Neuropathic pain is a chronic disease that severely afflicts the life and emotional status of patients,but currently available treatments are often ineffective.Novel therapeutic targets for the alleviation of neuropat...Neuropathic pain is a chronic disease that severely afflicts the life and emotional status of patients,but currently available treatments are often ineffective.Novel therapeutic targets for the alleviation of neuropathic pain are urgently needed.Rhodojaponin Ⅵ,a grayanotoxin from Rhododendron molle,showed remarkable antinociceptive efficacy in models of neuropathic pain,but its biotargets and mechanisms are unknown.Given the reversible action of rhodojaponin Ⅵ and the narrow range over which its structure can be modified,we perforwmed thermal proteome profiling of the rat dorsal root ganglion to determine the protein target of rhodojaponin Ⅵ.N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion(NSF) was confirmed as the key target of rhodojaponin Ⅵ through biological and biophysical experiments.Functional validation showed for the first time that NSF facilitated trafficking of the Cav2.2 channel to induce an increase in Ca2+current intensity,whereas rhodojaponin Ⅵ reversed the effects of NSF.In conclusion,rhodojaponin Ⅵ represents a unique class of analgesic natural products targeting Cav2.2 channels via NSF.展开更多
基金The Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.21732008,and 81771205)CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS,Nos.CIFMS-2022-I2M-JB-009,China)The National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (No.BX20180053,China)
文摘Neuropathic pain is a chronic disease that severely afflicts the life and emotional status of patients,but currently available treatments are often ineffective.Novel therapeutic targets for the alleviation of neuropathic pain are urgently needed.Rhodojaponin Ⅵ,a grayanotoxin from Rhododendron molle,showed remarkable antinociceptive efficacy in models of neuropathic pain,but its biotargets and mechanisms are unknown.Given the reversible action of rhodojaponin Ⅵ and the narrow range over which its structure can be modified,we perforwmed thermal proteome profiling of the rat dorsal root ganglion to determine the protein target of rhodojaponin Ⅵ.N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion(NSF) was confirmed as the key target of rhodojaponin Ⅵ through biological and biophysical experiments.Functional validation showed for the first time that NSF facilitated trafficking of the Cav2.2 channel to induce an increase in Ca2+current intensity,whereas rhodojaponin Ⅵ reversed the effects of NSF.In conclusion,rhodojaponin Ⅵ represents a unique class of analgesic natural products targeting Cav2.2 channels via NSF.
