A Quantitative Assay for Ca2+ Uptake through Normal and Pathological Hemichannels
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Generation of Stable Cell Pools Overexpressing the Cx of Interest and GCaMP6s
2.2. Development and Validation of the Ca2+ Uptake Assay
2.3. mAbs Targeting the Extracellular Domain of Cx26 Inhibit Ca2+ Uptake through Leaky HCs Implicated in KID Syndrome
2.4. Effects of Uncharacterized mAbs, Targeting the Extracellular Domain of Cx46, on Ca2+ and DAPI Uptake
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Viruses
4.2. Establishment of Stable Cell Pools
4.3. qPCR
- The primers used for these experiments are listed here.
- Cx26 (Cx26 wt and Cx26G45E) primers:
- EMCV-IRES primers:
- GCaMP6S primers:
- GAPDH primers:
4.4. Immunofluorescence
4.5. Dye Uptake
4.6. Ca2+ Uptake
4.7. Selection of Anti-Cx46 mAbs
4.8. Statistics
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Type of Disease (Acronym/OMIM § No.) | P | C | E | Cx (Gene) | Amino Acid Mutations [62] |
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Keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome, autosomal dominant (KID/148210) | <1/1,000,000 †, | <100 † | 1–300 ╬ | Cx26 (GJB2) | G12R, N14K, N14Y, S17F, I30N, A40V, G45E, D50A, D50N, D50Y, A88V |
Palmoplantar keratoderma with deafness (PPKDFN/148350) | <1/1,000,000 †, | 5 § | 1–300╬ | H73R, S183F | |
Ectodermal Dysplasia 2, Clouston type (ECTD2/129500) | 1–9/100,000 †, | >150 ‡ | 3000–30,000 ╬ | Cx30 (GJB6) | G11R, A88V |
Palmoplantar keratoderma and congenital alopecia 1 (PPKCA1/104100) | <1/1,000,000 †, | 10 † | NA # | Cx43 (GJA1) | G8V |
Erythrokeratodermia variabilis et progressiva 3 (EKVP3/617525) | <1/2,000,000 † | 3 § | NA # | A44V, E227D |
Cell Pool | Average Percentage |
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Cx26 −dox | 1.86 ± 0.21 |
Cx26 +dox | 3.4 ± 0.15 |
Cx26G45E −dox | 3.11 ± 0.23 |
Cx26G45E +dox | 6.65 ± 0.86 |
Cell Pools | p-Value |
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Cx26 −dox vs. Cx26 +dox | 0.7703 |
Cx26G45E −dox vs. Cx26G45E +dox | 0.1574 |
Cx26 −dox vs. Cx26G45E −dox | 0.8642 |
Cx26 +dox vs. Cx26G45E +dox | 0.2172 |
Cx26 −dox vs. Cx26G45E +dox | 0.0346 |
Cx26 +dox vs. Cx26G45E −dox | 0.9975 |
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Nardin, C.; Tettey-Matey, A.; Donati, V.; Marazziti, D.; Di Pietro, C.; Peres, C.; Raspa, M.; Zonta, F.; Yang, G.; Gorelik, M.; et al. A Quantitative Assay for Ca2+ Uptake through Normal and Pathological Hemichannels. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 7337. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23137337
Nardin C, Tettey-Matey A, Donati V, Marazziti D, Di Pietro C, Peres C, Raspa M, Zonta F, Yang G, Gorelik M, et al. A Quantitative Assay for Ca2+ Uptake through Normal and Pathological Hemichannels. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2022; 23(13):7337. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23137337
Chicago/Turabian StyleNardin, Chiara, Abraham Tettey-Matey, Viola Donati, Daniela Marazziti, Chiara Di Pietro, Chiara Peres, Marcello Raspa, Francesco Zonta, Guang Yang, Maryna Gorelik, and et al. 2022. "A Quantitative Assay for Ca2+ Uptake through Normal and Pathological Hemichannels" International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23, no. 13: 7337. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23137337