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Severe deficiency of voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.2 elevates neuronal excitability in adult mice

ABSTRACT: Scn2a encodes voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.2, a main mediator of neuronal action potential firing. The current paradigm suggests that NaV1.2 gain-of-function variants enhance neuronal excitability resulting in epilepsy, whereas NaV1.2 deficiency impairs excitability contributing to autism. This paradigm, however, does not explain why 20~30% of patients with NaV1.2 deficiency still develop seizures. Here we report a counterintuitive finding that severe NaV1.2 deficiency results in increased neuronal excitability. Using a unique NaV1.2-deficient mouse model, we found enhanced intrinsic excitabilities of principal neurons in the prefrontal cortex and striatum, brain regions known to be involved in Scn2a-related seizures. This increased excitability is autonomous, and is reversible by the genetic restoration of Scn2a expression in adult mice. RNA-sequencing revealed that the downregulation of multiple potassium channels including KV1.1, and KV channel openers alleviated hyperexcitability of NaV1.2-deficient neurons. This unexpected neuronal hyperexcitability may serve as a cellular basis underlying NaV1.2 deficiency-related seizures.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE179818 | GEO | 2021/07/13

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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