Proteomic profiling of neuromas reveals alterations in protein composition and local protein synthesis in hyper-excitable nerves

Huang, H.L., Cendan, C.M., Roza, C., Okuse, K., Cramer, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8037-2511, Timms, J.F. and Wood, J.N. (2008) Proteomic profiling of neuromas reveals alterations in protein composition and local protein synthesis in hyper-excitable nerves. Molecular Pain, 4. p. 33. ISSN 1744-8069 doi: 10.1186/1744-8069-4-33

Abstract/Summary

Neuropathic pain may arise following peripheral nerve injury though the molecular mechanisms associated with this are unclear. We used proteomic profiling to examine changes in protein expression associated with the formation of hyper-excitable neuromas derived from rodent saphenous nerves. A two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis ( 2D-DIGE) profiling strategy was employed to examine protein expression changes between developing neuromas and normal nerves in whole tissue lysates. We found around 200 proteins which displayed a > 1.75-fold change in expression between neuroma and normal nerve and identified 55 of these proteins using mass spectrometry. We also used immunoblotting to examine the expression of low-abundance ion channels Nav1.3, Nav1.8 and calcium channel alpha 2 delta-1 subunit in this model, since they have previously been implicated in neuronal hyperexcitability associated with neuropathic pain. Finally, S(35)methionine in vitro labelling of neuroma and control samples was used to demonstrate local protein synthesis of neuron-specific genes. A number of cytoskeletal proteins, enzymes and proteins associated with oxidative stress were up-regulated in neuromas, whilst overall levels of voltage-gated ion channel proteins were unaffected. We conclude that altered mRNA levels reported in the somata of damaged DRG neurons do not necessarily reflect levels of altered proteins in hyper-excitable damaged nerve endings. An altered repertoire of protein expression, local protein synthesis and topological re-arrangements of ion channels may all play important roles in neuroma hyper-excitability.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/11344
Identification Number/DOI	10.1186/1744-8069-4-33
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > Department of Chemistry
Uncontrolled Keywords	NEUROPATHIC PAIN MODEL, GATED SODIUM-CHANNELS, DORSAL-ROOT GANGLION, APOPTOTIC CELL-DEATH, PARKINSONS-DISEASE, SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES-POMBE, DISULFIDE ISOMERASE, GENE-EXPRESSION, SENSORY NEURONS, MESSENGER-RNAS
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