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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 22.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Neurosci. 2021 Apr 7;22(5):275–289. doi: 10.1038/s41583-021-00445-9

Table 1 |.

Mechanisms of FMRP regulation of ion channels

Channel/modulation Direction of modulation by FMRP Refs
Translational control
Kv1.2 ⇧ or ⇩ 58, 65, 95
Kv3.1 67, 68
Kv4.2 ⇧ or ⇩ 9597
Slack ⇄ or ⇩ 72, 95
BK 158
Cav1.3 ⇧ or ⇩ 88, 99
Cav2.1 89, 95
Cav2.3 90, 95
HCN ⇧ or ⇩ 56, 57, 95, 102
AMPAR ⇧ or ⇩ 59, 83, 104, 105
NMDAR ⇧ or ⇩ 59, 111113, 116
GABAAR 64, 119125
Ion channel activity via FMRP-channel interactions
Slack 72
BK 57, 62, 80
SK ⇧ or ⇩ 51, 86
Kv1.2 65
Kv4 91
Cav3 91
Ion channel surface expression via FMRP-channel interactions
Kv1.2 65
Cav2.1 60, 89
Cav2.2 60
HCN ⇧ or ⇩ 102
AMPAR ⇧ or ⇩ 59, 108
Second messenger pathways
INaP 52
Unidentified
NKCC1 145, 146

⇧ or ⇩, FMRP increases or decreases channel function, respectively;

⇄, no significant change in channel function;