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The functional interaction of accessory proteins and
voltage-gated sodium channels
Kenji Okuse1,2 and Mark D. Baker3
1Wolfson
Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; 2Present address: London Pain Consortium, Department of Biological
Sciences, South Kensington campus, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine,
London, UK; 3Molecular Nociception Group, Department of Biology, University College
London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Introduction
Voltage-gated sodium channels confer excitability on neurons in pain pathways.
Because of the recently discovered diversity of sodium channel subtypes, the selective expression of subtypes in nociceptive neurons, and the changes in sodium channel expression that occur in the nervous system after trauma, there is a resurgence
of interest in sodium channels as potential drug targets in the treatment of pain. This
chapter focuses on sodium channel accessory proteins in pain pathways and their
roles in the modification of channel function, expression, and in the interactions of
sodium channels with proteins involved in channel tethering to the cytoskeleton and
extracellular matrix. In addition, we review the use of the yeast two-hybrid protein
interaction trap in the discovery of accessory proteins.
Sodium channel β-subunits
Voltage-gated sodium channels comprise an α-subunit co-associated with at least
one accessory β-subunit. The β-subunits modulate the biophysical properties of the
channels to the extent that changes in macroscopic current characteristics can be
observed in voltage-clamp. The β-subunits also interact with cytoskeletal and extracellular matrix proteins. β-subunits are homologous to the V-set of the immunoglobulin superfamily, including cell adhesion molecules, and comprise a large extracellular domain that incorporates an IgG loop, a single transmembrane domain and a
short intracellular domain [1]. The α-subunit incorporates the aqueous pore, voltage-sensing S4 regions (thought to act as activation gates) and an IFM motif
between transmembrane domains 3 and 4 (that acts as an inactivation gate that
plugs the pore). β-subunits associate non-covalently (e.g., β1) or covalently by an
S–S bond (e.g., β2) with the α-subunit, and are involved in extracellular matrix
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interactions, interactions with the α-subunit and interactions with intracellular
cytoskeletal proteins.
The properties of these accessory factors have been investigated in heterologous
expression systems following the purification of two proteins associated with α-subunits, β1 and β2. More recently, molecular cloning has identified a protein extensively similar to β1, named β3 [2], and β2-like protein named β4 [3], as well as a
splice variant of β1, β1A that appears to have resulted from an intron retention
event [4]. Co-expression of β-subunits with sodium channel α-subunits including
NaV1.2 and NaV1.4 in heterologous systems have shown that the peak sodium current increases, the voltage-dependence of activation can be steepened, and the voltage-dependence of inactivation shifted to more negative potentials. This has led to
the conclusion that β-subunits are crucial for the assembly, expression and for normal functional modulation of the rat brain sodium channel [4–11]. However, an
unequivocal involvement in pain mechanisms has not been demonstrated.
Although there is no direct evidence which suggests involvement of β-subunits in
pain mechanisms, their association with and ability to regulate α-subunits suggests
that they might play some role in regulating the excitability of axons and neurons
in pain pathways. Oh et al. [12] reported that β1-subunit mRNA is expressed in
large diameter Aβ fibres of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) but that it is almost absent in
small diameter unmyelinated C fibre neurons. Some of these authors also reported
that β2-subunit mRNA is absent in cultured DRG neurons [13]. However, this result
was contradicted by immunohistochemistry using specific antibodies against β1 and
β2, where both β1 and β2 subunit proteins were detected in small, medium, and
large diameter sensory neurons [14]. The tetrodotoxin-resistant (TTX-r) channels
NaV1.8 and NaV1.9 are known to be expressed either exclusively or selectively in
nociceptive primary neurons. β-subunits could therefore be co-expressed with TTXr sodium channels and regulate their function. The relative expression levels of sodium channel α-subunits in the DRG, as well as in the spinal cord, change in rat models of neuropathic pain [15–17]. Levels of β1 and β2 mRNA in the dorsal horn of
the spinal cord are also changed from normal and regulated separately in models of
neuropathic pain. At 12–15 days after injury, β1 mRNA levels were raised, whereas β2 mRNA levels fell significantly within laminae I–II on the ipsilateral side of the
spinal cord [18]. In human cervical sensory ganglia after spinal root avulsion injury,
the expression levels of β1 and β2 subunits decreased significantly along with a
reduction of NaV1.8 expression [14].
