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ArticleScientific reports2020

Activity-dependent compensation of cell size is vulnerable to targeted deletion of ion channels.

Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya, Eve Marder, Timothy O'Leary

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Persistent adaptation through dual-timescale regulation of ion channel properties.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. Gating of homeostatic regulation of intrinsic excitability produces cryptic long-term storage of prior perturbations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  9. Neuronal morphology enhances robustness to perturbations of channel densities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Srinivas Gorur-ShandilyaVolen Center and Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA.
Eve MarderVolen Center and Biology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454, USA.
Timothy O'LearyDepartment of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. tso24@cam.ac.uk.
Brandeis University · USUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Quantitative Neuroscience: Tools for Bridging Levels of AnalysisT32NS007292 · NINDS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI GINA G TURRIGIANO · 1986 to 2026
$12.7M
Neuromodulation and Robustness of Neurons and NetworksR35NS097343 · NINDS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI MARDER, EVE E · 2017 to 2024
$7.8M
European Research Council StG 2016 716643 FLEXNEURONIH HHS R35 NS097343NIH HHS T32 NS007292NINDS NIH HHS R35 NS097343NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS007292
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In many species, excitable cells preserve their physiological properties despite significant variation in physical size across time and in a population. For example, neurons in crustacean central pattern generators generate similar firing patterns despite several-fold increases in size between juveniles and adults. This presents a biophysical problem because the electrical properties of cells are highly sensitive to membrane area and channel density. It is not known whether specific mechanisms exist to sense membrane area and adjust channel expression to keep a consistent channel density, or whether regulation mechanisms that sense activity alone are capable of compensating cell size. We show that destabilising effects of growth can be specifically compensated by feedback mechanism that senses average calcium influx and jointly regulate multiple conductances. However, we further show that this class of growth-compensating regulation schemes is necessarily sensitive to perturbations that alter the expression of subsets of ion channel types. Targeted perturbations of specific ion channels can trigger a pathological response of the regulation mechanism and a failure of homeostasis. Our findings suggest that physiological regulation mechanisms that confer robustness to growth may be specifically vulnerable to deletions or mutations that affect subsets of ion channels.

Indexed as

AnimalsArthropod ProteinsCell SizeCrustaceaFeedback, PhysiologicalGene DeletionHomeostasisIon ChannelsModels, TheoreticalNeuronsArthropod ProteinsIon Channels

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PMID32994529
PMCPMC7524806
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