1. A role for KCC3 in maintaining cell volume of peripheral nerve fibers
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Cara C. Schornak, Eric Delpire, and Bianca Flores
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0301 basic medicine ,Peripheral neuropathy ,KCC3 ,Population ,Central nervous system ,Biology ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Nerve Fibers ,0302 clinical medicine ,Andermann syndrome ,T991A ,ACCPN ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,education ,Agenesis of the corpus callosum ,Cell Size ,education.field_of_study ,Symporters ,Brain ,Cell Biology ,medicine.disease ,Phenotype ,Disease Models, Animal ,HMSN/ACC ,030104 developmental biology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Cotransporter ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Intracellular - Abstract
The potassium chloride cotransporter, KCC3, is an electroneutral cotransporter expressed in the peripheral and central nervous system. KCC3 is responsible for the efflux of K+ and Cl− in neurons to help maintain cell volume and intracellular chloride levels. A loss-of-function (LOF) of KCC3 causes Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathy with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum (HMSN/ACC) in a population of individuals in the Charlevoix/Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. A variety of mouse models have been created to understand the physiological and deleterious effects of a KCC3 LOF. Though this KCC3 LOF in mouse models has recapitulated the peripheral neuropathy phenotype of HMSN/ACC, we still know little about the development of the disease pathophysiology. Interestingly, the most recent KCC3 mouse model that we created recapitulated a peripheral neuropathy-like phenotype originating from a KCC3 gain-of-function (GOF). Despite the past two decades of research in attempting to understand the role of KCC3 in disease, we still do not understand how dysfunction of this cotransporter can lead to the pathophysiology of peripheral neuropathy. This review focuses on the function of KCC3 in neurons and its role in human and health and disease.
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- 2019