β1 and β3 subunits shift the inactivation curve of NaV1.3 about 10 mV negative,
and slow the repriming rate three-fold (here defined as the rate at which the channels can escape inactivation at –80 mV) [19]. As NaV1.3 expression is increased in
DRG correlated with the emergence of a rapidly inactivating and rapidly repriming
sodium current in a neuropathic pain model [20], the association between β1 or β3
subunits and NaV1.3 may be a key contributor to the severity of neuropathic pain.
β3-subunit mRNA is expressed at high levels in small diameter C fibres in rat DRG,
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and co-expression of β3-subunit with NaV1.8 in Xenopus oocytes increased the peak
current amplitude when compared with NaV1.8 expressed alone [21]. A significant
increase in β3 mRNA expression can be also detected in small diameter sensory neurons of the ipsilateral DRG in the chronic constriction injury model of neuropathic
pain. However, recent results from our group show that NaV1.8 is not affected by
co-expression of β-subunits including β3 [22] (Fig. 1), encouraging us to look for
other interacting proteins. Co-transfection of β-subunits using lipofectamine does
not significantly increase the frequency of functional expression or the rate of current inactivation in response to a depolarizing step, which is unphysiologically slow
in COS-7 cells. Furthermore, intranuclear injection of α and β3 subunits, i.e., where
the α and β subunits are certainly present together, does not give a different result.
β-subunits act as cell adhesion molecules by their ability to interact homophilically through their extracellular immunoglobulin-like repeats. The cytoskeletal protein ankyrin-G is recruited to the cell surface by interacting β-subunits, where the βsubunits bind ankyrin-G with their short cytoplasmic domains. Ankyrin-G is associated with spectrin–actin networks and also interacts with the L1CAM family of cell
adhesion molecules that are integral membrane proteins. Along with the L1CAM
family members, neurofascin and NrCAM, ankyrin-G is highly concentrated at
nodes of Ranvier and at axon initial segments, allowing for the highest density
expression of sodium channels in these regions. β-subunits thus link sodium channel
α-subunits indirectly both to the cytoskeleton as well as to extracellular matrix proteins such as tenascin-R (secreted by oligodendrocytes) and contactin. The binding of
neuronal sodium channels to extracellular matrix molecules may play a role both in
functional regulation and in localizing sodium channels in high density at certain
areas of the plasma membrane. A ternary complex including sodium channels, neurofascin/NrCAM and ankyrin-G is thus likely to form in myelinated axons. There is
evidence that β1, but not β2 subunits, result in increased cell surface Na+ channel
expression. McEwen et al. [23] have taken advantage of the fact that β1 subunits
enhance sodium channel expression in a heterologous system (CHL 1610), whereas
β2 do not. They reasoned that an interaction between the β-subunit and ankyrin-G,
plus an interaction with the extracellular matrix protein contactin (the latter not
made by β2), is necessary for the sodium channel density modulatory effect. These
authors made β1/β2 subunit chimeras (where the external, internal and transmembrane domains could be exchanged) in order to explore this possibility, and they discovered that full length β1 was necessary for enhancement of the sodium current.
NaV1.2 interacts with ankyrin-G, and this interaction is enhanced by β1, but when
the interaction between β1 and ankyrin-G is prevented by point mutation, then this
enhancement is lost. Most recently, McEwen and Isom [24] have shown that an interaction between β1 and neurofascin (Nf186) resulted in an increased channel density,
apparently similar to the effect of the β subunit–contactin interaction. Both the intracellular and extracellular interactions of β1 are therefore critically required for substantial modulation of sodium channel density, and probably underlie the interaction
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Figure 1
Co-transfection (using lipofectamine) of β-subunits (β1, β1A and β3) does not substantially
affect the kinetics of NaV1.8 sodium currents expressed in COS-7 cells
a) NaV1.8 sodium currents recorded in voltage-clamp, protocol inset above. In mammalian
heterologous systems NaV1.8 inactivation kinetics are slower than usually found in neurons,
and the currents exhibit a more positive activation voltage-dependence. No substantial differences in the biophysical characteristics of the currents are seen with β-subunit co-transfection. b) inactivation time-constant versus membrane potential. Smooth lines are best-fit
declining exponentials, e-fold change for α-subunit alone, α + β3 and α + β1A are 50.8, 42.4
and 45.6 mV, respectively. Different cells represented by different grey tones. Means ± s.e.m.
plotted for α-subunit alone. The addition of β-subunits does not allow reproduction of neuronal current characteristics, nor does it significantly enhance the frequency of functional
transfection (data not shown). We thank Lori Isom for the β1 and β1A-subunit cDNA.
of sodium channels with the extracellular matrix and glial/satellite cells. The same
authors also report that β1 and β2 subunits interact extracellularly, where an intracellular sequence of β2 is crucial for this interaction [24].
