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Redox signal-mediated sensitization of transient receptor potential melastatin 2 (TRPM2) to temperature affects macrophage functions

Makiko Kashio, Takaaki Sokabe, Kenji Shintaku, Takayuki Uematsu, Naomi Fukuta, Noritada Kobayashi, Yasuo Mori, and Makoto Tominaga
PNAS April 24, 2012 109 (17) 6745-6750; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1114193109
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  • For correspondence: tominaga@nips.ac.jp
  1. Edited* by David Julius, University of California, San Francisco, CA, and approved March 15, 2012 (received for review August 30, 2011)

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The ability to sense temperature is essential for organism survival and efficient metabolism. Body temperatures profoundly affect many physiological functions, including immunity. Transient receptor potential melastatin 2 (TRPM2) is a thermosensitive, Ca2+-permeable cation channel expressed in a wide range of immunocytes. TRPM2 is activated by adenosine diphosphate ribose and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), although the activation mechanism by H2O2 is not well understood. Here we report a unique activation mechanism in which H2O2 lowers the temperature threshold for TRPM2 activation, termed “sensitization,” through Met oxidation and adenosine diphosphate ribose production. This sensitization is completely abolished by a single mutation at Met-214, indicating that the temperature threshold of TRPM2 activation is regulated by redox signals that enable channel activity at physiological body temperatures. Loss of TRPM2 attenuates zymosan-evoked macrophage functions, including cytokine release and fever-enhanced phagocytic activity. These findings suggest that redox signals sensitize TRPM2 downstream of NADPH oxidase activity and make TRPM2 active at physiological body temperature, leading to increased cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations. Our results suggest that TRPM2 sensitization plays important roles in macrophage functions.

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be sent. E-mail: tominaga{at}nips.ac.jp.
  • Author contributions: M.K., T.S., and M.T. designed research; M.K., K.S., and N.F. performed research; Y.M. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; M.K., K.S., T.U., and N.K. analyzed data; and M.K., T.S., and M.T. wrote the paper.

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  • ↵*This Direct Submission article had a prearranged editor.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1114193109/-/DCSupplemental.

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Makiko Kashio, Takaaki Sokabe, Kenji Shintaku, Takayuki Uematsu, Naomi Fukuta, Noritada Kobayashi, Yasuo Mori, Makoto Tominaga
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Apr 2012, 109 (17) 6745-6750; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1114193109

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