Intronic CRISPR Repair in a Preclinical Model of Noonan Syndrome-Associated Cardiomyopathy.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Noonan syndrome (NS) is a multisystemic developmental disorder characterized by common, clinically variable symptoms, such as typical facial dysmorphisms, short stature, developmental delay, intellectual disability as well as cardiac hypertrophy. The underlying mechanism is a gain-of-function of the RAS-mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway. However, our understanding of the pathophysiological alterations and mechanisms, especially of the associated cardiomyopathy, remains limited and effective therapeutic options are lacking. METHODS: Here, we present a family with two siblings displaying an autosomal recessive form of NS with massive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as clinically the most prevalent symptom caused by biallelic mutations within the leucine zipper-like transcription regulator 1 (LZTR1). We generated induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes of the affected siblings and investigated the patient-specific cardiomyocytes on the molecular and functional level. RESULTS: Patients' induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes recapitulated the hypertrophic phenotype and uncovered a so-far-not-described causal link between LZTR1 dysfunction, RAS-mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling hyperactivity, hypertrophic gene response and cellular hypertrophy. Calcium channel blockade and MEK inhibition could prevent some of the disease characteristics, providing a molecular underpinning for the clinical use of these drugs in patients with NS, but might not be a sustainable therapeutic option. In a proof-of-concept approach, we explored a clinically translatable intronic CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) repair and demonstrated a rescue of the hypertrophic phenotype. CONCLUSIONS: Our study revealed the human cardiac pathogenesis in patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes from NS patients carrying biallelic variants in LZTR1 and identified a unique disease-specific proteome signature. In addition, we identified the intronic CRISPR repair as a personalized and in our view clinically translatable therapeutic strategy to treat NS-associated hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

SEEK ID: https://goeseek.gwdguser.de/publications/8

PubMed ID: 32623905

Projects: CRC1002: Modulatory Units in Heart Failure

Publication type: Journal

Journal: Circulation

Citation: Circulation. 2020 Sep 15;142(11):1059-1076. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.044794. Epub 2020 Jul 6.

Date Published: 15th Sep 2020

Registered Mode: by PubMed ID

Authors: U. Hanses, M. Kleinsorge, L. Roos, G. Yigit, Y. Li, B. Barbarics, I. El-Battrawy, H. Lan, M. Tiburcy, R. Hindmarsh, C. Lenz, G. Salinas, S. Diecke, C. Muller, I. Adham, J. Altmuller, P. Nurnberg, T. Paul, W. H. Zimmermann, G. Hasenfuss, B. Wollnik, L. Cyganek

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