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β-subunit knockouts
The β1-subunit null mutant mouse exhibits a profound phenotype including ataxia
and spontaneous seizures [25]. Although there is much evidence that in expression
systems β-subunits can alter the voltage-dependence and kinetics of Na+ currents,
importantly increasing the rate of inactivation and therefore making the current
briefer, one might have expected that inactivation gating would be slowed, and that
transient Na+ currents in the brain would be prolonged with the loss of β-subunits.
However, knockout of the β1-subunit does not seem to have a widespread effect on
sodium current kinetics in the brain, perhaps because other β-subunits can compensate for their loss, and the epileptic phenotype appears to be associated with a change
in the levels of expression of NaV1.1 (a decrease) and NaV1.3 (an increase) in discreet areas of the cortex [25]. These findings may help explain the pathology underlying the disease human febrile seizures plus type 1, associated with mutant β1-subunits. Conduction velocities in knock-out optic nerve fibres (including those with the
slowest conduction velocities) are reduced, although the most substantial effects are
on A-fibres. While pain pathways may conduct more slowly, it is the expression of
sodium channels at nodes of Ranvier where an interaction between the channels and
contactin is critical, and where the β1 null exhibits a most dramatic functional effect.
The β2-subunit null mutant mouse does not show such a profound phenotype,
although β2 is required for normal sodium channel behaviour and expression [26].
Its loss has a more modest effect on the sodium channel expression in brain neuron
cell bodies, and at nodes of Ranvier. However, sodium currents recorded in hippocampal neurons are significantly reduced in peak amplitude, and the voltagedependence of inactivation is shifted more negative.
RPTP-β
It is known that sodium channels are associated with other proteins apart from the
β-subunits. For example, receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase-β (RPTP-β) associates with brain neuron sodium channels [27]. RPTP-β has an extracellular (receptor) domain and an intracellular (catalytic) domain, both of which interact with
sodium channels. Co-immunoprecipitation experiments revealed that RPTP-β associates with both the α-subunit and β1-subunit, but not with the β2-subunit. In
experiments based on the binding properties of β1/β2 subunit chimeras, Ratcliffe et
al. found that it is the intracellular region of β1 that binds with RPTP-β [27]. The
biophysical properties of NaV1.2 channels are altered by the state of tyrosine phosphorylation, where dephosphorylation increased whole-cell sodium currents by
shifting the voltage-dependence of inactivation toward more depolarized potentials.
The current amplitude is thus depressed on tyrosine phosphorylation, e.g., by srckinase, whereas dephosphorylation increases the sodium current [27].
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Contactin
Neuropathic pain following nervous system trauma has been associated with the
upregulation of NaV1.3, and the downregulation of other sodium channel transcripts, notably NaV1.8 and NaV1.9 ([17] and see Black et al., this volume). For
example, NaV1.3 is not normally expressed in the adult rodent DRG, but is
expressed following axotomy (although the same may not be true in primates, see
Wood, this volume). Furthermore, immunocytochemical evidence indicates that
NaV1.3 is expressed at the ends of damaged nerves and in neuromas (e.g., [28]) that
are known to be a source of ectopic, spontaneous discharge. Glial cell-line derived
neurotrophic factor (GDNF) administration suppresses neuropathic pain behaviour
and reverses changes in sodium channel subtype expression [17].
Contactin is a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchored extracellular matrix protein. Shah et al. [28] have reported that co-transfection of NaV1.3 with contactin in
human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK293) cells increases the sodium current density
three-fold, without affecting the functional properties of the channels. Importantly,
the group found that contactin expression was upregulated in axotomized neurons
and that the protein accumulated in neuromas. The co-localization of contactin and
NaV1.3 in neuromas may thus contribute to the aberrant excitability of damaged
nerve, and be a precipitating factor in neuropathic pain, strongly hinting at the
involvement of a β-subunit.
