Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Organic anion transporter 1 is an HDAC4-regulated mediator of nociceptive hypersensitivity in mice

  • Christian Litke,
  • Anna M. Hagenston,
  • Ann-Kristin Kenkel,
  • Eszter Paldy,
  • Jianning Lu,
  • Rohini Kuner,
  • Daniela Mauceri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28357-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Chronic pain is sustained by alterations in gene transcription. Here, the authors show that increased expression of Organic Anionic Transporter 1 in the spinal cord is epigenetically controlled and key to hypersensitivity in pathological pain.