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Specific deletion of Na V 1.1 sodium channels in inhibitory interneurons causes seizures and premature death in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome

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Cheah, Christine S., Yu, Frank H., Westenbroek, Ruth E., Kalume, Franck K., Oakley, John C., Potter, Gregory B., Rubenstein, John L., Catterall, William A.·2012·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in the brain sodium channel Na V 1.1 cause Dravet syndrome (DS), a pharmacoresistant infantile-onset epilepsy syndrome with comorbidities of cognitive impairment and premature death. Previous studies using a mouse model of DS revealed reduced sodium currents and impaired excitability in GABAergic interneurons in the hippocampus, leading to the hypothesis that impaired excitability of GABAergic inhibitory neurons is the cause of epilepsy and premature death in DS. However, other classes of GABAergic interneurons are less impaired, so the direct cause of hyperexcitability, epilepsy, and premature death has remained unresolved. We generated a floxed Scn1a mouse line and used the Cre-Lox method driven by an enhancer from the Dlx 1,2 locus for conditional deletion of Scn1a in forebrain GABAergic neurons. Immunocytochemical studies demonstrated selective loss of Na V 1.1 channels in GABAergic interneurons in cerebral cortex and hippocampus. Mice with this deletion died prematurely following generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and they were equally susceptible to thermal induction of seizures as mice with global deletion of Scn1a . Evidently, loss of Na V 1.1 channels in forebrain GABAergic neurons is both necessary and sufficient to cause epilepsy and premature death in DS.

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  • Dravet syndrome occurs from loss of function of SCN1A, which encodes the α-subunit of the voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.1, prominently expressed in the soma and axon initial segment of neurons.

    “DS occurs from loss of function of SCN1A, which encodes the α-subunit of the voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.1, prominently expressed in the soma and axon initial segment of neurons (Cheah et al., 2012).”
  • In mouse models of Dravet syndrome cortical interneurons cannot sustain high-frequency firing, leading to circuit disinhibition, seizures, and premature death.

    “In mouse models of Dravets syndrome cortical interneurons cannot sustain high-frequency firing, leading to circuit disinhibition, seizures, and premature death (194, 852).”

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  • Haploinsufficiency or pathogenic variants of Scn1a cause Dravet Syndrome, a common intractable epileptic encephalopathy with early onset seizures.

    “Haploinsufficiency or pathogenic variants of Scn1a cause Dravet Syndrome, a common and intractable form of epileptic encephalopathy characterized by the early onset of seizures17–19.”
  • Loss of Scn1a expression is especially associated with PV cIN dysfunction.

    “As loss of expression of Scn1a is especially associated with PV cIN disfunction15–19”

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Authors
Cheah, C. S., Yu, F. H., Westenbroek, R. E., Kalume, F. K., Oakley, J. C., Potter, G. B., Rubenstein, J. L., & Catterall, W. A.
Affiliations
  • Department of Pharmacology and
  • Seoul National University (KR)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2012-08-20
Volume
109
Issue
36
Pages
14646-14651
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2159213224
Cited by
336
References
28
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FWCI
14.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • McKnight Foundation
  • National Research Foundation
  • National Research Foundation of Korea
  • National Institutes of Health (MH049428)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R37MH049428)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS025704)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ion channel regulation and function
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Keywords
Dravet syndrome, Nav1.1 sodium channel, SCN1A, GABAergic interneurons, conditional knockout, epilepsy, premature mortality, seizures, hippocampus, cerebral cortex, tonic-clonic seizures
MeSH terms
Animals, Electrocardiography, Electroencephalography, Epilepsies, Myoclonic, Hippocampus, Immunohistochemistry, Interneurons, Mice, Transgenic, Mutation, Plasmids, Prosencephalon, Mice, NAV1.1 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel

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