Yeast two-hybrid screening against voltage-gated sodium channel
α-subunits
Direct interactions of sodium channels with auxiliary β-subunits, RPTP-β and also
with tenascin suggests that sodium channels and other molecules involved in action
potential generation and propagation might be important players in interactions
between proteins that occur during normal neuronal development, the conferment of
excitability, and interactions between cells that allow the myelination of axons. One
of the techniques that can be used to identify interacting proteins is the yeast twohybrid interaction trap. The two-hybrid system relies on the fact that eukaryotic
transcription factors operate with two separate, and hence modular, domains. One is
the DNA-binding domain (DBD) that directs binding to specific DNA sequences and
the other is the activating domain that activates transcription [29, 30]. Yeast transcription can be used to assay the interaction between two proteins if one is fused to
a DBD and the other fused to an activation domain [31]. Gyuris et al. [32] developed
a modification of the two-hybrid system incorporating the following:
A. The bait protein (which is known and in this case is part of a sodium channel),
is fused to the DBD. A reporter strain of yeast is transformed with a plasmid that
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is used to express the part of the sodium channel fused to bacterial transcription
factor LexA.
B. A conditionally expressed library cloned in another plasmid is used to transform
the yeast strain containing the bait plasmid. A moiety including the nuclear localization signal, transcription activation domain (AD) and epitope tag is fused to
the amino terminal of cDNA-encoded proteins. The expression of the resulting
hybrid proteins that incorporate the AD is conditional on the presence of galactose and expression is repressed by glucose.
C. The yeast strain used expresses two reporter genes. The LexA binding sites are
upstream of these two genes, so that their expression depends on the binding of
the hybrid bait protein, and the AD-cDNA fusion protein, that has bound with
the bait.
The following proteins that associate with neuronal sodium channels have been identified by others using this approach: calmodulin, syntrophin, fibroblast growth factor homologous factor 1B (FHF1B) and contactin. A new interaction between the
sodium channel C-terminal domain and calmodulin (CaM) has been found, by
applying the yeast two-hybrid screening method using an expression cDNA rat brain
library to the cytoplasmic C-terminal domain of NaV1.2 [33]. The interaction
between CaM and other voltage-gated sodium channels were later found to include
NaV1.4 [34, 35], NaV1.5 [36], NaV1.6 [35], and NaV1.8 [37]. CaM is an intracellular calcium sensor that binds the ion and subsequently interacts with other molecules, including, e.g., ion channels and calcium/CaM-dependent protein kinase [38].
Although there is no direct evidence that CaM alone is involved in pain pathways,
association with CaM is important for functional expression of NaV1.4 and NaV1.6
[35], and CaM may also regulate NaV1.8 expression. However, there is evidence that
calcium/CaM-dependent protein kinase II may play a role in pain pathways [39].
The yeast two-hybrid interaction trap and glutathione S-transferase pull-down
experiments have indicated that syntrophin γ2 (a scaffolding protein incorporating
a PDZ domain), interacts directly with the C terminus of NaV1.5 in [40]. When cotransfected with NaV1.5 into HEK293 cells, syntrophin γ2 affects the voltage-dependence of activation, shifting the activation curve to more positive potentials, and
while there appears to be no effect on the steady-state voltage-dependence of inactivation, inactivation kinetics are slowed. Sodium channels in human smooth muscle and cardiac muscle cells exhibit mechanosensitivity, and this is lost when the C
terminus-syntrophin γ2 PDZ domain interaction is prevented using competing peptides directed against either region, presumably indicating a loss of the connection
between sodium channels and the cytoskeleton.
Liu et al. showed that FHF1B binds with the C-terminal domain of TTX-resistant sodium channel NaV1.9 [41]. This is of potential significance for pain pathways, because NaV1.9 is expressed in nociceptive primary neurons. However, this
was not true for other sodium channels known to play important roles in pain path-
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ways. There was no interaction with the C termini of NaV1.7 or NaV1.8, but FHF1B
did bind the cardiac sodium channel, NaV1.5, and modulate its functional properties [42]. The voltage-dependence of channel activation and inactivation are both
shifted significantly in the hyperpolarizing direction by the binding of FHF1B with
NaV1.5 when expressed in HEK293 cells. A mutation in the sodium channel
(D1790G) that underlies a long QT interval (LQT-3) phenotype also prevents the
interaction of the NaV1.5 channel with FHF1B. This association therefore appears
to be vital for normal propagation of the ventricular action potential. Although
there is evidence that FHF1B modulates the properties of NaV1.5, the functional significance of the interaction with NaV1.9 remains unresolved.
