2018
Nav1.7 is phosphorylated by Fyn tyrosine kinase which modulates channel expression and gating in a cell type-dependent manner
Li Y, Zhu T, Yang H, Dib-Hajj S, Waxman S, Yu Y, Xu TL, Cheng X. Nav1.7 is phosphorylated by Fyn tyrosine kinase which modulates channel expression and gating in a cell type-dependent manner. Molecular Pain 2018, 14: 1744806918782229. PMID: 29790812, PMCID: PMC6024516, DOI: 10.1177/1744806918782229.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsND7/23 cellsDRG neuron excitabilityModulation of Nav1.7New pain therapeuticsVoltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.7Fyn kinaseWhole-cell recordingsSodium channel Nav1.7Elevated protein expressionCell type-specific modulationHuman embryonic kidney 293 cellsTyrosine kinasePain disordersEmbryonic kidney 293 cellsPain therapeuticsNeuron excitabilityPain perceptionMutant channelsChannel Nav1.7Kidney 293 cellsNav1.7HEK-293 cellsNav1.7 channelsCell type-dependent mannerType-dependent manner
2012
Structural modelling and mutant cycle analysis predict pharmacoresponsiveness of a Nav1.7 mutant channel
Yang Y, Dib-Hajj SD, Zhang J, Zhang Y, Tyrrell L, Estacion M, Waxman SG. Structural modelling and mutant cycle analysis predict pharmacoresponsiveness of a Nav1.7 mutant channel. Nature Communications 2012, 3: 1186. PMID: 23149731, PMCID: PMC3530897, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2184.Peer-Reviewed Original Research