PMID- 21074052 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20101208 LR - 20220317 IS - 1097-4172 (Electronic) IS - 0092-8674 (Print) IS - 0092-8674 (Linking) VI - 143 IP - 4 DP - 2010 Nov 12 TI - A genome-wide Drosophila screen for heat nociception identifies alpha2delta3 as an evolutionarily conserved pain gene. PG - 628-38 LID - 10.1016/j.cell.2010.09.047 [doi] AB - Worldwide, acute, and chronic pain affects 20% of the adult population and represents an enormous financial and emotional burden. Using genome-wide neuronal-specific RNAi knockdown in Drosophila, we report a global screen for an innate behavior and identify hundreds of genes implicated in heat nociception, including the alpha2delta family calcium channel subunit straightjacket (stj). Mice mutant for the stj ortholog CACNA2D3 (alpha2delta3) also exhibit impaired behavioral heat pain sensitivity. In addition, in humans, alpha2delta3 SNP variants associate with reduced sensitivity to acute noxious heat and chronic back pain. Functional imaging in alpha2delta3 mutant mice revealed impaired transmission of thermal pain-evoked signals from the thalamus to higher-order pain centers. Intriguingly, in alpha2delta3 mutant mice, thermal pain and tactile stimulation triggered strong cross-activation, or synesthesia, of brain regions involved in vision, olfaction, and hearing. CI - Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Neely, G Gregory AU - Neely GG AD - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr Gasse 3-5, A-1030 Vienna, Austria. FAU - Hess, Andreas AU - Hess A FAU - Costigan, Michael AU - Costigan M FAU - Keene, Alex C AU - Keene AC FAU - Goulas, Spyros AU - Goulas S FAU - Langeslag, Michiel AU - Langeslag M FAU - Griffin, Robert S AU - Griffin RS FAU - Belfer, Inna AU - Belfer I FAU - Dai, Feng AU - Dai F FAU - Smith, Shad B AU - Smith SB FAU - Diatchenko, Luda AU - Diatchenko L FAU - Gupta, Vaijayanti AU - Gupta V FAU - Xia, Cui-Ping AU - Xia CP FAU - Amann, Sabina AU - Amann S FAU - Kreitz, Silke AU - Kreitz S FAU - Heindl-Erdmann, Cornelia AU - Heindl-Erdmann C FAU - Wolz, Susanne AU - Wolz S FAU - Ly, Cindy V AU - Ly CV FAU - Arora, Suchir AU - Arora S FAU - Sarangi, Rinku AU - Sarangi R FAU - Dan, Debasis AU - Dan D FAU - Novatchkova, Maria AU - Novatchkova M FAU - Rosenzweig, Mark AU - Rosenzweig M FAU - Gibson, Dustin G AU - Gibson DG FAU - Truong, Darwin AU - Truong D FAU - Schramek, Daniel AU - Schramek D FAU - Zoranovic, Tamara AU - Zoranovic T FAU - Cronin, Shane J F AU - Cronin SJ FAU - Angjeli, Belinda AU - Angjeli B FAU - Brune, Kay AU - Brune K FAU - Dietzl, Georg AU - Dietzl G FAU - Maixner, William AU - Maixner W FAU - Meixner, Arabella AU - Meixner A FAU - Thomas, Winston AU - Thomas W FAU - Pospisilik, J Andrew AU - Pospisilik JA FAU - Alenius, Mattias AU - Alenius M FAU - Kress, Michaela AU - Kress M FAU - Subramaniam, Sai AU - Subramaniam S FAU - Garrity, Paul A AU - Garrity PA FAU - Bellen, Hugo J AU - Bellen HJ FAU - Woolf, Clifford J AU - Woolf CJ FAU - Penninger, Josef M AU - Penninger JM LA - eng GR - R01 NS039518-09/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 NS039518/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - R37 NS039518/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 NS044232/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - F32 GM086207-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 NS038253/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - F32 GM086207/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 NS072040/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 NS058870-04/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 NS058870/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 NS038253-12/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Cell JT - Cell JID - 0413066 RN - 0 (CACNA2D3 protein, human) RN - 0 (CACNA2D3 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Calcium Channels) RN - 0 (Drosophila Proteins) RN - 0 (stj protein, Drosophila) SB - IM CIN - Cell. 2010 Nov 12;143(4):505-7. PMID: 21074043 MH - Adult MH - Animals MH - Back Pain/genetics MH - Calcium Channels/*genetics/metabolism MH - Drosophila/*genetics MH - Drosophila Proteins/*genetics/metabolism MH - Gene Knockdown Techniques MH - Genome-Wide Association Study MH - Hot Temperature MH - Humans MH - Mice MH - Pain/*genetics MH - Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide MH - RNA Interference PMC - PMC3040441 MID - NIHMS244454 EDAT- 2010/11/16 06:00 MHDA- 2010/12/14 06:00 PMCR- 2011/11/12 CRDT- 2010/11/16 06:00 PHST- 2010/03/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/08/09 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2010/09/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2010/11/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/11/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/12/14 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2011/11/12 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0092-8674(10)01133-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.cell.2010.09.047 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell. 2010 Nov 12;143(4):628-38. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.09.047.