Nthy-ori3-1 cells. The down-regulation of ClC-3 expression by ClC-3 siRNA inhibited E2-induced Cl<sup>-</sup> current. The Cl<sup>-</sup> current was blocked by the estrogen receptor antagonist, ICI 182780 (fulvestrant). Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) and not estrogen receptor beta was the protein expressed in Nthy-ori3-1 cells, and the knockdown of ERα expression with ERα siRNA abolished E2-induced Cl<sup>-</sup> currents. Estradiol can promote the accumulation of ClC-3 in cell membrane. ERα and ClC-3 proteins were partially co-localized in the cell membrane of Nthy-ori3-1 cells after estrogen exposure. The results suggest that estrogen activates chloride channels via ERα in normal human thyroid cells, and ClC-3 proteins play a pivotal role in the activation of E2-induced Cl<sup>-</sup> current.</p>","PeriodicalId":72555,"journal":{"name":"Channels (Austin, Tex.)","volume":" ","pages":"516-527"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8381838/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39341917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xueping Zhu, Chuanxi Tian, Yan Zhou, Jingjing Shi, Guozhen Yuan, Limei Zhang, Yuchen Jiang, Wenjing Xue, Yihang Du, Yuanhui Hu
{"title":"Transient Receptor Potential channels: A Global Bibliometric analysis From 2012 to 2021.","authors":"Xueping Zhu, Chuanxi Tian, Yan Zhou, Jingjing Shi, Guozhen Yuan, Limei Zhang, Yuchen Jiang, Wenjing Xue, Yihang Du, Yuanhui Hu","doi":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1983100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19336950.2021.1983100","url":null,"abstract":"The transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, nonselective ion channels, mediate the fluxes of various types of cations across the cell membrane such as Na+, K+, Mg2+, and Ca2 + . TRPA (Ankyrin), TRPC (Canonical), TRPM (Melastatin), TRPV (Vanilloid), TRPP (Polycystin), and TRPML (Mucolipin) are TRP major families members. These channels play essential roles in diverse physiologic processes, and participate in virtually every sensory modality. TRPs can be activated by chemicals, temperature, stretch/pressure, osmolarity, pH, and so on, and play a major role in the five primary senses, such as vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In recent years, TRP channels are widely studied in the field of nervous, intestinal, renal, urogenital, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems in diverse therapeutic areas including pain and itch, headache, pulmonary function, oncology, neurology, visceral organs, and genetic diseases [1]. Bibliometric analysis has been widely used to calculate the productivity of countries, institutions, authors, and the frequency of keywords to explore research hotspots/frontiers in specific fields [2–4]. In the present study, we performed a bibliometric analysis to systematically evaluate the TRP channels studies from 2012 to 2021 by CiteSpace and VOSviewer to provide researchers with some direction regarding TRP channels research [5,6]. Data source and search","PeriodicalId":72555,"journal":{"name":"Channels (Austin, Tex.)","volume":" ","pages":"624-634"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8667877/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39625007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulation of acid-sensing ion channels by protein binding partners.","authors":"Megan M Cullinan, Robert C Klipp, John R Bankston","doi":"10.1080/19336950.2021.1976946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19336950.2021.1976946","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) are a family of proton-gated cation channels that contribute to a diverse array of functions including pain sensation, cell death during ischemia, and more broadly to neurotransmission in the central nervous system. There is an increasing interest in understanding the physiological regulatory mechanisms of this family of channels. ASICs have relatively short N- and C-termini, yet a number of proteins have been shown to interact with these domains both <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i>. These proteins can impact ASIC gating, localization, cell-surface expression, and regulation. Like all ion channels, it is important to understand the cellular context under which ASICs function in neurons and other cells. Here we will review what is known about a number of these potentially important regulatory molecules.</p>","PeriodicalId":72555,"journal":{"name":"Channels (Austin, Tex.)","volume":" ","pages":"635-647"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8555555/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39564956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}