Some of the same authors [43] reported that the cell adhesion molecule contactin
interacted with NaV1.9 at the C-terminal domain of the α-subunit. Contactin is
anchored to the membrane through glycerol-phosphatidylinositol, and is entirely
extracellular, making a direct interaction with the sodium channel of uncertain
physiological importance. However, contactin increased the membrane expression
of NaV1.9 in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells when co-transfected with the αsubunit, when compared with transfection of the α-subunit alone. As contactin
binds directly to NaV1.9, one possibility is that it may participate in the surface
localization of this channel along nociceptive fibres. In comparison, contactin associates with NaV1.2 through the β1 subunit, and increases surface expression by stabilizing the channels in the membrane (e.g., [23]).
Yeast two-hybrid interaction trap and NaV1.8
Using a rat dorsal root ganglion cDNA library, we carried out yeast two-hybrid
screening against the five large intracellular domains of NaV1.8. One identified
clone encoded annexin II light chain (p11), and this interactor has particularly striking properties. It binds directly to the amino terminus of NaV1.8 and produces functional channels by promoting the translocation of NaV1.8 to the plasma membrane
(Fig. 2). Without p11, functional channel expression is very poor [44], and no sodium currents are recorded in CHO-SNS22 cells (a cell line permanently transfected
with NaV1.8). When co-expressed with β-subunits NaV1.8 is poorly expressed in
cell lines and in Xenopus oocytes [26, 45], and this makes the action of p11 all the
more remarkable. We found that the endogenous NaV1.8 current in sensory neurons
is significantly reduced by injecting vectors incorporating antisense to p11, suggesting that the level of p11 expression in neurons may have important consequences
for their firing properties [44]. The binding of NaV1.8 to p11 occurs in a random
coiled region flanked by two EF hand motifs whose crystal structure is known. The
residues involved are 74–103 of NaV1.8 and 33–78 of p11. Another remarkable
finding is that p11 binds to NaV1.8 selectively, and does not bind with other sodium channel subtypes (i.e., NaV1.2, 1.5, 1.7 or NaV1.9) [46].
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Figure 2
p11 regulates trafficking of NaV1.8 from the cytosol to the membrane of CHO-SNS22 cells,
a cell line permanently expressing NaV1.8
a,b, Four typical images of NaV1.8 immunoreactivity obtained from GFP-p11 fusion protein
or GFP only in CHO-SNS22 cells, confocal photomicrographs. Density of fluorescence measured along 4 axes, 45° apart through the whole cross section of the cell. Note that in the
presence of GFP-p11, the NaV1.8 immunoreactivity is conspicuously concentrated at the
membrane relative to controls (with permission, from [44]).
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In total, we found 28 different clones that encoded proteins interacting with the
intracellular domains of NaV1.8 [37]. Using in situ hybridization it became clear
that many of these clones exhibiting interactions with NaV1.8 are expressed at high
levels in small diameter DRG neurons and the possibility of real, functional interactions were confirmed using immunoprecipitation (pull-down) assays. These
include cytoplasmic elements, enzymes, channels, motor proteins, calmodulin and
presently unknown proteins (listed in [37]).
Conclusions
Sodium channels are important transmembrane proteins that underlie membrane
excitability, including the excitability of neurons in pain pathways. The biophysical
properties and densities of sodium channels are modulated by the presence of accessory β-subunits, with the intracellular and extracellular binding properties of the β1subunit being particularly important in node of Ranvier formation. Other proteins
interact with sodium channels, some in a remarkably sub-type selective way. p11
(annexin II light chain) chaperones NaV1.8 to the membrane and plays a crucial role
in functional expression. Disrupting p11–NaV1.8 interactions may provide a new
way of lowering the expression of TTX-resistant sodium channels in nociceptive
neurons, and thus producing analgesia.
Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the support of the Wellcome Trust and the MRC.
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