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    Spider peptide toxin HwTx-IV engineered to bind to lipid membranes has an increased inhibitory potency at human voltage-gated sodium channel hNaV1.7

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    Authors
    Agwa, A.
    Lawrence, N.
    Deplazes, Evelyne
    Cheneval, O.
    Chen, R.
    Craik, D.
    Schroeder, C.
    Henriques, S.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Agwa, A. and Lawrence, N. and Deplazes, E. and Cheneval, O. and Chen, R. and Craik, D. and Schroeder, C. et al. 2017. Spider peptide toxin HwTx-IV engineered to bind to lipid membranes has an increased inhibitory potency at human voltage-gated sodium channel hNaV1.7. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. Biomembranes. 1859 (5): pp. 835-844.
    Source Title
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. Biomembranes
    DOI
    10.1016/j.bbamem.2017.01.020
    ISSN
    0005-2736
    School
    School of Biomedical Sciences
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50471
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The human voltage-gated sodium channel sub-type 1.7 (hNaV1.7) is emerging as an attractive target for the development of potent and sub-type selective novel analgesics with increased potency and fewer side effects than existing therapeutics. HwTx-IV, a spider derived peptide toxin, inhibits hNaV1.7 with high potency and is therefore of great interest as an analgesic lead. In the current study we examined whether engineering a HwTx-IV analogue with increased ability to bind to lipid membranes would improve its inhibitory potency at hNaV1.7. This hypothesis was explored by comparing HwTx-IV and two analogues [E1PyrE]HwTx-IV (mHwTx-IV) and [E1G,E4G,F6W,Y30W]HwTx-IV (gHwTx-IV) on their membrane-binding affinity and hNaV1.7 inhibitory potency using a range of biophysical techniques including computational analysis, NMR spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance, and fluorescence spectroscopy. HwTx-IV and mHwTx-IV exhibited weak affinity for lipid membranes, whereas gHwTx-IV showed improved affinity for the model membranes studied. In addition, activity assays using SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells expressing hNaV1.7 showed that gHwTx-IV has increased activity at hNaV1.7 compared to HwTx-IV. Based on these results we hypothesize that an increase in the affinity of HwTx-IV for lipid membranes is accompanied by improved inhibitory potency at hNaV1.7 and that increasing the affinity of gating modifier toxins to lipid bilayers is a strategy that may be useful for improving their potency at hNaV1.7.

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