Most myopathic lamin variants aggregate: a functional genomics approach for assessing variants of uncertain significance

Abstract Hundreds of LMNA variants have been associated with several distinct disease phenotypes. However, genotype–phenotype relationships remain largely undefined and the impact for most variants remains unknown. We performed a functional analysis for 178 variants across five structural domains us...

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Autores principales: Corey L. Anderson, Emma R. Langer, Timothy C. Routes, Seamus F. McWilliams, Igor Bereslavskyy, Timothy J. Kamp, Lee L. Eckhardt
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/cb36d873da8841c288bf1a7f3c726247
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Sumario:Abstract Hundreds of LMNA variants have been associated with several distinct disease phenotypes. However, genotype–phenotype relationships remain largely undefined and the impact for most variants remains unknown. We performed a functional analysis for 178 variants across five structural domains using two different overexpression models. We found that lamin A aggregation is a major determinant for skeletal and cardiac laminopathies. An in vitro solubility assay shows that aggregation-prone variants in the immunoglobulin-like domain correlate with domain destabilization. Finally, we demonstrate that myopathic-associated LMNA variants show aggregation patterns in induced pluripotent stem cell derived-cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) in contrast to non-myopathic LMNA variants. Our data-driven approach (1) reveals that striated muscle laminopathies are predominantly protein misfolding diseases, (2) demonstrates an iPSC-CM experimental platform for characterizing laminopathic variants in human cardiomyocytes, and (3) supports a functional assay to aid in assessing pathogenicity for myopathic variants of uncertain significance.