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The Journal of Neuroscience, February 9, 2005, 25(6):1470-1480; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3328-04.2005

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Altered Ion Channels in an Animal Model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type IA

Jérôme J. Devaux and Steven S. Scherer

Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

How demyelination and remyelination affect the function of myelinated axons is a fundamental aspect of demyelinating diseases. We examined this issue in Trembler-J mice, a genetically authentic model of a dominantly inherited demyelinating neuropathy of humans. The K⁺ channels Kv1.1 and Kv1.2 channels were often improperly located in the paranodal axon membrane, typically associated with improperly formed paranodes, and in unmyelinated segments between internodes. As in wild-type nerves, Trembler-J nodes contained Nav1.6, ankyrin-G, IV-spectrin, and KCNQ2, but, unlike wild-type nerves, they also contained Kv3.1b and Nav1.8. In unmyelinated segments bordered by myelin sheaths, these proteins were clustered in heminodes and did not appear to be diffusely localized in the unmyelinated segments themselves. Nodes and heminodes were contacted by Schwann cells processes that did not have the ultrastructural or molecular characteristics of mature microvilli. Despite the presence of Nav1.8, a tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium channel, sciatic nerve conduction was at least as sensitive to tetrodotoxin in Trembler-J nerves as in wild-type nerves. Thus, the profound reorganization of axonal ion channels and the aberrant expression of novel ion channels likely contribute to the altered conduction in Trembler-J nerves.

Key words: myelin; CMT; PMP22; node of Ranvier; potassium channels; axonal conduction

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Received Aug 13, 2004; revised November 22, 2004; accepted December 16, 2004.

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