A proton-gated cation channel involved in acid-sensing

Rainer Waldmann, Guy Champigny, Frédéric Bassilana, Catherine Heurteaux and Michel Lazdunski
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Rainer Waldmann: Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS
Guy Champigny: Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS
Frédéric Bassilana: Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS
Catherine Heurteaux: Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS
Michel Lazdunski: Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS

Nature, 1997, vol. 386, issue 6621, 173-177

Abstract: Abstract Acid-sensing is associated with both nociception1 and taste transduction2. Stimulation of sensory neurons by acid is of particular interest, because acidosis accompanies many painful inflammatory and ischaemic conditions. The pain caused by acids is thought to be mediated by H+-gated cation channels present in sensory neurons3–5. We have now cloned a H+-gated channel (ASIC, for acid-sensing ionic channel) that belongs to the amilor-ide-sensitive Na+ channel6–1 Vdegenerin12–14 family of ion channels. Heterologous expression of ASIC induces an amiloride-sensitive cation (Na+ ≥ Ca2+ ≥ K+) channel which is transiently activated by rapid extracellular acidification. The biophysical and pharmacological properties of the ASIC channel closely match the H+-gated cation channel described in sensory neurons3,15,16. ASIC is expressed in dorsal root ganglia and is also distributed widely throughout the brain. ASIC appears to be the simplest of ligand-gated channels.

Date: 1997
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