A TREK to Translate Genetics to Mechanisms of Migraine.

Neuron

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address:

Published: January 2019

In this issue of Neuron, Royal et al. (2018) find that a mutant form of the TRESK ion channel linked to migraine undergoes alternative translation to produce an inhibitory protein that blocks TREK channels, leading to neuronal hyperexcitability and migraine in rodents.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.12.034DOI Listing

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