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Altered closed state inactivation gating in Kv4.2 channels results in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies in human patients

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Kv4.2 subunits, encoded by KCND2, serve as the pore‐forming components of voltage‐gated, inactivating ISA K+ channels expressed in the brain. ISA channels inactivate without opening in response to subthreshold excitatory… Click to show full abstract

Kv4.2 subunits, encoded by KCND2, serve as the pore‐forming components of voltage‐gated, inactivating ISA K+ channels expressed in the brain. ISA channels inactivate without opening in response to subthreshold excitatory input, temporarily increasing neuronal excitability, the back propagation of action potentials, and Ca2+ influx into dendrites, thereby regulating mechanisms of spike timing‐dependent synaptic plasticity. As previously described, a de novo variant in Kv4.2, p.Val404Met, is associated with an infant‐onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy in monozygotic twin boys. The p.Val404Met variant enhances inactivation directly from closed states, but dramatically impairs inactivation after channel opening. We now report the identification of a closely related, novel, de novo variant in Kv4.2, p.Val402Leu, in a boy with an early‐onset pharmacoresistant epilepsy that evolved to an epileptic aphasia syndrome (Continuous Spike Wave during Sleep Syndrome). Like p.Val404Met, the p.Val402Leu variant increases the rate of inactivation from closed states, but significantly slows inactivation after the pore opens. Although quantitatively the p.Val402Leu mutation alters channel kinetics less dramatically than p.Val404Met, our results strongly support the conclusion that p.Val402Leu and p.Val404Met cause the clinical features seen in the affected individuals and underscore the importance of closed state inactivation in ISA channels in normal brain development and function.

Keywords: isa channels; state inactivation; developmental epileptic; inactivation; closed state

Journal Title: Human Mutation
Year Published: 2022

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