1. Reduced Function of the Glutathione S-Transferase S1 Suppresses Behavioral Hyperexcitability in Drosophila Expressing Mutant Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels.
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Chen HL, Kasuya J, Lansdon P, Kaas G, Tang H, Sodders M, and Kitamoto T
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- Animals, Drosophila melanogaster genetics, Drosophila melanogaster metabolism, Loss of Function Mutation, Seizures, Drosophila Proteins genetics, Drosophila Proteins metabolism, Glutathione Transferase, Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels genetics
- Abstract
Voltage-gated sodium (Na
v ) channels play a central role in the generation and propagation of action potentials in excitable cells such as neurons and muscles. To determine how the phenotypes of Nav -channel mutants are affected by other genes, we performed a forward genetic screen for dominant modifiers of the seizure-prone, gain-of-function Dr osophila melanogaster Nav -channel mutant, paraShu Our analyses using chromosome deficiencies, gene-specific RNA interference, and single-gene mutants revealed that a null allele of glutathione S-transferase S1 ( GstS1 ) dominantly suppresses paraShu phenotypes. Reduced GstS1 function also suppressed phenotypes of other seizure-prone Nav -channel mutants, paraGEFS+ and parabss Notably, paraShu mutants expressed 50% less GstS1 than wild-type flies, further supporting the notion that paraShu and GstS1 interact functionally. Introduction of a loss-of-function GstS1 mutation into a paraShu background led to up- and down-regulation of various genes, with those encoding cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes most significantly over-represented in this group. Because GstS1 is a fly ortholog of mammalian hematopoietic prostaglandin D synthase, and in mammals CYPs are involved in the oxygenation of polyunsaturated fatty acids including prostaglandins, our results raise the intriguing possibility that bioactive lipids play a role in GstS1 -mediated suppression of paraShu phenotypes., (Copyright © 2020 Chen et al.)- Published
- 2020
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